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(Reuters) — Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kourtney Kardashian welcomed her first child with musician Travis Barker, media outlets reported on Saturday. Kardashian, 44, announced the pregnancy in June at a Blink 182 concert where Barker, 47, was performing, and the couple later revealed they were…

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) — After days of uncertainty, Mexican authorities turned over the body of Jose Ramiro Castro, a sailor who died aboard a tourist boat during Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week. Loved ones were at last able to bur…

GAZA/AMMAN (Reuters) — Palestinian news agency WAFA said the Israeli military attacked a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday, killing 51 people, mostly women and children, as calls for a ceasefire by the Arab world were rejected by the United States and Israel. With the death toll in Gaza mounting, pro-P…

(Reuters) — William Lewis, the former Dow Jones chief executive and publisher of The Wall Street Journal has been named chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, the Post said on Saturday. The Washington Post said that it is projected to end the year taking a $100 million loss. The publ…

DETROIT (Reuters) — The United Auto Workers union said its tentative contract deal with General Motors includes plans for investments around electric vehicles and will raise wages for thousands of U.S. hourly workers at units with lower wage tiers than at vehicle assembly operations. The UAW releas…

(Reuters) — Actor Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday at age 54, was laid to rest on Friday at a Los Angeles cemetery in a service attended by relatives and castmates from the hit 1990s television sitcom “Friends,” show business media reported, citing photographs. Mourners gathered at t…

GAZA/AMMAN (Reuters) — Gaza health officials said 15 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on an ambulance that the military said targeted Hamas militants, and Washington’s top diplomat was due to hear Arab demands for a ceasefire in a meeting on Saturday in Jordan. The Israeli strike h…

(Reuters) — Restaurant Brands International missed market estimates for quarterly sales on Friday as lingering inflation pinched spending at its Burger King chain, eclipsing higher demand for Tim Hortons coffees and Popeyes chicken wings. Shares of the Canada-based company fell 4%, as executives sa…

(Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s bankruptcy watchdog is seeking to force a law firm to give back millions of dollars in fees it earned in cases presided over by a top Texas bankruptcy judge after he confirmed he had been in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of its lawy…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A hedge fund arbitrage trading strategy that likely exacerbated a crash in the world’s biggest bond market in 2020 and has recently undergone regulators’ scrutiny could become less popular as its profitability wanes, according to Oxford Economics, an economic adviso…