Seven hundred days in Gaza City. People flee as the IDF moves in. About 370,000 have left, far from the one million ordered to evacuate. Shelters are scarce, transport costly; space in central and southern Gaza is tight.

In Charlotte, Iryna Zarutska is dead. The suspect is federally charged. The House Judiciary will hold a Sept. 29 field hearing. Bondi ties the death to soft-on-crime policies; the GOP says the hearings strike at Democrat-led cities.

Mark White calls the deportation flights farcical; the attempts fail again, as with the Rwanda plan. Lawyers win last-minute injunctions; flights depart with regular passengers only.

Patel says he found no credible evidence Epstein trafficked to others or that associates were implicated. Democrats question the claim; the FBI will share what the law allows via a House subpoena, and Patel says he stays.

The Digest, 9/16/2025 @1230PM, CDT

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