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Another royal baby is on the way. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting a child in the spring, Kensington Palace announced Monday. The announcement comes five months after the royal couple, riding a wave of popularity both in Britain and abroad, married at Windsor Castle near London, a union watched by millions of people on screens around the world. Harry, 34, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, and Markle, 37, are widely seen as likable and approachable, and she brought elements to the royal family that would have been unthinkable not so long ago: She is American, a former actress, biracial, divorced and a self-described feminist. The couple are on a 16-day tour through Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand. Speculation about Markle’s pregnancy was first fueled by the buttoned-up outfit she wore to the wedding of Princess Eugenie, a first cousin of Harry’s. While the child would be seventh in line to the British throne, the new royal baby will not be titled prince or princess. Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has challenged President Donald Trump to make good on his pledge to donate $1 million to charity if she provided proof of her American Indian heritage. The pledge was caught on video. On Monday, Warren released the results of a DNA analysis that she said indicated she has some Indian heritage, a direct rebuttal to Trump, who has long mocked her ancestral claims and repeatedly referred to her as “Pocahontas.” The analysis, done by Stanford University professor Carlos D. Bustamante, concluded that the great majority of Warren’s ancestry is European but added that the results “strongly support” the existence of an American Indian ancestor who likely lived six to 10 generations ago. If Warren’s ancestry were six generations removed, it could mesh with an 1894 document obtained by the New England Genealogical Society suggesting Warren’s great-great-greatgrandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Indian, making Warren 1/32nd Indian. In a tweet, Warren reminded Trump he said in July he’d give $1 million to a charity of her choice if her DNA showed American Indian and asked that he write a check to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. Trump on Monday declined to apologize, telling reporters as he surveyed hurricane damage “What’s the percentage, 1/1000th? I’ll only do it if I can test her personally. And that will not be something I enjoy doing, either.”