Died

Roger Ailes, founder and former CEO of Fox News, died on May 18 at 77, prompting a wave of shock and grief. Ailes apparently fell, hitting his head on the bathroom floor in his mansion and died soon after, a year after his dismissal from Fox News in a sexual harassment scandal. It was in 1970, as an aide to Richard Nixon, that Ailes wrote a paper sketching his idea for Fox News. In 1996, he launched the channel with a “Fair and Balanced” slogan and high-tech production. Fox News challenged the liberal media and boldly expressed conservative positions. In 2016, Ailes became an informal adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump. Then, a year ago, Megyn Kelly and other female employees accused Ailes of sexual harassment and the company released him.

Broken

Bryson Verdun Hayes, a 101-year-old D-Day veteran, on May 14 became the oldest person in the world to skydive. When the former British Army lance corporal turned 90, he expressed his wish to learn to skydive. His wife talked him out of the idea; but after she died, Hayes decided to give it a try. He jumped for the first time when he was 100 and then decided to break the record, then held by a Canadian. The great-grandfather jumped again at age 101, 15,000 feet from a plane, landing safely. He was “over the moon” about it, he told the BBC.

Escaped

Days before 82 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok, Nigeria, returned home as part of a May 20 prisoner exchange between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram, government troops found a 15-year-old Chibok girl who had escaped the Muslim terrorist group. Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of people during its eight-year rebellion, most famously 276 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014. The 82 girls were among the 276 abducted three years ago, and the 15-year-old girl went to the same school. The girls met with their families but will not immediately go to live with them, instead receiving medical and psychological care from the government.

Sentenced

An Indonesian court on May 9 sentenced the outgoing governor of Jakarta, a Christian named Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, to two years in jail for blasphemy. During Purnama’s reelection campaign in September, he implied his opponent had used a verse from the Quran to trick people to vote against him. An edited version of Purnama’s speech went viral, and thousands took to the streets. Purnama lost the election to his Muslim rival, and his case went before Jakarta’s top court. Some of the judges’ decisions cited hardline Islamic groups as experts.

Accused

Baylor University football players are habitually making videos of gang rapes and staging dogfights, according to a new federal lawsuit against the university. An unidentified former Baylor volleyball player filed the lawsuit, claiming four or more players gang raped her in 2012. She says the players later followed her and harassed both her and her family, eventually driving her from school. The woman says she talked to her coach, who she says contacted the current football coach and athletic director, but nothing happened. More than a dozen women have sued Baylor, all claiming the university ignored or mishandled their sexual assault cases.