The Update with Brandon Julien

On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, congratulations. You survived. 😭 Facebook and it's Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services, and the businesses and people who rely on them, into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change." In Times Square, police say a man was shot in the l...

On #TheUpdate this Monday, teachers and other school staff members are supposed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when school starts today in New York City. Mayor De Blasio has warned that unvaccinated school staffers will not be allowed to work. Syracuse University has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by five female faculty members who claimed they were paid less than t...

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, the New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the NYPD, saying that they're illegally keeping the vast majority of officer disciplinary records out of public view. Teachers that are opposed to New York City's vaccine mandate for public school teachers and other staff have filed a petition with the U.S Supreme Court seeking an emergency injunction th...

On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Macy's has filed a lawsuit against the company that owns the giant billboard next to it's flagship Manhattan store, fighting to prevent Amazon from taking over the advertising space that carried Macy's name for almost 60 years. There had been a restrictive covenant in place since 1963 barring the billboard space from being used by any Macy's competitor. The hit...

On Wednesday's late edition of #TheUpdate, is it really god's will for you to get the vaccine? A lawyer for a group trying to preserve a religious exemption for health care workers says that Governor Hochul is unjustly using God's name to try to nudge employers into ignoring court orders allowing the exemption. She's encouraging religious-minded people to get a vaccine by saying it's God's will. T...

On Tuesday's edition of The Update, R. Kelly is guilty as charged. He now faces the possibility of decades in prison after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking. A jury found him guilty after a trial in which several accusers testified he subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage. A judge has now barred NYPD officers from accessing sealed arrest records wi...

On The Update this Monday, mourners payed their respects to Gabby Petito, whose death on a cross-country trip has sparked a manhunt for her boyfriend. Family members, friends, co-workers and people who didn't know her but we're touched by Petitio's story attending the viewing. New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by...

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 The Update this Friday, hospitals and nursing homes in New York are bracing for the possibility that a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers could lead to staff shortages. With a Monday deadline, some hospitals and nursing homes were preparing contingency plans that included cutting back on elective surgeries and trimming medical services. We're gonna take a closer look the...

On The Update this Thursday, as residents across the northeast continue to recover from the catastrophic flooding from recent storms, they're being hit with another unexpected blow: without flood coverage, their homeowners and renters insurance won't cover their losses, and many wonder how they'll come up with the money to repair homes and replace belongings. A new smartphone app being rolled out...

On The Update this Wednesday, former President Trump is suing his estranged niece and The New York Times over a bombshell 2018 story about his family's wealth and tax practices that was based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper's reporters. In Yonkers, police say a distraught man jumped off the roof of an apartment building, landing on another man 12 stories below, and killing...

On The Update this Tuesday, authorities say an inmate had died at the Rikers Island complex, bringing the death toll to 11 this year. Mayor De Blasio says that the city will begin conducting weekly, random COVID tests of unvaccinated students in an attempt to more quickly spot outbreaks in classrooms. And President Biden plans to use his first address before the U.N General Assembly to reassure th...

On Monday's edition of The Update, we're learning new details have emerged from the brawl outside a popular city restaurant between several out-of-town visitors and an employee over the restaurant's requirement that the guests show proof of vaccination. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, prosecutors inched closer to concluding their case, calling two final witnesses to try to further cement al...

On The Update this Friday, the Rikers Island jail complex has been troubled by years of neglect, and now had spiraled into turmoil during the pandemic. One jail watchdog calls it "a complete breakdown in the operation of the jails." This week, hundreds of birds migrating through New York City have died after crashing into the city's glass towers. It was particularly high, but bird strikes into Man...

On The Update this Tuesday, big brother is now watching all across the MTA. All 472 subway stations are now equipped with security cameras. The MTA announced that it had installed the last of thousands of cameras at the Broadway station on the G line. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, his longtime assistant testified that the R&B superstar was so paranoid, he once asked her to change into a r...

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 The Update this Monday, it's an important day all across New York City. Classroom doors are swinging open for about a million public school students in the nation's largest experiment of in-person learning during the pandemic. It comes as nearly all of the city's employees will be required to be back in their physical workplaces, and the city was also set to start enforcing the rules requiring...

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!