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The 22-year-old Dutch model will be the second openly trans woman to participate in a Miss Universe pageant.

The charity Save Ukraine brought young Ukrainians to Washington D.C. to tell Congress about being abducted by Russia.

Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Are scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in the fight against malaria, one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues? Follow researchers as they develop and test a promising new vaccine on a quest to save millions of lives.

STEPH RICHARDS, TRUMPET with MAX JAFFE, drums JOSHUA WHITE, piano STOMU TAKEISHI, electric bass Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater Event description: “A rising force in avant-garde jazz…a virtuoso of otherworldy sound” (Jazz Times) Trumpeter and composer Steph Richards has steadily established herself in as an engaging experimentalist on the jazz and creative music scenes, working with pioneering artists ranging Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton to Laurie Anderson and David Byrne. Her work is driven by a curiosity of what sensory variables are open to experimentation— often resulting in interdisciplinary works that include scent, dance, and performed in unexpected spaces such as carousels or underwater. Her works have been featured stages as iconic and varied as Carnegie Hall, the Blue-note and Lincoln Center. Originally from Canada, Richards has spent much of her career in Brooklyn, NY. Dedicated to experimental music without regard to genre, she is fluid in the contemporary music scene (she has performed alongside the Kronos Quartet and the International Contemporary Ensemble) as well as in the jazz and creative scenes, working with the many musicians such as Jason Moran, Ravi Coltrane and Sylvie Courvoisier. As a soloist, Richards’ solo records explore improvisation, spectral experimentation, groove and, in her more recent release, scent. Supersense (Northern Spy Records, 2020), is an inter-sensorial body of works by Steph Richards in collaboration with scent artist Sean Raspet. It is an exploration of the emotional dialogue between sound and scent, which evokes sensations that linger in the wordless space of sonic vibration and chemical reaction. "Supersense makes for high-grade experimental avant-garde and then some" (All About Jazz ****1/2). Her debut record Fullmoon (Relative Pitch Records) was hailed as a “bold pronouncement” by the New York Times and voted on multiple “Best of 2018” year end lists, including as the #1 Record of the Year by Free Jazz Collective. An electronic exploration of trumpet/resonating percussion and sampler, the record featured the work of pioneering electronic artist J.A. Dino Deane. Steph immediately followed up with her 2019 release Take The Neon Lights, a quartet situated between experimental jazz, free funk and avant rock, It also received high praise from critics, with Downbeat calling Steph “a virtuoso of nonlinear trumpet playing". For years she co-produced the NYC-based FONT Music festival alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas and now produces FONT West on the West Coast. She is on faculty at the experimentally driven University of California San Diego and is a Yamaha artist. Related links: Free. RSVP: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live

Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck, authorities said, during a visit to the city of Busan. No motive for the attack was immediately available.

In Oregon, some are seeking out psilocybin for relief from mental health issues. But tracking the effects of that treatment is very much a work in progress.

It rates street conditions in District 4 among the worst in the city and directs the least money to fix them.

For National Breastfeeding month, True Care in San Marcos is partnered with the University of California Health Milk Bank.

A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson ’74, PhD ’82 April 17, 2023 from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. at the Sally T. WongAvery Library, 2nd Floor On behalf of Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, Executive Vice Chancellor Elizabeth H. Simmons, and Audrey Geisel University Librarian Erik T. Mitchell, you are invited to attend the UC San Diego Library’s Author Talk Series featuring alumni and internationally acclaimed author Kim Stanley Robinson ’74, PhD ’82. Hosted by the UC San Diego Library and Academic Senate Committee on Campus Climate Change, the evening will take a deep dive into how we can best tackle climate change today and into the future. The program will begin with student presentations on climate change, followed by a moderated discussion with Robinson around his bestselling novel “The Ministry for the Future.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase from the UC San Diego Bookstore at the event. Registration is now open and required: https://cvent.me/93DlM7 About the Author Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling “Mars” trilogy, “New York 2140,” “Aurora,” “Shaman,” “Green Earth” and “2312,” which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards — a first for any book. In 2008, he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. In 2016, he was given the Heinlein Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson” in his honor. One year later, in 2017, he was given the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society. A prolific writer and speaker, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Nature and Wired, among many others. His novel “The Ministry for the Future” was selected as one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020 and one of Bill Gates’ “5 Great Books for the Summer” in 2022. Robinson earned a BA in literature from UC San Diego in 1974. In 1975, he earned an MA in English from Boston University and returned to UC San Diego in 1982 to earn a PhD. He currently resides in Davis, California. About the Committee on Campus Climate Change This committee confers with and advises the UC San Diego Academic Senate and administration on matters pertaining to campus decarbonization, climate change impacts and mitigation, climate change in educational programs, and climate change research. It studies and collects data on the climate change impacts of campus activities and develops recommendations for short-term, medium-term, and long-term changes to campus policy and behavior. Contact: ucsdlibrary@ucsd.edu Registration: https://cvent.me/93DlM7

The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.