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The U.N. Security Council met Thursday to debate and vote on the Palestinian application for full membership in the United Nations, which would allow it to vote during U.N. proceedings.

Multidisciplinary artist and musician Preston Swirnoff will perform with his new ensemble, "NEW TONGUES" sound/\art trio, featuring Xareni Lizarraga and Kathia Rudametkin. Swirnoff will performing with a set of kinetic sound sculptures made of metal and wood, built by artist Spenser Little. Lizarraga is a sound ecology researcher and field recordist who performed her striking mix of organic and electronic sound textures at Project Blank’s Machine Music in December 2022. Rudametkin is an accomplished viola player, composer, and electronic music producer based in Ensenada. Presented in cooperation with Oolong Gallery to follow their opening earlier in the day, featuring new works by Markus Bacher and Claire Chambless. Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel hosts the event in the open air ruins of their 1920’s mineral springs bathhouse. More information here. The trio performance is the first of Swirnoff’s New Tongues series, which will run throughout 2023 and feature visual art, sound, film, and publishing collaborations with cellist and UCSD professor Charles Curtis, ceramic artist Evan Lopez, UCSD musicology Ph.D. candidate Pablo Dodero, musician Sean Francis Conway, Paris-based textile artist Victoria Legrand, and others.

The hospital retuned to full operations, but there are worries about whether a ransomware group has posted stolen data to the nefarious corner of the web.

Fentanyl made from Chinese chemicals is killing tens of thousands of Americans. A House committee report found new evidence the Chinese government supports tax breaks to subsidize the drug trade.

Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina releases her Sony Classical debut album — featuring composers from the 17th century to today whose works evoke Venice.

The Biden administration’s app rule makes it harder for migrants to assert a right to asylum, advocates say. Lawsuits are sparking debate about immigration control, safety.

Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel paramilitaries a year ago, experts estimate over 14,000 people have been killed and millions displaced and facing starvation.

The child care industry is still having a hard time recovering from the pandemic.

This weekend in the arts: Experimental electronic music at Bread and Salt; Shellie Zhang at ICA San Diego North; "Modern Women" at San Diego Museum of Art; the San Diego Symphony's "Noel Noel"; "The Nutcracker" in Balboa Park; and The New Pornographers at the Belly Up.

Premieres Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. See the world through the eyes of Nam June Paik, the father of video art and coiner of the term "electronic superhighway." Experience the acclaimed artist's creative evolution, as Academy Award nominee Steven Yeun reads from Paik's own writings.