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Identical posts thank Duterte for free tuition law after Bam's surprise Senate win

Identical posts thank Duterte for free tuition law after Bam's surprise Senate win

By Cristina Chi | 9 hours ago
Most of these pages have no apparent connection but shared the same exact post and image within a similar time frame.&nb...
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Party-list shake-up: 48 likely to win one seat, while 17 incumbent may lose

Party-list shake-up: 48 likely to win one seat, while 17 incumbent may lose

By Dominique Nicole Flores | 7 hours ago
Out of the 63 seats reserved for party-list groups, the top 54 party-lists are likely to secure representation in the 20th...
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With Sara's trial ahead, 9 House impeachment prosecutors win reelection

With Sara's trial ahead, 9 House impeachment prosecutors win reelection

By Dominique Nicole Flores | 1 day ago
Nine of the 11 House prosecutors in impeached Vice President Sara Duterte’s upcoming Senate trial have secured seats...
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From protest to power: Activist who blocked mining trucks now mayor in Romblon

From protest to power: Activist who blocked mining trucks now mayor in Romblon

By Jean Mangaluz | 10 hours ago
Remember when the townsfolk of San Fernando, Romblon formed a human barricade to stop mining trucks from entering their community...
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Partial, unofficial results: 2025 Party-List Rankings

Partial, unofficial results: 2025 Party-List Rankings

By Dominique Nicole Flores | 14 hours ago
Here is the full list of party-list groups and their rankings in the 2025 midterm elections, based on partial and unofficial...
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The Marikina City Environmental Management Office on May 13, 2025 has started collecting truck loads of campaign materials used by candidates during the 2025 midterm elections.

DENR: Recycle campaign materials

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A vendor arranges meat up for sale at Paco Public Market in Manila.

DA to lift pork max SRP amid low compliance

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More Kadiwa outlets, markets sell P20/kilo rice

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr

Law strengthening early childhood care signed

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This photo taken and handout on May 9, 2025 by The Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV during a mass with cardinals in the Sistine Chapel in The Vatican.

Pope Leo’s climate advocacy lauded

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According to nonprofit news organization Climate Central, climate change is fuelling a sharp rise in extreme heat risk for pregnant people worldwide.

Philippines ranks 9th in Asia with pregnancy heat-risk

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Aside from disinformation and propaganda, the Chinese also employ “illegal interference, coercion, aggression and deception,†including radio challenges, use of horns or sirens, dangerous maneuvers and shadowing of Philippine vessels, particularly around Ayungin Shoal.

Maritime council says China disinformation still rampant

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Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa said the election results reflect public dismay over what he called a political misstep by the administration.

Bato credits win to ‘protest’ votes

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An election assistant from the Commission on Elections in Baguio presents and demonstrates the new automated counting machine on Jan. 7, 2025 as part of the nationwide roadshow for the 2025 midterm elections.

Comelec: File complaints if you saw discrepancies

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The NBI said the suspect declared he would reward anyone who would plant a bomb in the Comelec headquarters on election day.

NBI nabs man over Comelec bomb threat

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Over 1 million votes for Joy Belmonte HISTORIC VICTORY: Quezon City Mayor-elect Joy Belmonte is proclaimed after a record turnout of over one million votes in Monday’s elections. Joining her are former speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Councilor Mikey Belmonte, who topped the race in District 2 with nearly 200,000 votes, newly elected District 4 No.1 Councilor Vincent Belmonte, city prosecutor Vimar Barcellano and Schools Division Superintendent Carleen Sedilla.

Belmonte to Quezon City: Next 3 years will be the best

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Outgoing Sen. Koko Pimentel III said the issue has been unresolved for months and needs final clarity, especially with the vote counting concluded.

Koko to Comelec: Resolve Teodoro DQ case swiftly

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Isko Moreno is proclaimed Manila mayor at city hall on Tuesday night.

Isko appeals for calm, healing

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Palace eyes higher insurance coverage for private cars

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Two legal firms representing luxury brands Oakley, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent in the Philippines sought the help of the NBI to confiscate products bearing their trademarks without authorization.

NBI seizes P55 million fake luxury items

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Karen Lopez.

Missing Vivamax actress, boyfriend surface

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Some 1,330 Ecstasy tablets and 362 grams of heroin from Ireland, the Netherlands and Thailand were misdeclared as skincare products and other items.

BOC seizes P4.4 million drugs in Pasay

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6 hurt in EDSA-Quezon Avenue tunnel crash

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Incumbents, dynasties still rule in polls

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.

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Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia inspects the final testing and sealing of automated counting machines (ACMs) at the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila on May 8, 2025, followed by the Manila Press weekly conference, where he outlined Comelecâ??s final preparations.

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People walk through Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 12, 2023. Elite US university Harvard risked billions of dollars in federal funding on April 14, 2025 as it rejected a list of sweeping demands that the Trump administration said are intended to crack down on campus antisemitism. The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions procedures expands on a list Harvard received on April 3, which ordered officials to shut diversity offices and cooperate with immigration authorities for screenings of international students.

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The JG Summit petrochemicals plant in Batangas City.

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The NU Lady Bulldogs shed tears of joy in a championship huddle after the clincher in their UAAP womenâ??s volleyball title repeat and third crown overall in the last four years.

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