Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- ‘I’d rather not’: Again, Marcos skips comment on VP Duterte’s tirades
- With no EO, freeports and ecozones 'gray area' in Marcos POGO ban
- Trump sues CBS over Kamala Harris '60 Minutes' interview
- LeBron James endorses Kamala Harris for US president, says 'choice is clear'
- Kiefer Ravena reveals engagement to beauty queen Diana Mackey
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-1-2024/
- ‘I’d rather not’: Again, Marcos skips comment on VP Duterte’s tirades
- With no EO, freeports and ecozones 'gray area' in Marcos POGO ban
- Trump sues CBS over Kamala Harris '60 Minutes' interview
- LeBron James endorses Kamala Harris for US president, says 'choice is clear'
- Kiefer Ravena reveals engagement to beauty queen Diana Mackey
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-1-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:15President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declines to comment on Vice President Sara Duterte's
00:19rant regarding the remains of his father.
00:21Free ports and ecozones remain a gray area despite Marcos' ban on pogos.
00:26Donald Trump sues CBS over a Kamala Harris interview aired on 60 Minutes.
00:31LeBron James endorses Kamala Harris for president.
00:34And Filipino basketball star Kiefer Ravenna announces his engagement to beauty queen Diana
00:39Mackie.
00:42President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declines to comment on Vice President Sara Duterte's
00:46tirade regarding the remains of his father, the former president and late dictator.
00:51After a mass at the Libingan ng mga Bayani where his father is buried, Marcos Jr. says
00:55he'd quote, rather not comment on Duterte's threat.
00:59This was Duterte's remark that Marcos was being asked to respond to.
01:11This is not the first time Marcos declined to comment.
01:14On October 22, he only smirked when asked to react to Duterte's claim that he did not
01:19know how to be president.
01:22Marcos and Duterte ran in 2022 and called themselves the UniTeam.
01:27Duterte resigned as Education Secretary in June 2024 and has since cast herself as an
01:32oppositionist.
01:35Four months after his verbal order to close down all Philippine offshore gaming operators
01:40or pogos by the end of the year, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. still has not issued
01:45an executive order.
01:47Thus, iterations of gaming licenses issued by Freeport and Economic Zones remain a gray
01:52area.
01:53Freeport and Economic Zones enjoy some degree of autonomy.
01:57One big economic zone having its own internet gaming license is the Cagayan Economic Zone
02:01Authority or CESA run by Katrina Ponce-Enrile, daughter of Marcos' chief legal counsel Juan
02:07Ponce-Enrile.
02:09PACOR Chairperson Alejandro Tenco earlier told the Senate panel CESA was indeed a point
02:14of contention.
02:15On October 31, authorities raided a gaming hub licensed as a Special Class Business Process
02:20Outsourcing Company.
02:22PAOC Spokesperson Winston Castro says the raid is tangible proof economic areas are
02:26being abused to allow activities bordering on scamming.
02:32Donald Trump sues US TV network CBS over an interview of his rival Kamala Harris aired
02:37on its 60 Minutes news program.
02:39The complaint, filed in a federal court in Texas, alleges the interview was misleading
02:44and edited to favor Harris' campaign.
02:47It claims 60 Minutes did not include what the lawsuit calls a word salad response from
02:51Harris about Biden's role in the Gaza War and argues this amounts to interference in
02:56the elections.
02:57Trump wants CBS to release the full unedited transcript of the interview.
03:02A CBS News spokesperson says the claims are false, adding the interview was not doctored
03:08nor did it hide any part of the vice president's answer to the question at issue.
03:12Trump has threatened to revoke CBS' broadcasting license if elected.
03:16First Amendment attorneys in the US denounce the lawsuit as frivolous and dangerous.
03:22NBA's all-time leading scorer LeBron James endorses Democratic candidate Kamala Harris
03:28for president.
03:29James posted a 75-second video compilation showing Republican Donald Trump's rhetoric
03:35against minorities and immigrants.
03:37James says on social media,
03:39What are we even talking about here?
03:41When I think about my kids and my family, how they will grow up, the choice is clear
03:45to me.
03:46Vote Kamala Harris.
03:48James is the latest celebrity to back Harris, after actress Meryl Streep, comedian Chris
03:53Rock, former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and superstar singers Beyonce and Taylor Swift.
03:58James endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.
04:03Harris has been attempting to boost her support among Black men who are increasingly leaning
04:08toward Trump.
04:09James led Team USA to Olympic gold at the Paris Games.
04:13The Los Angeles Lakers forward is playing in his 22nd season in the NBA.
04:20Filipino basketball star Kiefer Ravenna announces his engagement to beauty queen Diana Mackie
04:24on Thursday, October 31.
04:27He posts on Instagram, an October to remember, with sceneries, self-portraits, and his mother
04:33Mozzie.
04:34Towards the end of the post, he reveals himself and Mackie with what looks like an engagement
04:38ring on her left hand.
04:40Ravenna's friends and fellow athletes congratulate the couple in the comments.
04:44The 26-year-old Mackie, who has worked as a flight attendant, is best known for his
04:48tints in Binibining Pilipinas and in Pinoy Big Brother, where she placed fifth in PBB
04:538 Part 4 Adult Edition.
04:58And that's today's wrap.
04:59I'm Julian Sirineo, thank you for watching.
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