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Senatorial candidates 2025: Credentials, affiliations and core message

Senatorial candidates 2025: Credentials, affiliations and core message

2 days ago
This guide offers a quick look at each senatorial candidate: their professional credentials, party affiliation (if any), and...
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Sarah Discaya is not the Pasig mayoral frontrunner

Sarah Discaya is not the Pasig mayoral frontrunner

5 hours ago
An anonymous Facebook user has falsely claimed that Pasig City mayoral candidate Sarah Discaya leads the race against incumbent...
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Violence in south, cash seizure in Cebu cast shadow on May 12 polls

Violence in south, cash seizure in Cebu cast shadow on May 12 polls

11 hours ago
Deadly violence in the south and a massive cash seizure in the central Philippines have cast a shadow over the country’s...
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Duterte, Nograles face off in Davao mayoralty race

Duterte, Nograles face off in Davao mayoralty race

By Edith Regalado | 22 hours ago
Over three million Davao City voters will choose today between former president Rodrigo Duterte and lawyer Karlo Nograles...
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Machine errors, secrecy lapses, long waits hound voters in midterm polls' first half

Machine errors, secrecy lapses, long waits hound voters in midterm polls' first half

By Dominique Nicole Flores | 5 hours ago
In just the first half of election day, reports of overcrowding, invalid ballots, over-voting and malfunctioning vote-counting...
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Lotto results for May 12, 2025

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Soldiers keep watch by a military vehicle transporting election material, as supporters of the United Bangsamoro Justice Party block the convoy from leaving the Datu Odin Sinsuat municipal hall to nearby polling centres, delaying the start of polling in the town amid an electoral board dispute, in Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao del Norte province, on the southern island of Mindanao on Monday, May 12, 2025.

NAMFREL reports at least 7 killed before and during election day, most in Mindanao

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An undated photo of an automatic counting machine used for the 2025 midterm elections.

311 voting machines replaced on election day, says Comelec

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Incumbent Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto answers questions at an ambush interview after casting his vote at Valle Verde on Monday, May 12, 2025.

Vico Sotto unfazed by disqualification case, says he hasn’t received it

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Seaborne cops kill 3 followers of candidate in Basilan encounter

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Voters at the San Jose Elementary School in Caloocan City pen their ballot on May 12, 2025.

Vote doesn’t match receipt? Comelec says voters may have forgotten choices

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Kanlaon Volcano exhibits heightened unrest, emitting steam from its crater on Sept. 10, 2024, 5:30 a.m.

LIVE updates: Kanlaon Volcano restiveness

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Kanlaon Volcano exhibits heightened unrest, emitting steam from its crater on Sept. 10, 2024, 5:30 a.m.

‘Prenup?’ Yassi Pressman’s voting photos with politician beau earns buzz

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Map of Tineg, Abra.

Polling continues at Abra capital school amid May 12 shooting incident

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Photo of Pasig mayoral bet Sarah Discaya during a campaign acitivity in April 2025.

Sarah Discaya says St. Gerrard won't bid for infra projects if she's elected mayor

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Persons deprived of liberty casting votes at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City on May 12, 2025.

More than 4,000 inmates vote in nationwide midterm polls

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Persons deprived of liberty casting votes at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City on May 12, 2025.

Voters call on Comelec: ‘Pa-update po’ — Time to refresh outdated ID photos

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Persons deprived of liberty casting votes at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City on May 12, 2025.

‘BecomingFilipino’ vlogger shares experience as first-time voter after naturalization

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Philippines' Vice President Sara Duterte attends the campaign rally of senatorial candidates under the party of former Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on May 8, 2025, ahead of the midterm elections.

Sara Duterte is not wearing a Kabataan party-list group shirt

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Celebrities cast votes for Elections 2025

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Pasig mayoral bet Sarah Discaya answers questions from reporters during an ambush interview after filing her ballot on Monday, May 12, 2025.

Sarah Discaya disowns viral ‘babawiin namin’ post, says it’s not from her camp

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This photo taken and handout on May 10, 2025 by The Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with cardinals in The Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV says Church in 'great need' of priests, nuns

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Members of De La Salle University's Valorant team pose with their championship trophy and medals.

La Salle repeats as UAAP Valorant champion

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Members of De La Salle University's Valorant team pose with their championship trophy and medals.

Discaya turns heads for revealing status as first-time voter

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This photo taken on May 10, 2025 shows a worker walking past wind turbine blades for export at the port in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province.

China hails 'substantial progress' in trade talks with US

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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.

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The party-list race as of 9:05 p.m. based on News5's transparency server on Monday, May 12, 2025.

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A Commission on Elections employee inspects official printed ballots for the May midterm elections, which are set to be discarded, at the National Printing Office in Quezon City on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025.

Proud to vote, ashamed of the choices

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Incumbent Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto answers questions at an ambush interview after casting his vote at Valle Verde on Monday, May 12, 2025.

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This photo taken and handout on May 11, 2025 by The Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV during his first Reginal Caeli prayer from the main central loggia of St Peter's basilica in The Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV warns of spectre of global war in first Sunday address

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This photo taken on May 10, 2025 shows a worker walking past wind turbine blades for export at the port in Lianyungang, in Chinaâ??s eastern Jiangsu province.

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Members of De La Salle University's Valorant team pose with their championship trophy and medals.

La Salle repeats as UAAP Valorant champion

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