Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with authority to oversee the remainder of the special counsel’s Russia investigation.

The move has potentially ominous implications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe given that the new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, until now Sessions’ chief of staff, has questioned the inquiry’s scope and spoke publicly before joining the Justice Department about ways an attorney general could theoretically stymie the investigation.

The day of reckoning for American politics has nearly arrived.

Voters on Tuesday will decide the $5 billion debate between President Donald Trump’s take-no-prisoner politics and the Democratic Party’s super-charged campaign to end the GOP’s monopoly in Washington and statehouses across the nation.

by Robbie Pangilinan

Tacloban City Mayor Cristina Romualdez leads events in commemorating the fifth anniversary of super typhoon Yolanda that affected a total of 8,065,019 persons (1,686,098 families; 7,904 barangays and 409 municipalities), and left 6,300 dead, 1,061 missing, and 28,689 injured.

by Bernardita Benedicto Valenzuela

As the Fifth Anniversary of YOLANDA fast approaches - November 8, 2018 - we are constrained to hark back to that fateful day during which precious lives and valuable property were washed away.

I can still recall vividly what I, together with representatives of various agencies – in the Command Center at City Hall where we had been since the night of November 7- had gone through.

A turbulent election season that tested President Donald Trump’s slash-and-burn political style against the strength of the Democratic resistance comes to a close as Americans cast ballots in the first national election of the Trump era.

The Government of Japan announced on November 3, 2018 the conferment of The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette on Retired Judge Antonina B. Oshita Escovilla.