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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže about the trans-Atlantic relationship under President Trump.

Reception Thursday evening SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego Gallery Hours: Monday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. Friday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Multimedia work considering the spaces we occupy, move through, and share, what it means to be a neighbor and the materials that build our environments. Visit: https://visarts.ucsd.edu/news-events/20250113-17_walkerhewitt.html UC San Diego Chemical and Nano Engineering Department on Facebook

Over the past decade, artist Math Bass has developed a lexicon of symbols in the series Newz!—letters, bodily forms, architectural fragments, animals, bones—arranged in a variety of scores, each symbol an empty space of meaning, filled in by the context in which it finds itself. Repetition of these symbols, rather than codifying them into one solid signification, exposes the difference at the heart of each iteration; there is always a gap in meaning, something unnamable left out of and left over in the viewer’s reading—a jouissance. It is this gap in the symbolic where Lee Edelman states queerness lies—not as an easily categorized liberal identity but as a process of unmaking and undoing that leaves (gendered) subjectivity as we know it in question. That these symbols are familiar only heightens our unsettling; the negative space of these compositions, a major player in Bass’s practice, adds further to the gap. Visit: https://mcasd.ticketapp.org/portal/product/250/event/1cb10d96-4a87-4377-b9ba-31ee5ff70842 MCASD on Instagram and Facebook

In honor of World Soil Day (Dec. 5), Nature Collective will host an all-inclusive habitat restoration event. Presented by Nature Collective and The Queer Sol Collective, San Diegans are invited to a day of re-establishing our relationship with nature and building community! Participants will work together to plant native plants at San Elijo Lagoon while restoring the symbiotic relationships between the individual and the land. This event will offer a talking circle, a place of safety, discovery, healing, and wellness, and a nature tour celebrating the planet’s inherent queerness. This 2SLGBTQ+-focused event is open to everyone; the queer community is especially encouraged to attend and come together, cultivate, and create a more sustainable, positive, and inclusive environment for all. Suggested donations of $5.00 to support a single seed growing into a thriving plant, $10.00 to help a young plant being cared for in a San Diego Garden where learning unfolds, or $25.00 to support the Queer Sol Collective’s Engaging Communities education program. It is a program designed to ignite the emotional connection between the self and the land, piecing together an understanding of what nature is: everything, including us. Registration is required; meet-up location is shared before the event but will take place around the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve in coastal North County. Visit: Nature Collective Hosts Inclusive Habitat Restoration Project, with The Queer Sol Collective Nature Collective on Instagram and Facebook

With the first 2024 general election results coming in, the race for U.S. Representative District 25 is beginning to unfold. Early voting and mail-in ballots are being tallied, but final results won't be certified until Dec. 5. Stay tuned as we track the latest updates on this important race.

A number of books out this week — a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique relationship — are tied up in answering the question: How do we define ourselves?

Valentine’s Day plans made easy! Urban Plates is offering a special three-course Valentine’s meal for two for just $59. Available from Wednesday, February 12, through Monday, February 17, guests can enjoy this limited-time offer for dine-in or takeout at all Urban Plates locations. Start with your choice of two soups or salads, including the fan-favorite Tomato Basil Soup, Seafood Chowder, Caesar Salad, or House Salad. For the main course, pick from a selection of Grilled Steak, Chimichurri Steak, Grilled Salmon, Blackened Salmon, Garlic Shrimp, Barramundi Seabass, or Chili Glazed Grilled Tofu—each served with two sides and rustic bread. To finish on a sweet note, choose two desserts from a lineup that includes Mango Tart, Hummingbird Cake, Chocolate Vanilla Cake, Banana Cream Pie, Flourless Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Chunk Cookie, Cowgirl Cookie, and a Gluten-Free Chocolate Cookie. Plus, diners can add a Garlic Shrimp Skewer for just $5. For the perfect pairing, enjoy 50% off all wine bottles when dining in. For more details or to place an order, visit https://urbanplates.com Facebook / Instagram

Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, representing approximately 45,000 workers at the four stores in Southern California, announced Wednesday that its members had voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike.

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

The ruling by a Texas judge against a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas could test "shield laws" in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal.