Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Joshua Walker said Japan's $550 billion investment initiative in the U.S. must remain mutually beneficial for it to endure beyond the Trump administration. (Photo by Nikkei)
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[2026-07-27 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-27 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and others, salute as a U.S. Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, of Ozone Park, N.Y. Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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[2026-07-27 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: An oil tanker moored off the coast of Muscat, Oman near the Strait of Hormuz
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[2026-07-27 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Biden administration officials predicted that Israel would expand the war in Gaza to be able to strike Iran and Lebanon, sources told The New Yorker.
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[2026-07-27 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, a Democrat, was indicted by an Oahu grand jury on Friday on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports. The charges stem from an alleged 2022 scheme, dating to her time as a powerful state lawmaker, to steer state money toward COVID-19 testing contracts during the pandemic.
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[2026-07-27 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the first 13 months of US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu racked up a hefty amount of miles flying the Tel Aviv-Washington route.
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[2026-07-27 03:19 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Singer rebukes Trump administration after it uses her song Firework over footage of missile striking Iranian naval ship
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[2026-07-27 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
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[2026-07-27 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Biden administration officials have expressed regret that the former US president's support for Israel ultimately "enabled" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to broaden the war in the region, according to a long-form New Yorker investigation published last week.
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[2026-07-27 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un tribunal federal de apelaciones confirmó un fallo que, en casi la mitad de los estados de Estados Unidos, detuvo la orden ejecutiva del presidente Donald Trump para crear una lista federal de votantes elegibles y limitar la entrega de boletas por correo únicamente a las personas incluidas en esa lista.
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[2026-07-27 02:29 UTC+10:00] [US foreign policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Even if no reactors are built, Donald Trump’s announcement of a double-standards deal with Riyadh has wrought further damage in a new era of proliferation
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[2026-07-27 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Department of Elections workers sort mail-in ballots for the California primary election at City Hall on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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[2026-07-27 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon is contemplating what could become “the most sophisticated operation in military history” to seize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, the New York Post reported on Saturday, citing sources.
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[2026-07-27 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran to give talks “some space” for diplomacy, American envoy to the UN Mike Waltz has said, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit the White House this week.
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[2026-07-27 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN the first half of 2026, the nation witnessed dramatic leadership shifts in the Senate, spiced up with the “numbers game,” boycotts, a shooting incident and the arrest of two senators in between.
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[2026-07-27 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: World Jewish Congress Israel President Sylvan Adams met Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi in Paris on Sunday to discuss their shared vision for a free and democratic Iran, renewed relations between the Iranian and Jewish peoples, and the eventual restoration of diplomatic ties between Israel and a future democratic Iran.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Why the prosecution is failing in VP Sara’s impeachment trialTHE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
So far, the three prosecution witnesses, presented to prove Article IV of the impeachment complaint charging VP Sara for the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust — Senior Agent Mark Calilung, Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc and Director Melvin Matibag, all from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — have not proved the case of the prosecution.
Calilung was presented to prove the authenticity of the video containing the online conference of VP Sara, where she uttered the remarks the prosecution regarded as grave threats and inciting to sedition, which formed the basis of the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust.
In the first place, the said conference is not in dispute nor were the utterances made there; hence, Calilung’s testimony on this matter is unnecessary and useless. His other testimony touched on the investigation he conducted at that conference. Instead of favoring the prosecution, he highlighted the fact the inquiry he made was superficial and merely for show. He limited his investigation to four participants, i.e. news reporters and a blogger. He disregarded getting information from the other reporters present to determine the environment under which VP Sara’s remarks were made.
Calilung did not coordinate with the Presidential Security Group as to whether the vice president’s statements constituted a threat to the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., nor did it coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to evaluate whether her remarks constituted a threat to national security.
Additionally, Calilung was called to the witness stand as an expert witness on cyber libel. It turned out he only trained for two weeks — hardly a training experience required of a witness before qualifying as an expert witness in a particular field. This witness could not also answer directly the questions of the defense counsel on cross-examination, dodging these — a trait that understandably and unsurprisingly characterized the manner of responses by the other two NBI witnesses.
One of them, Lotoc, was nowhere an improvement on Calilung as a witness. He effectively sunk further the prosecution’s case as he validated Calilung’s testimony that the NBI’s first and second investigations were not thorough and merely pro porma. Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that they did not investigate the threat against VP Sara’s life, apart from sending her an invitation to provide their agency information on the threat — which she declined — despite the continuing visible threat, in addition to the oppressive acts committed against her, her family, her staff and her allies, especially the withdrawal of her trusted security personnel, whose circumstances triggered her outburst, calling out the people for help on the imminence of her physical obliteration and seeking justice for her planned assassination, as well as unmasking her would-be perpetrators.
Lotoc, using his being a lawyer to full extent, hewed and dodged as he avoided answering directly the questions from the cross-examiner. He came out as an unreliable witness when he admitted that he was facing serious criminal charges of arbitrary detention and unlawful arrest at the Office of the Ombudsman, including crimes involving moral turpitude, such as theft, robbery and perjury.
Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that there were no reported seditious acts committed by various groups as a consequence of VP Sara’s allegedly seditious remarks and grave threats against President Marcos, nor was she present at anti-government rallies advocating to overthrow the government.
The third prosecution witness, Matibag, whose political somersaulting qualifies him as a political operator, thereby exposing his dubious political loyalty to a cause, is a patently biased witness. He admitted to writing three vicious, disparaging articles in the Daily Tribune against VP Sara. His wife is a member of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the vice president. He cannot, therefore, say anything good against the respondent and would certainly testify against her, and in fact he did, with gusto.
Despite the relentless propagandizing of the prosecution team inside the impeachment court, inadvertently aided by the erroneous rulings of the presiding officer, as well as the constant black propaganda dished out in public by its allies in Congress, its case against VP Sara and obsession to remove her from office and disqualify her from running in the 2028 presidential elections has not gained a foothold, simply because there is no constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment.
Not even a foolish rant from a member of the impeachment court notorious for advocating the necessity of bending or breaking a law could help the prosecution’s losing cause. This law bender railed against his colleagues for standing up and defending themselves from malicious innuendo and evident intimidation coming from a prosecution witness and a government official who foisted the filing of cases against two senator-judges, necessarily impugning their integrity. He doesn’t even know the function of the impeachment court, which is to hear a case filed against an impeachable officer and to decide it in accordance with the law and evidence presented before it.
One begins to wonder what sins have the people committed to deserve a harebrained politician, and what graver sins they have committed, to deserve failed governance from those they have placed in power.Snippet: THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
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[2026-07-27 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on air strikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald Trump abruptly called off his two-week-old bombing campaign.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Raymond Democrito Mendoza is currently a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress of the Philippines. He has been representing the Trade Union Congress Party, the political arm of Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), since the 14th Congress via the party list.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Unreleased documentary footage shows that the late US senator Lindsey Graham spent years privately pressing US President Donald Trump and foreign leaders to overthrow Iran’s regime, at times advocating military action that went beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to support, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 00:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Laura Loomer en una entrevista con The Associated Press, en Kiev, Ucrania, el 26 de julio del 2026. (AP foto/Andrew Kravchenko)
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[2026-07-26 23:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Laura Loomer speaks during her interview with The Associated Press, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
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[2026-07-26 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-26 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Temperatures hit sweltering highs across much of the central United States on Saturday as forecasters warned that dangerously hot weather from Dallas to North Dakota would push into next week, with roughly 80 million people facing heat advisories.
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[2026-07-26 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’
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[2026-07-26 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As Trump’s toughening rules spark anxiety, Chinese parents pay for camps teaching how to survive being seized by gunmen or ‘hidden dangers’
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[2026-07-26 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Two members of the United States Congress have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require developers of the country’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems to build in a “kill switch”, allowing advanced AI models to be slowed, suspended or shut down if they pose a catastrophic risk.
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[2026-07-26 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Washington’s dogged insistence on denuclearisation first has led to a prolonged deadlock that has only widened Pyongyang’s options
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[2026-07-26 22:30 UTC+10:00] [North Korea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Washington’s dogged insistence on denuclearisation first has led to a prolonged deadlock that has only widened Pyongyang’s options
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[2026-07-26 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.K.'s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, said he would be willing to call out U.S. President Donald Trump to defend the U.K.'s national interest, as he set the tone for the key trans-Atlantic relationship.
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[2026-07-26 21:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SENATE President Win Gatchalian wants poor job seekers to receive discounts or fee waivers for obtaining the pre-employment documents required to secure gainful employment.
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[2026-07-26 21:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Iran said on Sunday it has halted retaliatory attacks against US allies in the Middle East after Washington stopped its strikes on the country for the past two nights.
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[2026-07-26 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a campaign rally on Saturday, July 18, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)
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[2026-07-26 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SENATE President Win Gatchalian urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to conduct an audit of fuel pass-through charges amid a sustained spike in electricity rates.
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[2026-07-26 21:16 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump weighs up his options after military chiefs warn of dwindling munitions stockpiles
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[2026-07-26 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Erwin Tulfo has filed Senate Resolution 535 seeking to investigate recurrent electricity bill shocks, aiming to craft a pro-consumer policy in the long run.
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[2026-07-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The refusal to meet a visiting delegation during a recent fact-finding trip signals China’s new approach to tech diplomacy, observers say
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[2026-07-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The refusal to meet a visiting delegation during a recent fact-finding trip signals China’s new approach to tech diplomacy, observers say
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[2026-07-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US midterm elections 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Abdul El-Sayed may be buoyed by a younger, anti-establishment coalition as he runs against an establishment candidate
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[2026-07-26 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Contenedores de mercancías se ven en un barco en el puerto de Oakland el miércoles 6 de agosto de 2025, en Oakland, California. (AP Foto/Noah Berger, Archivo)
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[2026-07-26 20:09 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The Department of Defense’s leasing of land to private companies for artificial intelligence server farms is drawing bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers worried about the impact on military installations and surrounding communities.
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[2026-07-26 20:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cargo containers line a ship at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
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[2026-07-26 20:02 UTC+10:00] [Sports] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-07-26 20:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters ahead of an address by President Donald Trump, Thursday, July 16, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[2026-07-26 20:00 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: GOP legislative priorities could be at odds with voters as midterms come into view and Democrats attempt a resurgence
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[2026-07-26 20:00 UTC+10:00] [US immigration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: More than 330,000 Haitian immigrants in limbo as Trump administration seeks to end temporary protected status
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[2026-07-26 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left – but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?
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