HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, April 21

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on the top news stories that you need to know today, April 21:

REPORTR ASKS

• It’s Ka Leody de Guzman’s turn on our social media hotseat. Why should voters pick him as the Philippines’ next president?

NEWS EXPLAINED

• What is the strategy behind face-to-face campaigns? Let’s look at Sam Concepcion’s viral ‘shot’ moment.

ELECTION NEWS

• Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said she was giving supporters of Vice President Leni Robredo a “taste of their own medicine” when she called on her to withdraw her candidacy for president.
• Moreno’s running mate however, Doc Willie Ong, refuses to join the Leni-Withdraw call. Here’s why.
• Manny Pacquiao credited divine intervention for his failure to attend the press conference with Moreno, adding disparaging other candidates was not the plan.
• Robredo turned fan girl for her celebrity endorser, Piolo Pascual, who was viewing her Facebook live broadcast.
• Moreno reaped criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates for joking that he was offering his son, Joaquin Domagoso, for bookings during a recent campaign rally.
• Robredo will hold a campaign rally in Macapagal Avenue on Saturday, her 57th birthday, and motorists are advised to take alternate routes on April 22 to 24.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• At least three bus companies with terminals in the EDSA Cubao area said they would operate only from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• Rappler CEO and Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa has filed a complaint before the Ombudsman against NTF-ELCAC spokeswoman Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging her on social media.
• U.S. authorities have removed the face mask requirement in airplanes. Subways, trains and buses.