Let's Do The News! (May 9, 2022)

                                                    

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- A day after the deadline it set for itself, the Commission on Elections has yet to finish the “final testing and sealing” of vote-counting machines with only 79 percent of the defective units replaced.

- The COMELEC flags fake disqualification against Makabayan groups.

- Fact-checkers call pre-election fake news a "firehose of falsehoods".

- Bongbong Marcos casts his vote in Ilocos Norte.

- Ping Lacson became the first presidential bet to cast a vote on election day.

- French President Emmanuel Macron vows a new start in his second presidential term.

- The Taliban ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public.

- The Doctor Who franchise named actor Ncuti Gatwa as The 14th Doctor.

- Actor Dennis Waterman dies at 74.

TTFN.