• Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who refuses to acknowledge federal authority on public lands and who the U.S. government says owes more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties for trespassing without a permit over 20 years, switched his political party affiliation in Las Vegas from the Republicans to the Independent American Party.
• George W. Bush, 67, successfully had a partial knee replacement in Chicago and has returned home to Dallas, said a spokesman for the former president.
• Donald Trump said at the National Press Club in Washington that Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey will be a viable presidential candidate in 2016 if he can get the scandal over access-lane closures on the George Washington Bridge behind him.
• Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO, was ordered by an Iranian judge to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say the applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy, though Zuckerberg is unlikely to comply, since there is no extradition treaty between Iran and the United States.
• Ray Nagin, the ex-New Orleans mayor known for his impassioned pleas for help for the city after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, will have to pay the government more than $501,000 as a result of his conviction on bribery and other charges.
• James Everett Dutschke, the Mississippi man who sent letters dusted with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and other officials, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on unrelated state charges of fondling three martial-arts students.
• Jodi Arias, 33, who was convicted of first-degree murder last May for the 2008 killing of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona, will not see the second penalty phase of her trial televised live when proceedings begin Sept. 8, Judge Sherry Stephens wrote in a ruling.
• Zhifei Li, 30, a Chinese man who helped run an international smuggling ring that specialized in rhinoceros horns, was sentenced in New Jersey to nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges including smuggling and illegal wildlife trafficking.
• Luis Augusto Mora, a self-declared chocolate addict, was sentenced to five months in one of Colombia's harshest prisons for swiping $8 worth of candy bars and said he'll "never again touch a chocolate in my life," prosecutors said.
A Section on 05/28/2014