To Jesse Karmazin, a startup founder and Stanford Medical School graduate, blood is the next big government-approved drug.

Roughly three years ago, Karmazin launched Ambrosia, a startup that fills the veins of older people with blood from younger donors, hoping the procedure would help conquer aging by rejuvenating the body's organs. As Business Insider previously reported, there's little to no evidence to suggest this would work.

The company is now up and running, Karmazin told Business Insider on Wednesday. Ambrosia recently revamped its website with a list of clinic locations and is now accepting payments for the procedure via PayPal. Two options are listed: 1 liter of young blood for $8,000, or 2 liters for $12,000.

An Ohio doctor is under investigation for allegedly giving 'excessive and potentially fatal' doses of fentanyl to at least 27 intensive care patients.

William Husel has been accused of ordering lethal amounts of the drug for patients at Mount Carmel West Hospital in Columbus.

Mount Carmel has fired Husel, notified authorities and suspended 20 employees - including pharmacists and nurses who administered medication - pending further investigation.

The announcement came after a family sued the hospital, alleging medicine was used to hasten 79-year-old Janet Kavanaugh's death.

State lawmakers in South Dakota introduced a bill this week that would require students who consider themselves to be transgender, to participate in school sports that correspond to their assigned biological sex, not of the gender they have assumed.

The new bill would rescind current rules adopted by the South Dakota High School Activities Association in 2015 that allows transgender kids to participate in school sports under their assumed sexual choice, instead of their biological gender, the Daily Wire reported.

The bill was introduced Tuesday by Republicans Senator Jim Bolin (Canton) and Representative Thomas Brunner (Nisland).

It's the simple meme that's taking over your social media feeds: the "10 Year Challenge," where users upload side-by-side photos of themselves from a decade ago and now.

But it might not be so simple.

Facebook on Wednesday distanced itself from the "10 Year Challenge" after an article set off speculation that the social media giant could be secretly mining data from the photos to improve its facial recognition algorithms. It's a scenario that those who have studied social media companies don't rule out, despite Facebook's denials.

The photo challenge gives Facebook "a perfect storm for machine learning," said Amy Webb, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business with an upcoming book about how artificial intelligence can manipulate humans.

The new EU Copyright Directive is progressing at an alarming rate. This week, the EU is asking its member-states to approve new negotiating positions for the final language. Once they get it, they're planning to hold a final vote before pushing this drastic, radical new law into 28 countries and 500,000,000 people.

While the majority of the rules in the new Directive are inoffensive updates to European copyright law, two parts of the Directive represent pose a dire threat to the global Internet:

• Article 11: A proposal to make platforms pay for linking to news sites by creating a non-waivable right to license any links from for-profit services (where those links include more than a word or two from the story or its headline). Article 11 fails to define "news sites," "commercial platforms" and "links," which invites 28 European nations to create 28 mutually exclusive, contradictory licensing regimes. Additionally, the fact that the "linking right" can't be waived means that open-access, public-interest, nonprofit and Creative Commons news sites can't opt out of the system.
• Article 13: A proposal to end the appearance of unlicensed copyrighted works on big user-generated content platforms, even for an instant. Initially, this included an explicit mandate to develop "filters" that would examine every social media posting by everyone in the world and check whether it matched entries in an open, crowdsourced database of supposedly copyrighted materials. In its current form, the rule says that filters "should be avoided" but does not explain how billions of social media posts, videos, audio files, and blog posts should be monitored for infringement without automated filtering systems.

A Georgia man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a plot to attack the White House with an armor-piercing rocket and explosive devices, US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJay Pak said.

Pak told reporters at a media briefing that Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, planned to attack the White House using devices that included homemade explosives and an "anti-tank rocket."

According to a criminal complaint, Taheb said the plan was to blow a hole in the White House with an AT4 then attack inside the building with semi-automatic rifles. He was going to wear a backpack with a homemade bomb in it and expected to become a martyr, the court document alleges. He expected two other people, who were actually an FBI undercover agent and an FBI confidential source, would join him in the attack, prosecutors said.

Several gas explosions rocked a university science library in eastern France as a massive construction fire broke out on its roof. Three people received minor injuries and students and staff were evacuated from campus buildings.

A large fire broke out on Thursday morning at one of the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 campuses in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon in eastern France. Video from the scene shows the building's roof engulfed in flames. Several explosions can be seen bursting through the fire.

The fire erupted on the roof terrace when the building, which hosts the university's science library, was undergoing construction work, the university tweeted.

St. Petersburg police say that, over 11 months in a filthy mobile home, the boy was introduced to sadomasochism and used as a sex slave.

St. Petersburg police say a 16-year-old Marion County boy and another teen have been rescued from a den of human traffickers and sex abusers.

Six men and a woman were arrested this week on human trafficking and interference with child custody charges, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. Four of the men also face charges of sexual battery on a child under 16.

The announcement of their arrests Monday followed an eight-month investigation into human trafficking of teenage victims. Police say the suspects used an online gaming app to lure teenagers.

The investigation began May 9 when a Louisiana law enforcement agency contacted St. Petersburg police about a missing 17-year-old boy at a mobile home at 4000 24th St. in North St. Petersburg. Investigators believe the teenage boy was lured through an online gaming app call Discord, which allows users to communicate with each other. St. Petersburg officials said the app was used to coordinate picking up the boy and driving him to their area.

Officers found that missing teen as well as a 16-year-old Marion County boy. They were living in the same mobile home as four men: Mark Earl Dennis, Andrew Barry Dennis, Curtis Lee Gruwell and Michael Wayne Schwartz. Police say Dennis falsely claimed to be the Marion County boy's father, but had no documentation.

Eleven months earlier, police said, family acquaintance Eleanor Faye McGlamory had befriended the boy and introduced him to Mark Dennis and Andrew Dennis, who lived in St. Petersburg.

"In May 2017, the teen's mother found a note from her son saying not to look for him," St. Petersburg police said in a post on Facebook.

"While the 15-year-old teen was lured with the promise of a better life, instead he was moved into a filthy trailer and lived with four men. For the next year, he was introduced to sadomasochism and used as a sex slave by Mark and Andrew Dennis, Gruwell, Schwartz, and their associates Michael Ray Blasdel and JR Gauthier," the post states.

The boy did not go to school or receive medical care.

"Today the victim is receiving specialized trauma-informed care designed for victims of human trafficking and is thriving," the Facebook post states.

Several of the suspects later moved to Lehigh Acres in Lee County. Six of the suspects were arrested on Monday, and the final one turned himself in on Tuesday morning.

Here are the suspects and their charges:

- Mark Earl Dennis, 52, of 1617 Moore Ave., Lehigh Acres: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking, interference with custody and sexual battery (with a child under age 16).

- Andrew Barry Dennis, 42, of 1617 Moore Ave., Lehigh Acres: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking, interference with custody and sexual battery (with a child under age 16).

- Curtis Lee Gruwell, 34, of 1617 Moore Ave., Lehigh Acres: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking and interference with custody.

- Michael Wayne Schwartz, 51, of 1617 Moore Ave., Lehigh Acres: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking and interference with custody.

- Michael Ray Blasdel, 36, of 4428 Fourth Ave. South, St. Petersburg: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking, interference with custody, transmission of material harmful to minors to a minor, and two counts of sexual battery (with a child under age 16).

- JR Gauthier, 29, of 4428 Fourth Ave. South, St. Petersburg: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking, interference with custody and sexual battery (with a child under age 16).

- Eleanor Faye McGlamory, 56, of 535 NE 170th Court, Silver Springs: Conspiracy to commit human trafficking and interference with custody.

McGlamory was arrested by a Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy.

Marion County Jail officials said Tuesday that McGlamory declined a Star-Banner request for an interview. Officials said that if she does not post bond, authorities from St. Petersburg will transfer her from the Ocala jail to their facility.

A spokesperson at the Office of the Attorney General Office told the Star-Banner that the affidavits for those who were arrested are under seal and are exempt from public disclosure.

"The teenage victim in this case was lured away from his family with promises of a better life," Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a news release. "Instead, he was moved into a filthy trailer and used as a slave for nearly a year. As a mother, I cannot even begin to express how disturbing the facts of this case are to me."

St. Petersburg officials said the investigation is ongoing and and that they have more interviews to do as they work to learn if anyone else might have been involved or if any other children were being abused or used for trafficking.

A house cat in Wyoming was recently diagnosed with bubonic plague; it is now the third feline in the state found to have contracted the deadly disease in the past six months.

While the word "plague" conjures images of epidemics wiping out medieval communities in their entirety, the bacterial infection actually occurs naturally in wild rodents (and their fleas) in the western U.S. and rarely affects people, according to local health officials. Prairie dogs are common carriers of the disease.

The cat, named Kaycee, was "known to wander outdoors," representatives with the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said in a statement on Jan. 4. Kaycee's roaming habits likely exposed it to an animal that was already infected with the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is typically transmitted between animals through flea bites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Once called "the Black Death" and "the great pestilence," plague emerged from Asia and decimated Europe during the 14th century, wiping out an estimated 33 percent to 50 percent of the population. Plague then traveled to North America and Australia in 1900, and today, plague is found on every continent except Antarctica, Live Science previously reported.

Canada urged Beijing on Tuesday to grant clemency to a Canadian sentenced to death for drug trafficking, after his sentence reignited a diplomatic dispute that began last month.

Ottawa has warned its citizens about the risk of "arbitrary enforcement" of laws in China following a court's sentencing of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, to death on Monday, in a retrial after he was previously handed a 15-year prison term.

The new sentence came during a clash between Ottawa and Beijing over Canada's arrest in December of Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, on an extradition request from the United States related to alleged violation of sanctions on Iran.

"We have already spoken with China's ambassador to Canada and requested clemency [for Schellenberg]," Canada's foreign minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec.