Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Tarlac POGO’s money trail links to brother of Duterte’s Chinese adviser
- Suspect came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
- Senate orders arrest of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, 7 others
- Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting case dismissed over withheld evidence
- Julia Montes to star in PH adaptation of Japanese series ‘Mother’
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/july-15-2024/
- Tarlac POGO’s money trail links to brother of Duterte’s Chinese adviser
- Suspect came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
- Senate orders arrest of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, 7 others
- Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ shooting case dismissed over withheld evidence
- Julia Montes to star in PH adaptation of Japanese series ‘Mother’
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/july-15-2024/
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00:00Pogo investigators say a money trail leads to the brother of former Duterte advisor Michael
00:18Young.
00:19Investigators find few clues as to why a 20-year-old tried to assassinate Donald Trump.
00:24The Senate orders the arrest of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and seven others.
00:28A New Mexico judge dismisses involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin.
00:34And actress Julia Montes is set to star in a Philippine adaptation of Japanese television
00:38series Mother.
00:42Investigations into Philippine offshore gaming operators, or Pogos, have found a money link
00:46to the brother of former Rodrigo Duterte economic advisor Michael Young.
00:50The Court of Appeals froze the assets of seven individuals in relation to the qualified trafficking
00:55investigation into the Bamban-Tarlac Pogo, including Hong Jiyang Yang, brother of Michael
01:00Young.
01:01Senator Issa Ontiveros says while Hong Jiyang Yang is not an incorporator of the Hongsheng
01:06Pogo, later named Zunyuan, his money was used to fund Hongsheng.
01:11The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission has filed qualified trafficking complaints
01:15against individuals involved in the Hongsheng Pogo, whose workers escaped to expose maltreatment
01:20and torture in the compound.
01:30Investigators find few clues as to why 20-year-old nursing home aide Thomas Matthew Crooks cried
01:35to assassinate Donald Trump.
01:36Crooks shot Trump in the right ear during a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, streaking
01:42blood across his face.
01:43Crooks, a registered Republican, was shot dead by the Secret Service snipers.
01:48Rally attendee Cory Comparatore, a firefighter, was killed while two others were injured.
01:53Authorities say Crooks slipped into a rooftop location, about 140 meters from the stage
01:58where Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting a bullet from an AR-15-style semi-automatic
02:04rifle within inches of Trump.
02:06Following the shooting, President Joe Biden stresses the need for Americans to come together.
02:10I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics
02:16and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies.
02:22The Senate orders the arrest of embattled Bambantarloc Mayor Alice Guo for refusing
02:26to appear, despite notices, in the Senate's probe into illegal activities of Philippine
02:31offshore gaming operators.
02:33The arrest order was signed by Senate President Chiz Escudero and Committee Chair Senator
02:37Issa Ontiveros.
02:39It also orders the arrest of her family members, her former accountant Nancy Gamo and former
02:43government official Dennis Kunanan, the representative of the Bamban Pogo linked to Guo, for the
02:48same reason.
02:50The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms was directed to carry out and implement the arrest order against
02:54Guo and the seven others within 24 hours.
02:58Ontiveros says the issuance of the arrest order is, quote, "...only the first step to making
03:02Mayor Alice Guo, or Guo Huaping, accountable to our laws."
03:07A New Mexico judge dismisses the involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin
03:14three days into trial.
03:16The judge agrees with his lawyers that prosecutors and police would held evidence on the source
03:20of the live round that killed Rust cinematographer Halina Hutchins in 2021.
03:25The actor's lawyer says the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office took possession of live rounds as evidence
03:30but failed to disclose their existence to defense lawyers.
03:34It was the first Hollywood on-set shooting in nearly 30 years.
03:38Baldwin fired a .45-caliber live round loaded by the movie's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez,
03:42as Hutchins set up a camera shot.
03:45Prosecutors allege Baldwin had handled the gun irresponsibly.
03:48His lawyer says Gutierrez and others failed to ensure on-set safety while law enforcers
03:52went after Baldwin rather than find the source of the live round.
03:56The multiple Emmy Award-winning actor broke down in tears after the decision.
04:02Julia Montes is making her teleseria comeback through Saving Grace, the Philippine adaptation
04:07of the popular Japanese drama series, Mother.
04:09The upcoming remake will be in collaboration with ABS-CBN Studios, Dreamscape Entertainment,
04:15and Nippon TV.
04:16Aside from Julia headlining the series, other details about the project, such as its target
04:21release date, and other cast members, have yet to be disclosed.
04:24First aired on Nippon TV in 2010, Mother revolves around a struggling elementary teacher who
04:29abducted a first-grade pupil after believing the student suffered abuse from her own parent.
04:34They then escape town and pretend to be a mother and child as authorities search for
04:38the student.
04:39Saving Grace will be Julia's first top-billed teleseria in about five years.
04:45And that's today's Wrap, I'm Cara Oliver, thank you for watching.
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