WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public. But when Trump signed the order Thursday night imposing new tariffs on 66 countries,...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump 's special envoy Steve Witkoff visited southern Gaza on Friday during international outrage over starvation, shortages and deadly chaos near aid distribution sites. Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee toured one of...
The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday enters its third and final day of public testimony over the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and commercial jet in January. Two previous days of testimony underscored a number of factors that likely contributed to the collision that...
CAVITE – The city government of Bacoor and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) commemorated the 127th anniversary of the Bacoor Assembly at the historic Cuenca House on Friday, August 1. Sen. Loren Legarda served as the guest of honor, leading the flag-raising and...
Another unidentified man was found dead, floating in the Marikina River on Thursday afternoon, July 31, allegedly due to drowning. This was the second day in a row that a body was found floating in the river, following the discovery of another unidentified body of a man in Barangay Malanday on July...
In a bid to advance education equity and uplift the welfare of private school teachers, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday, August 1, announced a substantial increase in the annual Teachers’ Salary Subsidy (TSS) under the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private...
NEW YORK (AP) – Mourners packed a New York mosque on Thursday to honor a Bangladesh-born police officer who embraced the job of protecting his adopted city and gave his life for it when a gunman opened fire in an office building this week. Officer Didarul Islam “did believe in the American...
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has raised the tariff rate on US imports from Canada to 35 percent from 25 percent effective Friday. The announcement from the White House late Thursday said Canada had failed to “do more to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept ... traffickers,...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora was re-elected as the Metro Manila Council 's (MMC) president during the joint meeting of the MMC, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday, August 1. “I would like to express...
Five suspects, including two minors, were arrested for stealing 32 government-issued and two personal laptops from a faculty room of a school in Sta. Ana, Manila, during the recent typhoons. The Manila Police District (MPD) and Barangay 905 Kagawad Edwin Zambrona said the robbery was only...
The Malabon City government held its 2nd Mega Job Fair for this year at a shopping mall on Friday, August 1, offering around 5,809 job vacancies for job seekers. "Ang Mega Job Fair na ito ay bahagi ng ating layunin na mapabuti ang kalidad ng buhay ng bawat Malabueño. Sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay...
Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares announced the start of the city 's “pandemic-style" curfew for minors on Friday, August 1, as part of the city government 's expanded efforts to ensure their safety and welfare. In his advisory, Ynares said individuals aged 17 and below are strictly...
