CLEVELAND, Ohio (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has softened his stance on illegal immigration. During the FOX News GOP Debate last night, the real estate mogul said he still believes in building a great wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. However, he stated that he was very much open to building a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - It is a scandal worse than Watergate or Irangate. It's called Electiongate. (And these scandals always happen in Washington, D.C., go figure!). Today, The Washington Post confirmed that former President Bill Clinton had a meeting with Donald Trump just before the real estate mogul announced his bid to become the next…
CLEVELAND, Ohio (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - The stage is set for the Republican presidential debate to be held at 9 p.m. on Thursday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. It will air live on the Fox News Channel with moderators Chris Wallace, Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier. The GOP debate will feature candidates who made it…
ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Amid conflicting reports that Zimbabwean lion Cecil's brother was either killed or is still alive, CNN has confirmed that Jericho was indeed killed. In a news flash aired on Don Lemon's show tonight, CNN announced that Jericho, Cecil's brother, "who is also a lion," was killed in yet another…
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just released her first official political ad and already, pundits are praising it as one of the most brilliant campaign ads America has ever seen. In the ad, Clinton talks about her late mother Dorothy who brought her up in a loving family.…
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - From New York City to St Louis, Missouri; from China to the Philippines, people are paying tribute to Cecil, the Zimbabwean lion killed by an American dentist last week. The killing has elicited an international outrage and many have called for the banning of hunting as a sport.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - No publicity is bad publicity. A new Adobo Chronicles® poll shows Donald Trump leading all Republican candidates for president by 40%, up from 20% the previous week. Trump's surge has been attributed to the killing of Cecil, the Zimbabwe lion by an American dentist, an incident that has outraged…
PALO ALTO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced that they are having a baby girl. This, after revealing that she has had several miscarriages. The proud parents posted a family photo with their dog Beast on Facebook. Zuckerberg even revealed that during an ultrasound, the…
From Edmonton and Calgary to New York City; from Las Vegas and San Jose to Melbourne, tickets to the Tony Award-winning musical, 'The Lion King,' have been selling out in just the last few days, thanks to the killing by an American dentist of Cecil, the beloved lion of Zimbabwe. The outrage and outpouring of…
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - After just ten days since his sold-out concert in Manila, Grammy Award-winning singer Chris Brown has been invited back to the Philippines. Brown is currently in Israel as part of his concert tour. The unprecedented invitation came from no less than Leila De Lima, Secretary of the Philippines'…
HARARE, Zimbabwe (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Zimbabwe authorities say that a Minnesota dentist is responsible for slaying one of the country's most beloved lions. On Tuesday, The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said in a statement that Walter James Palmer of Eden Prairie, Minn., paid at least $50,000 to track and kill the animal. The conservation group…
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - They already have their own green-painted lanes in the streets of San Francisco. Now they also want immunity from traffic enforcement. A San Francisco bike group unhappy with a crackdown on cyclists who run stop signs is protesting the law by obeying it in critical mass style. On Wednesday…
DALLAS, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - The governing body of the Boy Scouts of America voted Monday to end its decades-long ban on gay scout leaders. The organization's national executive board, meeting in Texas, concluded that the policy of excluding gay adults "was no longer legally defensible." While the national ban is gone, local scouting units…
MIAMI, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Donald Trump can't handle the truth -- that even his beauty queens don't support his pronouncements about Mexicans and immigrants. Trump has made illegal immigration the centerpiece of his bid to become the next president of the United States. He not only called for the building of a great…
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - It's official. Philippines President NoyNoy Aquino now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest State of the Nation Address (SONA). Aquino delivered his last SONA Monday night before a joint session of Congress. From his first word to the last, it took him two hours and ten minutes,…
ON BOARD THE TRUMP JET (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - During her acceptance speech for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008, Sarah Palin said that she put the jet purchased by Alaska's former governor up for sale on eBay as an example of her attempts at ethics reform. Following in her footsteps, presidential candidate Donald…
ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Two weeks ago, CNN ran a banner headline announcing that ISIS was advancing "on two fonts." The headline meant to read "fronts." It was assumed that the error was a copyediting issue. But apparently, it was a hacking issue, and it happened yet again. CNN, while doing a live…
HONG KONG (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Grammy award-winning singer Chris Brown was finally allowed to leave the Philippines after a three-day delay due to a fraud complaint against him for a cancelled concert last New Year’s Eve. Brown was in Manila Tuesday for a sold-out concert . The 26-year-old R&B artist had been stuck in…
LAREDO, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - Every so often, politicians and celebrities are caught in uncompromising situations -- in public restrooms. It is no secret that Republican presidential candidate likes women. That's why he owns several beauty pageants and has been married three times. But who knew he also likes using women's public restrooms? Trump…
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) - For far too long, white people have been absent from films, television shows, news anchor desks, advertising billboards and product labels. But finally, they are taking the spotlight away from people of color, thanks to a new MTV show, "White People." The documentary, produced by Filipino undocumented…