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Vice President Leni Robredo has agreed to co-chair the government’s Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) just hours after the Liberal Party (LP), which Robredo chairs, said she will not accept the post.

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Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Deputy Director Margaux "Mocha" Uson insinuated President Rodrigo Duterte was the "best" among Southeast Asian leaders after being given a number 10 football jersey by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in Thailand on Nov. 2.

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From an earlier position that presumption of innocence can be waived, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo now says it must be upheld in the case of resigned police chief Oscar Albayalde.

President Rodrigo Duterte wants to “fast track” the cases of sick and elderly inmates or persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa. He believes, however, that those who have been behind bars for a long time prefer to stay in prison because they “have acquired latent homosexuality.”

From previously calling the traffic congestion in Metro Manila a “crisis” that required emergency powers for the president, Transport Secretary Arthur Tugade now calls the situation a mere “problem.”

Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, the former Special Assistant to the President, falsely claimed President Rodrigo Duterte did not promise to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila.

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A fake government office called “Philippine International Development Agency (PIDA)” is pretending to be a procurement body under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). A reader asked VERA Files to fact check the agency’s legitimacy after a post about it made the rounds on social media.

Sen. Richard Gordon warned “ninja cops” -- police officers allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade -- of facing capital punishment, which has already been abolished in the country.

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The Senate investigation on the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) has opened a can of worms -- among them the transfer of 10 “high profile” New Bilibid Prison (NBP) inmates to a Philippine Marines facility on June 12.

An online post claiming the extract from “talbos ng kamote” or leaves of sweet potatoes can “kill cancer” has been widely circulating on Facebook (FB) for the past three months.