HEADS UP: How Joey Mead Found Peace with Angie King and Found Her Inner Child (Jan. 28)

Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Jan. 28:

SUMMIT EXCLUSIVE 

• On her memoir “Runaway Model”, Joey Mead King confronts the demons from her childhood and reveals her own struggles while helping wife Angie King in her transition.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Follow these tips from the DOH to celebrate Chinese New Year and avoid catching the omicron coronavirus variant.

EXPLAINER

• Here’s the neuroscience behind why revenge tastes so sweet in the moment.
• Does Bumble really empower women by allowing them to make the first move?

TRENDING NEWS

• The Philippines ranks third in the world in terms of the number of K-Pop fans, Twitter data showed.

ELECTION NEWS

• Comelec urged the public to report fake social media accounts that impersonate its commissioners and officials, seeing it as part of a broader attempt to discredit the May 9 vote.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The economy grew faster than expected in the quarter ended December, with government economic managers saying that the country was on the right track towards a resilient recovery from the pandemic.
• COVID vaccination will not make you ineligible to donate blood, the DOH said, as it sought to rebuffed misinformation online. There were 18,191 new COVID cases yesterday.
• What’s next for the free press after Duterte allies Manny Villar and Apollo Quiboloy secure ABS-CBN’s former free TV channels.
• Moderna has started clinical trials on a booster shot that specifically targets the omicron coronavirus variant.
• Denmark will lift virtually all COVID restrictions from next week to return to “life as we knew it”.
• Proof that global inflation is real: Japan’s beloved corn puff snack is raising its price from 10 yen for the first time since 1979.