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Penelope Keith, star of classic British sitcom 'The Good Life,' dies at 86

LONDON (AP) – Penelope Keith, a comic performer who shone as flinty but loveable upper-crust characters in British sitcoms “The Good Life” and “To the Manor Born,” has died aged 86. Keith’s family said Monday that she had been diagnosed with cancer and died at her home in Surrey, near London.

Europe's record heat overwhelms Paris mortuaries and leaves families in distress

PARIS (AP) – Every few minutes, the mortuary owner’s phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more?

Ex-UK lawmaker pleads guilty to cheating in election betting scandal

LONDON (AP) – A former Conservative lawmaker who used insider knowledge to place wagers on the date that then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would call a U.K.-wide election two years ago pleaded guilty Monday to cheating at gambling.

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Job openings stayed at a surprisingly strong 7.6 million in May

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. job openings stayed at a surprisingly strong 7.6 million in May as the American labor market remains resilient in the face of the economic shock from the Iran war. Forecasters had expected employers to post just 7 million openings in May.

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Comcast to split into two public companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky

NEW YORK (AP) – Communications giant Comcast is planning to split itself into two: one media-centered business that would include brands like NBCUniversal and Sky and a separate company focused on broadband and wireless services.

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Nvidia's AI chip sales in China stall, as local chipmakers like Huawei take lead

HONG KONG (AP) – In the race between the U.S. and China to develop artificial intelligence, the battle over hardware and computing power is heating up as Chinese companies like Huawei overtake global industry leaders like Nvidia in their home market.

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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

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The Trump Report: The Latest Updates

It’s been 123 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war, and the world again awaits another round of some sort of talks as President Donald Trump and Iranian officials disagree over what and even how they’ll communicate. Trump’s special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner plan meetings with Qatari mediators.

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Supreme Court Rulings - For and Against Trump

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

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