Lawyer Benjamin Tolosa Jr., counsel for the House prosecution panel, said the video could create a false impression about Akbayan party-list Rep. Chel Diokno’s statements during oral arguments on the prosecution’s request for Duterte’s bank and tax records.
Vice President Sara Duterte again referred to hiring a gunman during a speech in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday, as she argued that not all killings attributed to her father’s drug war could be conclusively linked to the antinarcotics campaign.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is asking city staff to identify programs that could receive Ready to Work funds as she considers ending the workforce development program early to help address the city’s $158 million budget shortfall.
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who won an Academy Award for the song “Falling Slowly” from the 2007 film “Once,” died Wednesday in a motorcycle crash near Dublin. He was 56.
Actor Jeric Raval said he should not serve as a role model after fathering 18 children with seven women, acknowledging the financial and personal challenges of raising a large family.
K-pop supergroup BTS will not submit its music for consideration at the 69th Grammy Awards, with all seven members saying Wednesday that they want their work to be heard and appreciated beyond regional and language classifications.
A Houston man faces a federal charge after allegedly flying a drone in restricted airspace near the FIFA World Cup fan festival in East Downtown on the tournament’s opening day, according to court records.
Kerr County residents and businesses are clearing mud and debris from their properties weeks after another devastating flood, but local leaders and nonprofits say the community has received less financial assistance and volunteer support than it did after last year’s disaster.
Drivers heading to Galveston will face temporary I-45 lane closures and a new two-year detour near Texas City beginning Aug. 7 as the Texas Department of Transportation continues a $226 million expansion project in Galveston County.
Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, a witness to the fatal shooting of a Houston man by a U.S. immigration agent, was released from a detention center Wednesday after spending weeks in custody, following a federal judge’s order barring his deportation.