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• 1.8 M Pinoys fell victim to petty crimes - SWS
  An estimated 1.8 million Filipinos have been victimized by common crimes in the second half of 2018, the highest recorded by Social Weather Stations (SWS) last year
• Daughter of former US intelligence director guilty of murder
  ROCKVILLE (AP) - The daughter of former US intelligence director and former ambassador to the Philippines John Negroponte has been found guilty of fatally stabbing a 24 -year-old man after a drunken argument inside a Maryland home.
• 'Crime may have been committed by Trump'
  Washington (AP)- Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe said in an interview that aired Sunday that a "crime may have been committed" when US President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI and tried to publicly undermine an investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia
• Bearer of fake news to face multiple raps.
  An optometrist will be facing a complaint for violating Article 154 of the Revised Penal Code, which prohibits anyone from “unlawful use means of publication and unlawful utterances”. The medical professional will be charged with Republic Act (RA) 10175, or Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which punishes a person who committed online libel for spreading fake news that a foreign national died in a private hospital in Mandaue City, Cebu due to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).