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OSG asks PET to uphold decision junking Robredo’s bid for use of 25% ballot shading threshold in recount

By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Office of the Solicitor General has asked the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, to  uphold its earlier decision junking Vice President Leni Robredo’s bid for the use of a 25-percent ballot threshold in the ongoing manual recount. In asking the PET to uphold its April 10 decision, the OSG, acting as the people’s tribunal, noted that it was the PET that was the “sole authority […]

Neil Armstrong moon bag sells for $1.8million in New York

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A bag Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon — which was once nearly thrown out with the trash — sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million, Sotheby’s said. The outer decontamination bag, which was flown to the moon on Apollo 11 and still carries traces of moon dust and small rock, was sold on the 48th anniversary of the first moon landing in […]