Friday, March 15, 2024

Let's Do The News! (March 15, 2024)

                               

                                                                        

Your daily round-up of today's news...

-  COMELEC commenced "mall voting" for the 2025 midterm elections.

- Philippine President Bongbong Marcos defends his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte's allegations that he is only "going for a walk" during his foreign visits.

- The DENR is studying legal bases to close the controversial Captain's Peak swimming pool in Bohol. The LGUs of Sagbayan, Bohol, came in defense of the DENR over the issue of the controversial swimming pool near Chocolate Hills.

- A 17-year-old boy admits killing 15-year-old stab victim Elianne Andam at a bus stop in Croydon last September but denies murder.

- The father of the Michigan school gunman who killed four students has been convicted of manslaughter. The trial heard that James Crumbley had ignored his 15-year-old son's mental health needs, buying him the handgun he used in the November 2021 attack.

- Top US Democrat Chuck Schumer demands for a new election in Israel. The US Senate majority leader sharply criticises the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing him of prioritising his "political survival".

- The Gran Turismo World Series 2024 will begin this April.

- Baseball player Shohei Ohtani revealed that Mamiko Tanaka is his new wife, weeks after his shock marriage announcement.

- Swimmers and other athletes are suing the NCAA over transgender policies.

- The long-delayed biopic project of the late singer April Boy Regino will finally push through. Former Dingras, Ilocos Norte mayor Marynette Gamboa returns to produce the film.

TTFN.

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