Valerie Gonzalez

1 week ago | castanet.net | Jill Colvin |Stephen McGrath |Jill Lawless |Valerie Gonzalez

Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from the hospital Sunday three weeks after undergoing surgery for a bowel obstruction. The medical team at the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia, the country's capital, said that he left intensive care on Wednesday but spent the past days recovering before being released Sunday. His health condition is stable and he started on a liquid diet, his doctors said. Bolsonaro appeared stiff and solemn as he walked outside.

1 week ago | citizentribune.com | Valerie Gonzalez |Jim Vertuno

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favor to 6 against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department.

1 week ago | timesfreepress.com | Valerie Gonzalez |Jim Vertuno

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Voters are set to decide Saturday if the South Texas home of Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company should become an official city known as Starbase, fulfilling the billionaire's dream of a galactic dateline for a program he hopes will someday blast astronauts to Mars. Approval of the new city is all but certain. Most of the 283 people eligible to vote are employees of SpaceX or connected to the company, living on the land at the facility and launch site.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Valerie Gonzalez |Jim Vertuno |Mohammed Jahjouh |Sarah El Deeb

Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate a bomb at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro. The event, on Saturday, was the biggest show of the pop star's career that drew some 2 million fans to Copacabana Beach. Rio de Janeiro's state police said they had worked with the Justice Ministry to disrupt an attack allegedly planned by a group that was spreading hate speech against the LGBTQ community.

1 week ago | fortune.com | Valerie Gonzalez |Jim Vertuno

A statue of SpaceX founder Elon Musk near the Texas town of Boca Chica, which will become Starbase after residents approved a measure to make the area surrounding the rocket launch site its own city. Valerie Gonzalez—AP Photo