The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Friday, Tony Bennett, the eminent stylist and last of the great saloon singers whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career, has died at 96. The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. But New York could ban contests that involve k...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, The wife of the man charged in the deaths of three women whose remains were found along a Long Island beach roadway has filed for divorce. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city will start giving adult asylum seekers in the city’s shelter system 60 days notice to find somewhere else to live. And A winning ticket has been sold in California for the Powerball jackp...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Police have been carting more boxes of potential evidence out of the home of Rex Heuermann, who has been charged with killing at least three women and leaving their remains alongside a remote stretch of beach highway in New York. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says he and other city officials have begun cracking down on illegal cannabis shops. His office says...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Detectives investigating the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings have searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend. Longtime police official Edward Caban has been sworn is as commissioner of the New York Police Department, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old department. And Solidarity and sta...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, A Long Island architect has been arrested in connection with three of the long-unsolved killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. Fifty-nine-year-old Rex Heuermann pleaded not guilty to three murder charges on Friday. Meanwhile, Families of several women who were slain and dumped along the coastline are trying to find closure after the capture of a man who authorities s...

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On #TheUpdate this Friday, The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been arrested on federal fraud charges alleging that he schemed to defraud customers by misleading them about key aspects of the business. A misplaced naval ship in California, overlooked students in New York City and missed inmates in Texas are some of the reasons why the two mo...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A New Jersey man has admitted posting a broad online threat that spurred heightened security at synagogues and Jewish schools in the state last year. There’s only one more chance this year to take in Manhattanhenge. Wednesday was a bust, with gray, gloomy weather socking in the horizon at sundown, and Thursday could see similar skies. And unionized Hollywood actors on...

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

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can't be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape because he was president when he made the comments. The union that successfully organized an Amazon warehouse in New York is being sued by a splinter group that includes some former leaders. And Bank of America mu...

On the 7-Eleven Day edition of #TheUpdate, a court-appointed monitor is urging a federal judge to begin contempt proceedings against New York City to coerce the city to urgently improve its handling of its troubled massive jail complex. Amazon Prime Day is here. And, once again, experts are warning consumers of scams. Scams targeting online shoppers — often by impersonating companies like Amazon a...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPD say a Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other men in a series of shootings while riding a scooter in New York City is charged with murder and attempted murder. An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels...

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

On #TheUpdate this Friday, authorities say a crash involving a double-decker bus and a city bus in Manhattan sent 18 people to hospitals for treatment. Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub have sued New York City to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. And the case of a Texas man who was reported as a missing teenager in 2015 and found last week took an unexpected turn Thursday wh...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, say they are separating but not divorcing after 29 years of a marriage that helped lift de Blasio into the mayor’s job. A 63-year-old New York man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for his role in the robbery of a Connecticut jewelry store that ended with a jeweler being shot to dea...

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

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, eating superstar Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Two swimmers are recovering from a scare after they were apparently attacked by sharks in separate encounters off the shores of Long Island in New York. And millions of Americans attended parades, fireworks, barbecue...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Daniel Penny, the man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider, Jordan Neely, in a fatal chokehold has been indicted. Gambling giant MGM Resorts International says it did nothing wrong in its dealings with a New York City man who accuses it of preying on his gambling addiction with repeated cash bonuses intended to keep him g...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell is stepping down after 18 months on the job. The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside more splashier rivals on Sunday to win the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making...

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Airbnb is suing New York City over rules that the company says would make it much more difficult for people to turn their property into short-term rentals. Some North American racetracks have replaced traditional dirt with a synthetic surface made of wax-coated sand, fibers and recycled rubber. Such surfaces could be a potential answer to creating safer training...

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

On #TheUpdate this Monday, colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades. From human ashes to cell phones, fans are taking their adoration for their favorite artists to dangerous new heights. And Space disco cowboy. Yacht Shabbat. Burning Man Formal. Dress to Express...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Rep. George Santos says he's just trying to protect family members by asking the courts to keep his bond cosigners secret as he fights criminal charges. New Yorkers who commit crimes could have their records automatically sealed if they stay out of trouble for a certain number of years after they have finished serving their sentences. And a mobile clinic in Balti...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, an NYPD officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops. The town of Manlius in upstate New York is mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the village pond over the...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the fatal chokehold of a man who was behaving erratically on a New York City subway train. A man who oversaw food service for New York City schools has been convicted in a bribery case that picked apart how chicken tenders riddled with bone and bits of metal...