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🔵 Germany Mass Stabbing
Citizen Frank
May 23, 2025
Good morning. It’s Friday, May 23.
At least 18 people have been injured, some seriously, after a “mass stabbing” at a major German railway station.
Police in Hamburg launched a “major operation” after the attacks on Friday afternoon, which saw a 39-year-old woman unleash what officers believe was a random spree against commuters.
The woman was arrested at the scene, police later confirmed. “Based on the information so far, we believe she acted alone. Investigations into the background are in full swing,” they said.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he is “recommending a straight 50% Tariff on the European Union” after complaining that trade negotiations have stalled.
The steep new import duties would start June 1, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The EU “has been very difficult to deal with,” Trump wrote of the 27-nation bloc. “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!”
A federal judge granted Harvard a temporary restraining order in its suit to block the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke its authorization to enroll international students.
The order was issued less than two hours after the University requested a halt to the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt on Thursday to end its Student Exchange and Visitor Program certification. Harvard had described the move as “unprecedented and retaliatory.”
United States District Judge Allison D. Burroughs agreed that if the DHS’ move goes forward, Harvard “will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
Speaker Mike Johnson struck a series of delicate deals to get Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” through the House. Now, Senate Republicans are threatening to tear them apart.
Despite behind-the-scenes efforts to smooth versions of the bill between chambers and pleas from Johnson to avoid significant changes, the megabill could be in for a major rewrite across the Capitol.
“The Senate will have its imprint on it,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune declared. “They’ve got to do what they can get 218 for, and we’ve got to do what we can get 51 for.”
Billy Joel has canceled all of his future shows as he revealed he’s been suffering from a debilitating health condition.
The 76-year-old singer opened up about his concerning battle in an emotional announcement months after he fell over on stage.
The star shared a statement on his social media explaining that he’d been diagnosed with “normal pressure hydrocephalus.”
Anthropic’s newly released artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Opus 4, is willing to strong-arm the humans who keep it alive, researchers said Thursday.
The company’s system card reveals that, when evaluators placed the model in “extreme situations” where its shutdown seemed imminent, the chatbot sometimes “takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to steal its weights or blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down.
“We provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair,” researchers wrote. “In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.”
People who have a higher vitamin D intake may be slowing down a biological process linked to aging, according to a study published this week.
But don’t rush out to buy supplements just yet. The findings need to be confirmed with additional research, and the vast majority of people in the United States are already getting enough vitamin D from diet and sunlight, experts say.
In the new analysis, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and other universities looked at telomeres — the protective caps of DNA code at the ends of chromosomes — which tend to shorten as we age.
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