HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, May 26

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on top news stories that you need to know today, May 26: 

POLITICS EXPLAINED

• What did 26 million voters see in Robin Padilla that made him the number one senator-elect of the May 9 elections?

ELECTION NEWS

• Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte-Carpio were proclaimed as winning president and vice president in the May 9 elections.
• As Marcos was proclaimed president-elect, Vice President Leni Robredo waived the right to question the results that will be presented during the official canvassing.
• Marcos Jr.’s victory is a “restoration of faith” in the family, said his sister, Sen. Imee Marcos.
• Marcos has tapped lawyer and vlogger Trixie Cruz-Angeles as his press secretary and head of the Presidential Communications Operations Office.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Free rides at the MRT are extended until the end of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term on June 30.
• Cebu Pacific said it had restored 100% capacity for domestic travel.
• “A Thousand Cuts”, a documentary film about the work of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, has won the Robert F. Kennedy award for journalism.
• Outbreaks of monkeypox are ‘containable’ and human-to-human transmission can be stopped, especially in countries where it’s not endemic, the WHO said.
• Only in the U.S. An 18-year-old gunman shot dead 18 children at an elementary school in Texas state.
• Justin Bieber is returning to Manila after 11 years with a concert at the CCP grounds on Oct. 29.