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Las Vegas gunman’s Filipina girlfriend said she had no knowledge of plan by RAE
Marilou Danley
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deadliest shooting attack in modern U.S. history. “I knew Stephen Paddock as MARILOU Danley, the Filipino girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter a kind, caring, quiet man,” said Stephen Paddock, said she had Danley in a statement read by no knowledge of Paddock’s plan her attorney on Wednesday. “He when meeting with the FBI at the never said anything to me or took Los Angeles Federal Building on any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a Wednesday, October 4. Investigators are hoping she warning that something horrible can provide key information on like this was going to happen.” Danley — a 62-year-old Filipina what led to Paddock’s shooting rampage that left at least 59 who holds an Australian passport There is still tight security and police presence along Las Vegas Boulevard where Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino is located. On Sunday night, October 1, Stephen Paddock sent bullets and terror down on thousands attending a country music concert from his 32nd-floor hotel room at people dead and over 500 injured — met with FBI at the Los Angeles the Mandalay Bay. Paddock killed at least 59 people and injured 527 more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. in what is being considered the u PAGE A2 AJPress photo by Robert Macabagdal
USA
FROM THE AJPRESS NEWS TEAM ACROSS AMERICA
Senate committee holds hearing for DACA, future for DREAMers Panelists encourage Congress to pass a permanent, long-term plan for undocumented youth THE Senate Judiciary Committee held a congressional hearing for Trump administration’s ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on Tuesday, October 3, just two days before the deadline for many DACA recipients to renew their permits. The hearing was the first of step of finding a solution for DREAMers, who are set to lose benefits once the program expires in March 2018. In September, the Trump administration made an astonishing announcement that it
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Congress fails to renew Children’s Health Insurance Program by budget deadline
Cayetano: PH open to UN probe but asks for someone ‘without bias’ by AJPRESS THE Philippine government is ready to welcome experts from the United Nations (UN) who would conduct an objective assessment of human rights situation in the country, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said. Cayetano relayed this PH Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on message from UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres Inquirer.net photos extrajudicial killings
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ever, requested the international body to send representatives who have “no bias against the Philippines.” He specifically ruled out UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Agnes Callamard, saying she had already “prejudged the human rights situation in the country” and even referred to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as a “mur-
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Senate holds hearing on ‘fake news’ Ombudsman: I will not be baited into by DANA
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THE Philippine Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media on Wednesday, October 4, held its first hearing on the proliferation of ‘fake news’ or false information in the country. In her opening speech, Senator Grace Poe, the committee chair, emphasized the need to restrict the spread of fake news as it “cultivates a culture of lying.” “If purveyors are allowed to get away with the lies, they embolden government officials to also lie in order to escape accountability, crush dissent, and commit illegal
acts with immunity,” Poe said. “If fake news is not challenged, it will create lynch mobs out of certain people turning them into an army of character assassins that can be unleashed with one meme to destroy an idea, a person or an institution,” the senator added. Senators Vicente “Tito” Sotto III and Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao, meanwhile, commented how they became victim of “fake news” as they hit a blog that accused them of refusing to sign a bill that urges the government to stop the supposed spate of kill-
abandoning my constitutional duties by DANA
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OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio-Morales refused to bend to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s dare for them to resign together, saying she “will not be baited into abandoning” her constitutional duties. In a statement, Morales said she is ready to answer all the president’s allegations against her. “I will not be baited into abandoning my constitutional duties,” the Ombudsman said. “If the president has charges against me, I will answer them in accordance with the law. I expect him to answer the charges against him in the same manner,”
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Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales ManilaTimes.net photo
Palace welcomes confirmation of Environment Chief Cimatu
Congressional committee introduces new replacement childcare bill AS Washington continues the battle over the future of American health care, the United States Congress over the weekend failed to renew federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), allowing the program to expire by the end of the year. CHIP is a program created under Medicaid that has funded affordable healthcare for nearly 9 million children of low-income families. Through the program, states receive federal funding to establish low-cost health insurance for children. Congress was set to re-establish the $15 billion allocation towards CHIP, which had been backed by Democrats and Republicans since it was passed in 1997. The deadline to take action in CHIP’s renewal was Sept. 30. A delay in renewing the program may have
during their first meeting in New York on Friday, September 30, according to a statement from the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). “We will fully cooperate and work with you on a rationale, open, fair dialogue on our campaign against crime and illegal drugs,” Cayetano told the SecretaryGeneral. The top diplomat, how-
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SIXTH VISIT. President Rodrigo Duterte made his sixth visit to Marawi City on Monday, October 2, where he led the inauguration of the Bahay Pag-asa Project at Barangay Bito Buadi Itowa that is intended for the residents of Marawi who were internally displaced due to the conflict in the area. Malacañang photo by Robinson Niñal
MALACAÑANG on Wednesday, October 4, welcomed the Commission on Appointments’ (CA) confirmation of the ad interim appointment of Roy Cimatu as the Philippines’ environment secretary. In a statement, Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella expressed confidence that Cimatu would keep a “delicate balance” between the country’s economic development and environmental protection. “We welcome the confirmation of the nomination of Department of Environment and Natural Re-
sources (DENR) Secretary Roy A. Cimatu by the Commission on Appointments,” Abella said. He went on to say, “The Palace is confident that Secretary Cimatu would be able to implement the president’s marching orders on natural resources development and environmental policies of keeping a delicate balance between economic development and environmental sustainability.” Earlier this year, Cimatu was appointed by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to replace Gina Lopez, who was rejected by the CA in May. The president said he had chose
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