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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:   - Imee Marcos: Sara Duterte’s endorsement not ‘reward’ for Senate ICC probe - Duterte whistleblower Royina Garma seeks asylum in US - Harvard rejects Trump demands, gets hit by $2.3-billion funding freeze - Katy Perry launches into space with all-female crew on Blue Origin rocket  https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/april-15-2025/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:06Re-electionist Senator Amy Marcos says Sarah Duterte's endorsement is not a reward for her

00:17Senate ICC probe. Former Duterte close aide Ray Nagarma seeks asylum in the United States.

00:23Harvard faces a $2.3 billion funding freeze after rejecting President Donald Trump's

00:28administration demands. And Katy Perry launches into space on a Blue Origin rocket with an all-female

00:35crew. Re-electionist Senator Amy Marcos says Vice President Sarah Duterte's support for her

00:42candidacy is not a quote reward for leading the Senate probe into the arrest of former President

00:47Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court. She adds the endorsement is due to their friendship.

00:52This after she secures Duterte's endorsement following her exit from her brother's slate

00:57alianza para sa bagong Pilipinas. In a 32nd campaign advertisement posted on Monday, April 14,

01:03Duterte appeared with Senator Marcos urging public support for the senator's bid.

01:10The two also exchanged lines about the government's alleged neglect of basic national

01:14issues in favor of politics and power. The campaign video is posted on our Facebook page

01:19with the hashtag quote, hashtag itim, Indai trusts Amy Marcos. Marcos also shifts her theme from red to

01:26black, implying mourning. The endorsement comes as the senator's numbers continue to drop in pre-election

01:32surveys. Senator Robin Padilla, the president of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino, Lakas ng Bayan,

01:38also endorsed her Senate bid. But the party has yet to say if it will support Senator Marcos' bid.

01:43Retired police colonel Royina Garma is seeking asylum in the United States.

01:49This was confirmed by her lawyer Emerito Quilang. Garma, known for her close ties with former

01:54President Rodrigo Duterte, faces murder and frustrated murder complaints in the Philippines

01:58for the alleged killing of former Philippine charity Sweepstakes Office Board Secretary

02:02Wesley Barayuga. She played a key role in exposing the irregularities in her former boss Duterte's

02:08drug war as her affidavits revealed how Duterte allegedly incentivized the PNP to carry out the

02:13killings. She also confirmed the existence of Davao Death Squad, a group Duterte allegedly used to

02:19kill suspected criminals in Davao City. She attempted to enter the U.S. in August 2024,

02:24but her visa was canceled. Garma's visa was canceled without her knowledge. This could have stemmed from

02:30U.S. sanctions on human rights violators after being named one of the officers in Duterte's DDS.

02:35When she returned to the U.S. last year, she was arrested by authorities in California and taken

02:40into custody. Harvard rejects several demands from the Trump administration, saying it would

02:47give too much control of the school to a conservative government that portrays

02:50universities as dangerously leftist. Just hours after, Trump's administration says it was freezing

02:56$2.3 billion in federal funding to Harvard. This freeze follows an earlier statement from the

03:02administration, saying it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants to Harvard.

03:07This is part of a broader crackdown on what it says is anti-Semitism linked to pro-Palestinian

03:13protests on campuses over the past 18 months. Harvard President Alan Garber says in a public letter,

03:19quote, no government, regardless of which party is in power, should dictate what private universities

03:24can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.

03:28The administration has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for several

03:33universities, pushing them to change their policies and claiming they haven't done enough

03:37to fight anti-Semitism on campus.

03:42Pop star Katy Perry and five other women launched into space on a Blue Origin rocket and successfully

03:47returned to Earth on Monday, April 14. This marks the first all-female spaceflight in more than 60 years.

03:53In a live broadcast by Blue Origin, the crew lifted off from West Texas on 9.31 a.m. and traveled to

04:00the edge of space, where they experienced a short period of weightlessness before returning to

04:04Earth in a flight that lasted around 11 minutes. Blue Origin is a space company founded by billionaire

04:09Jeff Bezos. The crew is composed of Bezos' fiancé Lauren Sanchez, CBS host Gayle King, former NASA

04:16rocket scientist Ayesha Bao, scientist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Carrie Ann Flynn.

04:21King says Perry sang Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World when the crew returned to

04:26their seats after weightlessness. Perry was also holding a daisy flower, which she brought

04:31with her to remind her of her daughter Daisy.

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