The Update with Brandon Julien

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On #TheUpdate this Friday, the first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants. In New York City alone, public schools have opened classrooms to nearly 20,000 children arriving with parents seeking asylum. A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep resid...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Hollywood crew members are turning to nonprofits like the Entertainment Community Fund for assistance as they have also lost work during the writer and actors strikes. A nearly 200-year-old time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened at West Point actually contained centuries-old coins potentially worth thousands of dollars. And...

The Season 13 premiere of #TheUpdate has the show mostly the same, but sounding just a bit different to keep things fresh. In the headlines this Thursday, authorities say an upstate New York sheriff’s deputy shot to death two teenagers who were in a vehicle that he thought was about to run him over. All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with...

The season 12 Finale on #TheUpdate this Wednesday has us looking at the peaks and valleys of New York City journalism. Ruschell Boone, an award-winning reporter and anchor for New York City TV station NY1, has died after battling pancreatic cancer over the past year. She was 48. A federal judge in New York City has ruled that evidence shows a company whose after-market triggers can make semiautoma...

Fresh off the last gasp of summer on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the annual West Indian American Day Parade stepped off in New York City with brightly colored costumes, steel bands, flag waving and street dancing. A statement on Jimmy Buffett's website has disclosed the cause of the singer-songwriter's death: a rare, aggressive skin cancer. And Partygoers stranded for days at Burning Man by a late su...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

As everyone prepared to get out of town for the last gasp of summer on #TheUpdate this Friday, those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone. A member of the violent MS-13 street gang has pleaded guilty for his part in the murders of four people in New York, including two teenage girls who were...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, a 127-year-old water main under New York’s Times Square gave way, flooding midtown streets and the busy Times Square subway station. A longtime superintendent at a New York City building fatally stabbed his wife and two young children before taking his own life earlier this week. And The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to the sunken Tita...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, For days now, newly arrived migrants have been waiting outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, hoping for a bed in an overly crowded shelter system. And for weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has said the city is out of room. New lawsuits claim that the U.S. Defense Department and the Department of Veteran Affairs are making it difficult and sometimes impossible for vete...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans. And The head of the Maui Emergency Manage...

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, The 21-year-old social media influencer who was charged with inciting a riot after a crowd of thousands of his followers erupted in chaos in New York City last week says he is “beyond disappointed” in the bad behavior. Police say a prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a fifth-floor wi...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and their two young children, ages 1 and 3. Authorities in Massachusetts have concluded a woman whose mutilated body was discovered on Cape Cod nearly 50 years ago was killed by her husband. And Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast...

There was a lot to talk about on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. New York City police say a man driving a stolen SUV struck a group of pedestrians on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk near Grand Central Terminal and injured 10 people. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey’s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally. The death of a Long Island resident has been linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater that has also been blamed for two deaths in Connecticut. And Transgender youth in North Carolina have lost access to gender-affirming treatments after...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPDsay a man fleeing a New York City drug bust crashed his motorcycle and died after a police sergeant threw a cooler at him in an attempt to stop him. Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of false confessions...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Outdoor dining was a rare part of the pandemic that many people actually liked. As New York City has moved out from under its pandemic-era regulations, how to handle the new landscape of outdoor dining structures has been a growing question. A retired political science professor who traveled in Washington’s elite social circles has been charged with stealing t...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Prosecutors say they'll use testimony from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's “trusted inner circle” of former executives at his collapsed cryptocurrency empire against him at an October trial. The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money criminal case has rejected the former president’s demand to step aside. And Donald Trump and 18 allies have been indicted in...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing. The wife of a man charged with killing at least three women found dead on New York's Long Island is living a “surreal nightmare.” And parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a...

Note: Due to an audio issue, the first 15 minutes in the first segment can't be heard. We apologize for the issue. On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, With thousands of migrants still arriving in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is renewing his appeal to the federal government to help the city avert a budgetary crisis as expenses mount. The city is now projecting costs to exceed $12 billion by the...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Mayor Eric Adams says the city will house as many as 2,000 migrants on an island in the East River where a migrant center was set up last year and then taken down weeks later. New York authorities are trying to learn more about a possible human limb discovered floating off Staten Island. Police say the remains appear to be “the lower limb to the foot.” And Megan...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, A crowd of thousands of people who gathered in New York City's Union Square for a popular livestreamer's hyped giveaway got out of hand, leading to injuries and arrests. Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City, after the online streamer drew thousands of his followers, many of the...