NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) - Flying from New York to San Francisco? Louisiana to Los Angeles? Minnesota to Florida? New Hampshire to Colorado? Well, you'd better have a valid U.S. passport. Sure, these are domestic flights, but thanks to a law signed by President George W. Bush in 2005, following 9/11, issuance of…
WOLFSBURG, Germany (The Adobo Chronicles) - Apple faces some serious competition for its new product, the Apple Watch, and it's coming from an automaker, Volkswagen. Volkswagen, the world's largest automaker, is in deep trouble over its rigging of diesel engine emissions tests in America and Europe. The company falsified U.S. pollution tests by installing software ("defeat devices")…
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles) - At Tuesday's CNN Democratic debate, the issue of casino capitalism was front and center when moderator Anderson Cooper asked Senator Bernie Sanders if he considered himself a socialist. During the debate, Sanders defended democratic socialism and declared he was not a capitalist. "Do I consider myself part of the casino…
MADISON, Wisconsin (The Adobo Chronicles) - If you have an iPhone 5S, 6 or 6 Plus, or the later generation iPad, you could be receiving a recall email message from Apple. A U.S. jury on Tuesday found the company accountable for using processor chip technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison without permission in many of…
ANGELES CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) - The president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) reiterated the Church’s call for voters not to elect corrupt candidates to office. “Sinners can be forgiven but you cannot forgive the corrupt," Bishop Socrates Villegas said. “If we say that corruption is one of our nation’s deepest scars…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) - Two of the country's minority journalism organizations today formally protested the use of the term 'illegal alien' in the new Hollywood film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The Asian American Journalists Association(AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) sent a strongly-worded joint letter to Zack Snyder accusing…
HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles) - Earlier this year, when Columbia Pictures released the film 'Aloha,' Asian American groups protested the casting of Caucasian actress Emma Stone as Allison Ng, a character who was supposed to be part Hawaiian. Now it seems that the tables have been turned. Caucasian Americans are criticizing the casting of a…
HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles ) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may be having a dose of his own medicine, thanks to Native Hawaiians who want the real estate mogul evicted from Waikiki. All of Hawaii's land of course belonged to the Native Hawaiians before the Americans overthrew the Monarchy in 1893 and annexed the…
HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles) - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled the new 'Reactions' buttons on Facebook which will start rolling out in Spain and Ireland. The new buttons are Facebook's response to users' clamor that a 'Dislike' button be added to posts on the social media network. Instead of a 'Dislike' button, Facebook decided…
HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles) - A Christian organization earlier warned that the planet earth will be permanently destroyed on Wednesday, October 7. The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While that claim…
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) - Yesterday, we reported that Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao is running for a seat in the Philippine Senate. But the congressman from Saranggani province has a not-so-perfect record in the House of Representatives. Pacquiao earned the distinction of racking up the biggest number of absences in the 15th Congress. He…
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) - GMA News is reporting that Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao has confirmed that he is running for senator of the Philippines, with the blessings of his wife, mother and God. The congressman from the province of Saranggani follows in the footsteps of U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who when he…
HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Is it film imitating life, or life imitating film? Following Monday's earth-shattering announcement by NASA that scientists have discovered flowing water -- ergo, life -- on Mars, the space agency unveiled its new spaceship scheduled to head for the red planet in mid- 2016, with human crew members. In addition…
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) - Some 300,000 people are expected to descend upon Castro Street in San Francisco's gay district on Sunday for the annual Castro Street Fair. This year, organizers promised there will be more booths and booze, and dozens of commercial vendors selling non-gay merchandise. The all-day festivities will commence with…
ROWAN COUNTY, KY (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - After The Vatican's official clarification that Pope Francis' meeting with Kim Davis was not a "private audience" as the Rowan County clerk claimed, Liberty Counsel (Davis' attorneys) went on a damage-control mode. Following documented media reports that the only private audience the Pope gave was with his long-time Argentinian…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - In a move that surprised the journalism industry, The Washington Post today converted from a respected mainstream newspaper to a supermarket tabloid, as a way of coping with declining subscriptions and advertising revenue. The Post now puts itself in direct competition with the popular tabloid National Enquirer, known for gossip columns, sensationalized…
THE VATICAN, Italy (The Adobo Chronicles®) - As with all trips by heads of state, the itinerary of a visiting dignitary is always packed, consisting of a whirlwind of welcome ceremonies, state banquets, speeches before various groups, meetings with key officials, field trips, photo opportunities, and yes, private meetings, both scheduled and unscheduled. Pope Francis' visit…
WASHINGTON D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles®) - Politics is not politics without scandals. This scandal is about what appears to be a short-lived affair between Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz, Republican presidential candidates both. No, it's not what you're thinking. No romance is involved -- at least none that we know of. Rather, it is an…
ROWAN COUNTY, Kentucky (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - How the paparazzis missed reporting on the 'secret meeting' between Pope Francis and Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in Washington, D.C. last week, is a mystery. Or perhaps even a miracle. Yesterday, lawyers for Davis claimed that Francis met with Davis the same day as the pontiff's historic speech to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) - How the world (universe) turns! News satire sites are often accused of perpetuating hoaxes that many gullible netizens are quick to believe or pass on as fact. Today, the National Association of Satire Writers (NASW) discovered that today's NASA announcement about the discovery of flowing water on Mars was a…