News: COA bares deficient confidential fund receipts sent by VP Sara's office

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COA bares deficient confidential fund receipts sent by VP Sara's office

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LAST PUSH IN SWING STATE Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a rally on Monday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris was also at the battleground state that day, addressing a rally in Philadelphia and later joined by husband Doug Emhoff. —AFP

Hi there. COA bares deficient confidential fund receipts sent by VP Sara's office

The Commission on Audit has confirmed that it received more than 1,200

deficient acknowledgment receipts —with erroneous dates, unreadable names—from the OVP to justify its use of P125M in confidential funds in 11 days in December 2022.

Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission spokesperson Winston John Casio has been relieved of his post and placed under investigation for slapping a POGO worker during a raid in Bagac, Bataan—an incident caught on video that has gone viral.

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the country's exclusive economic zone off its eastern seaboard—on Monday night, a week after two Chinese fishing boats were also monitored in the same area.

Justice delayed gets a judge fined: That's how the Supreme Court penalized an Antipolo City RTC judge for a seven-year delay in resolving a petition against a construction company that allegedly forcibly evicted market stallholders in Cainta, Rizal.

Win the vote, but still lose? With the whole world watching the historic US presidential election, the rules of the enigmatic and, to some, outmoded, system that undergirds American elections is coming back into focus: What IS the Electoral College?

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