The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, New York City will lift its private-sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Nov. 1 but will continue to require city employees to be vaccinated against the virus. 💉 Security cameras, which are already ubiquitous on New York's streets, will soon be installed in all of the city's nearly 6,400 subway cars as officials work to rebuild riders' faith in the system's safety. In...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Republican governors have been sending more migrants released at the U.S. border with Mexico to Democratic strongholds, raising questions about their legal status, how they are lured on board buses and planes, and the cost to taxpayers. 🇺🇲🇲🇽✈️🚍 While the barricades encircling the perimeter of the United Nations headquarters in New York are scarcely hip-level, the sea o...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, On #TheUpdate this Monday, "The Phantom of the Opera" — Broadway's longest-running show — is scheduled to close in February 2023, a victim of post-pandemic softening in theater attendance in New York. 🎭 Election conspiracy theorists are flooding local election offices with voter challenges and public records requests. The wave of inquiries is adding to the already heavy...

On #TheUpdate this Friday, a judge has refused to grant bail to the man accused of trying to kill Salman Rushdie as the acclaimed author prepared to give a talk in western New York. 👨🏽‍⚖️ The word is out in New York City and beyond. If you see a spotted lanternfly, stomp it. Kill-on-sight requests in New York City and elsewhere are a part of public campaigns to fight an invasive insect now massi...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A small museum near New York's World Trade Center dedicated to preserving the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks is closing. CEO Jennifer Adams says the 9/11 Tribute Museum is closing for good after Wednesday due to financial pressures made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. 🇺🇲🗽Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thu...

On #TheUpdate this Friday, A New York man has been resentenced to prison — at least for now — after temporarily going free amid questions about a prominent detective's conduct, then getting convicted again of the same murder at a recent retrial. ⚖️👮🏽‍♂️ Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required to let the public know about that dark history t...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Amazon workers in upstate New York filed a petition for a union election, launching a major labor fight against the company. 📦✊🏽 Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia's heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective accused of helping to protect the lucrative s...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, The Federal Aviation Administration says it is reducing flights in the area around New York City because of lack of staffing. ✈️ A once-prominent neurologist who was convicted last month of sexually abusing patients has killed himself at a New York City jail. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani was awaiting sentencing, and faced an upcoming federal trial alleging abuse spanning 15 yea...

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

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A New York City mom accused of drowning her three children in the Atlantic Ocean has been charged with three counts of second degree murder. Authorities announced the charges Wednesday, two days after Erin Merdy was found wandering barefoot and soaking wet on Brooklyn's Coney Island boardwalk. ⚖️ Six women who accused a neurologist of sexually assaulting them while und...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Nonpublic schools in New York face greater scrutiny after state education leaders approved rules requiring them to prove their academic programs line up with those of public schools. 🏫 A Republican county elections commissioner in upstate New York has been accused of applying for absentee ballots in the names of other people. In London, Queen Elizabeth II has left Bu...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New York is poised to strengthen its oversight of private and religious schools. Education officials are taking action following years of complaints that thousands of children are graduating from ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools lacking basic academic skills. 🏫 Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so immense that food aid cannot fully address the problem. In the Am...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, Police say three children have died after being found on a New York City beach and authorities believe the children may have been drowned by their mother. 👮🏽‍♂️🏖️ Americans remembered 9/11 with tear-choked tributes and pleas to "never forget," 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. A majority of adults in the U.S. say health care is not handled well i...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, Salman Rushdie's agent says the author is "on the road to recovery" two days after suffering serious injuries in a stabbing at a lecture in upstate New York. 🏥🔪 As part of an effort to keep illegal drugs and other contraband out of state prisons, New York is taking away one of the few pleasures of life behind bars. It will no longer let people send inmates care package...

On #TheUpdate this Friday, Health officials say the virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City's wastewater weeks after a case of polio was identified north of the city. The city and New York state health departments said that the presence of the poliovirus in the city's wastewater suggests that likely local circulation of the virus. 🦠😷🗽 Federal work-safety investigators are loo...

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

On #TheUpdate this Friday, Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, has died. She was 96. We’ll have the latest available information on the world reaction, details about her life, the rules of ascension, and what to know about King Charles III. 🇬🇧👸🏻 Nearly two decades after his capture in Pakistan, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attack...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York state is dropping its mask requirement on public transportation thanks in part to the availability of new booster shots targeting the most common strain of COVID-19. 🚇🚍😷🗽 A federal judge has ruled that New York state cannot require a Christian family services agency to provide adoption services to unmarried or same-sex couples. Police in Memphis, Tennessee...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York. 🗽⚖️ United Parcel Service said it plans to hire more than 100,000 extra workers to help handle an increase in packages during the critical holiday season. A new report says that the names of hundreds of U.S. law enforce...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the steel bands and brightly colored costumes of Caribbean carnival have once again made their presence felt on the streets of New York City. 🥁🗽 Americans are splurging on beauty as they tighten their budgets elsewhere. According to market research company IRI, sales of eye, face and lip makeup has gone up across stores. In the American west, the search for nine peopl...

On #TheUpdate this Friday, more than $270,000 in unpaid wages have been returned to a New York domestic worker after a state investigation found the worker was underpaid over three years. 🗽💵 The NYPD say they're investigating a confrontation this week in which a detective hit and shoved a woman to the ground, after she struck him as he helped arrest an armed suspect wanted in an attempted killin...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, a woman who allegedly drove onto a New York City sidewalk and fatally struck a man sitting in a walker has been charged with murder and other crimes. 🗽⚖️ A judge rejected a plea agreement that would have meant no prison time for the operator of a limousine company involved in a crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York. As some children struggled to keep up with...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, New York City will begin posting signs proclaiming the iconic tourist destination Times Square as a "Gun Free Zone." 🗽🔫🚫 New York City taxi drivers who owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on loans they took out to operate yellow cabs will see their burdens reduced substantially under a newly announced debt relief program. We're remembering Mikhail Gorbachev, the l...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police say a teenager drowned in a lake in upstate New York and his sister and uncle are in critical condition after trying to save him. 🏊🏽‍♂️🏥 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency injunction to keep the city from firing him over its vaccine mandate. With abortion limits enac...

On the Season 11 Premiere of #TheUpdate, A NYPD detective has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the city from firing him and other workers for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. 👨🏽‍⚖️⚖️👮🏽‍♂️ The virus that causes polio has been found in wastewater samples from another upstate New York county, prompting state health officials to warn of expanding "community spread" of the life-thre...