• President Barack Obama strolled along the National Mall with his suit jacket over his shoulder on his way to the Interior Department, where he signed a proclamation designating a national monument in New Mexico, and later told tourists as he retraced his path to the White House, "We can shake hands. I won't bite."
• Prince Philip, 92, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, had a minor medical procedure on his right hand, said Buckingham Palace, and later was photographed wearing a bandage as he opened a family-planning clinic.
• Janet Napolitano, who stepped down as Homeland Security secretary to become president of the University of California system, said while in Mexico to promote educational exchanges that "you cannot seal a border" and that political calls for more walls and policing at the border is a "straw man" designed to defeat immigration changes.
• Akhil Rekulapelli, 14, an eighth-grader from Sterling, Va., who wants to attend Stanford University, won the National Geographic Bee in Washington by correctly answering that Equatorial Guinea is the African country building a new capital called Oyala, 65 miles east of the current capital, Bala.
• James Comey, the FBI director, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that law enforcement faces an "enormous challenge" in preventing state-sponsored cybercrimes, days after cyberspying charges were announced against five Chinese military officials.
• Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, a Roman Catholic cardinal from South Korea, and other South Korean priests traveled to a joint North-South industrial park in Kaesong, North Korea, to tour the complex and meet South Koreans working there.
• Germain Ibrahim Fofana, of France, who police believe is responsible for jewel heists in the London area, was arrested after a theft at a Kingston shop in which police say the suspect ran off with two diamond rings and a wedding band but left his cellphone behind.
• Artem Kozlov, a Ukrainian man accused of trying to hijack a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were beginning, was ordered released from jail pending the outcome of his trial in Turkey.
• Ruby Barber, 92, of Bellmead, Texas, was granted a state certificate authorizing her to vote after initially being denied because she lacks photo identification and a birth certificate.
A Section on 05/22/2014