Human Race

Rescued

Government-backed vigilantes in the Sambisa Forest of Nigeria on May 17 discovered Amina Ali Nkeki, one of scores of schoolgirls Islamist militants kidnapped from the town of Chibok in 2014. Now 19, Nkeki is the first of the Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued. Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped 276 mostly Christian girls in April 2014, though 57 soon escaped. Numerous reports later claimed the remaining 219 had been sold as slaves or forced into suicide bombings. Nkeki said six of the girls have died in captivity. Nkeki now has a 4-month-old baby: When vigilantes found her, she was accompanied by a man claiming to be her “husband”—a suspected Boko Haram militant.

Died

Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer died on May 19, one week after retiring. He was 84. In his 61 years in journalism, Safer filed 919 reports for 60 Minutes, often traveling 200,000 miles in a year. Safer helped shaped public opinion as he traveled with troops in Vietnam, showing Marines in 1965 torching the huts and food stores of villagers in Cam Ne. In 1983, he exposed the wrongful conviction of a black man from Texas, Lenell Geter, winning his release from a life sentence. Safer earned the George Polk Award for career achievement, along with Emmy and Peabody awards.

Euthanized

Dutch officials last year allowed doctors to prescribe a lethal injection of drugs to a child sex abuse victim in her 20s who wished to die, according to a report from the Dutch Euthanasia Commission. The unnamed woman, who suffered abuse between the ages of 5 and 15, had developed post-traumatic stress disorder, severe anorexia, chronic depression, and hallucinations. Doctors and consultants, though, called her “totally competent” and said her condition was incurable, despite improvements during therapy two years ago. In the Netherlands, qualifying for euthanasia simply requires an “unbearable” and incurable condition, a standard that increasingly includes depressed individuals and lonely senior citizens.

Arrested

Police in Washington, D.C., detained security guard Francine Jones, 45, and charged her with assault after a male who identifies as a transgender woman said the guard pushed him out of a women’s restroom. Ebony Belcher, 32, had entered the women’s restroom at a Giant supermarket on May 18 when Jones demanded that Belcher leave. A witness told WJLA the two were “getting into it and throwing stuff” as Jones pushed Belcher out of the store. Jones works for a third-party security company. The assault is listed on a police report as a potential hate crime.

Suspended

The Brazilian Senate voted 55-22 on May 12 to begin an impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff, a move requiring her to step down from office for up to 180 days, including during the planned Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, allegedly used illegal accounting tricks to hide budget troubles. A stalwart of the left-wing Workers’ Party, Rousseff calls the impeachment a coup. The Senate has 180 days to vote whether to remove Rousseff permanently. About 60 percent of Brazilian lawmakers in Congress face corruption accusations as the country languishes in its worst recession in at least 80 years. Vice President Michel Temer of the Democratic Movement Party is serving in Rousseff’s stead in the interim.