HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, May 6

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on the top news stories that you need to know today, May 6:

NEWS EXPLAINED

• What is it like to be a youth volunteer for the campaign of Vice President Leni Robredo and Sen. Kiko Pangilinan?

ELECTION NEWS

• Comebacking former Sen. Loren Legarda was trending after her son, Lorenzo Leviste, disowned her for supporting Bongbong Marcos in a viral opinion piece for Rappler.
• Legarda sat down with religious leader Apollo Quiboloy on SMNI after her son’s piece went viral. The interview instead focused on her campaign and she got Mother’s Day flowers from vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte.
• Before Lorenzo Leviste, these children of high-profile Marcos supporters also openly expressed their disagreement with their parents’ politics.
• ‘Our blood is boiling,’ martial law victims said at the prospect of Bongbong Marcos recapturing Malacanang for his family.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Malacañang has declared May 9 a special non-working holiday so you can vote in the elections.
• Here's a step-by-step guide to voting from the moment you arrive at the polling precinct on Monday to the time you feed your ballot into the counting machine.
• Will shading at the back of the ballot affect the front? Here’s what the Comelec says.
• Here are the operating hours of Metro Manila malls on May 9, Election Day.
• Here’s how you can add your candidate’s frame to your Facebook profile photo, or on any of your social media accounts.
• Attending Robredo and Pangilinan’s miting de avance on May 7? Here’s what you need to know.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Makati prosecutors found enough grounds to charge “Poblacion Girl” Gwyneth Chua in court for breaking quarantine to party at Christmas time last year.
• Two new sub-variants of omicron are driving the COVID surge in South Africa, the WHO says.
• Russia is practicing nuclear-capable missile strikes as Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine continues
• This beef substitute is touted to help save forests and slash carbon dioxide pollution.