The National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that the fingerprints of suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo matched with Guo Hua Ping, Senator Risa Hontiveros said. This shows that the Mayor and the Chinese-passport holder have the same identity, Hontiveros said in a statement released to the press. “This confirms what I have suspected all along. […]

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that the administration is planning to create three million jobs for Filipinos by 2028. This initiative is in line with the Trabaho Para sa Bayan (TPB) Plan, a ten-year roadmap for “greater employment generation towards recovery.” “Beyond generating employment, what we want to achieve is creating quality jobs, with special […]

The Freelance Worker Protection Act, which provides protections for independent contractors who create products or services in Illinois or who work for a hiring entity located in Illinois, took effect on July 1st. Under the law, freelance workers are entitled to the following when the value of their work is equal to or greater than […]

As marijuana use becomes legal and more accepted across America, more seniors are developing unhealthy relationships with the drug, a new report suggests. A look at data on almost 56 million Medicare beneficiaries finds “rates of health care encounters with cannabis-related disorders increased from 2017 through 2022,” according to a study led by Dr. Silvia […]

As of June 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed human cases in at least seven states: Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi and Tennessee. At least 18 states have detected the virus this year in humans, mosquitoes, birds or other animals. Five of the human cases were neuroinvasive, meaning people developed […]

The United Nations world food price index rose for a third consecutive month in May, as higher cereals and dairy product prices outweighed drops in prices for sugar and vegetable oils. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 120.4 points in May, up 0.9% from […]

Most Americans are confident that the Social Security system will pay them all of their promised retirement benefits, according to a poll released Tuesday by Rasmussen Reports. In the survey of 1,080 likely voters, 59% were confident Social Security will pay them all the benefits accrued during their lifetime, of whom 24% are very confident. […]