The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, drivers in New York City will be charged extra in tolls to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street as part of a long-stalled congestion pricing plan. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says in a $1 million lawsuit that a cleaner who switched off power to a lab freezer containing cell samples and cultures destroyed more than 20 years of research. And here we go again with t...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, pavement and humanity itself. A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay. And scientists and tech industry leaders, including executives at Microsoft and Google, have issued a new warning about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humank...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step aside, echoing the former president’s complaints that he’s “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” A new report finds several shortcomings in Buffalo's response to a historic December blizzard in which 31 city residents died. And a new Florida law bann...

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, a New York City artist and college professor who held a machete to a journalist’s neck and threatened to chop him up has been arrested on charges of menacing and harassment. The owner of a New York adventure park on Long Island has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $3 million in federal coronavirus aid and spending it on himself, including a home...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, relatives of eight people killed in a Halloween terror attack on a New York City bike path are expected to speak at a sentencing hearing for an Islamic extremist who prosecutors say deserves multiple life sentences. House Democrats are seeking to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos from Congress. The effort is expected to be defeated but puts Republic...

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, U.S. Rep. George Santos, who has faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses. A jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Jurors awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the fo...

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the Republican leaders of two suburban counties have declared states of emergency in an effort to block a plan by New York City’s Democratic mayor to use their communities to house hundreds of international migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. More than 100 people have been killed in mass killings thus far in 2023, an average of one a week. The family members and...

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!

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!

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 Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, about 160 resident physicians have gone on strike over what they called low pay at a public hospital in New York City. A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has been linked to viral videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms that teach people how to exploit a security vulnerability to steal the cars. And a fake image...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, mourners gathered at a Harlem church at the funeral of Jordan Neely, the man whose chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety. Meanwhile, Republican presidential hopefuls have rushed to support Daniel Penny. Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when...

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

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, this smoke reached almost apocalyptic proportions. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is pouring into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest and covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze. Major League Baseball has postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night because of poor air quality caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires. An owner of...

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!

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!

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!

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!