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 this Friday, Ukrainian authorities say Russian missile attacks on residential buildings in a coastal town near the port city of Odesa have killed at least 19 people, including two children. Video of the pre-dawn Friday attack showed the charred remains of buildings in the small town of Serhiivka, located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Odessa. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, the U.S. Justi...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russia has pulled back its forces from a Black Sea island where they have faced relentless Ukrainian attacks, but is keeping up its push to encircle the last bulwark of Ukraine's resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk. Russia's Defense Ministry said it withdrew its forces from the Zmiyinyy (Snake) Island off Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa in what it described...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, search teams and relatives are racing to find people missing after a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall killed at least 18 people in the center of Ukraine. Several families stood by what was left of the Amstor shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk as crews looked through the rubble. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Kathy Hochul won the Democratic nomination for New York governor,...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Ukrainian officials say scores of civilians are feared killed or injured after a Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the number of victims "unimaginable" and labeled it a "terrorist attack." 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, New Yorkers are casting votes in a governor's race that for the first...

On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution more than a century ago, further alienating the country from the global financial system amid its war in Ukraine. A 30-day grace period on interest payments originally due May 27 expired Sunday night. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Seven states are set to host primary elections tomor...

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!

We truly have a lot to talk about on #TheUpdate this Friday. In Washington, the Supreme Court has ended constitutional protection for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years by overturning Roe v. Wade- a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. Today's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of the union. 🤰🏽⚖️🇺🇲 In th...

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Ukrainian authorities say that Russia's millitary captured two villages in eastern Ukraine and were vying for control of a key highway in a continued offensive on the frontline. The capture of two villages in the embattled Donbas region came as part of blistering offense in recent weeks vin and around the pivotal city of Sievierodonetsk. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, prosecutors say t...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Russian attacks are laying down a curtain of fire across areas of eastern Ukraine where pockets if resistance are denying Moscow full millitary control of the region. A regional official told The Associated Press that "everything that can burn is on fire." 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, the Justice Department say that Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housi...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russia's military machine is preserving in its ferocious effort to grind down Ukraine's defenses. Combat in eastern areas of Ukraine reportedly are entering a decisive phase. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, a new law barring sales of bulket-resistant vests to most civilians bin New York doesn't cover the type of armor worn by Payton Gendron who killed 10 people at the Tops Friendly Marke...

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!

As part of our 5th anniversary, we've been playing best of episodes to look back at the best of our five years. But before #TheUpdate was created, it began as a WKRB Free Form Friday creation as the WKRB Newshour. The show sounded different- I also sounded different too.

On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, The European Union's executive arm has recommended making Ukraine a candidate vfor EU membership. The move would be a first step on what's expected to be a long road before the war-torn country could actually join the 27-nation bloc. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, New York City Transit officials say that a subway rider died after getting trapped between the platform and the tra...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, French President Emmanuel Macron says that there are signs of war crimes ina Kyiv suburb after "massacres" by Russian forces. He spoke in the town of Irpin while in a visit with other European leaders to show support for Ukraine. 🇫🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally in Buffalo, Payton Gendron, the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at the Tops Friendly Market has b...

On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the Russian military says that they used long-range missiles to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was being stored. Those strikes came as the fighting raged on today for the city of Sievierodonetsk in the eastern Donbas area, the key focus of Russia's offensive in recent weeks. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Mayor Eric Ada...

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Sievierodonetsk, the main focus of the war in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, is not yet blocked off by Russian troops even though they control about 80% of the city and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of the city, according to an official. The governor of the Luhansk region said that Ukrainian forces are still able to evacuate their wounded and communicat...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, day after day, Russia is pounding the Donbas region of Ukraine with relentless artillery and air raids, making slow but steady progress to seize the industrial heartland if its neighbor. With the conflict now in it's fourth month, it's a high-staked campaign that could dictate the course of the entire war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Broadway has its groove back as the 75th annual Ton...

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, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, officials in Kyiv have expressed fears that the specter of "war fatigue" could erode the West's resolve to help the country push back Moscow's aggression. The U.S and it's allies have given billions of dollars in weaponry to Ukraine. 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Connecticut police say that two men from New York led them on...