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🇮🇷 Nowruz arrives, but exile keeps setting the table for sorrow. Nowruz usually arrives with sweets, visits, and tables set for renewal. This year, many Iranians abroad are setting places for absence. In Paris, Shayan Ghadimi is marking the new year without his mother. She returned to Iran during the 2025 protests and now remains hard to reach. War and the earlier crackdown have severed contact for many families. Diaspora gatherings in France and New York have added memorial corners and subdued rituals. Some cultural centers scaled back festivities altogether. Others kept them, but as acts of endurance rather than uncomplicated joy. The holiday still marks spring, but spring does not cancel dread. Nowruz carries the weight of an old wound.

🌏 The cartel war goes maritime, and the evidence still trails the fire. An alleged drug-smuggling boat burned in the eastern Pacific after an American military strike. Three survivors were reported. The attack is part of Donald Trump’s expanding campaign against what he calls narcoterrorists. Southern Command has now carried out more than 40 such strikes since September. Those operations have killed at least 157 people, according to the report. The military released video of a vessel in flames. It did not release proof that this boat carried drugs. The Coast Guard was alerted for rescue, though officials had not publicly said whether the survivors were recovered. Critics question both the legality and the usefulness of turning counternarcotics into open military conflict. American force is now being used first and explained second.

⛽ Georgia cuts gas taxes, but most states are keeping their wallets shut. Georgia became the first state to suspend fuel taxes after the Iran war sent pump prices upward. Governor Brian Kemp signed a 60-day moratorium. It pauses a 33-cent gasoline tax and a 37-cent diesel tax. Officials estimate the state will forgo $360M to $400M. That works out to roughly $5 or $6 per fill-up for a typical driver. Georgia says it can cover the loss with surplus money. Evidently, other peer states are less eager. Their budgets are tighter than they were during the 2022 gas-price panic. Some lawmakers also argue tax holidays starve transportation funding while offering only brief relief. Georgia moved first, but few capitals seem eager to follow its sprint.

🕯️ Teenager dies in detention, and Florida adds another name to a grim ledger. A 19-year-old Mexican migrant, Royer Perez-Jimenez, died in American Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida. ICE said his death was a presumed suicide. He was found unresponsive at the Glades County Detention Center and pronounced dead 17 minutes later. His official cause of death remains under investigation. He is the 13th person to die in ICE custody this year. He is also the youngest detainee to die since Donald Trump returned to office. Mexico called the death unacceptable and demanded a full investigation. Advocates say prolonged detention and grim conditions keep turning confinement into a mental health hazard. Glades had been shut under Joe Biden and later reopened under Trump. A jail once deemed unfit is again the site of death.

🥋 Chuck Norris dies, taking with him a genre, a meme, and a politics. Chuck Norris died at 86, ending a career that moved from dojo legend to action-movie granite. Born Carlos Ray Norris, he became a six-time undefeated World Professional Middleweight Karate champion. Steve McQueen encouraged him to try acting. He went on to headline more than 20 films and later “Walker, Texas Ranger.” The internet remade him again through the absurd durability of Chuck Norris Facts. Norris embraced the joke and sold books off it. He also became a devout Christian and a vocal conservative. He endorsed several Republican candidates, including Donald Trump. His family said he died surrounded by them shortly after his birthday. He leaves behind a body of work that was part martial discipline, part television folklore, and part political brand.

⛪ Hegseth’s faith talk sounds less private, more like doctrine with missiles. Pete Hegseth’s religious language is drawing new scrutiny now that America is at war with Iran. Critics say the concern is not private faith. It is the fusion of state violence with Christian nationalist rhetoric. As defense secretary, Hegseth has led worship services and inserted Bible verses into Pentagon media. He has also overseen moves aligned with his conservative Christian worldview, including banning transgender troops and curbing diversity programs. In his book “American Crusade,” he lamented Muslim birth rates and the popularity of Muhammad as a boys’ name in America. Political scientist Youssef Chouhoud said the deeper problem is policy, not just language. In a war against an Islamic theocracy, that rhetoric lands harder. Religious conviction can steady leaders. It can also make a pluralist military sound like someone else’s church.

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