Killed

At least 26 people have died in recent Venezuelan riots against socialist President Nicolás Maduro, as the country’s economic misery grows. The rallies, in cities across the country, have attracted an unusual number of protesters. Maduro has mobilized the National Guard and pro-government gangs, who have used tear gas, rubber bullets, and other weapons to beat back crowds. The first casualty recorded, Carlos Moreno, 17, was killed after pro-government gangs surrounded protesters, threw tear gas canisters at them, and opened fire. Moreno was shot through the head.

Charged

Canadian authorities on April 14 arrested a Canadian woman on charges of human smuggling after they stopped her at the Canadian border with nine foreign nationals in her car. When agents searched a house in her area, they found evidence of smuggling and a considerable amount of cash. Michelle Omoruyi’s arrest is part of an ongoing joint investigation between Canadian and U.S. officials into organized human smuggling of illegal immigrants. U.S. border patrol has made three arrests in North Dakota in relation to this investigation; two were Canadian citizens, and the third was Nigerian. Officials say there has been a growing trend of border hopping from the United States to Canada.

Failed

An off-duty policewoman flew through Los Angeles International Airport to Taiwan in April with a gun in her hand luggage. Noell Grant had mistakenly left the weapon and six bullets in her luggage, and they made it through security screening. She said she did not remember she was carrying the gun until she changed planes in Taipei. Grant informed local authorities, and they have temporarily barred her from leaving Taiwan. It is unclear whether she will be disciplined when she returns to the United States, since the gun was not a service firearm. U.S. officials say security screeners did not follow standard procedures in Grant’s case, and they said they would punish those responsible.

Arrested

Federal agents on April 21 arrested a second doctor and his wife in a growing controversy involving female genital mutilation in a Muslim community in Detroit. Dr. Fakhruddin Attar is accused of letting Dr. Jumana Nagarwala perform mutilations at his clinic. A 7-year-old girl told a child forensic interviewer she and another girl were brought to the clinic for a special girls trip, to get her “germs out.” The girls showed evidence of mutilation. Agents raided Attar’s clinic and found surveillance film showing Attar meeting Nagarwala after hours, giving her a white bag, and escorting the girls one at a time into the clinic. Attar told investigators that Nagarwala was performing a religious operation.

Died

Harry Huskey, who helped develop the first personal computer, died on April 9 at age 101. Huskey, the son of a sheep rancher, was the first in his family to attend college, and he eventually earned a doctorate in math. Huskey tried to enlist during World War II but was rejected for poor eyesight and went back to teaching. In the mid-1940s, he joined two classified government projects for the part-time pay. The first, ENIAC, was the country’s first general-purpose programmable electronic computer. Huskey later worked with Englishman Alan Turing on an early computer and in 1954 designed the 950-pound G-15. It was the first computer that could be operated by one person.