- Widespread flooding in Quezon City due to heavy rains, stranding commuters, rendering most roads impassable to vehicles
- NBI starts own inquiry of DPWH contracts
- House suspends DPWH budget deliberations pending submission of changes by agency, DBM
- Nartatez rules out 'quota' arrests
- DoTr seeks higher budget for 2026, requests P531B amid cuts
- Drug war whistleblower Royina Garma returns to PH after US detention
- NATO members to reach 2% defense spending goal this year
- Malacañang calls plot to jail VP Duterte 'wild imagination'
- Philippines to work more closely with US amid regional challenges
- China to bolster non-Western alliances at summit, parade
