She was just blocks from her government office when she was killed with a vehicle.

The Globe has identified the person who died when hit by a driver on Tremont Street at Parker Street on Mission Hill this morning as Louisa Gag, a planner for the Boston Transportation Department who once co-authored a report on “Vision Zero” – the idea of redesigning roads and transportation systems to eliminate fatal crashes on urban streets.

A YouTube channel content creator has made a living in Germany covering and converting Nazi marches. A documentary explains how he saw an opportunity to talk kids out of joining the AfD.

Germany says it has made a defense deal with Trump to buy Tomahawk missiles. And, as you would expect, it’s immediately not going well.

CSIS reported in May that the US fired more Tomahawks while losing the Iran war than in any other campaign in history. Trump’s spray-and-pray attacks, directed by Palantir, wasted so many missiles to little effect that replenishing the inventory is a near-term risk for the United States.

Germany is announcing it will enter a queue behind the US Navy’s own restocking priority, for a subsonic 1970s-architecture missile, from a production line that has run at well under a hundred units a year. Someone in Germany has not been paying attention.

Delivery timeline? None.

Cost? Unstated.

Quantity? Unstated.

Germany’s leader Merz gave none of the details that make a deal a deal.

Meanwhile, Fire Point in Ukraine iterated the FP-5 from announcement to combat use in about a year, at something like a quarter of Tomahawk unit cost, delivering half a ton of explosive per warhead to destroy Russian war factories. Fire Point’s drone line has demonstrated strikes past 2,500 km, hitting the Omsk refinery in Siberia this week.

Germany acts like an old depleted 1,600 km American missile wait-list is big political news, while Germany is already funding Ukrainian long-range production directly. I mean, ELSA exists because Europe identified this dependency in 2024.

Deals involving Trump’s TLAM also means buying the broken mission-planning chain that comes with it, which is a strange hedge against an unreliable and unfriendly Washington. The strategic gap Merz says he’s closing was the sovereignty gap, and the Tomahawk Deal makes it open wider.

Germany should be embarrassed to announce any deal with Trump. But this deal in particular reads like a horrible joke.

The Berlin court says a doctor was committing heinous serial murders for over three years before German authorities stopped him. At least fifteen people are confirmed victims, with women being the vast majority.

The court said it was convinced after hearing the evidence that the doctor killed 12 women and three men during home visits between September 2021 and July 2024.

Prosecutors had described him as acting out of “a lust for murder.” They said he administered deadly cocktails of sedatives, including an anesthetic and a muscle relaxant that “paralysed the respiratory muscles, leading to respiratory arrest and death within minutes.”

On at least five occasions, prosecutors said, he set fire to victims’ apartments to cover up the killings.

Authorities have said they are still investigating dozens of other deaths possibly linked to Johannes M.

The victims, who were receiving care at the time, were aged between 25 and 94.

Burning nearly half their homes seems like the kind of clue that makes the timeline of inaction even worse. Indeed, it was the fires that tipped off police in 2024.

In the first case on June 11, firefighters who arrived at the scene were able to revive the victim, an 87-year-old woman, but she died at a hospital shortly afterward. On July 8, investigators say, the suspect killed a 76-year-old woman.

Further alleged killings of women, who were 72 and 94, followed on July 15 and 24.

Dozens of other deaths is an understatement, by a lot, given over 90 suspected murders. A German doctor, killing many dozens of patients, for years, and burning their homes.

Not yet seeing this story getting the kind of international coverage, given a long-time serial murderer and arsonist who abused his position of power and trust, that I would have expected.

Reminds me of the German “Rambo” nurse who was enabled by colleagues, killing hundreds of patients for sport.

In the early 2000s, Högel — whose nickname “Resuscitation Rambo” came from his predilection for dramatic resuscitations — was working at Oldenburg Clinic, where physicians noticed an unusual number of emergencies and deaths when he cared for patients. But the pattern was never reported to authorities…. Instead of alerting authorities, hospital leaders encouraged him to move on to another clinic — and later provided him with what police described as a “spotless” reference when he applied to a second facility in Delmenhorst. Once he arrived in Delmenhorst, the pattern intensified. A later review of hospital records found that out of 411 deaths recorded over three years in the intensive care unit, 321 occurred during or shortly after Högel’s shifts….

Hundreds murdered, and the staff and institutions around him didn’t stop it. Rambo was finally turned in by another nurse, a whistleblower, who had observed him injecting a patient with drugs to cause harm.

The BBC offers its readers this perspective on patient and guardian consent in the new Berlin case.

He told the court he had convinced himself that he was doing the right thing, sparing them “suffering and infirmity”.

“Throughout it all, I thought this was the best thing for everyone,” he said.

What’s next from the BBC, Hitler quotes about how he believed his Holocaust was for good? Do they even have senior editors anymore? He murdered people and lit their homes on fire!