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FACT CHECK: Graphic on ‘ICC convicting Duterte with life imprisonment’ FAKE

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By VERA Files

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Jun 30, 2025

A news card claiming that the ICC has sentenced former president Rodrigo Duterte to life imprisonment is circulating online. This is fake.

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FACT SHEET: Impeachment in the Philippines through the years

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By Rhoanne De Guzman

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Jun 6, 2025

As the nation awaits the resolution of whether Vice President Sara Duterte's trial could proceed during the 20th Congress after it convenes in July, let's look back at the history and timeline of impeachment cases in the country.

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Make it make sense: Duterte numbers and the blame BBM train

Commentary

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By Katrina Stuart Santiago

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May 29, 2025

In truth, between the Duterte arrest in March, across the 2025 campaign, and through to the present, a content bucket that has constantly been filled is that one that speaks of Duterte as the Pinoy every man, the Juan dela Cruz, who became President. This is further dispersed across smaller content buckets, each one filled deliberately and strategically, and then mass dropped on Tiktok accounts that grow almost by the week.

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FACT SHEET: From Manila to The Hague and back to Davao: Can Duterte swing it?

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By Psalm Mishael Taruc

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May 22, 2025

With former president Rodrigo Duterte detained in ICC custody, legal uncertainties rose amid unprecedented conditions when he was elected mayor of Davao City in the May 12 midterm elections.

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Sara Duterte impeachment trial: first round in the 2028 presidential contest

PHL Vote 2025

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By Ellen Tordesillas

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May 18, 2025

Prominent lawyer Lorna Kapunan said last week’s election showed an enlightened electorate. The results were both an appeal and demand to current as well as aspiring political leaders for respect. It’s a notice as well to the senator-judges in the Duterte impeachment trial.

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FACT CHECK Online Posts

FACT CHECK: Romualdez did NOT suffer heatstroke

A video posted on Facebook is falsely claiming that House Speaker Martin Romualdez suffered heatstroke and was taken to the emergency room of a hospital.

Arts & Culture

A university president is governor of Catanduanes

Patrick Alain Azanza, 7th president of Catanduanes State University, has been sworn in as the13th governor of the island province of Catanduanes.

Commentary

Sara Duterte’s ambag to nation building

It is quite disgusting to see and hear the vice president either ranting against the government or trying to be cute with her remarks and body language to endear herself to her audience, speaking spontaneously, oftentimes blabbering, with empty rhetoric without offering doable solutions to problems.