The Update with Brandon Julien

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich is a staple in many a New Yorker's diet. To keep up with today's levels of inflation due to the pandemic and Russia's war with Ukraine, bodega owners are faced with no choice but to raise the prices of their famously low-priced breakfast sandwiches. 🥓🥚🧀🥯 A New York City jury is being asked to consider whether a neurologis...

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

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, A preacher known for his close friendship with New York City's mayor was robbed of more than $1 million worth of jewelry by armed bandits who crashed his Brooklyn church service, just as he was sermonizing about keeping faith in the face of grave adversity, police say. ⛪💵🔫 In one of the most significant attacks by law enforcement on insider trading in a decad...

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

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, City residents in the Northeast are fleeing a hot spell in favor of pools, beaches and forests. The National Weather Service says more than 85 million Americans are under excessive heat warnings or heat advisories, from the Pacific Northwest to the southern Great Plains to the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor. 🌡️🥵 A man accused of attacking New York GOP...

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event. 🗽🔪 New York health officials are reporting the first U.S. case of polio in nearly a decade. Officials said the Rockland County resident is an unvaccinated young adult who developed paralysis. The spread of monkeypox...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, making him the second U.S. president to get the virus and underscoring the extent to which the virus has infiltrated American society. 🇺🇲😷 Locally, a national jewelry retailer that allegedly tricked active-duty servicemembers into buying overpriced, poor quality jewelry at high interest rates has settled a...

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

On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series "Law & Order: Organized Crime" has been shot and killed. Police say Johnny Pizarro was found at about 5:15 a.m. Tuesday in front of a residence in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and neck. 👮🏽‍♂️🔫 Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrat...

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

On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, A man who was sleeping on the beach at Coney Island has been struck and killed by a New York City parks department truck. 🏖️🚚 A group of Sept. 11 victims' family members who have long accused Saudi Arabia of aiding the terrorists who carried out the attacks are condemning former President Donald Trump for hosting the Saudi-backed LIV golf tour at his New Jersey...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, three men who spent decades in prison have been cleared in the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth in New York's violent 1990s. ⚖️ Major League Baseball has agreed to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging violations of minimum wage laws, a case that progressed through the courts for eight years without reac...

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

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother to his oldest children, has died in New York City. She was 73. 🇺🇲 In Buffalo, the grocery store where 10 people were killed in a racist shooting in May is part of an ever-growing list of public spaces and retail establishments where gun violence shattered a community's way of living. Whether...

Just like YouTube couples, the best things happen when you just start recording. Does the talk get more spicy after dark? You'll have to listen to find out.

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, the soaring demand for the monkeypox vaccine caused the appointment system to crash in New York City, one of many places where supplies have been running out almost as soon as they arrive. 🐒💉 A former CIA software engineer accused of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history has been convicted at a New York City retrial. In Buffalo, the super...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, New York City officials say a woman and a 7-year-old child were killed when the chartered boat capsized in the Hudson River. Nearby ferries rushed to the scene to help police and fire department rescuers get people out of the water. 🛥️ Researchers at New York University transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of d...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals announced that she will step down after more than six years presiding at the state's highest court and overseeing the state court system. 👩🏽‍⚖️ Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont ordered U.S. and state flags lowered to half-staff in honor of a longtime Newtown fire chief who died after returning home from a call. "Succession" an...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, police say a 15-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy at a New York City subway station. The suspect was arrested Sunday morning and police say he will be charged with murder and possession of a weapon. Meanwhile, Five people have been injured, one critically, after a shooting on Coney Island's iconic boardwalk. 👮🏽‍♂️🔫🎡 Drivers looking...

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, Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one of Japan's most powerful politicians, has died after being shot during a campaign speech. Abe was shot from behind minutes after he started his speech Friday in Nara in western Japan. Meanwhile, world leaders reacted in shock over the shooting. 🇯🇵🔫 Locally, as President Biden runs up against the limits of what he can do on abortion,...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the boyfriend of an upstate New York woman who was last seen alive in November 2020 has been charged with her murder more than a year after the woman's body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car in Queens. 🚘 Starting wages for lifeguards in New York City will be $19.46 an hour this summer under an agreement reached with the lifeguard union. Under the deal announc...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, The Justice Department has settled a long-running lawsuit filed by a group of men rounded up in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attack who say they were abused in a federal lockup in New York City. 🗽⚖️ The union representing more than 250 HarperCollins workers says those employees have overwhelmingly voted to strike if the publisher doesn't meet their demands...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Frankfurter-munching phenom Joey "Jaws" Chestnut gobbled his way to a 15th win at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Chestnut powered down 63 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes Monday at the annual exhibition of excess. 🌭 On Long Island, officials are using drones to watch for sharks at some beaches after a shark attack injured a lifeguard. In the...