HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, March 14

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on the top news stories that you need to know today, March 14:

LIFE KIT

• Here’s how you can adjust to a half-office, half-home work setup, also called the hybrid work arrangement.

ELECTION NEWS

• Senatorial candidates faced each other in The Rundown, a youth-oriented election forum, where they were asked how to move commuters instead of cars and how pandemic graduates can land jobs.
• Vice President Leni Robredo told her supporters in Bacolod what it really means to have national unity as she held her biggest campaign rally yet.
• In another campaign rally in Echague, Isabela, the vice president also told participants not to be easily swayed by promises and words of endearment by candidates.
• President Rodrigo Duterte gave what he thinks are the good qualities of his successor, hoping that the next chief executive is a lawyer.
• Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will not attend any debate as part of her vice presidential campaign, saying should leave it to the voters to decide.
• Some clergymen have given their support to Robredo for president, abandoning neutrality in the Catholic church.
• Have you recently purchased a drink from 7-Eleven with a cup bearing a presidential candidate’s name? Check your receipt, it might be different from the cup you ordered.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Who is attending the Comelec’s presidential candidates so far? See the list here.
• Here’s how you can get discounts on your next gas refill as fuel prices soar.
• Ready to surf again? Here are the requirements for La Union under Alert Level 1.
• Heads up, students. Here’s what you need to know as face-to-face classes in universities and colleges return.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Government officials are discussing the implementation of an COVID-19 Alert Level 0. What is it and how can we get there?
• An alleged hybrid coronavirus mutation dubbed as the "Deltacron" reportedly discovered in Cyprus is most likely the result of a lab contamination, experts said.
• Facebook said it has temporarily relaxed its rules on violent speech to allow statements like "death to Russian invaders” following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• A maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine was pulverized by Russia warplanes bombed the city, its officials said, as the conflict between the countries continues.