- Chief Justice Teresita J. Leonardo de Castro retires on Wednesday when she reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70 for judiciary members. Today, she led Supreme Court justices and court officials and employees in her last flag-raising ceremony at the SC offices on Padre Faura St., Ermita, Manila.
- The Philippine National Police does not see a scenario of drug dealers organizing themselves into groups and fight back at law enforcement agencies hunting them down. PNP chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said the possibility of a Mexico-type situation in the county, wherein drug syndicates are brazenly engaging in executions of policemen and other government people, is unlikely in the Philippine setting.
- Priests were discourage from running in the May 2019 midterm elections. Bishop Buenaventura Famadico, chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Clergy, reminded priests who are planning to enter politics that this is not part of their task.
- A meeting of top US and Chinese officials got off to a frosty start with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang taking each other to task amid worsening bilateral relations.
- US President Donald Trump will announce the lifting of a federal ban on summer sales of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline on Tuesday in Washington DC ahead of a trip to Iowa the same day, according to two sources familiar with the planning of the event.
- The death toll from the Indonesian quake has reached 1,944.
- Volkswagen continues their teaser for the T-Cross compact crossover.
- Katarina Rodriguez wins Miss World Philippines 2018. She gets to represent her country in December's Miss World pageant in Sanya, China.
- Female newscasters speak up on Gretchen Fullido's sexual charges.
- Kris Aquino answers a certain question regarding her photo with Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista.
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