[naviga:h2]Bush visits father in Houston hospital[/naviga:h2]

HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush got a hospital visit from another former president — his son.

A photograph was posted on Bush’s Twitter account Thursday, showing him with former President George W. Bush. Both were smiling as the elder Bush spent another day at a Houston hospital where he’s under observation after recovering from a mild case of pneumonia.

Family spokesman Jim McGrath reports no changes Thursday for the 92-year-old Bush. On Wednesday, Bush was said to be gaining strength and in good spirits.

He was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital last Friday for treatment of a persistent cough. Doctors determined he had pneumonia, and they say the illness was treated and has been resolved.

[naviga:h2]Ark. executes man; 1st in 12 years[/naviga:h2]

VARNER, Ark. — Arkansas was able to conduct its first execution in nearly a dozen years despite a flurry of legal challenges that had spared three convicted killers, but courts still could scuttle the remainder the nation’s most ambitious death penalty schedule since capital punishment was restored in 1976.

Ledell Lee was pronounced dead at 11:56 p.m. Thursday, four minutes before his death warrant was due to expire at midnight, capping a chaotic week of legal wrangling.

Arkansas originally wanted to put eight inmates to death before the state’s supply of midazolam, one of three drugs used in its lethal injection process, expires at the end of April.

[naviga:h2]Ivanka Trump to donate proceeds[/naviga:h2]

WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump said Thursday she is donating proceeds from her upcoming book to charity, with the first grants going to the National Urban League and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

The Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund has been established to receive the unpaid portion of her advance and future royalties from “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success,” which is due out May 2.

The fund will support “the economic empowerment for women and girls,” Trump said in a statement. The first grants, worth $100,000 each, will support an Urban League program for entrepreneurs, and a Boys & Girls Clubs’ program on science, technology, engineering and math for girls and underrepresented youth.