Let's Do The News! (December 17, 2025)

              

Your daily round-up of today's news...

- Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte has submitted a new request for travel clearance to the House leadership to travel to the Netherlands and Australia from January 3–January 30, 2026. According to Atty. Jose Marmoi Salonga, Executive Director of the Office of the Secretary General, Congressman Pulong's stated reason for the travel clearance was to visit his father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, who is incarcerated in The Hague.

- Dengue cases in Quezon City have risen by 35%

- The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) files backtracking in connection with the Bondi Beach shooting.

- Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon announced that the rehabilitation project on EDSA will begin on December 24, 2025.

- US President Donald Trump defends his chief of staff following the taped interview between them leaked all over the media.

- The United Kingdom will rejoin the European Union's Erasmus student exchange scheme, six years after the Brexit deal.

- The European Union may cancel the 2035 ban on ICE-powered cars.

- Kaylee Countryman will represent Toyota Gazoo Racing Haas F1 Team in the 2026 F1 Academy season. Countryman will compete in the ART Grand Prix-operated car, marking her second season in single-seater racing.

- F1 will return to Portimao in the 2027 season.

- Project Rally One is set to enter the WRC from 2027. Project Rally One is set to design, build, and homologate a WRC27-spec car for the start of the championship's next regulatory era.

- Jaguar will unveil its 4-door EV GT car in the Summer of 2026. It will be a production version of the controversial Type 00 Concept with a 1000hp EV powertrain.

- The Perodua Traz was unveiled.

- Ford scrapped its EV plans as it shifts focus to hybrids and petrol-powered vehicles.

- The Shinbi's House 10th anniversary movie will hit South Korean cinemas this January 2026.

- Since the launch of the Mission Creator update in Grand Theft Auto Online, Rockstar Games has suspended multiple accounts due to user-generated missions that reference Charlie Kirk's assassination, P Diddy's arrest, and police brutality against Black Americans, among others.

- Boy group ATBO announces their disbandment.

- NBA's expansion decision will be made in 2026.

- Famed Filipino voiceover Jefferson Utanes passed away at the age of 46.

- The Kingdom's TV drama series casts Derek Ramsay and Cristine Reyes.

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