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!

It's Day 79 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, to plead the fifth? Or not plead the fifth? That's the burning question facing Donald Trump after a New York judge ordered the former President to testify in a long-running state civil investigation into his business practices. Barring a successful appeal, Trump would face a decision between answering Attorney General Letitia James' q...

It's Day 78 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, we're talking about the marijuana equal opportunity for all. New York is proposing a $200 million fund to help people of color, women, and some others start marijuana businesses. It's an ambitious plan to make the pot industry more equitable. Officials though haven't yet nailed down some components that experts say are cruci...

It's Day 77 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, it was a real close call on Long Island. Authorities say that a tanker carrying gasoline lost control, crashed into a vacant building and burst into flames, injuring the truck driver and three firefighters who responded. The building later collapsed. In the Hudson Valley, police there say that a young girl that was reported missing...

It's Day 76 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation league says that the number of killings by domestic extremists rose last year in the United States. The Jewish civil rights group tallied 29 such killings nationwide in 2021 after counting 23 in 2020. The group's report says many of the attacks were fuled by conspiracy theories, misogyny, and the anti-vaccine move...

It's Day 75 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Valentine's Day Monday, Mayor Adams draws his line in the sand. Several thousand city public workers lost their jobs- we don't know the exact number yet- because they failed to comply with the city's mandate requiring they get at least two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. They represent though about 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce, incl...

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!

It's Day 72 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, in Buffalo, the search is on for a suspect or suspects continues a day after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed and a security guard shot outside of a high school. The teen remains hospitalized following surgery. Authorities say the guard was treated for a leg wound and released. Congress has given final approval to legislation guaranteein...

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

It's Day 71 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Governor Hochul decided to split the difference. She announced that the state will end a COVID-19 mask mandate requiring face coverings in most indoor public settings, but will keep masking rules in place in schools for now. She's been saying she wants to see vaccination rates for children increase before she gets rid of that mandat...

It's Day 70 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, it's now just a waiting game. Governor Hochul and health officials are deciding whether to end it extend two key COVID-19 mask mandates. She plans to announce today which rules will stay in place. If any hints are to be believed, the school mandate might remain in place for now, saying the wants more kids 5-11 to get vaccinated bef...

It's Day 69 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Governor Murphy in New Jersey, Governor Lamont in Connecticut, as well as the governors of Delaware and Oregon have announced plans to lift statewide mask requirements in schools a month or two from now. Lamont says he's recommending the state end its mask mandate for schools and child care centers on February 28th, while Murphy set...

It's Day 68 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, former President Trump recently told a mostly white crowd at a rally in Texas that his legal troubles are the fault of Black prosecutors he called racists. His words long echo long standing racist tropes- that black people and other minorities are taking power, and that they'll exact revenge on white people, or- at the very least- tre...

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!

It's Day 65 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, it's not personal- it's just politics. Governor Hochul has signed off in new maps for the state's congressional districts that give Democrats a heavy political advantage over Republicans. They were drawn in such a way that out of the 26 congressional districts New York will be divided into, Democrats will be the majority of registered...

It's Day 64 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, there's more to the death of "The Wire" actor Michael K. Williams than meets the eye. Four men face charges that they were members of the drug distribution crew that supplied the deadly mix of drugs. The renowned actor from overdosed just hours after buying fentanyl-laced heroin in a sidewalk deal recorded on surveillance video. For...

It's Day 63 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Police are gathering again at St. Patrick's Cathedral to pay tribute to a young officer gunned down while answering a call for help in Harlem. Officer Wilbert Mora's funeral is today at the Roman Catholic cathedral. The 27-year-olf Mora joined the NYPD in October 2018 after graduating from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Desp...

It's Day 62 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, two teens were shot in the leg inside the Kings Plaza mall, sending shoppers scrambling for their lives. One witness said that he heard at least four shots. But it wasn't an intent on mass murder- just another absurd case of gun violence in this city when a 19-year-old carried a gun to the mall with a few friends. Oswego County Distr...

It's Day 61 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, the dig out continues across the northeast. The sun was shining yesterday, the day after the viscous nor'easter brought blizzard conditions to many areas, and left more than 100,000 customers without power. The winds that had gusted up to 80 mph on Saturday had died down, and temperatures climbed into the upper teens and 20s as people...

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!