The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the bill would cut deficits by $1.5 trillion over the next decade compared with previous projections - but some informal estimates say it could allow the debt to swell to $35 trillion. 

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.

Kremlin troops launched two attacks on Kyiv late Wednesday and earlier today - one via the besieged western city of Irpin and another through the eastern district of Brovary, with video showing the moment Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were bombarded with artillery in a devastating ambush and forced to turn back. 

They deserve exactly what every single other person above the age of five in this city and every single other person in this state is getting today. Join me in demanding that Mayor Adams unmask our toddlers,' she finished to the sound of the crowd chanting 'unmask our toddlers!' 

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The battle for Kyiv is now underway as Russian tanks this morning pushed to within just a few miles of the city outskirts, analysts and witnesses said, though initial assaults to the west and east were repelled as Putin's forces face a long and bloody campaign to try and take the capital.

Earlier in the hearing, Jackson issued a passionate defense of her history of sentencing child porn offenders as Durbin gave the Supreme Court nominee a chance to address Republican criticism claiming she is too soft on these crimes.

The deal cuts some $21.4 billion from the IRS, which gained an additional $80 billion in funding from Democrats last Congress, but only immediately claws back $1.4 billion. White House officials said Biden agreed to shift $10 billion from the IRS to other funding priorities in fiscal year 2024 and another $10 billion in fiscal year 2025. 

Monday's rally was just one of several outpourings of public frustration after New York Mayor Eric Adams confirmed last Wednesday that the United States' most populous city would remove mandates requiring masks for public school children aged five and over and proof of vaccination to dine out or enter entertainment venues. 

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said today that Ukraine's capital city has been 'turned into a fortress' ahead of the Russian assault, with about 2 million people - half the residents of the metro area of the capital - having fled as Putin's troops draw ever closer.

'In case after case, the cuts it proposes won't materialize,' he added, claiming that some of the supposed 'deals' that House Republicans claimed as wins are 'fake' in the sense that they won't provide the desired outcome for the GOP.

Angry New York City parents and children flooded City Hall Park on Monday morning - the first day children over five are permitted to shed their masks - demanding that those under five be given the same freedom.

Lindsey Graham walked out of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday after arguing with Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin over the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees following his line of questioning of the Supreme Court nominee.

'As long as they're dangerous, I hope they all die in jail if they're going to go back and kill Americans,' Graham yelled when speaking of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. 'It won't bother me one bit if 39 of them die in prison. That's a better outcome than letting them go'

Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December.

The real number could be even lower: Just 2% of U.S. households say their children are getting that kind of intensive tutoring, according to the of a different nationally representative survey.

In Georgia´s Fulton County, 3% of the district´s 90,000 students participated in tutoring programs this fall.

Most of the tutoring was offered by paraprofessionals during the school day, with one hired to give intense support in each elementary school.

Protesters argued that the mandate is unnecessary because of the low risk of infection for those under five, and that the rule is 'damaging' to the emotional and social development of young children. Along with a vaccine mandate for municipal employees, the under-fives rule is among the only Covid restrictions NYC Mayor Eric Adams didn't lift last week.

The House bill passed Wednesday limits National Security spending in fiscal year 2024 to $886 billion - in line with President Biden's budget request - and caps it at $895 billion in 2025, a one percent increase.

'I know that my role as a judge is a limited one — that the Constitution empowers me only to decide cases and controversies that are properly presented,'Jackson said. 'And I know that my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent.'