• Jeb Bush, a likely Republican presidential contender, is getting a house of his own at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport on the coast of Maine where generations of Bushes have spent summers, the family said.
• Omar Sharif, 83, the Egyptian-born star of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, is battling Alzheimer's disease, his agent Steve Kenis confirmed to The Associated Press.
• Chiara D'Angelo, an activist who had been hanging off the anchor chain of a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell's plans to explore for oil in the Arctic Ocean, ended her days-long protest north of Seattle after requesting assistance getting down from her perch.
• Mattie Mae Cisrow, a central Florida woman, is poised to join the ranks of supercentenarians when she turns 110 years old on Saturday and already was offered her second key to the city of Cocoa, having received her first at age 105.
• Albert Clark, 31, a McKeesport, Pa., man who authorities say shot an 11-year-old boy in the chest with a BB gun on a playground because he said the boy had earlier shot his own young son with the same kind of weapon, faces charges including aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and evidence tampering.
• Patrick Lampard, 36, a former director of nursing at a Louisiana nursing home, and former elementary school teacher Bonnie Pritchard, 46, were charged with drug possession, accused by Slidell police of stealing prescription medicines to sell to a drug dealer.
• Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, acknowledged he was disappointed with his party's showing in local elections, which he attributed largely to austerity measures his government was compelled to take during Europe's debt crisis and a recent string of political scandals.
• Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, named Dore Gold, a longtime confidant who is hawkish on Iran and the Palestinian issue, to run the Foreign Ministry, the latest in a series of moves that consolidate Netanyahu's conservative grip on his new government.
A Section on 05/26/2015