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'A waste of time': Duterte says he'll personally clear Cabinet execs' invites to Senate probes President Duterte wants to personally approve or reject the invitations of Cabinet members who are summoned to appear at the Senate’s public inquiries. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his “Talk to the People” public briefing…

SACRAMENTO: President Joe Biden on Monday renewed his push for significant investments to combat climate change as he visited California during a three-state western U.S. tour and took an aerial tour of areas hit by one of the country's worst fire seasons. The trip is aimed at highlighting the devastation…

Toronto 2021: Playwright Stephen Karam’s directorial debut is overly crafted, but the writing and casting keep its offbeat intelligence alive A24 The threat of impermanence or, looking at it another way, the threat of unfulfillment’s permanence, hovers like a cloud over the Blake family Thanksgiving dinner that makes up the…

Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) officials have been accused of deploying about 40 non-beneficiaries of the programme to go for foreign postgraduate courses to be sponsored by the scheme.  Ijaw Youths Council raised the alarm on Sunday in a statement issued in Warri, Delta state and signed by Commander Joseph Oyinkuro.…

Amandla Stenberg graced the red carpet for the Dear Evan Hansen premiere on Thursday, and they did it in style — specifically, in head-to-toe Gucci. The star's sparkly look is straight out of the fashion house's Aria collection, featuring a leather top and matching choker adorned with chain details, and…

Arizona GOP state Sen. Ugenti-Rita, who has been critical of the Maricopa County audit of the 2020 election results, posted on Twitter Friday that she and her family have received threats. Ugenti-Rita, who chairs the Arizona Senate Government Committee, withdrew her support from the audit, criticizing "the lack of competence"…

The prospect of watching a two-and-a-half hour documentary on Oscar winning film composer Ennio Morricone, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, an Oscar winner himself with “Cinema Paradiso,” saw cineastes stream into the film’s Friday evening world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. There was a quiet gathering on the red carpet…

NHL.com is examining where each team stands in preparation for the 2021-22 regular season, which starts Oct. 12. Today, five questions facing the St. Louis Blues:  1. Will Vladimir Tarasenko be traded?Tarasenko, through his agent Paul Theofanous, requested a trade from the Blues on May 25. That was two days…

Following Jair Bolsonaro's decision to edit regulation to limit moderation powers of social networking platforms earlier this week, senators are calling for the immediate suspension of the measure. Under the changes introduced via a provisional measure, announced on Monday (6), social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube…

The government on Thursday announced the extension of its Covid-19 inoculation programme to the end of the year. Twenty-one of the 26 community vaccination centres that are currently in use will stay open through December, but with shorter hours and a rest day on Wednesday. The other five centres will…