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The US is expected to send ground-launched small-diameter bombs that would double Ukraine’s current strike range as part of a nearly $2.2bn aid package to be announced on Friday, according to people familiar with the matter.The smart bombs have a range of 94 miles and can be fired from several kinds of rocket launchers including Himars that have been sent to the country. Ukraine’s longest-range bomb is the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, which has a range of 53 miles.Friday’s package follows a joint announcement by the US and Germany last week to send main battle tanks in a shift…

Eli Lilly (LLY) reported mixed fourth-quarter results Thursday morning, but we’re looking through the stock’s post-earnings sell-off because there’s no change to the pharmaceutical giant’s bright long-term potential. Notably, the company’s potential blockbuster obesity drug remains on track to be cleared by U.S. regulators by the second half of this year — encouraging news for shareholders, like us at the Club, whose investment case counts on the weight-loss therapy’s success. Revenue fell nearly 9% year-over-year, to $7.3 billion, missing analysts’ expectations for $7.33 billion, according to estimates compiled by Refinitiv. Much of the sales decline is tied to the loss…

It’s impossible to miss stylist and consultant Claudia Cifu and her five-year-old daughter, Paloma Freya. The two are adorable peas in a pod, with their coordinated, relaxed chic vibe (which translated well into Cifu’s kidswear collection for the Finnish label Vimma.) Though Cifu was born in Finland to Chilean parents, she lived in New York for over 15 years before moving back to Helsinki four years ago to raise Paloma. Cifu’s time in New York comes through in her style, which feels both downtown minded—Carhartt worker trousers with a cropped, well-worn leather jacket—and in-the-know—a black, puffed sleeve Mara Hoffman dress with orange…

Scrolling Eric Bauza’s Instagram feed is like a step back in time — it’s jam-packed with nostalgic television and movie throwbacks to the 1980s and ’90s, when Saturday morning cartoons ruled the day and you had to make sure your VCR was set up to record your favourite sitcoms. His enduring love for classic cartoons certainly hasn’t hindered his career as a voice actor. In fact, it’s helped propel him to what is arguably the top of the cartoon world — he’s the latest voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin the Martian and Tweety Bird in the Looney Tunes…

The owners of Resco Instruments appeared on “Fox & Friends” to explain why they chose to put their American-made watches through Navy SEAL training. Retired Navy SEAL Rob Smith founded Resco Instruments in 2009, along with his wife, U.S. Coast Guard veteran Nicole Smith. Rob Smith served for 22 years in active duty in the Navy with nine deployments, while his wife Nicole Smith spent 10 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. SHOPPING FOR MADE-IN-AMERICA PRODUCTS? HERE ARE 3 COMPANIES TO CHECK OUTRob Smith explained that when he built his first watches, he was working as an instructor in First Phase, the beginning…

Police near Detroit found a car belonging to one of three missing rappers who have not been seen for nearly two weeks, officials said Thursday.A 15-year-old boy was picked up last week and accused of having the automobile of missing rapper Armani Kelly, Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer told NBC News.A spokesman for Detroit police declined comment on the developments in Warren.This could be one of the first big breaks in the search for Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker who have not been seen or heard from since their Jan. 21 gig at a bar was canceled.Dwyer declined to discuss how…

A three-year-old boy has died after being left inside a car in Sydney’s south-west as temperatures in the area reached 34 degrees Celsius during the day.Witnesses say a “distraught” man, believed to be the boy’s father, began punching the rear window of the car before pulling the child from the vehicle.The man was taken to Campbelltown Police Station to assist with an investigation. Source: Sky News

MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian is urging others to listen to their body after her bout with the common cold led to heart inflammation that an urgent care initially dismissed as “reflux.”She had to be hospitalized twice before her cardiologist got the situation under control.“The only person who knows how you feel or what you’re feeling or when you need help is you,” Vossoughian said in a Jan. 28 television segment devoted to her health scare.“Take nothing for granted. You may be doing everything in life right, as I felt like I was, and a cold virus can become so much…

Peacock’s popular reality competition series The Traitors has been renewed for a second season. The streaming service also revealed that Emmy-winning actor Alan Cumming is set to return as host. “The Traitors is an ambitious, highly addictive and spontaneous format that keeps contestants and viewers on their toes,” Corie Henson, EVP Entertainment Unscripted Content at NBCUniversal, said in a statement. “Alan Cumming is a well-dressed genius, the producers at Studio Lambert are brilliant storytellers and the show is the perfect mix of drama and suspense to keep our Traitors and Faithfuls craving more.” “We hugely enjoyed making the U.S. version…

Germany will give $141.87 million to the World Health Organization this year, its health minister said on Thursday following a meeting with the U.N. health agency’s head.However, the announcement was not enough to return it to the top donor spot after Berlin temporarily overtook the main historical contributor Washington in the last funding period 2020-2021 due to Trump-era funding cuts, WHO data showed.”We are happy to contribute 130 million Euros to WHO this year,” Karl Lauterbach told reporters at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, following a meeting with Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.WHO SEEKS TO EXPAND ROLE IN TACKLING NEXT…