U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning, pleading with people on social media to "knock it off" with the conspiracy theories about the Brown University shootings. "Ill-informed and unnecessary speculation about what went on does [the] families no good at all." https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/brown-university-warns-against-harmful-doxxing-amid-search-for-gunman/ | WPRI 12

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Senators Loren Legarda and Kiko Pangilinan had a brief exchange during the fifth day of the bicameral conference committee meeting over "last-minute" adjustments in the 2026 national budget. The debate arose as the panel tackled the adjustments for Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) budget, with Pangilinan seeking to revisit the approved budget for the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) farm-to-market road projects, and its request to correct and replace the P8.9-billion worth of projects with