Day: March 25, 2026

Sara Duterte, the vice president of the Philippines, is so extreme she once threatened to dig up the body of a rival’s father and throw it into the sea. And now she wants to become president

MANILA, Philippines — The crisis committee President Marcos ordered created “does not start, but sustains and strengthens” the multiple mitigation measures to cushion the impact of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East on vulnerable sectors, Executive Secretary Ralph Recto said yesterday.

OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video generation pipelines.

The announcement came abruptly this afternoon with OpenAI posting a message on X and not giving an exact shutdown date for the services, instead promising “timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”

The New York Times accused the Defense Department on Tuesday of defying a federal court ruling that had declared major parts of the department’s press rules unconstitutional.

The company said in a legal filing that the department sought to fashion an “end run” when it issued revised media rules on Monday.

MANILA, Philippines — The Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) has rebutted Tingog party-list Rep. Jude Acidre’s interpretation of one of its referrals in the flood control scandal.

“The referral did not make a determination of innocence or guilt on the part of former speaker Rep. Martin Romualdez,” the ICI pointed out.

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Public hearings on the impeachment case against Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte will start in Congress on 25 March.

The impeachment trial is the latest in an explosive feud between the country’s two main political dynasties – the Duterte and Marcos families. They formed a powerful political alliance which has since spectacularly unravelled.