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Jan 13, 2025 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
Apocalyptic, like an atomic bomb dropped — was how eyewitnesses described the wildfires that have burned down villages, houses, churches, schools, and businesses in Los Angeles, California.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Chay F. Hofileña |Glenda M. Gloria |Marites Dañguilan Vitug
Bookmark this page to catch the discussion on Thursday, December 12, at 4 pm! MANILA, Philippines – The year 2024 was nothing short of a political whirlwind for the Philippines marked by power struggles, shifting alliances, and high-stakes maneuvering at the very top. At the center of all the political chaos was the dramatic unraveling of the UniTeam of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
The cold Christmas breeze has set in, making our mornings more pleasant even as the feud between the Marcos and Duterte camps reaches a boiling point. If things turn out as planned, the first volley of impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte will likely be filed soon, one year since it was first hatched but probably a little too late even for the shortest of cuts. (Akbayan filed one on Monday afternoon, December 2, after this newsletter was sent).
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
niemanreports.org | Glenda M. Gloria |Gustavo Gorriti |Manasseh Azure Awuni |Vidya Krishnan
International journalists are hearing echoes. From countries around the world that have witnessed the rise of autocratic and populist leaders, they are watching the U.S. and warning of a characteristic of wounded democracies everywhere: an endangered free press. When Donald Trump sued CBS News for $10 billion over its editing of a Kamala Harris interview, some viewed it as just another tantrum.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
We hope you and your family remain safe after Super Typhoon Pepito, as it weakened over the West Philippine Sea early hours of Monday, November 18. The provinces of Catanduanes and Aurora have been badly hit. Affected communities need your help. Here’s how to send it. But first, a perennial question: Why is the Philippines experiencing back-to-back strong typhoons? Watch physicist Dr. Gerry Bagtasa, the “storm seer,” explain this to us in this Be the Good episode airing Monday, November 18, at 7pm.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
I lived in America for a year under Trump 1.0 and bore witness to how US journalists, on sabbatical, navigated and struggled in their new environment. The system is broken, they lamented. The system seems still broken. In September 2017, just as students were returning to school, the Trump administration decided to end an amnesty program (known as DACA) that protected from deportation around 800,000 people illegally brought to the US as minors.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
Lest we forget what happened a week ago today: Rodrigo Duterte, cocky and vile as ever, was needled to exasperation by the only senator who stared down the foul-mouthed ex-president who expressed zero remorse for his drug war policy that killed thousands. My favorite exchange between Senator Risa Hontiveros and the former president during the eight-hour Senate hearing on October 29 was when Duterte said, in explaining why he wanted drug criminals killed, that they all deserved to rot in hell.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Glenda M. Gloria
The sun is out as we write this newsletter today, even as Severe Tropical Storm Leon prompted the weather bureau to raise Signal No. 1 in certain parts of Cagayan and Isabela in Northern Luzon, and Catanduanes in Bicol. But first — this morning’s big news: former president Rodrigo Duterte appeared for the first time before a Senate body investigating the bloody drug war that he implemented during his presidency. Watch it here.
