SAN BENITO — A hotly contested school board election whose outcome could tip the panel’s balance of power turned San Benito’s Community Building into Cameron County’s second busiest polling site during an eight-day early voting period.
When Kapil Sharma and his team welcome a guest willing to bare it all, half the battle of entertaining the audience is won. The allure of hearing exclusive, unheard stories from a Bollywood star about their personal and professional life keeps viewers hooked. And when that superstar happens to be Aamir Khan, notorious for avoiding interviews, the excitement is doubled. Right from the start, it was evident that Aamir appeared on The Great Indian Kapil Show as an appreciative admirer. He recounted...
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2024 By a wide margin, voters in the border city of Calexico, California recalled Mayor Raul Urena, who was the first trans identifying individual elected mayor in the state. Urena, a 26-year-old biological male, identifies as a transgender woman and prefers she/they pronouns. Urena was first elected in 2020 at […]
SAN BENITO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Wednesday was the third day of early voting for the May elections and in San Benito the school board race is heating up and drawing a sizable crowd. According to information provided by the Cameron County Elections Office, the first two days of early voting in the race for school []
Proposition One garnered a nail-bitingly close victory, but the slim margin signals the tide is turning against a failed housing policy.
The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the U.S. is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a baby step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-haul trucking. The small station, now serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, could mark the start of a nationwide network for fuel-cell truck refueling. It could also flop. The challenges are immense. Hydrogen fuel is expensive — as much as four times more expensive than gasoline or diesel fuel. The fuel...
The animated origin story of Autobot leader Optimus Prime and his Decepticon rival Megatron will come to the big screen this September in Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry voicing the friends turned enemies. The first trailer for Transformers One sets the tone for the Cybertron-set adventure, with Prime (then known as Orion Pax) and Megatron being pretty chummy in a buddy comedy kind of way. But Paramount Pictures has promised that Transformers One will explain how the...
Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’In July 1966, as the Beatles were preparing to release Revolver and Spain was approaching the 30th anniversary of the coup that birthed the Franco dictatorship, a Spanish-Filipino artist called Fernando Zóbel threw open the doors of an improbable but visionary cultural outpost.Based in a clutch of 15th-century houses overhanging a precipitous gorge in the small city of...
The former Union City council and state Assembly member was recalled as a trailblazing leader in education and women in politics.
Veteran sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Bingham is a suspected affiliate of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang, which he denies.
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was once, and may soon be again, the most powerful man in the world. But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has long chafed
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump was once, and may soon be again, the most powerful man in the world. But on Monday, his diminished reality as a criminal defendant will become clear in humbling fashion during opening statements in his first criminal trial. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has long chafed