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Germany’s industrial-heavy DAX edged 0.1% higher as software giant SAP—the index’s second most valuable company—rose 2.1%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Their Paradise Cove condo is not unlike the home one of the main characters inhabits 30 years later in the book’s second half.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

This second half of the term, there has been a pumping of the brakes on deciding big, existential questions over the shadow docket.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

With a population of 135.9 million, Ethiopia is Africa's second most-populous nation - after Nigeria - and one of the continent's fast-growing economies, according to World Bank estimates.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

In the first room she wrote the flaming Christian tracts for which she was known all over Holland, and in the second received the well-to-do ladies who supported this work.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom