Blog entry by Rosemarie Avey

Anyone in the world

The Russian defence ministry said: 'Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Aerospace Forces carried out missile strikes on a self-propelled artillery battery of 122mm howitzers and military hardware of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Harrison Tran, a 10th grader in Savannah, Georgia, struggled to make sense of algebra during remote learning.

Last year, his high school offered after-school help. But that wasn´t feasible for Harrison, who lives 30 minutes from school and couldn´t afford to miss his ride home.

Asked by WMUR-TV for a segment Wednesday on regions of the world to which she felt the U.S.

could pay more attention, Haley - who served the Trump administration as United Nations ambassador, first said "the Arab world," saying the U.S. needs Arab countries "to kind of join with us" on opposing Iran.

Russia's announcement of the missile strike came as Kyiv's army high command claimed to have killed a fifth Moscow general since the war in Ukraine began. Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev (pictured) was one of Vladimir Putin's most senior commanders, in charge of the 8th All-Military Army of the Kremlin's vast Southern Military District

"It works, it´s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up," said Amie Rapaport, a University of Southern California researcher who has analyzed students´ access to intensive tutoring.

In Wake County, North Carolina, the school district began planning a reading tutoring program last summer. The program did not launch until November, and district officials last month said volunteers are tutoring fewer than 140 students - far fewer than the 1,000 students the program was designed to reach.

Netflix

The Coen Brothers kick up the western dust with an anthology film that gives you six vignettes all set on the American frontier. One of them is about the titular Buster Scruggs, a chipper singing cowboy who casually sets off a shoot-up in a cantina. But there's a dark twist that keeps you on your toes. Sewing the rest of its stories together with a constant black humor, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Coen Brothers winner.

Netflix

One of the more successful Stephen King adaptations, this horror drama based on the novella 1922 is a slow-burn with a mesmerizing performance at its core. Thomas Jane, who you'll also know from Boogie Nights and 2004's The Punisher, gives one of his career best performances as the ever proud Wilfred James, a farmer who makes the totally wise decision to murder his wife with the help of their teenage son. The consequences are harrowing on multiple levels (if you don't like rats, you really won't like them after this).

'It's the debt ceiling negotiations that oftentimes force the biggest budget reforms, which have been really important for our country,' Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, a member of GOP leadership, said to Punchbowl News on Monday.

DeSantis, with his wife, Casey, and three young kids in tow, chatted with voters, gave out autographs and signed the Bible of a man who thanked DeSantis for "standing up to Disney." DeSantis just wrapped up his first week as an official candidate with a blitz of c ampaign stops across three early-voting states.

'The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region', the Russian defence ministry said Saturday. 

The White House is focused on a budget plan from the conservative Freedom Caucus that would cap overall discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for 10 years while allowing for 1 percent growth per year, which would be a $131 billion cut from current levels.

'People underestimated what the House Republicans could accomplish, and we've really set the agenda,' the third highest ranking House Republican said. 'We are playing our role as the as the last backstop for the American people from single party Democrat rule.'

The Indianapolis school district last year launched two tutoring programs that connect students with certified teachers over video. One is available to all students after school, while the other is offered during the day at certain low-performing schools.

Ron DeSantis were among the White House contenders appearing at a rally at the state fairgrounds near Des Moines hosted by U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst. Her annual political event, the "Roast and Ride" - a combination barbecue-rally and motorcycle ride - kicks off a busy summer campaign season heading into the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses early next year.

A new tutoring corps in Chicago has served about 3% of students, officials said.

The figure was less than 1% in three districts: Georgia´s Gwinnett County, Florida´s Miami-Dade County, and Philadelphia, where the district reported only about 800 students were tutored. In those three systems alone, there were more than 600,000 students who spent no time in a district tutoring program this fall.