Kim Kardashian announces birth of third child, this one by surrogate

'Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,' Kardashian said in a message on her app.

Pope meets, ‘cries with’ victims of child sexual abuse in Chile

Pope Francis on Tuesday met with a small group of victims of child sexual abuse by priests in Chile, the Vatican said, adding that he “listened, prayed and cried with them.”

After Hawaii, Japan’s NHK issue false missile launch alarm

Japanese public broadcaster NHK issued a false alarm on Tuesday saying North Korea appeared to have launched a missile and urging people to take shelter, but it managed to correct the error within minutes.

Rogue Venezuelan ex-cop, 6 others killed in shootout with security forces

Rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez was killed in a police operation on Monday along with six other anti-government militants, the interior minister said on Tuesday, spurring opposition complaints of human rights violations.

Rains all over; Albay suspends classes due to weather

It will be a mostly rainy Wednesday throughout the country due to three weather systems with Albay province, faced with an increasingly restive Mayon Volcano, suspending classes at all levels because of the weather.

Sison: Threatened closure of Rappler, House con-ass resolution part of ‘imposition of fascist dictatorship’

The founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines called the threatened closure of Rappler and the House of Representatives’ adoption of a resolution to constitute Congress into a constituent assembly “part of the chain of events to impose the fascist dictatorship of Duterte on the Filipino people.”
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DOF submits to House 2nd tax reform package seeking to lower corporate income tax

The reduction of corporate income tax and modernization of fiscal incentives to investors were the highlights of the second proposed package of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program that the Department of Finance submitted to the House of Representatives this week.

CenterLaw on Rappler case: ‘SEC decision a prime example of outrageous legalism’

What the Solicitor General did is what lawyers call a “collateral attack” – restraining a known critic of the government’s drug war, not by directly censoring it but by cancelling its corporate registration.
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WATCH | MAYON VOLCANO ERUPTION: State of Calamity proclaimed in Albay

A state of calamity has been declared in the province of Albay due to the possible violent eruption of Mount Mayon, which as been...
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WATCH | Petitioners vs ML extension in Mindanao articulate definition of the terms rebellion,...

MANILA - During oral arguments Tuesday at the Supreme Court, petitioners against the extension of Martial Law in Mindanao articulated their view of the...

IF PH BECOMES FEDERAL REPUBLIC | No more VP, Bangsamoro and NCR would be...

MANILA, Philippines -- There would no longer be a vice president and the Philippines would no longer be known as Luzviminda as two more...
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Hilbay’s heads-up: Martial Law commanders could suspend elections, restrict press freedom

MANILA - Former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay, the counsel of former Commission on Human Rights chair and partylist congresswoman Loretta Ann Rosales in her...
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House opts for ‘Con ass’ to push charter change

MANILA, Philippines - Amid objections, the House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a resolution to constitute the Senate and the House of Representatives into...
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NUJP, PCIJ urge untrammeled exercise of press freedom

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines firmly on Tuesday came out in opposition to the proposal by the House Sub-Committee on Constitutional...
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Finance officials clarify tax issues for ROHQ employees

Employees of regional operating headquarters (ROHQs) need not worry about the veto of the provision under the first tax reform package that allows them to continue enjoying the 15 percent preferential withholding tax rates because they will benefit from lower income taxes in general.