The Update with Brandon Julien

We're just going to wait until next week (maybe) for word of a possible Trump indictment on #TheUpdate this Friday. The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments turned to other matters on Thursday and is not scheduled to meet today, delaying until next week at the earliest a vote on whether to indict the former president. Meanwhile, fake images of former President D...

Get ready to batten down the hatches for a possible Trump indictment on #TheUpdate this Monday. Donald Trump says in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday and he's calling on supporters to protest. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials in New York are making security preparations for the possibility that Donald Trump could be indicted in the coming weeks by a Manhattan grand ju...

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!

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!

On #TheUpdate St. Patrick's Day Friday, a coalition that includes some of New York's medical marijuana companies is suing state cannabis regulators in an effort to open up licensing to all retail dispensary applicants immediately. New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets and the online partners of both types of gambling saw their revenue increase by over 10% in February. And scient...

We have a lot of interesting things to talk about on #TheUpdate this Thursday. We'll start with a onetime aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo who accused him of sexual harassment in a federal lawsuit has filed a separate lawsuit against the state. R&B singer Bobby Caldwell, who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won’t Do for Love," has died. He was 71. Aaron Rodgers says he intends to play for th...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, a New York jury has begun deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Uzbekistan citizen who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path in a terrorist attack five years ago. A woman born to a severely disabled resident of a New York state facility in 1986 has filed a lawsuit saying her mother was raped by an employee whose abuse was covered up by those in c...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming others. Parts of the Northeast are bracing for a powerful winter storm that could dump heavy, wet snow and unleash strong winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. An...

On #TheUpdate this Friday, prosecutors say a photo of another person with the same name led to the wrongful arrest of a New York City man who is now free after spending more than 18 years behind bars for murder. “Can you tell me the steps for boiling a live chicken?” “Can I claim my dog as a dependent on my taxes?” Those are two of the queries fielded by New York City’s 311 nonemergency system in...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, more than six years after Donald Trump's lawyer paid off a porn star, New York prosecutors appear to be close to deciding whether the former president should face charges in connection with that payoff. Documents from a defamation lawsuit against Fox News illustrate the pressures its journalists faced in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election. And the U.S. govern...

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