Editor's Pick

FACT CHECK: Romualdez selecting successor NEEDS CONTEXT

FACT CHECK

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By VERA Files

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Sep 17, 2025

When a House speaker resigns, his replacement is elected by a majority vote of all House members. The House rules does not provide that the outgoing speaker can choose his successor.

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Unfit of the Day: Why Duterte’s legal defense is unacceptable

Commentary

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By Katrina Stuart Santiago

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Sep 14, 2025

At the very least, this might be worth considering: that for six years under his leadership, from 2016 to 2022, we all actually had a President who had “significant cognitive deficiencies” with a “limited capacity for complex reasoning.” This makes it Duterte’s default. This is Duterte’s normal. And if he was fit enough to be President, then he is fit enough to stand trial.

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Sarah Discaya: Confidently anomalous

Bullit's Eye

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By Bullit Marquez

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Sep 2, 2025

All throughout the hearing she comported herself with confidence as she discussed matter-of-factly her irregular dealings with DPWH, without any trace of shame or remorse. Photos for VERA Files by Bullit Marquez.

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Untold secrets of the Discayas

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By Antonio J. Montalvan II

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Sep 1, 2025

With all their government-funded wealth, the Cruz sisters can easily take flight as British citizens. Is the government acting now to prevent another miscarriage of accountability?

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Jonvic Remulla’s PNP chief: Lt. Gen. Jose Nartatez Jr.

FACT CHECK: Doc Willie Ong death news a HOAX

A Facebook post falsely claimed cardiologist and social media personality Doc Willie Ong had died and donated his body to medical science as contained in his will.

Arts & Culture

ANI: Plants! Glorious plants!

Celebrating Botanical Art Worldwide 2025, ANI: Our Assets, Natural Heritage, and Cultural Identity is an exhibition by the National Museum of the Philippines (Museum of Natural History, Gallery XII, 2F) and the Philippine Botanical Art Society until November 2025

Commentary

Sara’s jailbreak plan may punish her father instead

“Let’s collaborate on a jailbreak,” Sara Duterte preached to her audience of her family’s Duterte Diehard Supporters in an interview she gave outside Scheveningen Prison in The Hague to the DDS vlogger Alvin Dave Sarzate. I saw the interview. Unfortunately, the Sara jailbreak statement will be one consideration the judges will rule on.