“Downton Abbey” star Michelle Dockery is expecting her first child with Jasper Waller-Bridge

"Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery is expecting her first child with Jasper Waller-Bridge

Michelle Dockeryhad big news to share at Wednesday's premiere ofDownton Abbey: The Grand Finalein London: She and her husband of two years, Jasper Waller-Bridge, are expecting their first child. Dockery and Waller-Bridge married in 2023. He is a film and TV producer, music manager, and the brother ofFleabagandKilling Evecreator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Jeff Spicer/Getty Dockery, 43, attended the formal event to promote her role as Lady Mary in what's billed as the final installment of the Crawley family saga. The actress was part of the cast for the period drama on TV, which aired for six seasons between 2010 and 2015, as well as in the big-screen takesDownton Abbey(2019) andDownton Abbey: A New Era(2022). The newest installment,Downtown Abbey: The Grand Finale, arrives in theaters Sept. 12. Her character is the mother to a son named George, whom she shared with her first husband, Matthew. After he died, she had a daughter, Caroline, with her second husband, Henry Talbot, but their uniondidn't last. Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free daily newsletterto get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. "I love kids, but Mary's not the most natural of mothers," she told the U.K.'sExpressin October 2014. "That's just not who she is — or rather, that's not how people were in those days. Lady Mary is an aristocrat, so she doesn't see her child for more than two hours a day — that's not the sort of cuddly, cooey relationship I would have with a baby." Before she was married, Dockery was engaged to John Dineen, a public relations executive who died of cancer in 2015. In addition toDownton Abbey, where her work has garnered her three Emmy nominations, Dockery has appeared in TV'sGood BehaviorandAnatomy of a Scandal, as well as in movies includingThe GentlemenandFlight Risk. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly

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“Downton Abbey” star Michelle Dockery is expecting her first child with Jasper Waller-Bridge

"Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery is expecting her first child with Jasper Waller-Bridge Michelle Dockeryhad big news to share...

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Trump 'giving serious thought' to revoking Rosie O’Donnell's US citizenship

Trump 'giving serious thought' to revoking Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship

PresidentDonald Trumpsaid on Wednesday he was giving serious thought to stripping actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell of her U.S. citizenship, a move he had threatened in the past but cannot legally do. "As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O'Donnell's Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump had made similar statements in recent months, including in July when he said he was considering pulling O'Donnell's citizenship because she "is not in the best interests of our Great Country" and is a "Threat to Humanity." O'Donnell responded to the president's post in July with a reference to the character King Joffrey from "Game of Thrones," saying: "Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i'm not yours to silence i never was." Rosie O'donnell, Donald Trump's Citizenship Feud Caps Decades Of Taunts And Jabs The Constitution does not allow a president to strip citizenship of someone born in the U.S. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., and O'Donnell was born in Commack, New York. Read On The Fox News App O'Donnell, who has Irish grandparents,moved toIrelandwith her daughter earlier this year following Trump's electoral win and is in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship to become a dual citizen. She cited the current political climate as a reason for her move. "When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back," she said in a TikTok. In March, when a reporter asked the Irish prime minister during a visit to the White House why he wouldallow O'Donnellto move to Ireland, Trump jumped in and said he was better off not knowing who she was. Trump Threatens To Strip Rosie O'donnell's U.s. Citizenship As He Says She's A 'Threat To Humanity' "Do you know who she is? You're better off not knowing," Trump said at the time. Trump's feud with O'Donnell has spanned nearly two decades, sparked by O'Donnell criticizing him on "The View" in 2006 about his decision to be lenient toward a Miss USA winner who had been accused of drug use and other controversies. In 2015, during a Republican primary debate, a moderator asked Trump about his past use of derogatory terms to describe women. "Only Rosie O'Donnell," then-candidate Trump responded. Last month, after a Minneapolis Catholic school shooting that left two children dead and more than a dozen wounded, O'Donnell posted a video purporting that the shooter was a MAGA supporter, a Republican and a white supremacist. "What do you know? It was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person. What do you know? White supremacists," she said. O'Donnell later took down the video and apologized. "I knew a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days," she said. "You are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect. "I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of… you know, NRA-loving kind of gun people," O'Donnell continued. "Anyway, the truth is I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up. I'm sorry. This is my apology video and I hope it's enough." Original article source:Trump 'giving serious thought' to revoking Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship

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Trump 'giving serious thought' to revoking Rosie O’Donnell's US citizenship

Trump 'giving serious thought' to revoking Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship PresidentDonald Trumpsaid on Wednesday he was gi...

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Exclusive-Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite government pressure not to buy, sources say

Exclusive-Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite government pressure not to buy, sources say

(Reuters) -Alibaba, ByteDance and other Chinese tech firms remain keen on Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips despite regulators in Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases, four people with knowledge of procurement discussions said. They want reassurance that their orders of Nvidia's H20 model, which the U.S. firm in July regained permission to sell in China, are being processed, and are closely monitoring Nvidia's plans for a more powerful chip, tentatively named the B30A and which is based on its Blackwell architecture, two of the people said. The B30A - if approved for sale by Washington - is likely to cost about double the H20, which currently sells for between $10,000 and $12,000, those two people said. Chinese tech firms perceive the potential B30A pricing, reported by Reuters for the first time, as a good deal, they added. One said the B30A promises to be up to six times more powerful than the H20. Both chips are downgraded versions of models sold outside China, developed specifically to comply with U.S. export restrictions. All sources for this article were not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified. The extent to which China, which generated 13% of Nvidia's revenue in the past financial year, can have access to cutting-edge AI chips is one of the biggest flashpoints in the U.S.-Sino war for tech supremacy. On one hand, the U.S. has retreated from its previous position of more severe restrictions on Nvidia sales of advanced chips to China. Nvidia and other critics of the controls say it is better if Chinese firms continue to use its chips - which work with Nvidia's software tools - so that developers do not completely switch over to offerings from rivals like Huawei. U.S. President Donald Trump has also struck a deal with Nvidia for it to give the U.S. government 15% of its H20 revenue. At the same time, China is keen for its tech industry to wean itself off U.S. chips. Chinese authorities have summoned companies, including Tencent and ByteDance, over their purchases of the H20, asking them to explain their reasons and expressing concerns over information risks, sources said last month. They have, however, not been ordered to cease purchases of Nvidia products. LIMITED DOMESTIC CHIP SUPPLY Despite that pressure, demand for Nvidia chips remains strong in China due to constrained supplies of products from domestic rivals such as Huawei and Cambricon, the four sources said. Another three sources who are involved in engineering operations at Chinese tech firms also said Nvidia's chips perform better than domestic products. Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent did not reply to Reuters requests for comment. Huawei and Cambricon also did not respond to Reuters queries. Asked about its position versus rivals in China, Nvidia said in a statement that the "competition has undeniably arrived." It declined further comment. Lack of clarity about Nvidia's prospects in China led the U.S. firm in late August to issue a tepid quarterly sales forecast that excluded potential revenue from the world's second-biggest economy. The company, the most valuable in the world, has seen its stock lose 6% since then. During its earnings call, Nvidia executives said the company had received some export licenses for H20 but had yet to commence shipping because it was sorting out some issues related to the deal to give the U.S. government a portion of its China sales. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has also assured Chinese customers not to worry about the H20's availability and has told suppliers that demand remains strong, two of the sources said. Reuters reported in July that Nvidia has an inventory of 600,000-700,000 H20 chips and had asked TSMC to produce more. Sources have also said Nvidia is hoping to deliver samples of the B30A to Chinese clients for testing as early as September. Huang estimates that the China market could be worth $50 billion to Nvidia if it were able to offer competitive products. (Reporting by Fanny Potkin, Liam Mo and Brenda Goh; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Edwina Gibbs)

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Exclusive-Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite government pressure not to buy, sources say

Exclusive-Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite government pressure not to buy, sources say (Reuters) -Alibaba, ByteDance and other ...

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South Africa's sugar farmers face 'double whammy' from Trump tariffs, cheap imports

South Africa's sugar farmers face 'double whammy' from Trump tariffs, cheap imports

By Sisipho Skweyiya KWADUKUZA, South Africa (Reuters) -Nkosinathi Msweli's sugar cane farm in KwaDukuza - a rural, largely poor region on South Africa's eastern coast - has for three decades been a solid, albeit small, economic success story, employing eight full-time staff and 30 seasonal workers. But cheap sugar imports were already eating into his earnings when U.S. President Donald Trump announced a steep tariff on South African imports, creating what Msweli called a "double whammy" that now leaves the 53-year-old facing tough choices. "All in all, I will have to cut about 20 workers from this current season," he told Reuters, as he watched his labourers chop cane from soot-blanketed fields. "The person that is here in the field maybe has 10 lives that he's supporting." South Africa's sugar industry, valued at around 25 billion rand ($1.42 billion), directly and indirectly supports over 300,000 jobs in a country with one of the world's highest rates of unemployment. And in a nation where agricultural land ownership is still dominated by a white minority - a legacy of South Africa's apartheid past - its nearly 26,000 small farmers, who work alongside 1,100 large-scale growers, are predominantly Black. A combination of market factors and politics, however, is exposing the sector to growing headwinds. South African farmers are struggling to compete with cheap imports, including from neighbouring Eswatini, which benefits from preferential access under a regional customs treaty. Depressed global prices resulting from large harvests in major producers like India and Brazil have, meanwhile, added to the pain. And Trump's 30% tariff on imports from South Africa is set to deal a blow to exports. South Africa had previously benefited from a duty-free quota for 24,000 metric tons of sugar exports to the U.S. market under Washington's flagship trade initiative for the continent, the African Growth and Opportunities Act. While accounting for a relatively small 5% of total sugar exports, the South African Cane Growers' Association said the U.S. has served as a premium market that offered high prices, helping to sustain domestic jobs. The scale of potential job losses remains unclear. But the industry association is urging the government to secure a trade deal with Washington that would safeguard exports to the United States. "If we don't have good trade relationships with the U.S., it's going to be detrimental, not just to our sector, but to many others as well," said Pratish Sharma, a member of the association's board. Any deal, if it comes, will likely be too late for this season, however. And as Msweli calculates the costs, he knows there's suffering on the horizon. "All this is going to cause starvation and hunger," he said. ($1 = 17.5632 rand) (Reporting by Sisipho Skweyiya; Writing by Nelson Banya; Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Joe Bavier)

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South Africa's sugar farmers face 'double whammy' from Trump tariffs, cheap imports By Sisipho Skweyiya KWADUKUZA, South Africa...

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Coco Jones Gives a Closer Look at Her Sparkling Engagement Ring from Donovan Mitchell in New Photos for Laneige

Coco Jones Gives a Closer Look at Her Sparkling Engagement Ring from Donovan Mitchell in New Photos for Laneige

Coco Jones/Instagram Coco Jones' engagement ring makes a grand appearance in her all new Laneige campaign Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard Donovan Mitchell revealed his proposal to the singer on July 11 "The couple has been dating for two years and look forward to building a life together," reps for the couple told PEOPLE at the time Coco Jonesand her diamond ring are glowing! In footage shared to her Instagram account this week, the 27-year-old "Here We Go" singer couldn't help but show off her engagement ring from Donovan Mitchell while revealing her new campaign for Laneige. Acarouselposted to her page included behind the scenes content of her photo shoot for the Korean skincare line. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coco Jones (@cocojones) As Jones played with the different beauty products, applying different shades of lipgloss, her massive sparkler stood out. She paired the diamond ring with a glittering silver mini dress, and an equally shiny silver necklace, for the campaign. The Laneige campaign marked Jones' first photoshoot after getting engaged. TheBel-Airactress and the Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard, 28, hard launched their relationship by announcing their engagement before anyone knew they were dating. Their July 11 big reveal came in the form of anInstagram postof the couple kissing outdoors as the sun peaked through trees, shining above them before setting. No caption was included, however, the picture showed Mitchell with his hand planted below her waist, while hers rested on his chest — with a huge ring on that finger. "eYEA 🤗🤍," WNBA player Aja Wilson wrote. Lala Anthony added, "Congrats babe😍🍾🎉." He also shared anoverhead video of the proposal itselfin his announcement post. Reps for the couple confirmed their engagement to PEOPLE in a joint statement, "After an amazing season and a sold-out tour, Donovan Mitchell and Coco Jones took a moment to recharge on vacation, which turned it into a beautiful engagement." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Coco Jones (@cocojones) "The couple has been dating for two years and look forward to building a life together," the statement continued. Since their summer announcement, Jones and the NBA player have been spotted out on different occasions. On Aug. 25, she and her husband-to-be had a date night out at Barclays Center Arena in Brooklyn to watch the Connecticut Sun take on the New York Liberty. Shea Kastriner/USTA For the outing, Jones wore a black top and blue denim jeans, while Mitchell sat by her side in a monochromatic brown look. Days later, the "ICU" singer and her fiancé attended the US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City on Aug. 29. Before going public, Jones was asked about a "rumor with Donovan Mitchell" while appearing as a guest onShannon Sharpe'sClub Shay Shaypodcastearlier this year. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. When it came to her personal life, theGood Luck Charliealum said, "I will say my music is the outlet that I use to tell most of my stories and my truth, and some things I keep for myself 'cause this is my life, too." Jones added, "I don't want to ever feel like I have to be somebody's secret. I don't want to make anybody feel like they're mine. I think, for me, I'm trying to protect myself, and I'm trying to protect my family and whoever I love. So, yeah, I am more private." Read the original article onPeople

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Coco Jones Gives a Closer Look at Her Sparkling Engagement Ring from Donovan Mitchell in New Photos for Laneige

Coco Jones Gives a Closer Look at Her Sparkling Engagement Ring from Donovan Mitchell in New Photos for Laneige Coco Jones/Instagram Coco Jo...

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