France's divided National Assembly keeps centrist speaker 

PARIS — France's divided National Assembly on Thursday kept a centrist member of President Emmanuel Macron's party as speaker after a chaotic early election produced a hung legislature.  Speaker Yael Braun-Pivet, 53, has been at the head of the National Assembly since 2022 and she retained her post Thursday after three rounds of voting in the lower house of parliament.  She received the support of Macron's centrist allies and of some conservative lawmakers seeking to prevent her leftist contender from getting the job.