President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. also underscored the importance of access to information and digitalization to attain ...

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. said the petitioners against the 2025 budget law were seeking the "shutdown" of government.

The only people who can say that it’s authentic are the people who signed it.” Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian had this to say on ...

Malacanang has nothing to do with the so-called ‘blank pages’ in the bicameral conference committee report on the 2025 national budget, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said on Friday. “Alisin natin ...

MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Francis Escudero maintained on Wednesday that the bicameral conference committee report on the national budget for 2025 that he signed had no blank items.

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WASHINGTON — It’s time to take pride in the American flag again, President Trump’s State Department said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday banned flying any other flags ...

According to U.S. flag code, "all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels" will fly at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a president Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...

MANILA, Philippines — There seems to be a “deliberate and calculated move to map out” the Philippines by a “foreign power,” according to Philippine Navy spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea Rear ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang During his Inaugural Address on Monday ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' order to fly flags at full staff for Donald Trump's inauguration during the mourning period for Jimmy Carter has been panned by the Miami Herald for prioritizing ...