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🇸🇦 Eid arrives with joy, but not everywhere joy gets the room. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan. It is usually a day of prayers, visits, new clothes, sweets, and charity. Families gather after a month of fasting from dawn to sunset. This year, many will still do all of that. Many others will do it under grief. Across Gaza and the West Bank, Ramadan unfolded under the ravages of apartheid, genocide, and occupation. In Lebanon, IDF strikes have displaced more than 1M people, while Iran absorbs the third week of American and Israeli offensive assaults. For many Muslims, celebration arrives hand in hand with mourning. This Eid asks for gratitude and demands endurance.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England’s meningitis outbreak turns campus life into medical triage. Two young people have died in England’s meningitis outbreak. One was a school pupil in a nearby town, the other a Kent student in Canterbury. Nine cases have been confirmed. Another 11 are under investigation. Wes Streeting called the outbreak unprecedented for such a short period. Most cases are linked to the University of Kent. Students are being offered antibiotics and meningitis B vaccination. More than 2,500 doses have already been given. On campus, the line for medicine now doubles as a measure of fear.

🪧 César Chávez’s name now carries a reckoning institutions can’t dodge. César Chávez was long treated as civic canon. Now his name is being pulled back into scrutiny. Dolores Huerta says she was among women and girls sexually abused by Chávez. That allegation alone shattered decades of ritual admiration. California State University, Fresno says his statue should be removed. President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval called the moment a moral reckoning. The controversy is not arriving from hostile outsiders. It is emerging from within the movement Chávez once embodied. That makes the symbolic damage harder to quarantine. A name once used to inspire generations of restless dreamers is now forcing civic and cultural institutions to remember differently.

🎖️ The Pentagon’s war bill is no longer subtle. The Pentagon is seeking $200B in additional funds for the Iran war. That is not a tweak. It is a second argument for the war itself. The request comes on top of roughly $150B Congress already gave Defense last year. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $1.9T annual deficit this year. House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is a dangerous time and defense must be funded. Critics hear that and ask where the ceiling went. Supporters say the war has become too large to fund by pretense. Either way, strategy is now being translated into a giant number. Washington is not debating cost anymore, only how loudly to admit it.

🏀 High Point gives March the kind of upset it was hired to provide. High Point stunned Wisconsin 83-82 in the NCAA tournament. Chase Johnston hit the winning basket. It was his first 2-point field goal of the season. That is either comedy, destiny, or both. High Point earned its bid by winning a second straight Big South title. Last year, the Panthers lost in the first round to Purdue. This year, they got the program’s first March Madness win. Wisconsin had the name recognition. High Point had the better final possession. One late shot turned a nice season into school mythology.

📂 Epstein’s former attorney offers Congress the oldest defense in the file. Darren Indyke says he did not know about Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. He worked as Epstein’s attorney for roughly two decades. He told the House Oversight Committee he had no knowledge whatsoever. He also said he would have quit if he had known women and underage girls were being trafficked. It is a clean statement. It is also the kind of statement this case keeps producing. Congress is still trying to map who knew what and when. Indyke’s testimony adds another layer of claimed blindness around a very public predator. In the Epstein orbit, ignorance is forever the most popular alibi.

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