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Fairness must begin with the judges

PRESIDING Senator-Judge Francis Escudero is right to insist that fairness, balance and restraint must guide the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Without these, the court risks losing both credibility and constitutional legitimacy. Yet prosecution counsel Lorna Kapunan offered an equally important re…

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​Prosecutors doing trial court’s job

THE Department of Justice (DOJ) has confirmed, through its own leadership, what practitioners have assailed for some time: the bar for filing a criminal case has been deliberately raised. In a recent interview, Justice Secretary Fredderick Vida said prosecutors must now establish “prima facie evidence with reasonabl…

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NYT’s reporting on rape accusers under fire again as bitter legal battle over Amy Griffin’s ‘The Tell’ rages

On September 24, 2025, the New York Times published a front-page story that attempted something highly uncharacteristic of the Gray Lady: A 5,000-plus-word report, four months in the making, that aimed to discredit a woman’s rape account. Behind the scenes, a former “Temptation Island” contestant also figured into t…

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Palace vows justice for slain motorcycle taxi rider

Malacañang assures the public on July 17, 2026 that justice will be served to the family of a motorcycle taxi rider, who was stabbed by a passenger in a robbery in Caloocan City. Cabinet Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. made the assurance during his visit to the wake of Move It rider Fabio Norberte Jr. to convey the co…

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‘Offer he can’t refuse’: Is Italy’s mafia law breaking crime or families?

Italy’s mafia clans have kept the family business alive for generations, passing criminal empires from fathers to sons in a cycle that has endured for centuries. But with organised crime networks still exerting influence across parts of the country, the Italian government now wants to make the next generation an off…

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Milei says Argentina ‘getting closer’ to reclaiming Falklands after World Cup row

Argentine President Javier Milei on Thursday declared that his government is “getting closer every day” to recovering sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, escalating a diplomatic row stemming from Argentina’s politically charged World Cup victory over England earlier in the week.

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How a Paid Expert Reversed His View of a Notoriously Flawed Prosecution in the Rape of a Bestselling Author

The upstate New York city of Syracuse seems at odds with itself when it comes to a notorious miscarriage of justice. Nearly five years ago, the district attorney of Onondaga County, William Fitzpatrick, stood up in court and excoriated his county’s decision decades earlier to prosecute Anthony Broadwater for the rap…

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"One Step Closer To Extradition": Cox Media Heir Faces Reckoning Over Funding Marxist Revolution

Sovereign Media, a far-left media outlet funded by the Babochki Collective, a nonprofit run by Jim "Fergie" Chambers, the communist centi-millionaire and heir to the Cox Media fortune, reports that Fergie, who was arrested in Ibiza last week at the request of the US Justice Department, "has been transferred to a max…

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