LUCENA CITY — At least P843,000 worth of “shabu” (crystal meth) and two illegal firearms were seized from three suspects in separate police operations in two Laguna towns on Friday. Police said in a report on Saturday, September 14, that law enforcers arrested the three suspected drug traffickers during buy-bust operations in Santa Cruz and.
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When Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa collided headfirst with Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during Thursday night’s football game, it was immediately apparent to medical experts that Tagovailoa had suffered a serious concussion.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday warned the public against organizations or individuals offering supposed mpox vaccines “imported” from abroad.
In a public health advisory, the DOH cautioned the public “against availing (oneself of) such vaccines.”
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Microsoft told employees on Thursday that it has hired Carolina Dybeck Happe as its executive vice president and chief operating officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Dybeck Happe comes from GE, where she was senior vice president and chief financial officer from 2020 until September 2023.
The appointment reflects Microsoft's commitment to ensuring it remains coordinated as so much of the company has become oriented around artificial intelligence.
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Women with obesity and diabetes taking weight loss and diabetes drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound for over a year lost more weight than their male counterparts—but also experienced more nausea and vomiting, according to new research. Key Facts
Researchers from Eli Lilly who tracked weight changes for a group of 4,677 people with Type 2 diabetes and obesity found female participants lost up to 24.6% of their body weight during treatment, while males lost up to 18.1% of their body weight.
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MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte has just found an unlikely defender in the Senate. Sen. Joel Villanueva on Friday rued the move of the House of Representatives’ budget panel to cut the outlay for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) by over 60 percent.
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The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has enacted a regulation that bans residents of Metro Manila, especially children, from swimming in floodwaters for fun.
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Jennifer Brown, known as ThisIowaMom on social media, has gone viral for her life-changing wellness and weightloss journey. Brown lost 189 pounds after years of running, training and following her favorite Peloton instructor Kirsten Ferguson — who stops by TODAY to surprise her!
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My top 10 things to watch Friday, Sept. 13 1. The S & P 500 is trying close out the second week of September trading with its fifth straight positive session. What a difference a week makes. The index has now erased almost all of last week's bruising losses. At our September Monthly Meeting for Club members on Thursday, I offered my latest thinking on all 32 of our stocks during this volatile period for the market. 2. Oracle 's amazing transformation continues. Just days after reporting strong fiscal 2025 first-quarter results that sent its stock soaring, executives guided for fiscal 2026 revenues of at least $66 billion, above the $64.5 billion consensus estimate. Shares are jumping Friday. Price target bumps are flooding in, too. Larry Ellison's prediction that Oracle will one day operate at least 1,000 data centers, up from 162 currently, is looking more and more realistic. 3. Club holding Nvidia 's next-generation Blackwell chip platform is starting "full volume production," CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's own Megan Cassella on Thursday outside the White House. Jensen, other tech executives, and leaders of power and utility companies were there for a meeting about the future of AI energy infrastructure in the U.S. We own Eaton as a bet on growing electricity needs due to AI. Nvidia and Eaton are both core holdings for the Investing Club. There's one more stock I'd like to add to that list . 4. Adobe shares are tumbling after the software maker's current quarter outlook was softer than expected. The guidance wasn't really understandable. Multiple analysts had hiked their price targets ahead of the results. We've now seen a couple go the other way. 5. Boeing shares are under pressure after unionized factory workers in the Pacific Northwest overwhelmingly voted against a tentative contract....
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The local government of Makati will provide portable X-ray services to its sister local government units (LGUs) as part of its campaign against tuberculosis.
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MANILA, Philippines — New voter applications have reached over 6 million just days before the voter registration deadline ends, the Commissions on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday. In data released to the media on Thursday, Comelec processed 6,131,834 new voter applications as of September 11, 2024. Female voters still constitute the larger number with 3,153,433
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Digital health company Noom on Thursday announced it will offer a compounded GLP-1 drug as part of a new weight loss product that starts at $149.
The treatment will feature compounded semaglutide, the same active ingredient in Novo Nordisk's blockbuster obesity and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Noom has offered weight loss programs for years, and consumers can already try to access those branded medications through its platform.
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A senior official of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority said that the Subic agency will reduce greenhouse gas emissions here and bring it to zero balance within 16 years under a program to make Subic the country’s first carbon-neutral economic zone.
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Officials of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-9 and the Police Regional Office-9 are to intensify their joint anti-narcotics operation in Zamboanga Sibugay province, now regarded as an “area of concern,” where anti-narcotics agents had entrapped a number of large-scale shabu traffickers since January.
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Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — China's retail sales, industrial production and urban investment in August all grew slower than expected, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Saturday.
Retail sales rose by 2.1% in August from a year ago, missing expectations of 2.5% growth among economists polled by Reuters. That was also slower than the 2.7% increase in July.
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MANILA, Philippines — Antonio Trillanes IV will run for mayor of Caloocan City in next year’s midterm elections. “Today, I formally announce my candidacy for Mayor of Caloocan City in the 2025 elections. Parating na po ang pagbabago (Change is coming)…,” the former senator said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. READ: Caloocan.
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LUCENA CITY — A male Chinese national and his Filipina companion, who were allegedly kidnapped in Parañaque City, were found in Laurel town in Batangas province on Friday. The Region 4A police in a belated report on Saturday, September 14, said a resident found “Shi”, 36, and “Milagros”, 36, along Diokno Highway in Barangay (village)
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Speculations are rife that former mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is gunning to regain his old seat in next year’s polls after he asked the Commission on Elections to reactivate his voter’s registration. His lawyer, Jeric Jucaban, on Wednesday confirmed that Mabilog applied to reactivate his voter’s registration although he remained coy if the former mayor
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MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Storm Ferdie (international name: Bebinca) left the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) on Saturday morning, the state weather bureau said. According to the advisory of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), Ferdie exited the PAR at 2 a.m. on September 14, and was last seen 1,210 kilometers (km) east-northeast
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14 million Americans owe at least $1,000 in medical debt, with South Dakota, Mississippi and North Carolina as the top three states. Collectively, Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, turning medical emergencies into financial crises across the country. NBC News' Christine Romans has a closer look in our series, "The Cost of Living."
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CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday guided investors through next week's top Wall Street action, highlighting a long-awaited interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve and earnings from restaurant chain companies Darden and Cracker Barrel.
Investors are broadly expecting the central bank to issue a rate cut but are unsure whether it will be by 25 or 50 basis points. Cramer said he's betting on the former, saying he thinks the Fed should be measured when making cuts and not risk an inflation flareup. He added that a 50 basis point cut would signal that something is up with the economy and may spur panic on Wall Street.
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Brazil's supreme court announced that it ordered funds be moved from Starlink and X bank accounts to pay for fines levied against Elon Musk's social network.
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MANILA, Philippines — Human rights lawyer Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno on Friday urged House lawmakers investigating the drug war of the Duterte administration to also focus on a 2016 Philippine National Police (PNP) circular that ordered the “neutralization” and “negation” of drug suspects. Diokno, chair of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG), said the PNP’s
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MANILA, Philippines — From being a TV-savvy preacher who sought to project both earthly wealth and messianic glow, Apollo Quiboloy made his first court appearance on Friday looking like a mere mortal with a lot to hide. The embattled televangelist arrived around 8:30 a.m. at the Pasig City Regional Trial Court wearing a helmet, a
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MANILA, Philippines — A retired police officer who had been linked to the alleged Davao Death Squad (DDS) when ex-President Rodrigo Duterte was the city mayor was reduced to tears at the end of a 12-hour hearing on Thursday when the House quad committee ordered her detained for evading questions on her dealings with the
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MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday celebrated his 67th birthday by extending around P3.19-billion financial assistance and services in 82 provinces, including free medical services in state-run tertiary hospitals. In an interview with reporters in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Mr. Marcos said his birthday wish was for the improvement of the agriculture sector
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MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday unveiled the government’s low-interest credit line that rice farmers can use to buy seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other farm inputs. On his 67th birthday, the President launched in Nueva Ecija the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) “Agri-Puhunan at Pantawid Program (APP)” and oversaw the distribution of 9,832
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY — A Chinese company is investing $1 billion (P55.98 billion) to build a steel manufacturing plant in Maasim town, Sarangani province. It is the single biggest foreign direct investment (FDI) so far under the Marcos administration, according to Secretary Frederick Go, the special assistant to the president for investment and economic affairs.
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If you want a good cardio session but don’t want to brave the elements — whether heat, cold, rain or snow — an indoor exercise bike is a solid way to burn some calories from the comfort of your own home. To help you navigate which ones offer the best ride, we’ve rounded up a list of several highly rated stationary bikes under $500 that align with expert guidance.
Today’s home bikes span a range of styles and price points. While the pros we spoke to recommend a more expensive bike for serious tracking and online connectivity, they were quick to point out that there are plenty of more affordable exercise bikes that provide everything you need.
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CFOTO | Nurphoto | Getty Images MicroStrategy shares jumped more than 8% on Friday after founder Michael Saylor said the company purchased another $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin.
The stock jumped 24% for the week and is now up 124% this year.
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The genes you inherit from your parents may not only influence if you develop Alzheimer’s disease but also when. Although a family history of dementia does not guarantee that you will develop symptoms later in life, new research suggests that the risk may be higher depending on which parent is affected. This begs the question: is Alzheimer’s disease more likely to be inherited from mom or dad?
To answer this question, investigators at Harvard Medical School recruited over 4,000 cognitively normal adults between the ages of 65 and 85 across the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Participants were asked to report if and at what age either parent developed Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. The findings indicated that the risk was more prevalent when mom, rather than dad, was affected.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — In a subdivision near the northern edge of town, a number of condos and duplexes have popped up in the past three years.
It's part of a larger effort, including new zoning laws, to help provide affordable housing to Montanans who have found themselves priced out of the market, said DJ Smith, president of the Montana Association of Realtors.
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Critics say Shein and Temu are able to offer low prices because they evade import duties under the de minimis exemption — a loophole that could soon be closed.
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Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Comeback continues: The S & P 500 is rallying for the fifth session in a row, up nearly 4% this week and almost completely erasing all of last week's brutal sell-off to start September. Tech stocks are the big winner, with semiconductor companies such as Nvidia , Broadcom and Advanced Micro Devices all posting double-digit percent gains this week. All three chipmakers are Club holdings. Jim Cramer said earlier Friday that Nvidia received a do-over from Wall Street . The overall tech sector in the S & P 500 has climbed more than 7% week to date. It is closely followed in second place by consumer discretionary, which is up just over 6%. Its strength could be the result of investors believing that the Federal Reserve's upcoming rate cuts will help ease the labor market and boost consumer spending. Energy was the lone sector in the red week to date as U.S. oil futures struggled, trading below $70 per barrel. Financials also were underperformers, up roughly 0.6% this week, after a brutal session Tuesday in reaction to a downbeat update on interest income from JPMorgan's chief operating officer at a conference. Love for Lilly : An analyst call we didn't get to on the Morning Meeting was Citi resuming coverage on Eli Lilly with a buy rating and a price target of $1,060 a share. There wasn't really anything new and revelatory in the report, which could partially explain why the stock is trading lower on Friday. Lilly shares outperformed Thursday after announcing plans to invest $1.8 billion in manufacturing across two facilities in Ireland. Of that investment, $1 billion will...
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Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty Images Shares of Trump Media shot up by more than 25% on Friday, minutes after majority owner Donald Trump said he is not selling his stake.
"I have absolutely no intention of selling," said the Republican presidential nominee, who will be free to start cashing in his nearly 57% stake in less than a week when a lockup agreement expires.
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Jared Isaacman just made history by completing the first-ever civilian spacewalk. Here's how he went from teenage entrepreneur to billionaire civilian astronaut.
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Even as the Covid wave in Florida continues, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is once again advising against the mRNA vaccines: this time in older adults.
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Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s Wife and E Street Bandmate, has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Find out more on this rare cancer and its evolving treatments.
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MANILA, Philippines — Four foreigners were arrested after they were caught with firearms and ammunition in Makati City on Thursday night.
Armed with a search warrant issued by a court, policemen raided a unit in a condominium building in Barangay Urdaneta at around 6 p.m.
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While it is believed that all 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel from the sunken tanker Terra Nova have been drained, the Philippine Coast Guard has yet to declare that the siphoning effort has ended.
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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration yesterday warned of possible lahar and related hazards around Mayon Volcano in Albay and Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Island amid the heavy rains brought by the southwest monsoon and enhanced by tropical storm Bebinca.
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TUGUEGARAO CITY , Philippines — Two New People’s Army (NPA) members were killed in an encounter with military forces in Barangay Baliuag in Peñablanca, Cagayan on Thursday.
Capt. Leif Bernard Guya, Peñablanca deputy police chief, identified the male fatality as alias Jorly of Rizal, Cagayan while his comrade is confirmed to be a student of a university in Manila.
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Tua Tagovailoa will likely be sidelined for the team's next game, coach Mike MdCaniel said, as the Miami Dolphins QB was told to be the "starting quarterback for his family."
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To mark National Celiac Awareness Day, “Gut Renovation” author Dr. Roshini Raj joins TODAY with ways to learn the difference between Celiac disease and a gluten intolerance, and the risk factors for both.
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Whether they're reuniting with a drug they used when they were younger or trying it for the first time, there is a growing trend of older adults using marijuana for medicinal purposes, including treating chronic pain, trouble sleeping or anxiety. NBC’s Joe Fryer reports for TODAY.
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Apple’s latest event highlighted the company’s continued interest in personal health monitoring. In what was termed as the “iPhone 16 event,” the company went far beyond just announcing its new iPhone models, but also showcased key health features that will be available with the newest models of the Apple Watch and AirPods.
Specifically, the company announced that the latest Apple Watch will now be able to help users track sleep apnea, leveraging a new metric called “Breathing Disturbances.” The technology is unprecedented, and will leverage the device’s accelerometer to detect movements that indicate interruptions to normal respiratory patterns of sleep. Armed with this data, users will be able to understand their sleep metrics longitudinally and undertake more informed conversations and ascertain potential interventions with their physicians.
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The military foiled an attempt by the few remaining members of the Dawlah Islamiya to bomb selected targets in Central Mindanao to create an impression that the surrender of hundreds of its members since 2022 has not diminished its capability to perpetrate acts of terror.
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The U.K. government says it will ban junk food adverts online and on television before 9 p.m. in a bid to tackle obesity.
Public health minister Andrew Gwynne told members of parliament on Thursday the new rules would come into play from October next year.
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