Let's Do The News! (January 14, 2025)

            

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

- The Commission on Elections has temporarily suspended the printing of ballots for the 2025 national and local elections following a temporary restraining order issued by the PH Supreme Court that disqualified several candidates and excluded their names from the ballot.

- The Ecowaste Coalition is dismayed by the continued use of single-use plastics as banners during the upcoming feast of Sto. Niño in Tondo next week.

- Surigao del Norte Representative Robert Ace Barbers is urging the PH Food and Drug Administration to issue a policy that will oblige all pharmaceutical companies or "Big Pharma" to list "adverse side effects" on the labels and packaging of their drugs.

- Senator Risa Hontiveros proposed that the government enhance its alliances with countries that are united in opposing China's aggressive behavior. She stated that China has had a troubling start to this year, as it has instead of fostering peace in the region, contributed to increased chaos.

- Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman states the Gaza ceasefire agreement is "at its closest point" after several months.

- The special prosecutor's report says that US President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted for a bid to overturn the 2020 US election results if he hadn't been elected.

- The launch of the Blue Origin rocket was delayed due to "a few anomalies" during the mission countdown.

- Social media is buzzing with a massive migration of "Tiktok Refugees" amid news of a potential TikTok ban across the United States this January 19th. New social media apps Neptune and Pageant gain over 100K email signups and 70K preorders on the App Store. ByteDance's new app, Lemon8, is holding the number one spot in the US App Store, while the "Chinese TikTok clone" called Rednote is also leading.

- Hamda Al Qubaisi will join AKCEL GP x PHM Racing for the F4 Middle East Championship after her two-season run with F1 Academy.

- Hertz Team JOTA now using the Cadillac V-Series.R racing machine for the 2025 WEC season.

- Mike Wallace was hoping to return to NASCAR competition at the Daytona 500 next month. However, NASCAR has ruled that he is ineligible to compete because he has not been active in the sport for several years.

- Disney has been sued for allegedly copying the idea for the Moana movies. Buck Woodall is suing the company for allegedly stealing his idea and is seeking damages equivalent to 2.5% of the Moana movies' gross revenue or $10B. 

- Kim Kardashian demands that the thousand incarcerated firefighters battling LA wildfires should get over 10.24 dollars a day.

TTFN.