A bipartisan caucus of the US House of Representatives will conduct a hearing into the “human rights consequences of the ‘war on drugs’ currently underway in the Philippines,” which has claimed thousands of lives since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office a year ago.

The 9-year-old kidney transplant survivor took on Alicia Keys' 'Girl on Fire' and blew the audience and judges away.

As they have in the past few years, some 300 lumad students, accompanied by some of their teachers and parents, will be going to Manila from Mindanao to drumbeat their demand for an end to continued attacks on tribal schools.

Its 4.6 billion streams surpass the record set by Justin Bieber with his 2015 single 'Sorry' and its remixes.

Donald Trump is one of a new breed of leaders around the world - including President Rodrigo Duterte - who seek to use their democratic mandate to undermine the rule of law, the head of a legal and human rights watchdog said on Wednesday.

Amazon.com Inc has done away with a controversial clause in its cloud computing contracts that prohibited customers from suing the company over patent infringement.

The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered graft charges filed against former Hinabangan, Samar mayor Alejandro Abarratigue, municipal treasurer Raul Tapia and administrative officer Analiza Bagro for the allegedly irregular purchase of land for the expansion of the town cemetery.

David Benioff and Dan Weiss will write and direct original series 'Confederate,' HBO said on Wednesday.

The Silliman University Faculty Association went on strike Wednesday, partially paralyzing classes at all levels as teachers took to the streets to demand increased wages and other benefits.

Thirty-two million Americans would lose their health insurance by 2026 if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office reported late on Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed fellow Senate Republicans to reach an agreement on overhauling the country's healthcare law.

The country’s top security officials were mum on who recommended the five-month extension of martial law in Mindanao that President Rodrigo Duterte wants Congress to approve.

A young policeman and his pregnant partner were among four suspects arrested in a drug buy bust operation in Caloocan City Wednesday.

The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA's covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two U.S. officials said, a move sought by Assad ally Russia.

Expect thunderstorms in most parts of the country because of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the area near the equator where northern and southern air masses meet, affecting Southern Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Apparently, the online disgust against Robredo isn’t shared by most Filipinos at least based on the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations.