The Update with Brandon Julien: Recent Episodes
The Update with Brandon Julien
New York is a city full of stories. On The Update with Brandon Julien, we just happen to have many of them. Wherever you may be or however you may listen to us, get caught up on everything that you need to know because anything can happen in New York. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
They cracked the case. Kids exposed to peanut products during infancy, as early as 4 months old, are less likely to be allergic to peanuts later in life, according to a UK study published in the journal NEJM Evidence. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New Yorkers who live in the 1 million rent-regulated apartments across the Big Apple can expect a rent hike in the fall following a vote that drew protests — and arrests. Mayor Adams said that the Big Apple is ready for its first heat wave of the year — but reminded city dwellers to prepare for a string of steamy days that could push the heat index up to nearly 100 degrees. And in Washington, President Biden is taking an expansive, election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. — aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Tweens and teens have always used language and phrases that push boundaries and set them apart from ‘elders.’ Thankfully Louise Boyce, an author and award-winning content creator has your back. The funny mom-of-three shared a helpful Instagram reel translating a bizarre selection of tween phrases and words. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Gov. Hochul said Thursday that she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system due to concerns about people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts. One person was shot in Long Beach on Long Island as a massive, rowdy crowd of teenagers overtook the beach during “senior skip day,” according to police sources. And in Washington, The Supreme Court unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
Skim, coconut, cashew, almond, oat, soy — store shelves are rich with milk options these days. Now, a registered dietitian is naming which ones have the most legen-dairy health benefits — cow’s milk and soy milk. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, a heavily armed Queens man who has shared extreme Jihadist views online was busted in his “ghost car”– with sources saying they feared the nut was planning something “very bad.” An accused slasher nicknamed “Bad Bitch” was nabbed for fatally slicing a mother of three in the throat during a wild brawl in the Bronx, officials said. And in the weather world, A tropical disturbance has brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida as residents prepared to weather more heavy rainfall today and tomorrow.
Some choco-holics are taking Hershey’s to court. Four people in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit against The Hershey Company, claiming Reese’s misrepresents what’s actually inside. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a knife-wielding menace who was harassing a Midtown hotdog vendor was shot by a witness who intervened in the confrontation, according to police and sources. The hot dog news from Coney Island is hard to swallow. Joey Chestnut, perennial winner of the annual July 4th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Competition, is out of this year’s beef barf over a deal he made to represent a different weiner brand. And in Delaware, he's guilty, guilty, guilty. Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime after a federal jury found him guilty of three counts related to lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.
Don’t even go there. The United States has renewed its “Do not travel” warning for Venezuela, urging American travelers to understand that their government “has no ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens” who run into trouble. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, An innocent 84-year-old woman was shot while sitting in her walker on a Brooklyn street corner. New York teenagers will no longer need to pass Regents exams in order to receive their high school diploma under a new plan unveiled by the state Education Department. And in the American west in Arizona, Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and Donald Trump attorney, was processed in the criminal case over the effort to overturn Trump’s Arizona election loss to Joe Biden, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said.
Restaurant Brands International-owned Burger King is launching its own $5 meal deal ahead of McDonald’s, Bloomberg News reported, citing an internal memo, as burger wars heat up. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, The National Puerto Rican Day Parade descended on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in what organizers said was the “largest demonstration of cultural pride” in the United States. A middle school rite of passage is no more for the students of one Long Island town after school officials had the bathrooms fitted with “vape detectors.” And in Delaware, the criminal trial of President Biden’s son heads into its final stretch as the defense tries to chip away at prosecutors’ case laying bare some of the darkest moments of Hunter Biden’s drug-fueled past.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Do you want to party like a Kardashian? While you may not get all the glitz and glamour of their A-list lifestyle, the family’s personal party planner has shared how the reality TV royalty pulls off their kids’ extravagant parties — and gave a few tips for parents to plan their own. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann kept a stomach-churning “planning document” mapping out his grisly slayings — which even included a chilling “Things to Remember” section and a morbid “Lessons Learned” section, officials revealed. Big Apple parents will be issued information on how to safely store guns at home, city officials announced— less than a week after a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot by his younger cousin with a gun they found in a bedroom. And in Delaware, Federal prosecutors are wrapping up their gun case against Hunter Biden, with two more witnesses expected Friday in their effort to prove to jurors that the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he wasn’t “an unlawful user of, or addicted to” drugs.
Your nightly routine of social media scrolling could be deadly — to your love life, at least. Known as “parallel scrolling,” the habit of silently swiping on your phone while laying next to your partner could be a death sentence for your relationship, experts say. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Governor Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation’s first “congestion pricing” system just weeks before it was set to launch. Meanwhile, Everyday New Yorkers bid good riddance to congestion pricing after the shock announcement that she’ll indefinitely pause the detested toll program. It’s a slithery mystery. A 5-foot-long snake was trying to get inside an Upper West Side apartment— and no one’s sure where it came from, cops and the man who found it said. And overseas, as the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it rose again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ago, kicking off intense anniversary commemorations against the backdrop of renewed war in Europe, in Ukraine.
It’s the cream of the crop. Dietitians are sharing the health benefits of Greek yogurt and revealing how to select the most nutritious ones on the heels of a new report that says the global Greek yogurt market is expected to nearly double from $31.5 billion in 2023 to $60.4 billion in 2031. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, shootings and murders have spiked so far this year in the Brooklyn neighborhood where two young girls were hit by stray bullets while playing in a park, police crime stats show. His days poaching a Brooklyn landlord are finally over. Ex-Food Network reality star-turned-squatter Madison Cowen has vacated his Boerum Hill apartment — but not after relying on soft eviction laws to avoid more than $145,000 in rent payments the past four-and-a-half years. And in Washington, President Biden unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.
Shorely you can’t be serious. Just in time for summer, a board-certified Houston dermatologist is sharing five skincare no-nos for the summer. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Two NYPD officers and a 19-year-old man were shot and wounded during a confrontation and were hospitalized, officials said. Mayor Adams said one of the officers was saved by his bullet-resistant vest. Busting to go in the Big Apple? Some relief is on the way. New York City is not only getting more public toilets, but making them easier to locate using your smartphone. And in the American West, parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures forecast for areas including Phoenix, which last summer saw a record 31 straight days of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s not punch bowls and cheap corsages anymore. Booker T. Washington High School students transformed their Miami, Florida prom into a real-life Cinderella moment and their soiree is being compared to the Met Gala thanks to their incredibly elaborate fashions. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the annual Israel Day Parade hit midtown Sunday with a massive show of support for the Jewish state amid heavy NYPD security — as marchers repeatedly called for Hamas terrorists to release Israeli hostages. The New York Blood Center has issued a blood emergency, as hospitals scramble to fill their blood banks. And in Delaware, jury selection is to begin today in a federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter after the collapse of a deal with prosecutors that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 election.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
The weather is warming up, and one surprising dessert trend will be keeping everyone cool this summer. According to the Pinterest Summer Trends Report, the upcoming season will see lots of bold and inventive twists on everything from summer foods to how we gather with friends. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Donald Trump became the first former US president to be convicted of felony criminal charges. The real estate mogul, former commander-in-chief and presumptive Republican 2024 presidential nominee was found guilty on all counts by a jury of 12 Manhattanites in the unprecedented criminal prosecution of an ex-president. Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling for a ban on kids using smartphones in school — the latest in a campaign against technology she feels is harming New York’s children. And a Connecticut state trooper was killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate highway, officials said.
Working remotely really is all fun and games. Young people in Toronto are logging onto their jobs from a local Chuck E. Cheese to offset days of meetings and memos with pizza and silly arcade games. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, a nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” during a speech accepting an award. A maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school while allegedly yelling “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking antisemitic attack. And in Decision 2024, President Biden declared his opponent, former President Donald Trump, a racist while kicking off his campaign to woo black voters — as polls show the prez’s support plummeting among the crucial bloc.
The Living Room at the Arlo SoHo hotel is completely booked as people gather for a session of group therapy — sort of. A new comedy show offering “therapy” for under $25 is selling out in New York City, hosted by “untrained professionals” Karolena Theresa and Melissa Rich. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s campaign showed up outside former President Donald Trump’s New York City criminal hush money trial with actor Robert De Niro and a pair of former police officers in an effort to refocus the presidential race on the former president’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. Anti-Israel criminals caused at least $3 million in damage and the need for costly extra security at taxpayer-funded City College’s campus in Upper Manhattan during their violent protests there, officials say. And in the American West, A former California water official has pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal water in a deal with federal prosecutors in the state’s crop-rich Central Valley.
This pin might make you an easy target. Many people have difficulty selecting and remembering a passcode, especially when it involves four-digit pins. A new cybersecurity study revealed the most popular pins people use that could result in your account being hacked. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, The crazed man who allegedly torched a straphanger on a subway train over the weekend gave a vacant grimace in Manhattan court as a judge set his bail at $250,000 — and prosecutors revealed he’s an ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet. Social media is driving an over-the-top trend for graduating high-schoolers — outlandish “promposals’’ featuring everything from a Yankee Stadium marquee to the Empire State Building. Also, prosecutors and defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are set to deliver closing arguments to the jury, each side looking to score final points with the panel before it starts deliberating the fate of the first former American president to be charged with felony crimes.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
There’s a scientific reason why some things taste great on your flight and why others are just plane awful. Ginger ale is one of the most popular drinks to order on an airplane, according to social media users, and it has to do with the way your taste buds are altered during your flight, experts told Health. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Former President Donald Trump promised to “make New York City great again” during a raucous rally in the South Bronx, his first major campaign event in the state of his birth since 2016. An obnoxious street-racing influencer was finally arrested after he filmed a series of videos taunting cops in high-speed stunts with expensive cars across New York City and New Jersey, cops said. And in Washington, The Supreme Court's conservative majority preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district discriminated against Black voters.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
So you’ve downed a whole pack of tic tacs but still have bad breath? A few things could be to blame, according to experts. However, bad breath that doesn’t go away, called chronic halitosis, could be an indicator that something else is going on with your health, according to the Cleveland Clinic. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, cops scouring the Long Island home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann are using body parts from potentially other victims to try to tie him to those murders, too, police sources say. The city will distribute free OMNY Cards instead of MetroCards to the city’s 1.1 million public school students next year, part of a push by the MTA to get more transit riders using the tap-and-go fare payment system. And in the Midwest, multiple people were killed when a tornado tore through a small town in Iowa and left a wide swath of obliterated homes and crumpled cars, while the howling winds also twisted and toppled wind turbines.
They took spring fling to a whole new level. A video of a couple appearing to have sex in Manhattan’s bustling Battery Park has sparked outrage, with some calling for the perverted pair to be slapped with charges of public indecency. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, An NYPD officer accidentally fired his gun while storming Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall during the operation to oust anti-Israel protesters who illegally took over the building, according to police sources. A tanker truck filled to the brim with gasoline slammed into a tractor-trailer and burst into a blazing fireball on Interstate 95 in Connecticut — melting an overpass that will now be demolished. And the mystery of the Titan submersible implosion may soon be solved. The five people who perished aboard the OceanGate vessel as it plunged thousands of feet below sea level could have been victims of “micro-buckling,” a new study suggests.
For the sake of your blood vessels, don’t B negative. Blowing a fuse after recalling a stressful experience may temporarily impair your blood vessels’ ability to relax, which is essential for proper blood flow, according to a study published recently. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, The NYPD cleared out a short-lived anti-Israel encampment at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus at the request of the school, authorities said. The Big Apple’s so-called “worst landlord” Daniel Ohebshaolm has been indicted for allegedly harassing rent-regulated tenants with “unlivable” conditions to drive them out of units so he could sell the buildings to make a buck, prosecutors said. And in the American west, The Arizona Senate voted to repeal an 1864 law that outlawed almost all abortions in the state – and made no exception for cases of rape or incest.
Oreo has released a new cookie flavor — and fans have had a sour reaction toward the unconventional collab. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Officers took protesters into custody late Tuesday after Columbia University called in police to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on the New York campus. The feds saw right through this scam. A gang of credit card fraudsters were charging thousands of dollars on stolen accounts — to buy high-end eyeglasses they peddled at a profit, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. And in Washington, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
There are empty cups and empty hearts. McDonald’s customers are bidding a bitter farewell to free drink refills, one of the latest casualties from the brand already facing an identity crisis over extreme prices. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the FDNY firefighter who almost died while battling a Bronx house fire was released from the hospital to a rousing round of applause from fellow first responders. The teen shooter who fatally gunned down a 16-year-old “peacemaker” in Soho rode to the killing in a Citi Bike basket and was identified in part by his distinctive Air Jordans, according to court documents. And overseas, Iran’s hardliner President Ebrahim Raisi was killed after a helicopter carrying the reviled leader known as the “Butcher of Tehran” crashed in a remote region of the country Sunday, state media reported.
This ride was too cool to function. The world’s tallest and fastest triple-launch rollercoaster was forced to shut down indefinitely just days after its grand opening. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Return ticket, please! New York City Transit President Richard Davey is reportedly fleeing the Big Apple after barely lasting two years in the top job, which sources told The New York Post left him “frustrated.” The Macy’s Fourth of July show was moved to the East River nearly 10 years ago with officials saying more New Yorkers could see them, but as that chapter in the turf war comes to a close not everyone on Team East is sad to see the fireworks go. And in Florida, The Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus, killing eight, on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter.
Brrrrring on the hypothermia? Cold plunges are all the rage — Scheana Shay, 39, was spotted slipping into a backyard tub on the latest season of “Vanderpump Rules” and Courteney Cox, 59, revealed her love of frigid baths — but there are some health risks you should know about before taking the plunge. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, An SUV driver fleeing from police slammed into a 71-year-old woman, killing her, as she was crossing a street with her daughter in Brooklyn, according to witnesses and police sources. Donald Trump’s bid for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels’ salacious testimony was denied by the judge overseeing his Manhattan hush money trial. And in the American West, Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after they were swept up and buried in an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms, authorities said.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
It’s a Sirius problem. A crime scene specialist is probing the forensics behind how a murder could be investigated in outer space — something he says is “inevitable” in the coming years by way of space tourism. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Michael Cohen testified Monday that Donald Trump ordered him to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to silence a sex scandal — in key testimony for the prosecution that hinges on whether jurors will believe the convicted felon. In the federal corruption case against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, not a single juror was chosen. And in Baltimore, Crews set off a chain of carefully placed explosives Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and with a boom and a splash, the mangled steel trusses came crashing down into the river below.
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
He’s no longer pleading the fifth. A travel expert is sharing his hack for cheaper airfares, saying fifth freedom flights can often offer more bang for your buck. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, the NYPD removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman. New York would expand access to booze by allowing movie theaters to sell liquor and continuing to let people buy takeout cocktails from bars and restaurants under a series of measures unveiled. And in Washington, House Speaker Mike Johnson conceded that he doesn’t have the votes needed to defang a possible motion to oust him from power after tensions flared with GOP hardliners on the chamber floor.
They’re getting all dolled up. More makeup lovers are toying with flushed cheeks, luminous highlights and a complexion so flawless it looks airbrushed, in a trend fashionistas have dubbed “doll makeup.” The babyfaced aesthetic began on the runway before spilling onto social media and the streets of the Big Apple. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New Jersey is expected to get a cut of the controversial proposed $15 daily congestion toll to drive through swaths of Manhattan, the head of the MTA revealed. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife were allegedly filmed beating up their teenage daughter by her boyfriend — who the parents had “disapproved of,”. And in Washington, the Senate ended the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, making him the second Cabinet official in history to evade a conviction and removal from office — but the first to be acquitted without evidence being presented of alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
This one’s a brush job. After years of being told to spit and rinse, Americans are now being told merely to spit, as dental experts pour water on the notion of swish-swishing after attending to our pearly whites. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Gov. Hochul announced the framework of a $237 billion budget that includes broad plans to drive new housing construction, address the influx of migrants and crack down on illegal marijuana shops. An old school Upper East Side building that housed Anthony Bourdain’s favorite Big Apple hot dog stand will be bulldozed to make way for luxury condos – leaving longtime residents red hot. And the historic hush money trial of Donald Trump got underway with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his sex life.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
A furious job applicant was in disbelief after he learned during an interview he would be paid $12 an hour for a T.J. Maxx position. The man, whose full name was not disclosed but went by @sobeatmyass, took to social media in front of 362,000 viewers saying he was “not taking that f—king job,” on TikTok. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, fresh from a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump visited a Harlem bodega where a man was stabbed to death, a stark pivot for the former president as he juggles being a criminal defendant and the Republican challenger intent on blaming President Biden for crime. In Queens, the NYPD clashed with migrant vendors and confiscated their apparently stolen merchandise on a troubled Jackson Heights block known for its illicit open-air market and hookers on the prowl. And Senator Bob Menendez may seek exoneration at his May bribery trial by blaming his wife, saying she kept him in the dark about anything that could be illegal about her dealings with New Jersey businessmen, according to court papers that were unsealed.
Gen Z might just be talking smack about you behind your back — or right to your face. But you’d be none the wiser, as the slang-savvy generation has adapted lingo only found in video games into their ever-expanding lexicon. In a TikTok video with 1.5 million views, Harvard-educated linguistics expert Adam Aleksic likened the rise of gaming terms to that of commonly used sports metaphors. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Two NYPD officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick inside his Bronx apartment five years ago will not face internal discipline in a announcement by NYPD commissioner Edward Caban. Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93. And in Washington, Saturday’s attacks on Israel created new questions about replenishing aid to war-torn Ukraine after months of tumultuous Republican infighting.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of Year 5 of The Update. When we first started this then-show at WKRB in 2017, the first year had a lot of things going on. Donald Trump's first year in office, mass shootings worldwide, and the Great American Solar Eclipse to name just a few. In Year 5, it was more of the same. There was the Russian war in Ukraine, more mass shootings in America, and the overturning of Roe V. Wade to name just a few that we'll mention. But also, after more than two years out on the road, we made our way to a new studio at UD Team in the summer of 2022. Oh, and one last thing- be on the lookout for some WKRB highlights as we looked back on five years of memories.
Do you love that chicken from Popeyes but on a diet? A New Jersey personal trainer and nutritionist is sharing how to make a meal at the national chicken chain for less than 500 calories. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a man was arrested for allegedly taking a decommissioned New York City fireboat for an overnight cruise on the Hudson River, before becoming stuck, jumping ship and stealing another vessel, according to the NYPD. A New York City Council member wants to “beautify” the Big Apple’s concrete medians by adding greenery, claiming the new plants will help curb flooding during storms. And we're remembering O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America. He's died at the age of 76.
The customer nose best. McDonald’s restaurants in the Netherlands have debuted a revolutionary way to turn consumers on to their iconic burgers and fries — by launching the “world’s first billboard” that smells like their food. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New Jersey has been hit by more than 45 aftershocks following last week’s 4.8-magnitude earthquake — including one that rattled the Garden State yesterday morning. There’s no way around it! New Jersey commuters will be shelling out a lot more to come into Manhattan — whether by train, bus or car — starting this summer. And in Philadelphia, a joyful celebration of the end of Ramadan devolved into panic after rival groups exchanged gunfire, leaving at least three people injured and hundreds of parents and children to flee in search of safety.
That was some show in the sky, wasn't it? In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, A witch, a time traveler and an alien-enthusiast walked into Washington Square Park for an otherwise typical day in Manhattan on Monday — save for the solar eclipse that happened to be cresting overhead. More than 7,000 people gathered at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery for a viewing party as they watched the sun disappear from the sky above while the dead slumbered below. And in Cleveland, Pregame festivities for the Guardians’ home opener were ceremonial and celestial. Elsewhere, a stranger stabbed another man in the head with a screwdriver on board a Bronx MTA bus Monday afternoon when he flew into a rage because the victim was playing drums on his lap, according to cops and law enforcement sources. And in Washington, President Biden has received criticism from Democrats and Republicans this week over his response to an Israeli airstrike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, a rare earthquake rocked the New York City area Friday, swaying buildings and sending terrified residents into the streets — the strongest temblor to strike near the Big Apple in 140 years. The NYPD is unleashing barnacles to battle parking pirates. The department this week said it will begin using “windshield boots” — a 17-pound device that attaches to a vehicle’s windshield like a barnacle and remains there until a scofflaw pays their tickets — on illegally parked trucks. And eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route. North America won’t see another coast-to-coast total solar eclipse for 21 years, prompting the weekend’s worry and mad rush. 🌞🌕
Beaches are a place of relaxation, fun and, in some cases, strange laws. Some beaches around the United States have more specific laws for visitors to keep in mind. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, the New York City Marathon organizers will soon have to pay a bridge toll, just like every other commuter, if New York transit officials have their way. The hotly contested issue of whether New York’s $15 congestion toll should go forward is hitting a federal courtroom this week as New Jersey seeks to block the measure. And in the American west, a former Tacoma police officer who was hired as a sheriff’s deputy in a neighboring county — despite his involvement in the violent fatal arrest of Manuel Ellis in 2020 — has resigned his new job after just two days.
Fast food just got even faster. It seems that an increasing number of fast food outlets are imposing limits on how long patrons have to gobble their burgers and fries. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, An innocent bystander was shot dead inside a Bronx bodega by a gunman who was trying to rob someone else, according to cops and law enforcement sources. A former police officer who prosecutors say was the ringleader of a campaign donations scheme to help Mayor Adams during his winning 2021 run was sentenced. And a South Carolina senator said the elected state treasurer has breached the public trust after lawmakers didn’t get much clarity Tuesday about how $1.8 billion moved through a state bank account over the past decade — without anyone knowing where it came from or was supposed to go. 💵
As the moon passes between the Earth and the sun Monday, Andrew Bazos will be cruising at 17,000ft, rosé in hand, having dropped $2,000 to watch the solar eclipse from a private plane’s window. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, A procession of New York Police Department officers, on foot and driving motorcycles, escorted the remains of their slain colleague, Jonathan Diller, to a Long Island church for his funeral service. Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse. And Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Almost nine in 10 Americans believe that karma is real. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults which revealed that 84% buy into the idea that what goes around comes around. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district. Transit authorities approved the pricing plan, authorizing a $15 toll for most motorists entering a zone that's south of Manhattan's Central Park during the day. Former President Trump is planning to attend the wake for a NYPD officer Jonathan Diller who was fatally shot during a traffic stop. And in the latest details in the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore, the U.S. Coast Guard says the cargo ship that crashed into and collapsed the bridge underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand. Meanwhile, a debate has emerged over whether modern safety protections could have saved the bridge after it was struck. 🚢🌉
Talk about last licks. The Yankees unveiled the stadium’s newest food options for the 2024 season, and paisans are batting cleanup by way of Food Network personality and Bronx native Christian Petroni’s crispy fried meatballs. In the headlines on #Theupdate this Wednesday, we had the latest details in the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse. Six workers are missing and are presumed dead. Authorities have suspended the search for them until daylight today. Locally, a man accused of fatally shoving another person into the path of an oncoming subway train has been described by his mother and officials as experiencing mental health issues. The death revived discussion about how the city should respond to people experiencing mental health crises within the transit system. And in the American west in Los Angeles, a lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs says the search of his properties in Miami and Los Angeles were “a gross use of military-level force.”
It’s handy to know what your iPhone is doing to your digits. Techies and smartphone users fear that their mobile devices, when pressing down on their pinky during normal phone use, are leaving a mark or indentation on the pinky — otherwise known as “iPhone finger.” In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, at the time that we recorded the show, there was an ongoing developing situation in Baltimore. A container ship has rammed into the Francis Scott Key bridge, causing it to snap in a few places and plunge into the river below. Several vehicles fell into the chilly waters, and rescuers were initially searching for at least seven people. Locally, NYPD officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed during a traffic stop, the city’s mayor said. Mayor Adams announced the slaying to reporters at a hospital in Queens. And in Washington, The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions last year.
It’s not always smooth sailing on the high seas. According to Lucy Southerton, who has worked on a cruise ship for nearly a decade, there are some annoying things passengers do that irk crew members. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Law enforcement officials say they found nearly 30 pounds of cocaine and $3 million in cash stashed in secret compartments throughout a Bronx apartment used by a major cocaine distributor. Hardy souls across New England were spending their Sunday shoveling out after a major storm dumped more than two feet of snow in some areas, causing multiple road accidents, downing power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands across the Northeast waiting for their electricity to be restored. And overseas in Russia, three of the four suspects charged with carrying out the concert hall attack in Moscow that killed more than 130 people have admitted guilt for the incident in a Russian court. Meanwhile, The attack on a Moscow-area concert hall that killed scores of people has dealt a major blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough guy who is able to defend Russia from all threats.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
He’ll stop the world and melt with you. A Cincinnati Reds fan is being outed as a man who “consumes over 20 gallons of liquid cheese in a year!” In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez says he will not run in the Democratic primary as he faces federal corruption charges, but he is leaving open the possibility that he would reenter the race as an independent later this year if he is exonerated at a trial. Cheating on your spouse is illegal in New York, but the state might soon change that. A bill working its way through the New York Legislature could repeal a more than a century-old law that makes adultery a crime. And in Washington, the Justice Department announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high. 📱
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
A healthy level of physical intimacy is an important foundation in most romantic relationships, with sexual exploration often being the gateway to a deeper sense of connection and trust. According to a new study by Superdrug Online Doctor, most couples are unfamiliar with — and a little intimidated by — many aspects of intimacy. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, A NYPD officer once charged with spying for China says he is fighting the commissioner's decision to fire him. The chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Sam Bankman-Fried founded attacked the onetime crypto power player in a letter to a federal judge, saying his claim that customers, lenders and investors were not harmed was callously false. And in Decision 2024, an attorney for Donald Trump says he’s optimistic an appellate review will lead to the Georgia 2020 election interference case against him being dismissed and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis being disqualified.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
They’re giving emojis a thumbs down. Gen Xers and baby boomers understand the meanings behind the digital icons, but they are not confident in their ability to use them, a new study from the University of Ottawa has found. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams has been accused in a new lawsuit of sexually assaulting a police colleague seeking his career help in 1993. According to the suit, Adams drove the woman to a vacant lot, then offered to use his police connections to help her if she performed oral sex on him. New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished. And in Washington, The Supreme Court seems likely to side with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security. 👨🏽⚖️
What exactly the cluck? Chick-fil-A has gone from regional fast food curiosity to national staple in a matter of years for good reason — but the chicken sandwich slinger may need an intervention on the heels of this latest news: It’s about to start selling pizza. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, The United States' largest St. Patrick's Day parades unfolded. While the St. Patrick's Day holiday is March 17, many major events shifted to Saturday this year. Prosecutors say a man who shot and critically wounded another man on a the A train will not immediately be charged with a crime while prosecutors investigate whether the shooter acted justifiably in self-defense. And in Decision 2024, Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio. 🗳️
So, you had a few too many and now you’re left with a pounding headache and unrelenting anxiety. Often referred to as “hangxiety” — the one-two punch of anxiety coupled with the physical consequences of drinking alcohol — that pit-in-your-stomach unease the morning after drinking isn’t all in your head. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a man was shot multiple times and left critically wounded on a A train as it arrived at a Brooklyn station, panicking rush hour passengers. “Duty, Honor, Country” has been the motto of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for 126 years. The motto isn’t changing, but a decision to take those words out of the school’s lesser-known mission statement is generating outrage. And in Michigan, the father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. It’s the second jury conviction against Ethan Crumbley’s parents, who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to solve his mental health problems. 👨🏽⚖️⚖️
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Do better, Dave. Wendy’s has whipped up yet another social media storm with the announcement of a new orange creamsicle-flavored Frosty, available at US locations from Mar. 19 — but fans are demanding more than just a taste of the vast variety of sweet treats available exclusively overseas. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, a judge has acquitted a New York state trooper who was charged with manslaughter after shooting an unarmed motorist to death following a high-speed chase. “Pics, or it didn't happen” has been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place. But we're now in a world where the spread of technology makes photo manipulation as easy as a button on your phone. And in Oklahoma, the death of a nonbinary high school student the day after a fight inside a high school restroom has been ruled a suicide by the state medical examiner's office.
According to new research, it shows that walking 5,000 steps three times per week for two years could add three years to a person’s life expectancy and decrease their healthcare costs by up to 13%. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a Brooklyn preacher known for his flashy lifestyle and who boasted of his friendship with Mayor Eric Adams has been found guilty in federal court of wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the FBI. Officials in New York are cracking down on vehicles using altered or forged license plates to avoid paying tolls and tickets. And the road to the White House continues as President Biden has formally clinched a second straight Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, Donald Trump stands on the brink of unofficially securing the Republican presidential nomination for a third time after winning primaries in Georgia and Mississippi and with additional votes being cast in Washington and Hawaii. 🗳️
Does valet parking and VIP seating come with this, too? An uproar over a pricey bacon cheeseburger and fries at Five Guys is causing a stir on social media, baffling many over why the combo cost a customer nearly $25. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Senator Bob Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty to new obstruction of justice charges in a New York court. A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns over potential disciplinary actions against some of its members after a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week. And in Massachusetts, a town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and other tobacco products. 🚭🔞
The whole point of a trip to Costco or Sam’s Club (or BJ’s, okay, we see you too) on a lazy weekend afternoon is to eat as many of the free samples as possible — right? But do we have to behave like animals? It’s one bite of free food, people. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, A federal appeals court has reinstated bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin. Parents are keenly aware of the distractions and the mental health issues associated with smartphones and social media, but teachers say they might not realize how much those struggles play out at school. And in the American west in Los Angeles, “Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowed best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan. 🏆
Apparently, Six feet tall, a six-pack and a six-figure salary. That’s seemingly the bare minimum men must possess to impress ambitious single women in New York City, where many are also hoping their date is endowed with a trust fund, an Ivy League degree and a summer house in the Hamptons. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Several New York City employees have been arrested for their alleged role in a scheme to steal the identities of homeless shelter residents and defraud a pandemic-era relief program. Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you’ve come from your modest but mighty days protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy cobblestones of Boston. And in Washington, President Joe Biden turned his State of the Union speech into an animated argument for a second term as he laces into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Half of men feel pressured to be “manly,” according to new research. A survey of 2,000 men, half of whom are sexually active, found that 50% feel under pressure to perform masculinity and eight in 10 agree that there is a societal pressure for men to behave a certain way. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, before President Biden delivers the State Of The Union address, Gov. Hochul is sending 750 members of the National Guard and 250 state troopers and transit officers to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. Four people have been charged with concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with the discovery of body parts in parks on Long Island. And in the American west, A jury has convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.”
Jalapeño peppers are growing less spicy — and it’s getting food lovers hot. X users erupted over the “diabolical” revelation Tuesday, with many pointing fingers at the corporate-ification of agriculture. 🌶️In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a former producer of raw milk cheese has pleaded guilty to charges related to a deadly outbreak of listeria. Six people have been arrested in New York on charges of illegally importing goose and duck intestines from China. And in Decision 2024, President Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are dominating coast-to-coast contests on Super Tuesday. Meanwhile, Jason Palmer, a previously unknown candidate, won the Democratic caucus in American Samoa.
It’s quite literally a rain check. The InterContinental Singapore is offering a voucher for a one-night stay to guests whose planned activities get rained out. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Super Tuesday, A New York man was convicted for killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name. Mournful fans of Flaco the Eurasion eagle-owl have gathered in New York City to say goodbye to the beloved celebrity creature who became an inspiration and joy to many as he flew around Manhattan after he was let out of his zoo enclosure. And Donald Trump says the Supreme Court opinion unanimously restoring him to 2024 presidential primary ballots is a “BIG WIN" for America.
Apparently, “The Simpsons” may have foretold this epic event fudging. While kids were left crying and furious parents demanded refunds from “Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Experience,” some social media pundits proclaimed that “The Simpson” predicted the fiasco all along. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Mayor Eric Adams is standing by a longtime adviser whose properties were raided by the FBI last week. He's also shrugging off concerns about the mounting federal probes into members of his inner circle. We'll learn the secret of Hoboken, New Jersey, which recently marked seven consecutive years without a traffic death. And in Decision 2024, Nikki Haley has won the District of Columbia’s Republican primary. It’s her first victory over Donald Trump in the GOP primary race.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Could this be the ice-cold truth? A former cruise singer is explaining the eerie reason why cruise lines have free ice cream parties for passengers on board. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, the great public debate over congestion pricing begins. Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan. Is forking over another $15 enough to get people out of their cars and onto mass transit? That’s the hope among some New York officials. Morning commutes on the A line were severely delayed Thursday after a train conductor was slashed in the neck, with transit officials blaming union members for disrupting service as they demanded safer working conditions. And in Washington, Congress has passed another short-term spending measure that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22.
Apparently, men are tough nuts to crack when it comes to their dating preferences. Fussy fellas are sharing their relationship deal breakers in a revealing Reddit thread —with multiple males ruling out a woman who won’t eat peanut butter. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this leap day Thursday, Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer says a recommended sentence of 100 years in prison for the FTX founder is “grotesque” and “barbaric” for cryptocurrency crimes. Authorities say a mafia member has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for his role in a long-running scheme extorting funds from a New York City labor union. And it's the end of an era in Washington as Mitch McConnell says he'll step down as Senate Republican leader in November. The 82-year-old Kentucky lawmaker is the longest-serving Senate leader in history.
It's our 7 year anniversary- thanks for supporting us all this time. Keep your bougie meals — Americans would rather eat comfort food than fine dining for the rest of their lives. At least, that’s according to a new poll. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, A Queens furniture store that had been illegally converted into sleeping quarters for more than 40 migrants has been shut down by city officials. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams is calling for expanded cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Two men have been convicted of murder in the death of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ending the ride of the brazen 2002 shooting left investigators at a loss for nearly two decades. And in Decision 2024, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have won the Michigan primaries, further solidifying the all-but-certain rematch between the two men. Still, the results are highlighting some of their biggest political vulnerabilities ahead of the November general election.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We're looking back at some of the funniest stories and best moments from Year 6 of the program. In the headlines on the season finale of #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the NYPD have identified three suspects in the killing of a man on a subway car last week: Justin Herde, Betty Cotto and Alfredo Trinidad in the killing of William Alvarez. A prosecutor accused a Brooklyn preacher at the start of a New York fraud trial of telling lies and exaggerating his access to the city's mayor to try to make millions of dollars before his lawyer countered that the evidence will come up short. And February’s end is bringing wild weather to much of the United States. The Northwest is being hit with snow even as the Midwest gets a taste of summer. 🌞❄️
According to one expert with a pondload of first-hand experience, taking a bracing swim in the great outdoors could be just the thing to help you cope with your anxiety. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, FDNY officials say a lithium ion battery sparked a fire that killed one person and injured 17 others at an apartment building. In Connecticut, nearly four months after a judge tossed out the results of a Democratic mayoral primary in their largest city and ordered a new election, the race remains in limbo. And in Decision 2024, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says it’s not “the end of our story” despite Donald Trump’s easy primary victory in South Carolina.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Tissues, coins, bank cards, phones — we are all guilty of putting something through the washing machine that we regret. But one Australian man was put into a spin after he almost lost $1.8 million when he forgot to take his division one winning Lotto ticket out of his trouser pockets.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this getaway Friday, A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a deadly rush hour shooting at a New York City subway station earlier this week. The U.S. Marshals Service says the teen is one of three suspects wanted for Monday's shooting. A man who succeeded in using a New York City housing law to live rent-free in an iconic hotel has been charged with fraud after he claimed to own it. Manhattan prosecutors charged Mickey Barreto with fraud and contempt, including filing false property records. And find out what would it mean if Russia used nuclear warheads to destroy U.S. satellites.
Do you need a cup of courage before popping the question? You’re in luck because there’s plenty to drink in the famed wine region of Mendoza, Argentina. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube. In their lawsuit, they blame the social media platforms for fueling a childhood mental health crisis that is disrupting learning and draining resources. A man convicted for a 2015 killing in western New York has been freed and his indictment has been dismissed, solely because he was held at the wrong prison. And in Kansas City, authorities say at least eight children are among 22 people who were hit by gunfire in a shooting at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. Police say one person was killed- DJ Lisa Lopez from Radio Station KKFI.
People are often looking for ways to stop using single-use plastics in an effort to help the environment, which sometimes makes people wary of using zip-top bags. The people at Ziploc are weighing in. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Valentine's Day, in the midst of that quick-moving winter storm that hit the Northeast bringing significant snowfall to some areas while others got less than expected, New York City schools went online instead of calling a snow day. It didn't go well. Despite the snow, Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election for the House seat formerly held by George Santos. Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip in a contest to represent a district that includes parts of Long Island and the borough of Queens. And in Washington, The U.S. House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S-Mexico border.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Have you lost control of your sex drive? Sexual function — defined by factors like desire, arousal and pleasure — in men and especially women decreased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, research and experts say. Thankfully, there are ways to get back in the groove — and coping with stress, which drastically spiked during the pandemic, is key. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, we were preparing for the first true taste of winter. Parts of the Northeast were preparing for a coastal storm that's expected to dump a foot or more of snow and pack 60 mph winds in some areas. The nation’s largest school system in New York City said it was switching classes to remote learning and closing its buildings for the day. In the Bronx, authorities say one person was killed and five others wounded following a dispute between two groups of teenagers at the Mount Eden station at the start of the evening rush hour. And in Washington, Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in his election interference trial and ultimately find him immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
When snack fever sets in — do you succumb, or shake it off? For those who can’t seem to quit noshing on junk, experts say they have just the thing to break the cycle — a practice known as mindful eating. Learn all about it. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, New York is expanding a curfew to additional migrant shelters. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will impose an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew at 20 migrant shelters after initially placing the restrictions at four other locations. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are back-to-back Super Bowl champions. Mahomes threw a 3-yard touchdown pass with 3 seconds left in overtime and the Chiefs rallied to beat the San Francisco 49ers. And in Kenya, Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was set to be a superstar of long-distance running has been killed along with his coach in a car crash.
Get a check on what's making headlines, including a study finding that a new, higher-dose nasal spray for reversing opioid overdoses didn't save more lives than the standard dose, defense lawyers unsuccessfully seeking a mistrial in the case against two men charged with the murder of Jam Master Jay, and a small plane pilot accused of stalking a New York woman from the air has been arrested for a fifth time.
Get a check on what's making headlines, including how members of the Guardian Angels roughed up a man they’d misidentified as a “migrant” during a live interview on Fox News Tuesday night.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Those crunches may not be abs-olutely necessary. Exercises that target certain groups of fat — whether it’s thunder thighs or love handles — might be useless, experts say. 💪🏽 In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the Israeli army says its forces are carrying out “a precise and targeted operation” against Hamas militants in a specific area of Shifa hospital, the largest in the besieged territory of Gaza. Meanwhile, supporters of Israel have rallied by the tens of thousands on Washington's National Mall, voicing solidarity in the fight against Hamas and crying “never again.”
Locally, Mayor Eric Adams is deflecting key questions about the scope and specifics of an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign. New York City officials say retailers and food delivery companies must do more to halt the proliferation of unsafe e-bike and e-scooter batteries, after a fire blamed on an electric scooter’s lithium ion battery killed three people. And a massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States. 🥵🥶
One woman won’t sleep with a man until he spends $2,000 on her- and you're going to love the reasons why. 💵👩🏽 In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital are rejecting Israel's claims that it is helping babies and others evacuate, saying fighting continues just outside the facility where incubators lay idle without electricity and critical supplies are running out. Meanwhile, Activists protesting environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war are protesting a global trade summit.
Locally, an attorney for Mayor Eric Adams confirmed that the FBI seized phones and an iPad from the mayor this week as part of an investigation into his campaign fundraising. Since 2008’s “Iron Man,” the Marvel machine has been one of the most unstoppable forces in box-office history. Now, though, that aura of invincibility is showing signs of wear and tear. And in the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — farmers are using all the new strategies they can get to stay afloat and provide for large and small breweries alike. 🍺⛈️
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
‘Tis the season for Starbucks red cups and holiday drinks. The coffee franchise is swapping out pumpkin spice for peppermint to bring in the season of joy. ☕🎄In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing the combat zone in northern Gaza has picked up as Israel’s air and ground campaign there intensifies. Meanwhile, the Republican presidential candidates at Wednesday's debate all say they support Israel, but they are squabbling over China and Ukraine.
Locally, Police are seeking a man who fired at a mugger inside a busy New York City subway station. Mayor Eric Adams defended members of his campaign staff while addressing a room full of reporters for the first time since federal agents raided the home of his chief fundraiser last week. And the Hollywood's actors union has reached a tentative deal with studios to end its strike. 🎥
The squeak-ret is out. A new update to a popular app is showing New Yorkers just how rat-infested their subway stations are. 🐀🚇 In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Israeli troops have divided the northern and southern parts of Gaza, as communications across the besieged territory were temporarily cut Monday for a third time since the war started. Meanwhile, As the Israel-Hamas war rages, international and local monitoring groups in Gaza have been unable to keep up. The only source reporting how many people have been killed in Hamas-ruled Gaza is the Ministry of Health.
Locally, The off-year election is traditionally taken by both Democrats and Republicans as a sign of confidence or concern heading into the next presidential election. Meanwhile, Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council, decades after he was wrongly imprisoned as a teen in an infamous rape case.
A defiant Donald Trump sparred with a New York judge and slammed the state attorney general suing him, using the witness stand at his civil fraud trial to defend his riches and lash out at a case that imperils his real estate empire. And federal jury has found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. 🚢🔥
Hello everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful Thanksgiving with those you love. We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy it.
“That phase where you slowly start hating your girlfriend is crazy.” A single tweet has kicked off a thread with over a million views, thousands of comments and a concerning amount of retweets. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Israel ground troops are advancing toward Gaza City as diplomatic efforts intensify for at least a brief pause in the fighting in Gaza’s deadliest war. Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats have warned the White House that President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war could put his reelection campaign in jeopardy in the key swing state next year.
Locally, Federal agents have raided the home of a top fundraiser and longtime confidante to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. A New York jury has convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud charges. And a new government report shows fewer high school students are vaping. About 10% of high school students said they had used electronic cigarettes in the previous month. 🚬
Failing to shower properly can leave you with a potentially fatal infection, according to a dermatologist. Find out the three parts of your body that you aren't washing enough. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Hundreds of foreign nationals and several seriously injured Palestinians are being allowed to leave Gaza for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began more than three weeks ago. Meanwhile, The House has rejected an effort to censure Democratic Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, scrapping a Republican attempt to condemn the only Palestinian-American in Congress over her recent rhetoric around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Locally, a Cornell University junior accused of posting violently threatening statements against Jewish people on campus was held without bail after his first appearance in federal court. An 80-foot-tall Norway spruce from the Binghamton area has been selected as this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and will be cut down and trucked to New York City next week. And Mexicans in the state of Oaxaca are celebrating the Day of the Dead. It's a time to honor deceased relatives with vigils and homemade altars.
After an interesting 24 hours for me, let's break it all down in some storytime, right? In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a deluge of Israeli airstrikes on a refugee camp near Gaza City has demolished apartment buildings, leaving craters where they once stood, while ground troops battle Hamas militants across northern Gaza. Meanwhile, Antisemitism policies at New York City colleges will be reviewed amid ongoing campus protests over the war between Israel and Hamas.
Locally, A Long Island woman has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a NYPD detective killed on the Long Island Expressway. Internal emails shown at Donald Trump's civil fraud trial reveal that when he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014, investment bankers doubted the NFL would allow it but encouraged him to stay in the running. And children have returned to school and are trick-or-treating in Lewiston, Maine, in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in state history. 🏫🎃🍫
It might be time to book a trip. J.D. Power revealed its rankings for the best and worst North American airports. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, The Israeli military has intensified airstrikes in Gaza including near its largest hospital. Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in the besieged enclave, desperate for food and basic items. Meanwhile, Two days after cellular and internet service abruptly vanished for most of Gaza amid a heavy Israeli bombardment, the crowded enclave came back online as communications systems were gradually restored.
Locally, New York City is intensifying efforts to transport migrants out of the city as its shelter system reaches capacity. Girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country. And for the second year in a row, U.S. shoppers are seeing double-digit inflation in the candy aisle. 🎃🍫
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Travel agents are revealing their reveal 1% clients’ insane demands, and it includes everything from mistress accommodations to bidets and yurts- hear some of the most interesting stories. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, more airstrikes have ravaged parts of the Gaza Strip, leaving it looking like a wasteland from space. Meanwhile, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office says taxpayers will cover the costs of her recent visit to wartime Israel.
Locally, a New York judge has reaffirmed a $10,000 fine he imposed on Donald Trump over an out-of-court comment that the former president made during his civil business fraud trial. The American Museum of Natural History says it is pulling all human remains from public display and will revamp how it maintains its collection of body parts with the aim of eventually repatriating as much as it can and respectfully holding what it can’t. And nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, “Grounded” is ready to take flight. 🎭
This might be another of my favorite episodes this season- lots of big stories happening at the same time. First, are ready to be spooked? Almost all Halloween candies bring horror to your teeth, dentists are declaring. We'll tell you which candies are safe to snack on from a dentist's perspective. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, increased Israeli airstrikes are devastating parts of the Gaza Strip, jeopardizing relief operations and leaving neighborhoods in shambles. Meanwhile, Florida’s state university system is disbanding chapters of a pro-Palestinian student group it says is violating state law by aligning themselves with Hamas in the wake of an attack on Israeli citizens. There's also an ongoing situation in Maine where police say a firearms instructor recently treated at a mental health facility is a person of interest in the Maine massacre. A man opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, killing at least 16 people and engulfing the state’s second-largest city in chaos.
Locally, a decade after they were envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, two of the largest flood control projects designed to protect densely populated cities in New Jersey just outside New York City are getting underway. Officials say a man was trapped inside a steel-reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an attempt to rescue him for safety reasons. And the first major snowstorm of the season dropped up to a foot of snow in the Helena, Montana, area, sending an army of snowplows out on the roads. Residents woke up to swirling snow and the sound of shovels on sidewalks just days after temperatures rose into the lower 80s. ☃️🌞
Here’s a hot new Halloween trend that has critics seriously spooked. Parents across America are partaking in “switch witch” — a seemingly harmless practice that encourages their kids to trade cavity-causing trick-or-treat candy for toys. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Israel has ramped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, reducing residential buildings to rubble and crushing families. Meanwhile, the prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Locally, a federal judge has struck down recent provisions of New York City's gun restrictions as unconstitutional, saying officials have been allowed too much discretion to deny gun permits to people deemed “not of good moral character." Dozens of US states, including California, New York, Arizona and Indiana are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people’s mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to the platforms. And a novel program in Tennessee aims to interest more Black and other minority medical students in organ transplants, to help ease troubling disparities. 🏥
You might want to check your bank account before having a baby in these states. A study by finance company LendingTree released last week reveals the states where childrearing costs the most and the least. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Israeli warplanes are striking targets across Gaza as the U.S. says a delay in Israel's expected ground offensive in the besieged Hamas-ruled territory would allow more time to negotiate the release of hostages. Meanwhile, It's Ohad Munder-Zichri's 9th birthday. But instead of celebrating at home with his family and friends on Monday, he is believed to be somewhere in Gaza, one of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas since the militants' devastating Oct. 7 incursion. Locally, Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide during the onset of the pandemic and the sexual harassment scandal that forced Cuomo from office in 2021 has written a memoir. Cuomo could have run again for NY governor, but declined for family reasons. JetBlue officials say a plane rocked back with its nose pointed skyward after landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport because of a shift in weight on the aircraft. And The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology recently acquired tens of thousands of reptile and amphibian specimens, including many snakes. 30,000 of them to be exact. 🐍
Deodorant can mask the stench of foul armpits, but it doesn’t mean you’re clean. According to a hygiene expert, you’ve been washing your armpits wrong. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Israeli warplanes have struck targets across Gaza as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants. Egypt’s state-run media reported that 17 aid trucks were crossing into Gaza on Sunday, but the United Nations said no trucks had crossed. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say the United States is ready to protect American forces or personnel in the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war escalate as they expect. Locally, about 3,000 asylum-seekers have been told their time was up in New York City shelters, but about half have reapplied to stay, according to a report in the New York Daily News. A shooter who ambushed police in New York City twice in 12 hours, wounding two officers, has been sentenced to 23 years to life in prison. And Film and TV actors are still on strike in what has become the longest walk-off in their history. The strike by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists hit its 100th day on Saturday, and it's already starting to affect the upcoming awards season. 🎥📺
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
They’re making an honest buck from honest Abe. The Associated Press reports that two front-row balcony tickets from the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated inside Ford’s Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue and Israel’s defense minister has told troops to be ready for a ground assault on the Palestinian territory, although he has not said when that will begin. Meanwhile, families of the more than 200 people whom the Israeli military says were taken hostage by Hamas militants in southern Israel on Oct. 7 are holding out hope after the news that two hostages have been released. Locally, the man accused of shoving a woman into the side of a moving New York City subway train has been captured in New Jersey. Rite Aid plans to close about 7% of its stores initially, as the drugstore chain makes its way through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. And communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to get rid of millions of disposable e-cigarettes that are considered hazardous waste. 🚬
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
Here’s a hot take on your hotcakes: A McDonald’s worker is sharing shocking breakfast secrets. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, President Joe Biden visited Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that limited humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza following a request from Biden. Meanwhile, as desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, many ask why neighboring Egypt or other Arab countries don’t take them in. Locally, four defendants in the criminal bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, including his wife, have pleaded not guilty in New York City to a revised indictment. Amazon will soon make prescription drugs fall from the sky when the e-commerce giant becomes the latest company to test drone deliveries. And the trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment. Now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney used an “experimental” artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments. 👨🏽💻👨🏽⚖️
NYC kids as young as 18 months indulging in caviar. That includes on Doritos, pizza and pasta, proving that you’re never too young for caviar dreams. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Hamas says hundreds have been killed in an airstrike on Gaza City hospital, after intensifying bombardments near towns in southern Gaza rattled civilians where Israel ordered them to take refuge. Meanwhile, Hamas and Israel have both been accused of breaking international law during their latest conflict. The rules of armed conflict are governed by a set of internationally recognized laws and resolutions, including the Geneva Conventions. Locally, Mayor Eric Adams has been using artificial intelligence to make robocalls that contort his own voice into several languages he doesn’t actually speak. Hundreds of thousands of students nationwide face challenges learning math due to disabilities such as dyscalculia. Parents and experts say schools often don't adequately support students with math disabilities like dyscalculia, which affects up to 7% of the population and often coexists with dyslexia. And they are playfully called the “forgotten five”: A handful of toys — the pogo stick, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers, and Transformers — that regularly approach toybox royalty as finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, only to be tossed back on the pile. For one of them, this is the year they finally make it in. The Hall of Fame is letting fans decide which one. 🧸🪀🗳️
Are you ‘over-responsible’? We'll tell you the 9 signs you’re doing too much to ‘people please’. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, more than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly incursion. Aid groups warn an Israeli ground offensive could hasten a humanitarian crisis. Meanwhile, crowds of mourners in a heavily Palestinian Chicago suburb paid respects to a 6-year-old Muslim boy killed in an alleged hate crime. Locally, Mayor Eric Adams has announced he is limiting shelter stays for migrant families with children to 60 days in the city’s housing system. A former FTX executive and onetime billionaire has testified against the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, at his New York City federal fraud trial. And three members of a California family have pleaded guilty to conspiracy for their role in a ring that shipped $600 million worth of stolen catalytic converters from California to New Jersey. 💵
One person works at Spirit Halloween. These are 9 mistakes this person sees customers make when shopping for costumes and decor. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents are seeking to heed Israel’s order to evacuate roughly the northern half of the territory, while others are huddled at hospitals in the north. Meanwhile, Israeli rabbis have been working around the clock, even on the Jewish Sabbath, to identify and count the dead civilians and soldiers gunned down in the Hamas attack a week ago. Locally, In the movie industry, it isn't just actors and writers who have been battling management. Movie theater workers also have been taking action. The New York attorney general's office says police officers in an upstate town will not face criminal charges in connection with the death of a man who doused himself with hand sanitizer and caught on fire when one of the officers shot a stun gun at him. And a Georgia man was left reeling after receiving a $1.4 million speeding ticket, but city officials say the figure was just a placeholder, not the actual fine. 💵🚘
Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it work. Oh, and one last thing about this episode- after the show aired, one of my former producers who happened to be listening to the show called me up and invited me out to lunch. How about that?
We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. Enjoy the first one!
You know “girl math”, right? Well, now it’s time to learn “boy math.” Learn about how this viral response is taking down delusional men.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, the Israeli military is preparing for a possible ground invasion in Gaza as it pounds the tiny coastal strip in retaliation for the unprecedented weekend attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas. Meanwhile, less than a month before Hamas fighters blew through Israel's “Iron Wall” in an attack that would leave more than 1,200 Israelis dead, they practiced in a very public dress rehearsal.
Locally, Gov. Hochul is supporting New York City's effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city’s shelter system.
Federal prosecutors in New York have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials.
And in the American west in California, a liquor store in a tiny mountain town is reverberating with excitement after word that the winning ticket for a $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot was sold there. 💵🥃
One woman lives in a playhouse in my parents’ backyard, saving her $10,000 a year. Hear about her interesting story.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas after its unprecedented attack on Israel. Meanwhile, while Twitter has always struggled with combating misinformation about major news events, it was still the go-to place to find out what’s happening in the world. But the Israel-Hamas war has underscored how the platform now transformed into X has become not only unreliable but is actively promoting falsehoods.
Locally, a beefy, bald-headed informant known by the Spanish nickname Boliche – bowling ball – is expected to play a key role in the federal trial this month in New York of two veteran U.S. DEA agents charged in a $73,000 bribery conspiracy involving leaked information about ongoing drug investigations.
A felony larceny charge has been dropped against a Connecticut man who found a bag containing nearly $5,000 in cash outside a bank and claimed “finders-keepers.”
And a new Oklahoma judge could lose her job for sending more than 500 texts to her bailiff during a murder trial, including messages mocking the prosecutor, praising the defense attorney and calling a key witness a liar. 👨🏽⚖️
Have you ever wondered why McDonald's doesn't sell onion rings? A former McDonald’s chef is sharing the reason why. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Israel has stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas. The military pounded neighborhoods with airstrikes Tuesday and expanded the mobilization of reservists to 360,000. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is confirming that U.S. citizens are among the hostages captured by Hamas in this weekend’s attack on Israel. He condemned the militant group for “sheer evil.” Locally, a new indictment filed Tuesday charges U.S. Rep. George Santos with stealing the identities of donors to his campaign and then using their credit cards to ring up tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's trial has taken a star turn. His former fellow top executive and ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison testified against him on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. And tens of millions in the Americas are getting front-row seats for a rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun. ☀️
An anonymous Redditor has taken to the “Am I the A—hole” forum to ask if he was a jerk for leaving his wife behind to go to a baseball game after she took too long to get ready. Was he wrong? Decide for yourself. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s fierce offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has “only started.” According to authorities on each side, the hostilities so far have killed around 900 people in Israel and more than 680 people in Gaza. Police say a 13-year-old boy was fatally stabbed during a confrontation on a New York City bus. From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people celebrated their centuries-long history of resilience with ceremonies, dances and speeches. And when a smaller restaurant unexpectedly goes viral on TikTok or other social media, the sudden demand can be overwhelming. But savvy business owners who are able to adapt can parlay newfound fame into a lasting boost for their business. 👨💼📱
Are you thinking about traveling for Thanksgiving? We'll tell you the best and worst days to travel this year. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Frank James, the man who wounded 10 people in a rush-hour subway shooting in New York City last year, was sentenced to life in prison. A commercial fisherman accused of conspiring with others to sell 200,000 pounds of fish in excess of legal quotas has been convicted in federal court in New York. And new research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. 🩻🏞️
One woman is a side hustle queen- earning $36,000 this year. Learn about what "scammy" gigs you shouldn't waste your time on. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring next month. The departures come in the middle of multiple investigations into whether state troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops that may have never happened. And nearly every Alaskan will receive a check for $1,312 this week, the annual dividend from the earnings of the state’s nest-egg oil-wealth fund. But the dividend has become a mixed blessing in a state that for decades has ridden oil's boom-bust cycle. 💵🛢️
It took 15 rounds of voting to name Kevin McCarthy the Speaker of The House, and it only took one to out him as the speaker. Learn more about it in national news. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a neighbor who witnessed 9-year-old Charlotte Sena being rescued in upstate New York is describing the scene as right out of a movie. A federal judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit that accused McDonald’s and Wendy’s of misleading consumers with ads that show bigger, juicier burgers than their restaurants actually serve. And a 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump from 13,500 feet in northern Illinois, proving that you are never too old to learn.
Get ready tomorrow at 2:20pm for a nationwide test of the emergency alert system. Remember, it's only a test. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, we have some good news about that 9-year-old girl who vanished during a family camping trip in upstate New York: she's been found safe following a two day search, and a suspect is now in custody. The civil trial against Donald Trump that kicked off Monday in New York is just one of many legal problems facing the former president as he campaigns for a return to the White House. And the bad news? You didn't win the Powerball jackpot. The good news? Nobody else did either. The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.2 billion after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize. 🤑💰🎫
What a difference the weekend makes. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, New York City is drying out after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades. City dwellers tried to dry out basements, while traffic resumed on highways, subways and airports that were temporarily shuttered by Friday’s severe rainfall. Police were searching for a missing 9-year-old girl who had been camping with her family in upstate New York. Charlotte Sena was last seen on Saturday evening in Moreau Lake State Park, about 35 miles north of Albany. And in a remote, dry patch of California farm country, a battle is raging over carrots. Or rather, over the groundwater where they’re growing northwest of Los Angeles. 👨🏽🌾🥕💦
This just might be one of my favorite episodes of the season so far. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, the potent rush-hour rainstorm has swamped the New York metropolitan area. The deluge shut down swaths of the subway system, flooded some streets and highways, and delayed flights into LaGuardia Airport. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat and champion of liberal causes who was elected to the Senate in 1992 and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90. A driver who took an 18-wheel tractor-trailer inside a tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn despite height restriction warnings got wedged in. And a Phillies fan and his emotional support alligator were denied entrance to watch Philadelphia host Pittsburgh. 🐊⚾
It might be hard, but we have to say goodbye to summer. But don't worry, it'll be here again sooner than you might think. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a charter bus carrying high school students to a band camp careened off a New York highway and tumbled down an embankment, killing two adults and seriously injuring several others. The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African. That's according to the 2020 census’ most detailed figures on race and ethnicity released by the U.S. Census Bureau. And an Ohio father who learned that his 11-year-old daughter had been manipulated into sending explicit photos to an adult turned to the police for help. But instead of treating the girl as a crime victim, an officer seemingly threatened to charge her under a law most people view as designed to protect child victims. 👨👧🚔
When will the rain go away? We're expecting to get another few inches of rain tomorrow before we get a last taste of summer. Mother Nature's just weird. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, prosecutors say DNA from Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann’s cheek swab matches the DNA that authorities had previously collected from a pizza crust and used to link Heuermann to one of the victims. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will address his Democratic colleagues on Thursday as calls grow for Menendez to resign over federal bribery charges. And the Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $925 million after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize. 💵🎟️
In the headlines on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, prosecutors have charged a New York City man with performing acupuncture without a license after they say he punctured a woman’s lungs during treatment, sending her to a hospital for emergency surgery. A New York City day care operator and a man who rented a room from her are facing federal charges after the death of a 1-year-old exposed to fentanyl inside the day care. And police body camera video shows an Alabama high school band director being shocked with a stun gun and arrested by officers in front of screaming students, in a chaotic scuffle that broke out after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game. 🚔🥁
The sun's finally out for the first time in what feels like a week- that's good, right? In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House. A suspended NYPD officer who had been accused of spying for China — and later cleared — is fighting to be reinstated. And start spreading the news- the strike by Hollywood screenwriters is over. Leaders of the writers union declared their nearly five-month-old strike over Tuesday after board members approved a contract agreement with studios. 📺
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Federal prosecutors have recommended life sentences for the man who opened fire on a crowded Brooklyn subway train last year, injuring 10 people. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill setting the state’s presidential primary for April 2, potentially putting former President Donald Trump on the ballot as he stands trial in Manhattan for a hush-money criminal case. And a growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem only expected to worsen because insurers and lawmakers have underestimated the impact of climate change, a new report says. 🏡🌊
I saw a Christmas ad on TV even though September isn't even over yet. I personally don't know how to feel about that. 🎄🎃 In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a taped package containing several thousand dollars' worth of fentanyl was discovered inside the New York City day care center where a 1-year-old child died of an opioid overdose last week. Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton. And it wasn’t an escapee from the Country Bear Jamboree attraction, but a wild black bear managed to be the star of its own show at Walt Disney World. 🐻🎢
Hope you enjoyed your weekend and ready to take on the last week of summer. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the owner of a New York City day care center and a tenant living in the building have been arrested after a 1-year-old boy was killed and three others were sickened by apparent exposure to Fentanyl. Tens of thousands of people in New York City have kicked off a week of demonstrations seeking to end the use of coal, oil and natural gas blamed for climate change. And for a generation and more, Starbucks' throwaway cup has been a cornerstone of consumer society, first in the United States and then globally. Now, in the name of the environment and sustainability, the company's disposable cup may be on its way to extinction thanks to an unlikely force: Starbucks itself. ☕🥤
Year 3 (2019-2020) most likely was- in my opinion- the best year of #TheUpdate to date in terms of fun moments. Catch up on the best moments of Year 3 in this episode.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, New York could soon require people selling their homes to disclose whether their properties have been flooded or are at risk for future flooding. A college philosophy professor is fighting to be allowed back on campus more than a year after his comments about adult-child sex led to calls for his removal. And commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to a national gambling industry group. 💵🎰
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, one New Yorker upset that the city has been housing homeless migrants in his neighborhood on Staten Island has set up a loudspeaker to deliver an unwelcoming message to his new neighbors. Prosecutors say New York City’s former top building-safety official took cash, Mets tickets, a discount on a luxury apartment and other bribes from a real estate developer, a restaurateur and others. And Gannett, the United States’ biggest newspaper chain, posted two unusual job listings to its site: hiring a reporter focused on Taylor Swift, and a posting for a dedicated Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter. 📰👩🎤
So the MTV VMA's ended rather abruptly last night. That was weird. Let's talk about that. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a Long Island mother says her 13-year-old son will be taken off life support days after he was struck by a Suffolk County police cruiser while riding his bicycle. New York’s attorney general has released a video of an upstate deputy firing into a fleeing car and killing two teens, raising questions about whether the officer needed to use deadly force to avoid being run over. And government advisers say the leading decongestant used by millions of Americans to treat nasal congestion doesn't actually work. 👃🏽🤧
Aaron Rodgers' first season as a New York Jet lasted all of 75 seconds. Fear not, we'll talk about that. In the other headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Bells tolled at ground zero and solemn tributes unfolded across the country as Americans looked back on the horror and legacy of 9/11. Meanwhile, Sports betting company DraftKings has apologized after using the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to entice people to bet on baseball and football games. The Boston-based company offered users a 9/11-themed promotion titled “Never Forget.” A judge has ruled that a commission created last year to enforce ethics rules for New York state’s employees and elected officials is unconstitutional because it is too independent. And a tortilla chip maker’s decision to pull its extremely spicy product sold as a “One Chip Challenge” from store shelves following the death of a Massachusetts teen has renewed attention on the popularity — and risks — of similar dares marketed by brands and spread widely online. 🌶️🔥
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Never forget what happened on 9/11. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, officials say they've identified the remains of two people who died in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. A mother has filed a lawsuit against Peloton over the death of her son, who was killed when his exercise bike fell on his neck during a workout in his New York City apartment. And at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, working on the front lines of mosquito control can be a prickly job. A technician volunteered to stick her arm into a glass tank to give scores of the insects a chance to feed on her blood. It was all in the name of sustaining a species important for research. 🦟👩🔬
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, the first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants. In New York City alone, public schools have opened classrooms to nearly 20,000 children arriving with parents seeking asylum. A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody. And Apple released a significant security update for iPhones and iPads to patch newly discovered security vulnerabilities in the devices' system software. 📱
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Hollywood crew members are turning to nonprofits like the Entertainment Community Fund for assistance as they have also lost work during the writer and actors strikes. A nearly 200-year-old time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened at West Point actually contained centuries-old coins potentially worth thousands of dollars. And The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders are hailing it as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug. 💨🍃
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The Season 13 premiere of #TheUpdate has the show mostly the same, but sounding just a bit different to keep things fresh. In the headlines this Thursday, authorities say an upstate New York sheriff’s deputy shot to death two teenagers who were in a vehicle that he thought was about to run him over. All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of the distribution of apps for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones. And a liberal group has filed a lawsuit to bar former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado. The lawsuit contends Trump is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.” 🇺🇲🧐
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The season 12 Finale on #TheUpdate this Wednesday has us looking at the peaks and valleys of New York City journalism. Ruschell Boone, an award-winning reporter and anchor for New York City TV station NY1, has died after battling pancreatic cancer over the past year. She was 48. A federal judge in New York City has ruled that evidence shows a company whose after-market triggers can make semiautomatic AR-15-style rifles fire like automatic weapons fraudulently misled consumers that the devices were legal. And a new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvard-educated Barack Obama. 📕🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Fresh off the last gasp of summer on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the annual West Indian American Day Parade stepped off in New York City with brightly colored costumes, steel bands, flag waving and street dancing. A statement on Jimmy Buffett's website has disclosed the cause of the singer-songwriter's death: a rare, aggressive skin cancer. And Partygoers stranded for days at Burning Man by a late summer storm were allowed to start leaving after muddy roads dried up enough for them to begin their exodus from the northern Nevada desert. 🏕️🔥⛈️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
As everyone prepared to get out of town for the last gasp of summer on #TheUpdate this Friday, those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may find an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police drone. A member of the violent MS-13 street gang has pleaded guilty for his part in the murders of four people in New York, including two teenage girls who were attacked with a machete and baseball bats on a suburban Long Island street seven years ago. And food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and crispier than they are in real life. But some consumers say those mouthwatering ads can cross the line into deception, and that’s leading to a growing number of lawsuits. 🍔
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, a 127-year-old water main under New York’s Times Square gave way, flooding midtown streets and the busy Times Square subway station. A longtime superintendent at a New York City building fatally stabbed his wife and two young children before taking his own life earlier this week. And The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to the sunken Titanic shipwreck that could recover items of historic interest. 🇺🇲⛴️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, For days now, newly arrived migrants have been waiting outside New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, hoping for a bed in an overly crowded shelter system. And for weeks, Mayor Eric Adams has said the city is out of room. New lawsuits claim that the U.S. Defense Department and the Department of Veteran Affairs are making it difficult and sometimes impossible for veterans to get infertility treatments. And Authorities say a man who posed as an undercover police officer kidnapped a woman in Seattle, drove her hundreds of miles to his home in Oregon and locked her in a cinder block cell until she bloodied her hands breaking the door to escape. 🩸🚪
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans. And The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency has resigned after facing criticism for not activating disaster sirens during last week’s deadly wildfires that killed at least 111 people. 🔥🏝️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, The 21-year-old social media influencer who was charged with inciting a riot after a crowd of thousands of his followers erupted in chaos in New York City last week says he is “beyond disappointed” in the bad behavior. Police say a prisoner receiving medical treatment escaped from a New York City hospital by tying sheets together, rappelling from a fifth-floor window and hailing a taxi. And About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever. 🇺🇲⚰️⚱️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police say a family of four has been found stabbed to death inside a New York City apartment. The dead were a mother, father and their two young children, ages 1 and 3. Authorities in Massachusetts have concluded a woman whose mutilated body was discovered on Cape Cod nearly 50 years ago was killed by her husband. And Floridians pray that when Idalia hits the Gulf Coast it won’t join the long list of destructive Atlantic Ocean storms whose names started with “I.” 🌀--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
There was a lot to talk about on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. New York City police say a man driving a stolen SUV struck a group of pedestrians on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk near Grand Central Terminal and injured 10 people. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey’s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence, died Tuesday after a sudden illness. She was 71. Justin Verlander is headed back to the Astros, who reacquired the three-time Cy Young Award winner from the Mets in a trade-deadline blockbuster. Max Scherzer never anticipated being traded from the New York Mets, and says the sentiment in their clubhouse was that the underachieving team would reload for 2024. And Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. 👩🎤💵--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it's worked normally. The death of a Long Island resident has been linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater that has also been blamed for two deaths in Connecticut. And Transgender youth in North Carolina have lost access to gender-affirming treatments after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of that legislation and others involving gender in sports and LGBTQ classroom instruction. 🏳️⚧️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPDsay a man fleeing a New York City drug bust crashed his motorcycle and died after a police sergeant threw a cooler at him in an attempt to stop him. Three men who were convicted of crimes in the New York City borough of Queens in the 1990s and served long prison sentences have been exonerated after reexaminations of their cases found evidence of false confessions and other examples of malfeasance by police and prosecutors. And A publicist says the enduring and dapper game show host Bob Barker has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99. 📺🎰--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Outdoor dining was a rare part of the pandemic that many people actually liked. As New York City has moved out from under its pandemic-era regulations, how to handle the new landscape of outdoor dining structures has been a growing question. A retired political science professor who traveled in Washington’s elite social circles has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry from his wealthy acquaintances. And United States Steel Corp. seems poised to be soon purchased by a competitor, with two bidders revealed in a matter of days and more in the wings. It would mean the takeover of a symbol of American industrialization that for more than a century helped build everything from the United Nations building in New York City to the New Orleans Superdome. 🧲🇺🇲--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Prosecutors say they'll use testimony from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's “trusted inner circle” of former executives at his collapsed cryptocurrency empire against him at an October trial. The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money criminal case has rejected the former president’s demand to step aside. And Donald Trump and 18 allies have been indicted in Georgia over efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. 🇺🇲--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, A 17-year-old has pleaded not guilty to hate-motivated murder in a stabbing that followed a clash over men dancing. The wife of a man charged with killing at least three women found dead on New York's Long Island is living a “surreal nightmare.” And parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week’s wildfire on Maui. ⛪🔥🌴--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Note: Due to an audio issue, the first 15 minutes in the first segment can't be heard. We apologize for the issue.On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, With thousands of migrants still arriving in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is renewing his appeal to the federal government to help the city avert a budgetary crisis as expenses mount. The city is now projecting costs to exceed $12 billion by the end of next year to help care and temporarily house people coming from the southern U.S. border. ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots have become the go-to source for cheating in college. Now, educators are rethinking how they’ll teach courses this fall from Writing 101 to computer science. And as climate change ratchets up temperatures across the U.S., millions of the poorest Americans grapple with enduring perilous heat or paying costly air conditioning bills. 🌡️🌬️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Mayor Eric Adams says the city will house as many as 2,000 migrants on an island in the East River where a migrant center was set up last year and then taken down weeks later. New York authorities are trying to learn more about a possible human limb discovered floating off Staten Island. Police say the remains appear to be “the lower limb to the foot.” And Megan Thee Stallion says she has not had a day of peace since Tory Lanez shot her in the foot three years ago. 🎶👩🎤👠🔫--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, A crowd of thousands of people who gathered in New York City's Union Square for a popular livestreamer's hyped giveaway got out of hand, leading to injuries and arrests. Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City, after the online streamer drew thousands of his followers, many of them teenagers, with promises of giving away electronics, including a new PlayStation. Police have arrested a 17-year-old high school student on a hate-motivated murder charge in the fatal stabbing of a professional dancer during an altercation between two groups of friends at a New York City gas station last weekend. And In just three weeks in theaters, “Barbie” is set to sail past $1 billion in global ticket sales, breaking a record for female directors that was previously held by Patty Jenkins. 🎬💵--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, officials say more than a dozen passengers suffered injuries when a commuter train derailed in New York City. The fatal stabbing of a gay man after a confrontation between a group of friends who were dancing to a Beyoncé song and a group of young men who apparently took offense has outraged New York City’s LGBTQ community and spurred Beyoncé herself to post a tribute. And Texas A&M University has reached a $1 million settlement with a Black journalism professor whose hiring was sabotaged by backlash from her past work promoting diversity. 💵🏫--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Year 2 of #TheUpdate (2018-2019) was a lot to go through newswise. Catch up on the best moments after some first year growing pains.
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New York officials have shut down what they call seven unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in the western part of the state. When actor Casey Likes watched “Back to the Future” growing up, his mom would always say he reminded her of the film’s star, Michael J. Fox. Something in the universe agrees: He’s taking on Fox’s classic role on Broadway. And A record 31-day streak in Phoenix of daily highs of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit has ended as the dangerous heat wave that suffocated the Southwest throughout July starts abating with cooling monsoon rains. But at about its halfway point, the record-breaking hot and extreme summer of 2023 is both unprecedented and unsurprising. Killer heat. Deadly floods. Smoke from wildfires that chokes. Scientists say they've been talking about this for a long time but the really hot seawater worries them. And there’s no relief in sight. 🌡️🔥
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Online records show the man known as New York City's “Preppy Killer” is again out of prison, after spending 15 years in custody on drug and assault charges. Drastic changes in consumer demands are driving labor unrest in diverse industries upended by technology. The Hollywood actors & writers- along with UPS drivers- fighting for better pay and working conditions, want consumers to understand what it takes to meet rising expectations for speed and convenience. And Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. They even get more credence than hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies. In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. 👼😇
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Every once in a while, we look back at the best of The Update's history as we celebrate 6 years existing- both in radio show and in podcast form. In this episode, we look back at the very beginning of the show- 2017 to 2018.
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, as authorities continue to investigate a crane collapse that rained thousands of pounds of steel debris onto a busy Manhattan street, the owner and operator of the failed crane are facing scrutiny over past safety failures. Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800’s, the financial giant acknowledged Thursday, an admission that comes at a time when numerous institutions are re-examining their historic roots and the roles they played in slavery in the U.S. And July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the globally hottest on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through. 🌡️🔥
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Mayor Adams says nine civilians suffered minor injuries but no one died when a fire on a construction crane caused its arm to strike a building as it crashed to the street. The trainer of racehorse champion Maximum Security has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster. And a system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse this century, according to a new study. 🔥🌊🌡️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Emergency call center workers say their centers are understaffed, struggling to fill vacancies and plagued by worker burnout. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says ground beef contaminated with salmonella has sickened at least 16 people in four Northeastern states. And The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions, which give an edge to applicants with family ties to alumni. 🏫🕵️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday ordered an independent investigation into the state police after an audit last month that showed troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021. You don't know their names but you might recognize their faces. Hollywood's “journeyman” actors tend to work for scale pay, and spend at least as much time lining up work as working. And they're the ones — not the big Hollywood names — who are at the heart of the current strike. And the death of an older Arizona woman when her electricity was cut during a heat spell five years ago spurred changes in shutoff rules. But advocates say more could be done to help prevent more deaths like that of Stephanie Pullman, who had a $51 debt. 🔌💵🔥
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, As police comb through the home of a man charged in a string of serial killings in New York, one witness is frustrated it took so long to solve the crime. New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping New York’s plan to charge big tolls to drive into the most visited parts of Manhattan. And a woman was found dead in Montana on Saturday after coming into contact with a grizzly bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park. 🧏♀️🐻
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, Tony Bennett, the eminent stylist and last of the great saloon singers whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career, has died at 96. The contests have names such as Predator Slam, Squirrel Scramble and Final Fling for Fox. But New York could ban contests that involve killing some wildlife species for cash prizes. And The idea of putting solar panels on top of the world's thousands of miles of irrigation canals has long seemed like a good one. But the technology has been slow to take off. 👨💻
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, The wife of the man charged in the deaths of three women whose remains were found along a Long Island beach roadway has filed for divorce. New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city will start giving adult asylum seekers in the city’s shelter system 60 days notice to find somewhere else to live. And A winning ticket has been sold in California for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion. 💰💵
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Police have been carting more boxes of potential evidence out of the home of Rex Heuermann, who has been charged with killing at least three women and leaving their remains alongside a remote stretch of beach highway in New York. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says he and other city officials have begun cracking down on illegal cannabis shops. His office says the proprietor of 11 shops must pay more than $400,000 in penalties. And Michigan's attorney general has filed felony charges against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for then-President Donald Trump in 2020. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Detectives investigating the long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings have searched a storage facility in the Long Island community of Amityville over the weekend. Longtime police official Edward Caban has been sworn is as commissioner of the New York Police Department, becoming the first Latino to lead the 178-year-old department. And Solidarity and stamina are themes on picket lines in New York and Los Angeles as striking actors and writers are bracing for a long standoff with studios. 🗽🏆🎬
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, A Long Island architect has been arrested in connection with three of the long-unsolved killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. Fifty-nine-year-old Rex Heuermann pleaded not guilty to three murder charges on Friday. Meanwhile, Families of several women who were slain and dumped along the coastline are trying to find closure after the capture of a man who authorities say is responsible. Unrelenting bloodshed across the U.S. this year has led to the grimmest of milestones: The deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006. From Jan. 1 to June 30, the nation endured 28 mass killings, all but one of which involved guns. And Another Powerball drawing ends with no winner, sending the jackpot soaring to an estimated $900 million. 💰💵
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been arrested on federal fraud charges alleging that he schemed to defraud customers by misleading them about key aspects of the business. A misplaced naval ship in California, overlooked students in New York City and missed inmates in Texas are some of the reasons why the two most populous states and the largest city in the U.S. have filed last-minute requests for 2020 census corrections. And it's not just you. Sriracha is hard to come by these days — at least for one popular brand. 🥵🌶️🫙
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A New Jersey man has admitted posting a broad online threat that spurred heightened security at synagogues and Jewish schools in the state last year. There’s only one more chance this year to take in Manhattanhenge. Wednesday was a bust, with gray, gloomy weather socking in the horizon at sundown, and Thursday could see similar skies. And unionized Hollywood actors on the verge of a strike have agreed to allow a last-minute intervention from federal mediators. But it says they are not confident studios have any intention of reaching an agreement and avoiding a strike. 🎞️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can't be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape because he was president when he made the comments. The union that successfully organized an Amazon warehouse in New York is being sued by a splinter group that includes some former leaders. And Bank of America must reimburse customers more than $100 million and pay $150 million in fines for “double-dipping” on overdraft fees, withholding reward bonuses on credit cards and opening accounts without customer consent. 💵🏧💳
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On the 7-Eleven Day edition of #TheUpdate, a court-appointed monitor is urging a federal judge to begin contempt proceedings against New York City to coerce the city to urgently improve its handling of its troubled massive jail complex. Amazon Prime Day is here. And, once again, experts are warning consumers of scams. Scams targeting online shoppers — often by impersonating companies like Amazon and other major retailers — are nothing new. And a New Zealand prosecutor says tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on the country’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people. 🇳🇿🌋
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPD say a Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other men in a series of shootings while riding a scooter in New York City is charged with murder and attempted murder. An influencer-backed energy drink that has earned viral popularity among children is facing scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine. And with Earth breaking average heat records, cities are sure to be giving a fresh look at their readiness plans for temperatures that can kill. 🌎🌡️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, authorities say a crash involving a double-decker bus and a city bus in Manhattan sent 18 people to hospitals for treatment. Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub have sued New York City to block its new minimum pay rules for food delivery workers. And the case of a Texas man who was reported as a missing teenager in 2015 and found last week took an unexpected turn Thursday when police revealed it all was a hoax. 🧐🕵️
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, say they are separating but not divorcing after 29 years of a marriage that helped lift de Blasio into the mayor’s job. A 63-year-old New York man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for his role in the robbery of a Connecticut jewelry store that ended with a jeweler being shot to death. And federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, eating superstar Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Two swimmers are recovering from a scare after they were apparently attacked by sharks in separate encounters off the shores of Long Island in New York. And millions of Americans attended parades, fireworks, barbecues and other Independence Day events, celebrating the courage and sacrifices of the nation’s 18th century patriots who fought for the nation’s independence from England and what they considered an unjust government. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Daniel Penny, the man charged with manslaughter for putting an agitated New York City subway rider, Jordan Neely, in a fatal chokehold has been indicted. Gambling giant MGM Resorts International says it did nothing wrong in its dealings with a New York City man who accuses it of preying on his gambling addiction with repeated cash bonuses intended to keep him gambling. And the Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold. It has rejected an appeal by the California megachurch of its ejection for having women pastors. ⛪
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell is stepping down after 18 months on the job. The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside more splashier rivals on Sunday to win the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners. And Drew Smith became the second New York Mets pitcher to get ejected this season for using an illegal foreign substance when he was tossed from their Subway Series opener against the Yankees at Citi Field. ⚾
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Airbnb is suing New York City over rules that the company says would make it much more difficult for people to turn their property into short-term rentals. Some North American racetracks have replaced traditional dirt with a synthetic surface made of wax-coated sand, fibers and recycled rubber. Such surfaces could be a potential answer to creating safer training and racing conditions as horse racing grapples with a spate of deaths. And fending off a U.S. default, the Senate has given final approval to a debt ceiling and budget cuts package. It's now on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law before a fast-approaching deadline.
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades. From human ashes to cell phones, fans are taking their adoration for their favorite artists to dangerous new heights. And Space disco cowboy. Yacht Shabbat. Burning Man Formal. Dress to Express Your Inner Spirit. More bridal couples are tossing tradition when it comes to what guests should wear.
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Rep. George Santos says he's just trying to protect family members by asking the courts to keep his bond cosigners secret as he fights criminal charges. New Yorkers who commit crimes could have their records automatically sealed if they stay out of trouble for a certain number of years after they have finished serving their sentences. And a mobile clinic in Baltimore is expanding access to buprenorphine, a medication that treats opioid use disorder by reducing cravings and withdrawal symptoms. 💊
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, an NYPD officer is speaking out against the use of “courtesy cards” by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops. The town of Manlius in upstate New York is mourning the loss of Faye, a swan who was stolen from the village pond over the weekend along with her four cygnets. And there are media reports that Justice Department prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from after he left office in which he talks about holding onto a classified document related to a potential attack on Iran. 🇺🇲🇮🇷
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the fatal chokehold of a man who was behaving erratically on a New York City subway train. A man who oversaw food service for New York City schools has been convicted in a bribery case that picked apart how chicken tenders riddled with bone and bits of metal were served for months. And thousands of prisoners throughout the United States get their college degrees behind bars, most of them paid for by the federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition aid that they don’t have to repay. That program is about to expand exponentially next month. 💵👨🎓
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, drivers in New York City will be charged extra in tolls to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street as part of a long-stalled congestion pricing plan. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says in a $1 million lawsuit that a cleaner who switched off power to a lab freezer containing cell samples and cultures destroyed more than 20 years of research. And here we go again with the drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada. It's creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States. 💨
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, pavement and humanity itself. A third man has been charged in the 2002 shooting death of Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay. And scientists and tech industry leaders, including executives at Microsoft and Google, have issued a new warning about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. 👨💻🤖
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Donald Trump’s lawyers are demanding that the judge in his New York City criminal case step aside, echoing the former president’s complaints that he’s “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” A new report finds several shortcomings in Buffalo's response to a historic December blizzard in which 31 city residents died. And a new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults. 🏳️⚧️🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, a New York City artist and college professor who held a machete to a journalist’s neck and threatened to chop him up has been arrested on charges of menacing and harassment. The owner of a New York adventure park on Long Island has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining more than $3 million in federal coronavirus aid and spending it on himself, including a home on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. And a U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic. 🇺🇲😷
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, relatives of eight people killed in a Halloween terror attack on a New York City bike path are expected to speak at a sentencing hearing for an Islamic extremist who prosecutors say deserves multiple life sentences. House Democrats are seeking to force a vote on expelling Rep. George Santos from Congress. The effort is expected to be defeated but puts Republicans in the uncomfortable position of taking a stand on an indicted colleague. And in the American west, tiff over Taco Tuesday is heating up, with Taco Bell asking U.S. regulators to force a Wyoming-based fast-food chain to abandon its longstanding claim to “Taco Tuesday” as a trademark. 🌮
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, U.S. Rep. George Santos, who has faced outrage and mockery over a litany of fabrications about his heritage, education and professional pedigree, has been charged with federal criminal offenses. A jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Jurors awarded her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. And Connecticut lawmakers are moving to impose new restrictions on the amount of marijuana’s main intoxicating component in cannabis products are being sold in places other than regulated dispensaries, such as convenience and CBD stores. 💨
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the Republican leaders of two suburban counties have declared states of emergency in an effort to block a plan by New York City’s Democratic mayor to use their communities to house hundreds of international migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. More than 100 people have been killed in mass killings thus far in 2023, an average of one a week. The family members and friends of those lost to the violence are haunted by the question of why these attacks are still happening. And police in Texas say the driver of an SUV that killed eight people when it slammed into a Brownsville, Texas, bus stop is charged with manslaughter, and investigators are trying to determine if the crash was intentional. 🚔🚨
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, about 160 resident physicians have gone on strike over what they called low pay at a public hospital in New York City. A sharp uptick in thefts of Hyundais and Kias over the past two years has been linked to viral videos posted to TikTok and other social media platforms that teach people how to exploit a security vulnerability to steal the cars. And a fake image purportedly showing an explosion near the Pentagon has been widely shared on social media, sending a brief shiver through the stock market. 💥
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, mourners gathered at a Harlem church at the funeral of Jordan Neely, the man whose chokehold death on the New York City subway set off a debate about vigilantism, homelessness and public safety. Meanwhile, Republican presidential hopefuls have rushed to support Daniel Penny. Democratic leaders in major U.S. cities are finding themselves politically squeezed when it comes to addressing homelessness. And conservative groups that have targeted and won majorities on local boards and commissions across the United States over the past couple years are now pressing agendas that include election distrust, skepticism of government and a desire to have religion play a greater role in public decision-making. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, this smoke reached almost apocalyptic proportions. Smoke from Canadian wildfires is pouring into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest and covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze. Major League Baseball has postponed games in New York and Philadelphia on Wednesday night because of poor air quality caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires. An owner of several funeral homes on Long Island has been arrested on charges that he sprayed wasp killer at police officers and attacked journalists during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, authorities said. And in Decision 2024, Mike Pence has opened his presidential bid with an unusually forceful denunciation of former President Donald Trump over Jan. 6, Trump's temperament and abortion. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, striking members of the Writers Guild of America have said they will not picket next month’s Tony Awards telecast, clearing a thorny issue facing show organizers and opening the door for some sort of Broadway razzle-dazzle. Prosecutors say that two New York City police detectives swiped pricey Champagne on duty at an electronic music festival and that a third detective didn't stop them. And an investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded. 🇺🇲🔎--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, around Manhattan and elsewhere in New York City, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters. The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, which shuttered three years ago and is reopening later this week as a welcome center and shelter for asylum seekers. Buffalo, New York, has paused to mark one year since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three victims at a supermarket. And high school students are having less sexual intercourse. That’s what the studies say. But that doesn’t mean they’re having less sex. The language of young love and lust, and the actions behind it, are evolving. 👩❤️👨💦😈--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Manhattan prosecutors say they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train- one charge of second degree manslaughter. Officials say a fire that killed a mother and two daughters in New York City was apparently sparked by homemade vape dispensers that the father of the family was assembling to sell. And Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it's now called. Musk did not name the person but said she will be starting in about six weeks. 🧏♀️📱--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Some call the choking death of a man at the hands of another New York subway rider a criminal act. Others justify the killing as defense against dangerous disorder. A jury has concluded that British singer Ed Sheeran's hit song “Thinking Out Loud” didn't copy key components of Marvin Gaye's classic tune “Let's Get It On.” And the Minnesota Senate has honored the late pop superstar Prince by voting to dedicate to him the highway that runs past his Paisley Park museum and studios. 🛣️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
It seems like the worst is just about over on Monday's edition of #TheUpdate. The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The announcement on Friday marks a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide. The potential criminal charges against a U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train might depend on whether a “reasonable” New Yorker would have acted similarly. Andlaw enforcement official says federal investigators are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology as they work to try to discern a motive. 🕵️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The stage is set on Monday's edition of #TheUpdate. As the city prepares for the arrival of the former President, he's facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down against him by a New York grand jury, two people familiar with the matter have told The Associated Press. When he steps in the courtroom, It will also represent a reckoning for a man long nicknamed “Teflon Don,” who until now has managed to skirt serious legal jeopardy despite 40 years of legal scrutiny. Meanwhile, when it's all said and done, the former president's campaign says the former president will deliver remarks Tuesday night in Florida after his scheduled arraignment in New York earlier that day on charges related to hush money payments. In other news, a self-styled far-right propagandist is facing up to 10 years in prison after a Brooklyn federal jury convicted him of charges alleging that he conspired to deprive individuals of their right to vote in the 2016 presidential election. And companies from toothpaste makers to beauty chains are adding more premium items like designer creams and services as they reach out to wealthier shoppers who are still spending freely even in the face of higher inflation and volatile economic environment. 🪥--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Hollywood is officially on strike on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. Veterinarians are growing alarmed by an apparent rise in marijuana poisonings among dogs that ingest discarded joints and edibles on city sidewalks. And test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding of either subject. 🏫📝--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank, making it the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and promptly sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in a bid to stop further banking turmoil that has dominated the first half of this year. America's high school graduates are often encouraged to start at a community college before getting a bachelor's degree, but the money-saving move rarely works as planned. And six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie. 🎎--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Four New York City parking garages are being shuttered because they may be unsafe. More than a year after the maker of OxyContin reached a tentative settlement over the toll of opioids, the money isn't flowing yet. And new research shows that babies born to opioid users have shorter hospital stays when care includes more parent involvement and a quieter environment. 👩🍼--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Year 5 continued the podcast era of #TheUpdate. It was also a show in continuing transition. While the audio quality wasn't that great sometimes, there were still lots of important stories to talk about. Take a listen to some of the best moments of Year 5 of the show. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, A man who had been shouting at people aboard a New York City subway train died after fellow riders tackled him and one put him in a chokehold that lasted until his body went limp. The 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike this week after negotiations with Hollywood studios that began in March failed to result in an agreement. The guild has billed the issues behind the labor dispute as “an existential crisis.” And introduced by four senators aims to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media and would give parents more control over what teenagers under the age of 18 can access. 📱--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Police in New York say several people were taken to a hospital, including four with life-threatening injuries, after a head-on crash between a car and a school bus. New York City's Metropolitan Transit Agency, which for 13 years has provided real-time information on subway, train and bus service outages, delays and other important updates for its 1.3 million followers, will stop using Twitter for such alerts. And Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died. He was 79. 📺--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a New York City emergency medical technician by running her over with her own ambulance. The American Museum of Natural History in New York will soon open its massive new building, complete with live insects and swooping architecture. And the Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken. 👨🏽⚖️🤷🏽♂️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The wait goes on for a Trump indictment on Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate. Manhattan prosecutors have postponed a scheduled grand jury session in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments during his 2016 presidential campaign, but three people say that the grand jury was told to be on standby for Thursday. Meanwhile, as the world waits to see whether a grand jury indicts former President Donald Trump, crowds of reporters have gathered outside a courthouse in lower Manhattan. New York authorities would be given expanded power to shut down illegal pot shops and levy fines of up to $200,000 under legislation proposed by Gov. Hochul. And there's a pesky problem in a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that's likely to wash up on some beaches later this year: Seaweed. Lots of it. 🏖️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The front door in America is one of the landscape's most intimate and personal of borders. It's the place where the public sphere encounters private space. And that occasionally has disastrous results. And Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans. 🛏️💸--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, tragedy can happen in a New York minute. One person has been killed and five have been injured in a parking garage collapse in lower Manhattan’s Financial District. A grand jury indictment unsealed names five men in connection to the drugging deaths of the two men as part of a criminal operation to steal money. And in the American west in Oregon, their pioneering experiment with legalized magic mushrooms has taken a step closer to reality as the first “facilitators” who will accompany clients as they experience the drug received their state licenses. ✨🍄--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On the 2023 Tax Day edition of #TheUpdate, Justice Department officials say two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. U.S. Rep. George Santos has announced that he’s running for reelection. The New York Republican has faced criticism and ridicule after it was revealed that he has told numerous lies about his background during his last campaign for the office. And many studies say American youth are in crisis, facing unprecedented mental health challenges that are burdening teen girls in particular. Adults have theories about what is going on but what do girls themselves have to say? ♀️👩❓--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
A major cable news shakeup is on #TheUpdate this Tuesday. Fox News has ousted Tucker Carlson less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting. Meanwhile, Longtime CNN host Don Lemon has been fired by the cable news network a little over two months after apologizing to viewers for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley. A hearing is being held to determine whether two New York City Police officers should face disciplinary action for their involvement in the shooting death of a Black man in his apartment. A hearing is being held to determine whether two New York City Police officers should face disciplinary action for their involvement in the shooting death of a Black man in his apartment. And an intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual. 🌌--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Hope everyone enjoyed their spring break- it's back to work for us on Monday's edition of #TheUpdate. A New York man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for hiring a hitman to kill his father, a reputed Mafia associate gunned down at a McDonald's drive-thru in what prosecutors called a scheme to control a family real estate empire. The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold and silver confetti. And artificial intelligence imaging can be used to create art, try on clothes in virtual fitting rooms or help design advertising campaigns. But experts fear the darker side of the easily-accessible tools could worsen something that primarily harms women: nonconsensual deepfake pornography. 💦--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
We're all set for vacation time on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. A stone-faced Donald Trump has been confronted with a 34-count felony indictment accusing him in a scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs that arose during his first White House campaign. We'll take a glance at the three hush money cases in the Trump indictment. A new survey of lead pipes across the United States estimates that Florida has more than any other state. And UFC President Dana White says combining marketing forces with World Wrestling Entertainment will create an even larger fan base for both organizations. 🤼♂️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The wait is finally over on Friday's edition of #TheUpdate. Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers say, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House. Meanwhile, Every day, hundreds of people are taken into law enforcement custody in New York City. The former President is expected to become one of of them as early as next week. We'll tell you the process, the key players, and the other investigations he's still facing. The county that encompasses Manhattan added more than 17,000 residents in the year ending last July. That's after losing almost 111,000 during the height of urban population decline stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. And classic image of Tyrannosaurus rex flashing giant teeth might be wrong. According to a new study published, the dinosaur's teeth were probably mostly covered by scaly lips and didn't stick out when its mouth was closed. 🦕--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The waiting game continues on Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate. The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is not expected to take up that inquiry again this week, meaning any potential vote on an indictment probably won’t happen until next week at the earliest. The U.S. gambling industry is adopting a new responsible marketing code that will ban sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering. And Fox News stars Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Bret Baier are among the personalities who could soon be appearing in a much different venue — court. 📺👨🏽⚖️--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled to consider other matters next week before taking a previously scheduled two-week break. A career criminal whose rap sheet includes bank robberies and a murder conspiracy was sentenced to 16 years for killing a New Jersey political consultant in exchange for money in 2014. And are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That’s the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks. 👨🏽💻--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
The waiting beat continues on #TheUpdate this Wednesday. For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated a flurry of legal investigations without ever facing criminal charges. That record may soon come to an end. Former President Donald Trump is in Florida, waiting out the possibility of criminal charges in New York City — as the city braces for disruptions that could follow an indictment. Meanwhile, Republican contenders in the 2024 presidential race are sizing up the impact a prosecution could have on a campaign in which Trump is a leading contender. In New Jersey, Marine animal welfare officials say eight dolphins have died after they became stranded on a beach. And U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it. The fungus is called Candida auris. It's a form of yeast that is usually not harmful to healthy people but can be a deadly risk to fragile hospital and nursing home patients. Some strains are so-called superbugs that are resistant to antibiotic drugs. 🦠😷💊--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
We're just going to wait until next week (maybe) for word of a possible Trump indictment on #TheUpdate this Friday. The Manhattan grand jury investigating Donald Trump over hush money payments turned to other matters on Thursday and is not scheduled to meet today, delaying until next week at the earliest a vote on whether to indict the former president. Meanwhile, fake images of former President Donald Trump being arrested by the NYPD and Russian President Vladimir Putin behind prison bars have flooded social media in recent days. Both were produced using increasingly sophisticated and widely available image-generating software powered by artificial intelligence. An NYPD officer rappelled down a Manhattan skyscraper to stop a man who was facing financial fraud charges from jumping out of a 31st-floor window. And in the American west in Utah, they've has become the first state to sign into law legislation that attempts to limit teenagers’ access to social media sites. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a pair of measures requiring parental consent before kids can sign up for sites like TikTok and Instagram. 📱--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
Get ready to batten down the hatches for a possible Trump indictment on #TheUpdate this Monday. Donald Trump says in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday and he's calling on supporters to protest. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials in New York are making security preparations for the possibility that Donald Trump could be indicted in the coming weeks by a Manhattan grand jury and appear in a courtroom in an investigation examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Cities across the United States celebrated St. Patrick's Day Parades, kicking off a weekend of revelry. And in Washington, a Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and, for the first time, shows that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick. ✈️😷--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate St. Patrick's Day Friday, a coalition that includes some of New York's medical marijuana companies is suing state cannabis regulators in an effort to open up licensing to all retail dispensary applicants immediately. New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets and the online partners of both types of gambling saw their revenue increase by over 10% in February. And scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab. 🐁--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have a lot of interesting things to talk about on #TheUpdate this Thursday. We'll start with a onetime aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo who accused him of sexual harassment in a federal lawsuit has filed a separate lawsuit against the state. R&B singer Bobby Caldwell, who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won’t Do for Love," has died. He was 71. Aaron Rodgers says he intends to play for the New York Jets in 2023 after 18 seasons in Green Bay. Meanwhile at the WBC, All-Star closer Edwin Díaz of the New York Mets was taken off the field in a wheelchair after appearing to seriously injure his right leg celebrating Puerto Rico’s victory over the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic on Wednesday night. And in the American west in Colorado, dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver have been transferred to several tribes from across the Great Plains. It's the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming stewardship over animals their ancestors lived alongside for millennia. 🦬--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, a New York jury has begun deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Uzbekistan citizen who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path in a terrorist attack five years ago. A woman born to a severely disabled resident of a New York state facility in 1986 has filed a lawsuit saying her mother was raped by an employee whose abuse was covered up by those in charge. And Americans who came of age during the pandemic are skipping college in big numbers. Many have shunned traditional college paths, turning instead to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree. 👨🎓--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming others. Parts of the Northeast are bracing for a powerful winter storm that could dump heavy, wet snow and unleash strong winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. And Virginia’s largest school system is removing a test question given to a college-level social studies class that equated liberals and conservatives with specific racial and gender demographics. 🏫📄--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, prosecutors say a photo of another person with the same name led to the wrongful arrest of a New York City man who is now free after spending more than 18 years behind bars for murder. “Can you tell me the steps for boiling a live chicken?” “Can I claim my dog as a dependent on my taxes?” Those are two of the queries fielded by New York City’s 311 nonemergency system in the 20 years since it debuted in March 2003. And reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year. The Associated Press has learned one in five female students surveyed said they experienced unwanted sexual contact. 🇺🇲🪖--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, more than six years after Donald Trump's lawyer paid off a porn star, New York prosecutors appear to be close to deciding whether the former president should face charges in connection with that payoff. Documents from a defamation lawsuit against Fox News illustrate the pressures its journalists faced in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election. And the U.S. government took extraordinary steps to stop a potential banking crisis after the historic failure of Silicon Valley Bank, assuring depositors at the failed financial institution that they would be able to access all of their money quickly. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police say another person injured in a stampede at a rap concert in Rochester has died, upping the count to two after a 33-year-old died earlier. The two were among those injured in a crowd surge as concertgoers left a show headlined by Grammy-nominated artist GloRilla.Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to Earth’s climate by 2100, according to a study in Nature Climate Change.And election officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia say they are withdrawing from a bipartisan, multistate effort aimed at ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls that has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election. 🗳️🇺🇲--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, the NYPD are continuing their search for a suspect wearing a full-body protective suit who shot and killed a convenience store worker on the Upper East Side. Was the same person involved in another shooting overnight?A new company, the News Movement, is betting on social media as a way to get young people interested in the news. It is creating tailored news content to place on sites like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter, reasoning that's where consumers are. And The University of Massachusetts is warning about a TikTok trend after 28 ambulances were summoned to off-campus parties. Officials said students were observed Saturday carrying jugs with a mixture of alcohol, electrolytes and water, dubbed “blackout rage gallons,” or “BORGs,” in a binge-drinking trend gaining traction on TikTok. 🥃🚰--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
2020 could truly be described as a year we'd truly like to forget. But believe it or not, it did happen. It was also a very long year. Come take a look down memory lane- dare we say- through the eyes of #TheUpdate. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, The House Ethics Committee is launching an investigation into embattled Republican Rep. George Santos. It seeks to determine whether Santos “may have engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign” and other actions.Shoeshines are losing some luster. Once a common practice, the tradition of getting a quick polish from a rag-toting shoeshiner has become more of a rarity, and many stands have disappeared across the country. And in South Carolina, lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Murdaugh guilty of two counts of murder. 👨🏽⚖️--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York City has agreed to pay several million dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by protesters who say they were assaulted, abused and trapped by police using a technique known as “kettling” at a demonstration in the wake of George Floyd’s killing.Medical licensing officials in multiple states are scrambling to stop nurses with fraudulent academic credentials from caring for patients, after three Florida schools were accused of selling thousands of bogus diplomas. And in the American west in California, authorities say a 16-year-old student involved in a fight at a high school was fatally stabbed inside a classroom full of students.🏫🔪🩸--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Ghislaine Maxwell says a federal appeals court should reverse her conviction on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women.A former FTX executive is pleading guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges as part of a deal to cooperate with federal prosecutors building their case against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. And in Chicago, the voters have spoken- and they have denied Mayor Lori Lightfoot a second term. Candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to succeed her. 🗳️--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a lawyer says that actor Cuba Gooding Jr. had consentual sex with a woman who has accused him of raping her in New York City a decade ago.Teens are often warned that “once you send that photo, you can’t take it back”, often ignoring the reality of the situation or the dangers. Now a new online tool aims to give some control back to people to take down explicit images and videos of themselves from the internet. And in Washington, the Supreme Court will hear arguments this week over President Biden’s student debt relief plan. It’s a plan that impacts millions of borrowers who could see their loans either wiped away or reduced. 👨🏽⚖️💵👨🏽🎓--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
I've waited four long months to say these words again: On #TheUpdate this Monday, City officials say that lithium ion batteries used to power e-bikes and scooters have sparked 22 fires that have killed two lives- four times higher compared to last year. At least 21 people have had their fancy airpods stolen off their heads by a roving team of moped-riding bandits. And CIA Director William Burns says that Russian President Putin is being “too confident” in his military’s ability to grind Ukraine into submission.🇷🇺🇺🇦--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Amazon says it's raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 an hour. That could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches. 📦💵 Two men have been arrested for the July robbery of a Brooklyn pastor who was delivering a sermon when over $1 million in jewelry was taken from him at gunpoint. Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris' American League record of 61 home runs in a season, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run drive for the Yankees in the seventh inning that led them over the Blue Jays. ⚾ In Florida, Hurricane Ian has left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people. And since 1960, the rate of food allergies among children has more than doubled- from 3% to more than 7%- with over 5.5 million kids in the U.S today suffering from one of countless potential food allergens. But new cutting-edge research has given scientists a better understanding of food allergies- and viable therapies- than ever before. 🥜🥛🐡🚫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #Theupdate this Wednesday, Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies' ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people's whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant. 👮🏽♂️📱 State investigators have substantiated more than 1,600 instances of corporal punishment in New York schools over the last five years. Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials. And a man has revealed he suffers from a rare disorder where his identity is split into 10 different personalities, all with different names, ages, and opinions. 🤯
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, An LGBTQ group at New York's Yeshiva University has proposed a deal that would allow other student groups at the Orthodox Jewish university to resume meeting while the LGBTQ group's status is litigated. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏫 Tests have confirmed an animal killed during a coyote hunt in upstate New York last year was a wolf. Environmental officials say it's only the third wolf identified in the wild in the state in 25 years. In Boston, the Celtics have suspended coach Ime Udoka for the 2022-23 season. Two people with knowledge of the matter said Udoka was being sanctioned because of an improper relationship with a member of the organization. And she’s revealing the naked truth. A stripper has gone viral on social media after claiming she danced naked in front of her own brother at his bachelor party. 🎉👯♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York's attorney general has sued former President Donald Trump and his company, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C. ⚖️ There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City. But for Mayor Adams, reconciling that image with an influx of migrants sent to the city as part of a political tactic from several Republican governors is proving difficult. Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a "key" anti-theft device, and thieves know. An insurance industry group says these cars are stolen at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the auto industry because their keys lack computer chips for theft "immobilizer" systems. And a stripper has claimed that she can read markets better than bankers- and set out why she thinks we’re heading for a recession. 💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 the American west, a campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California has become the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history. And everyone always says how awkward it would be if someone was to make an “objection” during a wedding ceremony. But one woman completely ignored that fact as she decided to pull a prank on her sister’s big day- and completely backfired. 👰🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 of gray grilles makes it clear that security is intended to be more than just theater. In Kentucky, a man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago will go before the state parole board in a high stakes hearing that could see him released or denied the chance to ever leave prison. And before you book your flights, you may want to think about changing the day you fly. New research has found that flying on a Sunday is the worst day of the week. ✈️🤔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 workload those offices face as they scramble to prepare for November's elections. In London, Britain and the world are saying a final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II at a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers. And we now pronounce them Mr. and Mrs. Universe. Two amateur bodybuilders who met during quarantine turned pro on the same day, just months after connecting on Instagram. 💪🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 massing and feeding on plants around much of the eastern United States. It's an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: workers in gloves and masks, spraying yards for mosquitoes. But the chemical bombardment worries scientists who fear over-use of pesticides is harming pollinators and worsening a growing threat to birds that eat insects. And a Russian influencer has found the perfect way to get back at her boyfriend after he dumped her to “focus on his career.” 🇷🇺😈
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president's company. Look closely at who's included in your group chats. A prosecutor in Florida complained in a group text about a judge's ruling in a murder case. And she’s sharing some of her hottest tips. A bottle service waitress has gone viral after revealing she raked in an eye-watering $4,800 in tip money from just two tables at a swanky club in Arizona. 👯♀️🍾💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 through signs or placards put on display with the stolen objects. Donald Trump is increasingly embracing and endorsing the QAnon conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to the movement rises. And a couple with a 21-year age gap have shared the details of their relationship- revealing how friends and strangers alike call their coupling “creepy” and tell them to “find people their own age.” 👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 schemes. In the American west, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney says after losing a Republican primary she's thinking about running for president. And your iPhone has a handy trick that can help you nod off to sleep. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 years. Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of pouches of Capri Sun in the U.S. after some cleaning solution accidentally mixed with the juice on a production line.
And a clinical psychologist has shared her top five signs that your relationship could be toxic. Dr. Kirren took to her TikTok account to point out that there are many different things that manipulators will say regularly, before decoding what they really mean for you and your romance. 💑
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 under his care have returned to court to speak out against him — this time after his death. Amtrak says it's working to restore canceled trains now that a tentative railway union deal is in place that avoids a strike. The strike would've devastated the economy and disrupted passenger traffic as well as freight rail lines because Amtrak and many commuter railroads operate on tracks owned by the freight railroads. And it was forgettable sex to the next level. A 66-year-old Irish man was rushed to a hospital with short-term amnesia after an afternoon romp with his wife. 🤕😈💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Buckingham Palace for the last time. The late monarch's coffin was borne to the Houses of Parliament by a horse-drawn gun carriage and trailed by grieving family members. And his nickname is “Good Boy.” A japanese man is going viral after spending more then $15,000 on a hyper realistic costume, so he could fulfill his lifelong dream- of becoming a dog. 🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 American west in Los Angeles, Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery. Media reports say the rapper, whose real name is Rakim Allen, was eating inside a Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles restaurant Monday afternoon with his girlfriend when a suspect approached their table. And dogs truly are a millennial’s best friend. A recent study by Consumer Affairs surveyed 1,000 pet owners and found that 57% of participants aged 27-42 love their furry friends more than their siblings. 🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 in the country. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And a grocery store worker has shared a secret that could keep your bread fresh longer after you bring it home. 🏪🍞
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 packages from home. The impacts of climate change have been felt throughout the Northeastern U.S. with rising sea levels, heavy precipitation and storm surges causing flooding and coastal erosion. This summer has brought another extreme: a severe drought that has made lawns crispy and has farmers begging for steady rain. And talk about a real kick to the groin. Prices of alcohol are rising nationwide, even reaching the bootleg market of the Big Apple as nutcrackers- an illegal boozy beverage sold by park and beach vendors around NYC- are skyrocketing to $15 a bottle. 🥃🗽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially lead to the death of another employee. In Washington, Former President Trump says he's in favor of the "immediate" release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate. His request comes hours after the Justice Department asked a court to unseal the warrant, citing the "substantial public interest in the matter." And Wendy’s is known for its delicious square burgers and sea salt fries. While their burgers are typically cooked to perfection, according to a previous employee of the chain, there’s a method to it. 🍔🍟
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 attacks is still in a legal limbo. The Biden administration is undoing a Trump-era rule that barred immigrants from getting legal residency depending on how they used public benefits. In the American west in Las Vegas, Investigative reporter Jeff German took on the powerful in four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption. But police say it was one of his latest targets, a county administrator, who fatally stabbed German last weekend. And avoca-don’t try this at home. A viral TikTok showing how to keep avocados fresh for weeks by using water and refrigeration can actually breed salmonella along with other harmful bacterias, according to the FDA. 🥑🦠
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 have arrested a man they say drove around the city for hours shooting at people. Four victims are dead and three others are wounded after seven shootings and at least two carjackings. And it’s an “I Do” six decades in the making. A British couple finally tied the knot a staggering 60 years after they got engaged. 👩❤️👨💍
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. And the battle of the bulge has never been more potent, according to new research that links weight loss with amped-up sperm counts. 💦🤔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 people who were missing after a floatplane crashed in the waters northwest of Seattle has been suspended. And a tattoo model has shared what happened when she got blue inking on her eyeballs, and the reality is grim. ✒️👀😳
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 killing. Holding little back, President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm about what he views as extremist threats to the nation's democracy from what he views as the evil force of Trumpism. And an 83-year-old pastor traded in his role preaching to a congregation to take up a new role as a pornographic film star, and now he says that sex can actually help bring people closer to god. 👴🏽⛪💦😈
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 school in the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many states saw significant increases in the number of students held back to repeat grades. And get ready for the FanDEWmonium! Mountain Dew has announced the re-release of its “fan-favorite” Typhoon flavor, a tropical fruit punch twist on the original flavor. 🥤🧃
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 last leader of the Soviet Union, who died at the age of 91. For many, he's the man who restored democracy to many European countries under communist rule. And it’s a good thing she loves him. A man put his wife up for sale in a humorous ad online while she was on a girl’s weekend getaway, likening her to a used car. 👩❤️👨👨🏽💻
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 enacted or looming nationwide, an Ohio provider has been referring hundreds of patients to its sister clinic in Indianapolis. And while superheroes sit firmly in the realm of fiction, one bonkers feature of the Marvel cinematic universe may in fact prove to be real. 🤯🌌
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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-threatening virus. In the American west, terrified shoppers and employees were sent fleeing for safety when a gunman entered a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon, "spraying shots" from an assault rifle, killing two people. And more than a third of devoted pet owners admit they were totally unprepared for the commitment- and mess- their furry friends would bring to the household. 🐶🐱💩
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Drivers entering the heart of New York City would pay $9 to $23 under a plan aimed at reducing gridlock in the country's most congested city. Details of the plan, known as congestion pricing, are contained in an environmental assessment released Wednesday. 🚘💵 The pastor of a New York church says he feels intimidated and harassed by Attorney General Letitia James after she wrote that she had concerns about the far right ReAwaken America Tour the church is hosting this week. In Indiana, authorities say three people were killed when a house exploded in the southern city of Evansville. And a woman shared that she was once stood up by a bloke she met on Tinder, but she got the best revenge. 😈
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, The fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill will pay $20 million to current and former workers at its New York City restaurants for violating city labor laws. 🌯💰 Former President Donald Trump, son Donald Trump Jr. and daughter Ivanka Trump are due soon to face questioning under oath in a civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer? Serena Williams says she's stepping away from tennis soon to focus on having a second child. Her lengthy explanation, in an essay for Vogue, is resonating with many women in sports and beyond: "Something's got to give." And love or hate it, the word “boobs” continues to be used as a synonym for breasts- but why? And where did this word come from? 👩🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Rapper Fetty Wap has been jailed after, prosecutors say, he threatened to kill a man during a FaceTime call in 2021, violating the terms of his pretrial release in a pending federal drug conspiracy case. 🎶⚖️ Gabby Petito's family has notified Utah officials that they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit alleging police failed to recognize she was in a life-threatening situation last year when they investigated a fight between her and her boyfriend. In Florida, the FBI has searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. And a picture is worth a thousand words, but for one woman, it was worth a lot of laughs. 🖼️😂🤭
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, authorities in the Albany area are hoping modern DNA tracing techniques will help solve the murder of an 18-year-old woman more than 60 years ago. 👨🏽🔬🔬🧬 In Portland, Oregon, the police chief recently pulled detectives from cold case and assault units to backfill the homicide unit, which is overwhelmed by a spike in gun violence. In major American cities, police departments are losing officers and can't find enough recruits to replace them. In Washington, The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package. It’s less ambitious than President Biden's original domestic goals, but it embodies deep-rooted party dreams of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing big corporations. And it’s beyond problematic for a guy to stop talking to a girl based on the career path she chooses to take. One woman who works in construction shared a rejection she got over her current job title from a man she went on a date with. 👷🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's late edition of #TheUpdate, New York state health officials have issued a more urgent call for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible "community spread" of the virus. Health officials said Thursday that the polio virus has now been found in seven different wastewater samples in Orange and Rockland counties. 😷🦠 A Black resident of Buffalo, New York, told federal investigators he anonymously tweeted out a fake threat to commit mass killings against Black people in his community, days after the May 14 shooting at a Buffalo Tops supermarket, because he wanted to see if racists would cheer him on. China says it is cutting off dialogue with the U.S. on a range of vital issues from climate change to military relations and anti-narcotics efforts in retaliation for a visit this week to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And a TikToker shared a bombshell claim about milk used at a Dunkin’ Donuts where she used to work. 🍩🥛
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, authorities say a fire sparked by an electric scooter's battery killed a woman and a 5-year-old girl inside a New York City apartment. 🛴🔋🔥 A former schoolteacher from suburban New York City has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years. In Texas, Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he now understands he was irresponsible to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax, and he now believes it was "100% real." And talk about sticker shock. A New York woman recently shared that her sister was reportedly charged $40 “for crying” at a doctor’s appointment. 👨🏽⚕️💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the polio virus has been detected in wastewater samples from the suburban county near New York City where an unvaccinated adult recently contracted the disease. But health officials said that they have not identified any additional cases. 😷🦠🌊 Two powerful House Democrats from New York- Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, who are competing for a Manhattan-area House seat- are declining to say whether President Joe Biden should run for the White House again in 2024. Kansas voters have sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights by rejecting a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban the procedure outright. And who doesn’t love a good McDonald’s? If you’re a regular at your local drive-thru, you might want to think twice before your next visit. A McDonald's worker has taken to TikTok to reveal what goes on during drive-thru orders, and it’s left people stunned. 🍔🚘
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have a lot to talk about on #TheUpdate this Tuesday. President Biden announced that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul. He hailed the operation as delivering "justice" while expressing hope that it brings "one more measure of closure" to families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. 🇺🇲 Locally, New York City and four states that sued the U.S. Postal Service have announced a settlement in which the agency agreed it will destroy packages of cigarettes sent illegally to the United States from other countries. Authorities have charged a man with lurking near the New York City home of an Iranian dissident with an assault rifle. The Republican Party's embrace of Donald Trump's election lies will be tested in Arizona. Voters are choosing between candidates who say they wouldn't have certified the results of the 2020 campaign and those who argue it's time to move on. And there’s nothing more annoying than getting a stain on a piece of clothing- especially if it’s new. And while there are thousands of stain removing products on the market, it’s hard to know if any of them actually do what they say on the packaging. You can almost guarantee, however, if you take the item to a dry cleaners that they’ll get it out. But what’s their secret? 🧦🧥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Officials in New York City have declared a public health emergency due to the monkeypox outbreak. The announcement Saturday by Mayor Eric Adams and health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan called New York City "the epicenter" of the outbreak, with as many as 150,000 residents at risk of infection. 🐵😷 A once-prominent neurologist has been found guilty on charges of sexually abusing patients while treating them with pain medications. Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping to subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students. And they might not complain about being in the doghouse now. A new survey found that pet owners actually prefer sleeping with their pets over their partners. 🐶😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, Police say a 70-year-old woman was fatally mauled in her backyard on Long Island by a dog that had belonged to her late stepson. 🐶👮🏽♂️ A former White House adviser under President Barack Obama has been sentenced to a year in prison for stealing $218,000 from a national charter school network he founded. A $1.1 billion lottery prize will be on the line as numbers are drawn for the Mega Millions game. And that was finger-lickin' fast. A UK competitive eater brought new meaning to “fast food” after devouring four KFC meals in under 12 minutes, setting a new personal record. 🍗
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, New York is inching toward becoming the first U.S. city to charge motorists an extra fee for entering its most congested areas. 💵🚘 Health regulators say nearly 800,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for U.S. distribution. The Wednesday announcement follows weeks of delays and growing criticism that authorities have been too slow in deploying the shots. New aerial surveys show that massive amounts of methane are venting into the atmosphere from oil and gas operations across the Permian Basin. The emissions endanger U.S. targets for curbing climate change. And even after all these years, a woman’s work is still never done, according to a new survey that found 9 out of 10 millennial moms would clone themselves to keep up with daily duties. 👩👧👦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 neurologist used his thriving pain-management practice to sexually prey on six patients, or if he is a victim of accusers with false stories. In Washington, Republicans Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas led the Senate challenge on Jan. 6, 2021, to Joe Biden's victory. But the senators have largely escaped the House panel's investigation into the Capitol attack. And you might not think it at first, but how and what we eat is often determined by our personality. While food cravings might determine what we eat and when, it’s our core personality traits that dictate the foods we like, and how exactly we eat them. 🤔🥪
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 decade, nine people have been charged in four separate and unrelated insider trading schemes. In the American west, the temperatures in Portland, Oregon, could top 100 degrees Fahrenheit amid the hottest stretch of a week-long heat wave in the Pacific Northwest region that rarely experiences such scorching weather. And for some people, going for a number two is the only time of day they can get some peace and quiet. But if you find yourself holding on until the kids have gone to bed, you may be putting your health at risk. One expert now warns that delaying your toilet time could wreak havoc with your bowels. 🚽🧻
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during a recent campaign rally told investigators he'd been drinking that day and didn't know who the congressman was. It turns out millennials haven't strayed very far from the areas where they grew up. A study released Monday by Harvard University and U.S. Census Bureau researchers found that by age 26 more than two-thirds of millennials lived in the same area where they grew up, 80% had moved less than 100 miles away and 90% resided less than 500 miles away. And Costco shoppers love the store’s low prices, but they can save even more by paying attention to the price tags. 🛒
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 in the U.S. could represent the dawn of a new sexually transmitted disease, though some health officials say the virus that causes pimple-like bumps might yet be contained before it gets firmly established. And you’ve just woken up from a strange dream and are wondering what your subconscious is playing at. From your teeth falling out to being cheated on, your subconscious is trying to tell you something, psychic medium ElectraSoul is here to tell you exactly what this may be. 💭
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 lawsuit filed by 18 states and the Federal Trade Commission. In Washington, The House Jan. 6 committee will hold its final hearing of the summer in prime time. Thursday's hearing aims to vividly make the case that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election fueled the grisly Capitol attack last year. And as thrifting grows in popularity, you might assume the reason there are no good picks at your local goodwill is related to how early you go, or even the day of the week. Well, a supposed ex-employee of the chain has revealed that there’s a different reason you might not stumble across a nicely priced Gucci bag or two during your shopping trip. 👜
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products. In Washington, Secret Service text messages from around the time of the attack on the U.S. Capitol were deleted despite requests from Congress and federal investigators that they be preserved. And America “runs on Dunkin” and devoted fans of the brand will be the first to remind coffee and donut consumers of that statement. However, even the brand's biggest fans might not know the secrets that can save shoppers money at Dunkin’ Donuts locations nationwide. 🍩☕🔍
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 course later this month. Overseas, Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered amid a heat wave that has seized swaths of Europe. And talk about a midnight snack. A first for undies, the FDA has authorized prophylactic panties for oral sexually transmitted infections. 👙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 reaching a trial. In Indiana, police say three people were fatally shot and two were injured at a mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him. And burgers are a classic favorite for many people- but it turns out we may have been eating them wrong all this time. TGI Fridays- now just Fridays- made the extraordinary claim that we should be eating them upside down for a very good reason. 🍔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 it's a school, a church, a movie theater or a grocery store, how and when do you reopen the site of a mass atrocity? A four-paragraph anecdote in a regional newspaper ignited a media fire over abortion that engulfed President Joe Biden, the partisan press and some of the nation's top news organizations. And a 54-year-old mother from Chicago has written a book for young men looking to land themselves a MILF- after realizing males in their 20s were secretly lusting after women more than double their age. 📙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 supermarket where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman is set to reopen its doors, two months after the racist attack. And doctors won’t tell you this definition for “super spreader event”. COVID brought a long list of new terms into everyone’s daily vocabulary, but Ashley Madison, the notorious dating site that caters to cheaters, is hoping to redefine a few key terms as daters continue their search for love, or just a good hook up. ❤️🔎
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs. In Uvalde, Texas, surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting enter the building with an AR-15 style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed. And if you have young children, you know the importance of teaching them safety. Author, motivational speaker, and mom of six Chauvon Landry recently shared a “survival tactic” that’s pretty unexpected- and people are loving it. 👦🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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" and "Ted Lasso" are in the hunt for Emmy nominations that could add to their previous trophy hauls. But they're up against hungry newcomers. And there’s a lot to consider when it comes to planning a wedding, especially when each decision has a hefty price tag attached to it. Luckily, the pros at Insider got some of the best wedding experts to reveal the trends that are alright to skip on your big day. 👰🏽💒
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 to cross from New Jersey into New York over the George Washington Bridge will now go through an electronic tolling system. Drivers who would otherwise be paying cash will instead have their license plates photographed and bills sent by mail. In Washington, an upcoming hearing of the House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection is expected to examine ties between people in former President Donald Trump's orbit and extremist groups who played a role in the U.S. Capitol riot. And this woman is proving men don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to getting out of wearing a condom. 🦵🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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, gun control and other issues without larger Democratic majorities in Congress, some in his party want more fire and boldness than the president's acknowledgement of their frustration and calls imploring people to vote in November. U.S. prosecutors have announced charges against a government agent and private investigator in a widening probe of an alleged scheme to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the United States. In Hawaii, a new exhibit at Bishop Museum in Honolulu is drawing attention to a more than 500-year-old story about four high-ranking visitors from Tahiti who healed the sick. And on a quest to help her boyfriend’s “lil minute man,” one woman has sparked big outrage. A TikToker drew criticism after she joked about slipping sexual enhancement supplements into her man’s drink. 🍷💊💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 announced Wednesday by Mayor Eric Adams, a retention bonus will be awarded in September for those lifeguards who work every week through the summer season. Overseas in London, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, giving in to irresistible pressure as a three-year-term that began with a bold vow to "get Brexit done" and a huge election win ended in scandal and division, much of it of his own making. And those with a dog have 69% more meaningful interactions- one to-ones which boost their overall mood- a month than ones without a pet. 🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 for a fair contract. Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America, the reality of America's staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in the deaths that never make the national news. These are seemingly mundane disputes that spin out of control and someone goes for a gun. And a top space scientist has claimed that he knows the best spots to look for alien life. 👨🏽🔬👽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 suburbs of Chicago, police say a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on an Independence Day parade, killing at least six people, wounding at least 30 and sending hundreds of marchers, parents with strollers and children on bicycles fleeing in terror. And she’s putting all her eggs in one basket- and paying off her loans. New Yorker Kassandra Jones sold her frozen eggs for $50,000, so she could put the cash towards her $167,000 mountain of student debt. 🥚💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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. Justice Department has launched a sweeping inquiry into the NYPD unit that investigates sex crimes following years of complaints about the way it treats crime victims. On Long Island, a teenage member of the MS-13 gang has pleaded guilty to charges she lured a 15-year-old boy to his death in 2019. In Iowa, stunning new revelations about former President Donald Trump's fight to overturn the 2020 election have exposed growing political vulnerabilities just as he eyes another presidential bid. And leftover pizza is a divisive topic- some people prefer to eat it cold, and others like to warm it up again. But if you want it to stay crispy, stay away from the microwave. Food blogger and air fryer recipe expert Farwin Simaak told Insider the perfect way to reheat your pizza quickly without compromising on texture. 🍕
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 as a "goodwill gesture." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, police say a 20-year-old woman was fatally shot Wednesday night while she pushed her infant daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side. The woman was near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 95th Street around 8:30 p.m. when she was shot. R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his R&B superstardom to subject young fans to systematic sexual abuse. A new poll shows about half of Americans say former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in what happened on Jan. 6. And spring was not that long ago, and the long days and warm nights of summer are underway. And whether you’re looking to plan a summer vacation, change your hair for the season, or trying to spruce up your summer wardrobe, it’s always good to know what’s trending if only to update your Instagram or TikTok feeds accordingly. We’ll tell you the five trends taking over the summer of 2022. ⛱️🌞😎👙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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, setting her on an expected path to win the governor's office in November. Mayor Adams has suggested that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani be investigated for filing a false police report for claiming he was assaulted — and publicly saying he felt like he'd been shot — by a heckler who touched his back Sunday at a Staten Island grocery store. In Washington, the latest testimony about the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has Donald Trump rebuffing his own security's warnings about armed protesters in the crowd gathering for a rally near the White House. And Olivia and Liam were once again America’s most popular names for baby girls and boys in 2021, according to the Social Security Administration’s annual list of top baby names. 👶🏽👶🏼
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 time in a decade does not include the name "Cuomo" at the top of the ticket. A judge has blocked New York City from letting noncitizens vote for mayor and other municipal offices. Republicans challenged the measure as unconstitutional. In San Antonio, Forty-six people have been found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in Texas. It's the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico to the U.S. Sixteen people were hospitalized, including four children. And since there are so many deals at discount stores like TJ Maxx, it’s hard to know where to start and it can be overwhelming. To provide some clarity, Taylor, a YouTuber and former employee, reveals five shopping strategies that can help you save money and time. 🛍️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 tomorrow as the nation comes to terms with last week's stunning Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. The slate of nominating contests could offer the first clues as to whether the political landscape has shifted. Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is bringing state lawmakers back on Thursday to consider gun safety legislation in response to the Supreme Court striking down key portions of the state's licensing law. In South Dakota, Governor Kristi Noem is pledging to bar mail-order abortion pills but says women shouldn't face prosecution for seeking them. And getting pregnant can be a battle for some people. There’s lots of information out there to digest when it comes to pregnancy, and it can be really confusing- but one expert has now debunked some of the most common myths. 🤰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, a regional governor in eastern Ukraine says that the country 's troops will retreat from a besieged city to avoid encirclement. The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian bombardment. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, governors, lawmakers, and attorneys general in states with strict gun-permitting laws are strategizing over how to shore up their restrictions after the Supreme Court decision expanded gun rights from a New York case. At the same time, Democratic leaders in New York are aiming to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public. Pride commemorations that sometimes have felt like victory parties for civil rights advances are grappling with a darker atmosphere this year. In Florida, today markes the anniversary of the oceanfront condo building collapse that killed 98 people. And quality sleep can be hard to come by, leaving us feeling groggy the next morning. If you're struggling to get enough kip, one expert has revealed how you can reset your body clock in just three nights. 😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell should spend at least 30 years in prison for her role in the sexual abuse of teenage girls over a 10-year period by her one-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. The New York City Subway will become more accessible to people with disabilities under terms of a settlement resolving two lawsuits by disability advocates. This school year was one of the most difficult academic years in the nation's history- and also the most violent. Now as schools head out for summer break, schools are taking stock of what went wrong and how to fix it. And NASA scientists are planning to launch pictures of naked humans into space in the hope of luring aliens to us. The depictions will also include an invitation to respond should an intelligent alien race find the space nudes. 👨🏽🔬👽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 housing advertising as its parent company subjects itself to court oversight in a response to a U.S lawsuit. In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July. In Washington, Senate bargainers have reached agreement vin a bipartisan gun violence bill. And we all strive to make our living spaces clutter-free and inviting for our guests. An organizing pro shared the simple nine steps to make that dream a reality. 🧹🧽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Market. In Harlem, a college basketball player, 21-year-old Houston Baptist University senior Darius Lee, was killed and eight other people were wounded in an early morning shooting at a gathering. In Alabama, their Republican primary for Senate pits a candidate endorsed by the former President against a candidate whom Trump previously endorsed. And this was no labor of love. An Indian businesswoman who defied her father by offering her arranged marriage prospect a job- instead of her hand- is sharing his enraged reaction on social media. 🇮🇳📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 train at the Avenue M station along the Q line in Brooklyn. Ripley's Believe It Or Not! is denying claims that Kim Kardashian's wearing if the iconic Marilyn Monroe "Happy Birthday" dress to the Met Gala left it with new damage. Retailers and marketers have been quick to commemorate Juneteenth with an avalanche of merchandise from ice cream to T-Shirts to party favors. But many are getting backlash on social media for that critics say is undermining the day. And a boss has divided opinion after allegedly forcing workers to sign a so-called SWEAT pledge. The contract, which is named Skill and Work Ethic Aren't Taboo, mandated employees not to whine and show up for work early. 📋
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 been charged with federal hate crimes that could potentially carry a death penalty. A prosecutor has told jurors that Richard Rojas, the man accused of using his car to mow down people in Times Square in the spring of 2017 made a deliberate choice to leave a path of death and destruction. For families divided along party lines, summer's slate of reunions, group trips and weddings poses another exhausting round of navigating divides. And everyone dislikes being cheated on. And thanks to this relationship expert, you may be able to avoid this happening to you- just watch out for these key warning signs. 👩❤️👨⚠️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Adams is going to endorse Governor Kathy Hochul in the governor's race. The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo. It's officially the end of an era as Microsoft has officially sent Internet Explorer into retirement. And it was being billed as every man's dream. A four-day orgy extravaganza that promised kinky customers "unlimited sex without a condom" happened recently near Las Vegas. 💦😈
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 communicate with their military. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, a jury has convicted a man of murder in connection to a 2019 store robbery that led to the death of NYPD detective Brian Simonsen, hit by crossfire from other officers' guns. In Lake George, police say a man and an 8-year-old boy were killed when a speeding motorcyclist crashed into several pedestrians. In Yellowstone National Park, officials are assessing the damage caused by a deluge if floodwaters that forced the evacuation of parts of the iconic national park just as the summer tourism season was ramping up. Meanwhile, more than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as a heat wave settles over states stretching through parts if the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, and east to the Carolinas. And she's setting the bar high. Wining and dining will be a must for any man interested in dating a TikToker temptress, known only as Hannah, who's going viral after announcing her "network" dating scheme, in which she'll have a revolving door of men treat her and a group of friends to free drinks and dinners all through the summer. 🍷🍽️👫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Tony Awards were held. It came the same night as "A Strange Loop", an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown. Roddy Ricch was arriving to perform at the Governors Ball music festival at Citi Field Saturday night, when police say that a private security firm operating a checkpoint noticed a firearm in the vehicle he was riding in. Now he's been arrested on gun charges. In Washington, a federal trial is scheduled e begin today for a father and son from Delaware charged with storming the U.S Capitol together. And experts have shared their top non-tozic tips for getting rid of rats, including a cheap fix sitting in your kitchen. 🐀🚫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 a chase along Interstate 95 in a rental truck loaded with stolen cooking oil and hit another car and injured a woman along the way. New York City will end its school mask mandate for children aged 2-4 on Monday, citing the subsiding threat of COVID-19 infections. We're going to take a closer look at the two far-right extremist groups whose members are accused of plotting for weeks to stop the peaceful transfer of power. And a Dollar Tree worker has pointed out a "mentally draining" customer request- but admitted they should have spotted the warning signs before accepting the job. 😯
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russian forces pounded an eastern Ukrainian city and the two sides waged pitched street battles that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said could determine the fate of the critical Donbas region. Russia claimed that it struck a training facility far from the front lines. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, Former President Donald Trump, his namesake son and his daughter Ivanka have agreed to answer questions under oath next month in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his business practices. That's unless their lawyers persuade the state's highest court to step in. A New York Republican running to represent a congressional district that includes suburbs of Buffalo, New York, shared and deleted a conspiracy-laden Facebook post suggesting a racist mass shooting in Buffalo and other mass killings were part of a plot to take away people's guns. In Washington, members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection are holding their first prime-time hearing to share what they have uncovered about then-President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And houseplants are a perfect addition to any home, they can brighten up and refresh any room in an instant. With this in mind, the experts at Clear It Waste Collection have investigated which houseplant is most suitable for each zodiac sign. 🪴♓♑
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, Ukrainian forces battling Russian troops in a key eastern city appearing on the cusp of retreat. But the regional governor insists that they are still fighting "for every centimeter" of the city. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the two democrats challenging Governor Hochul's big to keep her job criticized her past backing from the NRA, and the deal she reached to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer money on a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills. Albany City Court had to be closed for fumigation after hundreds of cockroaches were released during an altercation that broke out at an arraignment. It's the inflation you're not supposed to see. From toilet paper to yogurt to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices. It's dubbed "shrinkflation," and it's accelerating worldwide. And everything you do is a reflection of who you are as a person. Well, it turns out that the way you eat can also reveal your true self. 👄🍴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russia claims it has occupied large swaths if eastern Ukraine after a relentless, weeks long barrage and the recent deployment of more troops. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow's forces have control of 97% of the Luhansk region. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, New Yorkers under the age of 21 will be prohibited from buying semi-automatic profiles under a new law signed by Governor Hochul. Facing a critical need to fill casino and hotel jobs the Oneida Indian Nation said that it will make 50 new apartments in central New York available for hourly workers at below-market rents. Some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy after surgery. That's according to two new studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care. And in the world of ever changing trends, it can be hard to keep up with what's what. The latest fad taker TikTok is an exercise regimen dubbed "the hot girl walk." 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russia has taken aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine by launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad. Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit "objects that we haven't yet struck." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, a number of factors, including warming ocean temperatures, are contributing to an expected proliferation if sharks along the New York coastline this summer. A New York City restaurant patron has pleaded not guilty to killing a delivery worker after months of theatening the eatery because of a quarrel over a condiment. When tragedies like school shootings happen, journalists quickly follow, putting communities in the world's spotlight in their worst possible moment. Experts say there are things journalists can do to make the situation less burdensome on the communities, or add to the pain. And a former McDonald's employee has revealed what happens when you don't properly cook their world famous nuggets- and it's pretty gross. Despite that, he said he'd still eat them. 🍗🍔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in late February, he vowed that his forces wouldn't occupy the neighboring country. But as the invasion reaches day 100, Russia seems increasingly unlikely to relinquish the territory it's taken in the war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Locally, before they got out of town for summer break, the New York legislature has bites to ban anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle. The NYPD are looking for suspects who beat one man with his own hockey stick on a subway platform and slashed another man who responded to an anti-Asian remark in a subway car a few hours earlier. In Detroit, more than 750 Tesla owners have complained to U.S safety regulators that cars operating on its partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason. And divorces can get very messy. Divorce coach Sarah Woodward reveals the best way to survive a break-up while sperating fact from fiction. 👰🏽🤵🏽💔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Britain says it is sending sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine. The pledge came a day after the United States and Germany said they would equip the embattled nation with advanced weapons for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery. 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Payton Gendron, accused of killing 10 Black people in a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket has been indicted by a grand jury on a state domestic terrorism and hate crime charge that would carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison. The police agency that patrols the Port Authority Bus Terminal nhas agreed to stop sending plainclothes officers into its public bathrooms to try and catch people propositioning strangers for sex. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Police officials say four people have been killed in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus. Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish confirmed the number of dead Wednesday in the latest wave of mass gun violence occurring across the country. He also said the shooter was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. And kids are more complex than we give them credit for a lot of the time. Some childcare experts explain the nitty-gritty of bringing up your kids when all they want to do is misbehave. 👪
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, western nations are promising more and more advanced arms to bolster Ukraine's defense as its troops battled a grinding Russian offensive that was closing in on capturing a key city in the east. Germany says it will supply Ukraine with modern anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems. 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, but experts say that installing such a system in the New York City subway would be challenging. Ilene Steur, a woman who was wounded in last month'e subway shooting in Brooklyn has filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturer Glock. In the American west, Bill Cosby is again facing sex abuse allegations in court as a civil trial begins in California. And would you do this for money? 26-year-ild Jake Eberts agreed to drink a life-threatening concoction of a cloudy, salty liquid containing Shigella bacteria- which is usually found in the "poop" of people who are infected- all in the name of science. 🧪💩👨🏽🔬
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, in the most significant effort yet to punish Russia for the war in Ukraine, the European Union agreed to ban the overwhelming majority of Russian oil imports. The move came after tense negotiations that tested how far the bloc is willing to go to ostracize Moscow. 🇪🇺🛢️🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the NYPD has a real whodunit on their hands. Someone busted into the altar at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, known as the "Notre Dame" of Park Slope, Brooklyn, stealing a $2 million gold relic and removed the statue of an angel. New York state is now offering driver's licenses with an "X" gender identity marker. In Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger probably wouldn't have won last week's Republican primary without Democrats. And getting the best night's sleep is important, every night. Nicole Shallow is a behavior analyst, sleep specialist, and sleep blogger for Your Behavior Gal. She has five easy tips to ensure you sleep better and wake up feeling refreshed. 😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On the season finale of #TheUpdate this Friday, two days after Irma Garcia, a teacher who was killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, died, her grieving husband collapsed and died at home from a heaet attack. Joe Garcia was 50 years old. 👩🏽🏫
In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, Turkey's foreign minister says that Sweden and Finland must now take "concrete steps" to alleviate his country's security concerns to overcome Ankara's objections to their NATO membership bid. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷🇸🇪🇫🇮
Locally in Buffalo, a week filled with goodbyes continued for family and friends of victims of the racist attack on a supermarket. A New York appeals court has ruled that former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in the state's civil investigation into his business practices. In Hawaii, the Navy says that newly analyzed documents show 13 World War II sailors previously believed to have been unaccounted for after a Japanese submarine torpedoed their ship were actually buried at sea. And you can decide whether this relationship was for love, or whether it was for the money. A glamorous young model from North Carolina has fallen for a wealthy blackjack player 40 years her senior- but insists his big bank account wasn't a drawcard. 👩🏽👴🏽💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Javier Cazares, the father of fourth-grader Jacklyn Cazares, one of 19 youngsters who died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, says that police were slow to move in and we're unprepared. 👮🏽♂️
In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his conviction that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't win the war. 🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in the Highbridge section of the Bronx has sickened 19 people since the beginning of the month, with one person dying. New York City's planned ban on the sale of foie gras is being challenged in court by two upstate farms that claim it would leave them financially devastated. We're going to take a closer look at two issues from the school shooting in Texas. First, could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by the gunman? Could they have warned the authorities? Then, misinformation and conspiracy theories about the short began to spread online only hours after the carnage. And this OnlyFans story has a different sort of happy ending. 19-year-old Faith Lianne is speaking out about how the racy adult website has helped forge an unexpected bond with her parents- one year after they kicked her out of their house. 👨👩👧👙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We truly have a lot to cover on #TheUpdate this Wednesday. In Texas, authorities are providing more details about the gunman's movements and the police response to the killings of 19 children and two adults at that elementary school. 🏫👮🏽♂️
In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has issued an order to allow a fast track to Russian citizenship for people in two southern regions of Ukraine over which are largely held by Russian forces. Putin's decree could allow arussia to strengthen its control over the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Andrew Abdullah, the man suspected of abruptly pulling a gun and killing a stranger on a Q train has been arrested. Surges in COVID-19 for are causing disruptions in many parts of the U.S, but as the school year wraps up and Americans prepare for their summer vacations, many people have returned to their pre-pandemic routines. We're gonna take a closer look into whether mass shootings are just a thing in Texas. Including the victims from yesterday, 85 people have been killed in five of the worst mass shootings there since 2017. And people come in all shapes and sizes- and all these bring different health risks. Knowing what body type you have, and where problem zones might be could be helpful for keeping you in tip top condition. 👁️🏥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Russia can be reintegrated into the orbit of European nations if it finds its way back to "democracy, the rule of law, the respect for the international rules-based order." Von der Leyen spoke at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, 18-year-old Omar Bojang has been arrested in connection to the death of 11-year old Kyhara Tay. He now faces charges including murder and manlaughter. 48 hours in, Mayor Adams says that the investigators into the fatal shooting of 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez of Brooklyn on the Q train have very few leads. U.S births bumped up last year, but the number of babies born was still lower than before the pandemic. And a man is now explaining that he dumped his fiancee before their wedding after finding out she nearly killed their dog. 👰🏽🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, a Ukrainian court has sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a Ukrainian civilian. It's the first conviction for war crimes since the war began three months ago. 👨🏽⚖️🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, there's been more senseless gun violence on the streets of the City of New York- particularly in the subway system recently. An unidentified gunman shot and killed another passenger on a Manhattan bound Q train crossing the Manhattan Bridge. In the heat, a 30-year-old man collapsed and later died after crossing the finish line of the Brooklyn half-marathon on Saturday morning. In Indianapolis, a millitary plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived yesterday. And she's not real- but his feelings are. A "fictosexual" man who wed a fictional, computer-synthedized pop singer four years ago said that he's unable to communicate with his wife, but is still in love with her. 🤵🏽👩🏽💻
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, Ukrainian authorities say that their troops repelled a Russian attack in the east, as Moscow struggles to gain ground in the region that is now the focus of the war even as it intensified its campaign there. Battered by their monthslong siege of the vital port city of Mariupol, Russian troops need time to regroup. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the screaming people. Car tires screeching. An engine revving. These recollections are central to victim s' testimony at the ongoing trial of Richard Rojas, the man behind the wheel of a car that killed one and injured more than 20 others in Times Square in 2017. New York City public health officials say that they're investigating a potential case of monkeypox, a rare virus rarely seen outside of Africa that can cause flu-like symptoms. In Atlantic City, for people and groups planning to stay there, the resort's main union for casino workers is warning that "labor disputes" could occur if the casinos don't agree to new contracts by a May 31st deadline. And three might be a crowd for this throuple. A Utah cowboy and his two wives have opened up about the joys and hurdles if having a plural marriage. 🤵🏽👰🏽👰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the Portuguese government says that Russia is expelling five diplomats from its Moscow embassy, a day after the Kremlin also expelled diplomats from Spain, France, and Italy. The Portuguese Foreign Ministry said today that Russia's decision was "unjustified" and merely a tit-for-tat step after Portugal last month expelled Russian diplomates at the Lisbon embassy. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹
Locally in Buffalo, shortly before police say he opened fire, Payton Gendron allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary. She has four limbs, expressive eyes, and likes to scroll through greenery in this city. Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person? That's the question before the state's highest court in a closely watched case over whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal. In Washington, the federal government is warning law enforcement agencies around the nation of the increased potential for extremist violence after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion striking down the constitutional right to abortion. And this Hooters waitress has some pretty big tips- and they're going wildly viral. Slinging wings part-time is an apparently lucrative gig for 23-year-old law student Loan Fennelly, who raked in 10.3 million views with a clip revealing how much money she earns in tips during an 8 hour, 12-8pm shift on a random Thursday. 💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the Kremlin says that the Ukrainian soldiers at the giant steel mill in the port of Mariupol are surrendering. The Russian Defense Ministry says that 959 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered since Monday. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally in Buffalo, classmates and neighbors of Payton Gendron say that they never saw the violent and angry side that allegedly fueled his racist massacre over the weekend that killed 10 Black people. He was described bas quiet, socially awkward, and isolated in his high school senior year. Down the Jersey shore, an 18-year-old male has died while playing with his sister at a beach when a large hole they were digging in the sand collapsed. His sister was also trapped, but was rescued and treated at the scene. In Pennsylvania, Donald Trump's choice for governor has won his primary, but his senate pick, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is still locked in an exceedingly close contest that's still to early to call. And a group of flight attendants have revealed their top vacation packing tips, explaining why clothes shouldn't be folded. 👩🏽✈️✈️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the leader of a Turkish nationalist party that's allied with President Tayyip Erdogan is expressing concern that NATO's expansion to include Sweden and Finland will provoke Russia and cause an expansion of the war in Ukraine. Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Action Party, told his party's lawmakers that the most "logical" option would be for the two countries to be kept in "NATO's waiting room." 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷🇸🇪🇫🇮
Locally in Buffalo, detailed diary entries online appears to show that the gunman, Payton Gendron, wrote as early as November about staging a livestreamed attack on African-Americans. In NYC, health officials are urging New Yorkers to wear masks in all indoor public setting as the city approaches "high risk" COVID status. In San Diego, authorities vhave announced the discovery of a major drug smuggling tunnel- running about the length of six football fields- from Mexico to a warehouse in an industrial area in the U.S. And at this wedding, there'll be no boring people allowed. A woman has sparked a viral online debate after she revealed her list of 13 strict wedding rules- despite not even being engaged. 👰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Ukrainian border guards say they repelled a Russian attempt to send troops into the northern Sumy region, which is outside the current focus of fighting. The border guard service said that Russian forces deployed mortars, grenade launchers and machine guns in an attempt to cover a "sabotage and reconnaissance group" crossing the border from Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally in Buffalo, authorities say that Payton Gendron, the white 18-year-old who killed 10 people at the supermarket during the rampage that targeted black people, perviously made a threat at his high school. On Long Island, Shannan Gilbert, the woman who's disappearance in Gilgo Beach that worked an investigation into a possible serial killer, said that "there's someone after me" in a newly released 911 tape. We're going to take a closer look at a spotlight- following the Buffalo massacre- to a racist ideology seeping from the internet's fringes into the mainstream. And Burger King is giving away free fries- but there's a catch. 🍟
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We're celebrating the best of our 5 years by periodically looking back at some of our best moments in these specials. This is the best of Year 3 from February 2019-February 2020.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, a Russian soldier has gone on trial in Ukraine for the killing of an unarmed civilian. The suspect, Sergeant Vadim Shyshimarin, faces up to life in prison under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the customs of war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, three companies that operate more than 600 school buses in New York City are being sued by Attorney General Leticia James' office on allegations that they repeatedly violated bus idling laws and polluted the city's air since 2019. Tens of thousands of Columbians are fleeing one of Latin America's most populous countries on a migration route that has rarely been used. They're taking planes or buses to Mexico and then crossing the border into the U.S. In Tennessee, nurses have traveled from around the country to protest outside the courtroom where a former nurse will be sentenced for causing the death of a patient. RaDonda Vaught was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in March after she accidentally administered the wrong medication. And she never skips leg day. A Brazilian bodybuilder claims that her gym-hined legs are standing in the way of her sex life, scaring off men who have skinnier stems. 🇧🇷🦵🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the U.N's human rights chief says that her office has found that Russian forces and affiliated armed groups are responsible for most civilian deaths during the war in Ukraine. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the "vast majority" of civilian casualties have. Even caused by the use of explosive weapons, including heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and missle and airstrikes. 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Judge Arthur Engoron says that her will lift is contempt of court order issued against former President Donald Trump if he meets certain conditions. They include $110,000 in fines racked up for being too slow to respond to Attorney General Leticia James' subpoena in her civil investigation into his business practices. Mayor Adams is falling on the Biden administration to tank the federal firearms license of a Nevada company that sells parts and kits for ghost guns. They're firearms without serial numbers that have been increasingly turning up at crime scenes around the country. In Boston, legal experts and victims' advocates say that celebrity chef Mario Batali's acquittal on sexual assault charges underscores the inherent difficulties of prosecuting such cases nearly five years into the #MeToo era. And talk about being a picky eater. A recent study polling 7,400 vegans and vegetarians from around the world found that more than half of vegans (52%) and nearly 40% of vegetarians wouldn't consider a relationship with a meat-eater. 🥦 🥩🥓
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, new satellite photos analyzed by the Associated Press show that a Russian ship believes to be carrying stolen Ukrainian grain has docked in Syria. The photo taken by Planet Labs PBC showed the Russian-flagged Matros Pozynich at dockside in Latakia, Syria. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🌾🇸🇾
Locally, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is hoping that three American Presidents- former presidents Obama and Trump and current President Biden- can rescue him from criminal charges alleging he accepted millions of dollars from drug traffickers funneling drugs to the U.S. 26-year-old Lauren Pazienza, charged in the death of the 87-year-old Broadway singing coach in Manhattan has pleaded not guilty for manslaughter and assault charges. A judge also revoked her $500,000 bail. In Indiana, a sheriff says that the Alabama murder suspect and jailer who evaded authorities for more than a week were heavily armed and preparing for a shootout when they were captured. And whether you actually give a puff or not, people celebrated 4/20 by sparking up in celebration of cannabis. We'll tell you the list of stoner styles matched to each zodiac signs. 💨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Ukrainian officials say around 100 civilians still remain trapped at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol despite earlier reports that all had been evacuated. Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in televised remarks that those left behind are the civilians that "the Russians have not selected" and that the evacuees go through the so-called "filtration" camps. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, a civilian New York City police employee was killed and her neighbor critically wounded in a apparent domestic violence incident in Queens. The slain woman worked for the NYPD for 11 years. In Buffalo, the head of the company that makes baseball caps for the country's biggest sports leagues, Christopher Koch, was arraigned on a felony charge. In Louisiana, their supreme court is preparing to hear arguments on whether a ban on non-unanimous jury verdicts must apply retroactively. And according to a new survey of North American veterinarians, cases of pot poisoning among pets are on the rise and have "increased significantly" since October 2018. 💨🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin used a major patriotic holiday to once again justify the war in Ukraine, but did not declare even a limited victory, or even give a signal to where the conflict is headed next. His forces continue to pummel targets across the country with few signs of significant progress. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Richard Rojas, the man behind the wheel of the car that barrelled through crowds of pedestrians in Times Square, killing a woman and injuring 22 others, is finally heading to trial five years later. Governor Kathy Hochul says that she tested positive for COVID-19, and will isolate and work remotely this week. In Miami, humans don't know what they're missing, just under the surface of a busy shipping channel in "the cruise capital of the world." Just below massive ships, an underwater camera is sending a liveatrram from another world, showing marine life that's trying its best to resist global warming. And while Easter was a little while ago, one of the ways to celebrate is to down baskets of Cadbury Creme Eggs. But many people have wondered for years what the gooey center is actually full of. 🥚🍫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, a European Union embargo on Russian oil would be equivalent to dropping an "atomic bomb" on Hungary's economy and could not be accepted, according to the country's nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban, speaking on state radio. Orban reiterated earlier statements from Hungarian officials that Hungary would not support a new round of proposed EU sanctions against Russia if they included a ban on Russian oil exports. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, New York City will pay $10.5 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Shawn Williams who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned in 2018- it's the 14th overturned conviction linked to retired detective Louis Scarcella, accused of coercing witnesses and framing suspects during the late 80's and 90's. Robin Sarpong, a man who helped dupe dozens into sending millions of dollars to people posing as U.S millitary personnel in an online dating scheme has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. He also must play over $3 million in restitution, and lay more than $385,000 to the IRS. U.S regulators are strictly limiting who can receive Johnson & Johnson'e COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare, but serious risk of blood clots. And a woman who reportedly sufferers from sexsomnia has revealed how the condition can lead to some embarrassing overnight visits. The largely unknown condition is akin to sleep walking, but involves sex acts. 👅🍆😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Cinco De Mayo Thursday, Ukraine's millitary says that it's recaptured some areas in the south and repelled Russian attacks in the east. The bloody battle continues to rage on at the steel mill in Mariupol where Ukrainian troops are holes in tunnels and bunkers, fending off a Russian onslaught. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, a federal judge has refused to order New York to hold its congressional and state Senate primaries this spring using those district maps that were declared unconstitutional by state judges. The rapper Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing John Jolly to death on the streets of Midtown with a steak knife in August 2017. More than half of abortions in America are now done with pills rather than surgery. The battle over access to medication abortions will only grow in importance if the Supreme Court follows through with overturning Roe v. Wade. And this journalist-turned OnlyFans model is making a fortune by getting freaky with married men. Stripper and cybersex superstar Leanne Carr, better known as Leanne London to her 1,900 OnlyFans subscribers, swapped out her meager writer's salary for a staggering $148,000 in annual income by tempting sexually dissatisfied husbands online. 📰👅👨🏽💻
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Russian forces are pounding targets across Ukraine, taking aim at supply lines for foreign weapons in the west, and intensifying the offensive in the east. The Russian military said that it used missiles to destroy electric power facilities at five railway stations across Ukraine, while military and aircraft also struck troop strongholds along with fuel and ammunition depots. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Governor Hochul is trying again with a lieutenant governor. Representative Antonio Delgado will serve as the next lieutenant governor as the appointment was announced yesterday. As the mask mandates and vaccination rules keep falling across the country, infections from the latest COVID varients have been quietly taking hold in some places, sparking concern among public health officials, but stirring a muted response from pretty much everyone else. According to a five-year study of 317 youngsters that was published in Pediatrics, children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity for several years. On average, the kids began identifying as transgender at around age 6. And in another study, American men's penises are only 59th in the world. Their average length of 5.35 inches is shorter than their Haitan, French, and Australian counterparts. 🍆🇺🇲🇭🇹🇫🇷🇦🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, to join NATO? Or not to join NATO? That's the question for the leaders of Finland and Sweden- they're indicating that their governments haven't yet decided whether to join NATO, but are stressing that close security cooperation with other European countries in the face of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, in another court appeal, lawyers for former President Trump say that it's "unconscionable and indefensible" for him to be held in contempt and fined $10,000 a day for failing to turn over documents that he doesn't possess. On Staten Island, it's a stunning setback for the Amazon Labor Union as workers at another warehouse overwhelmingly rejected a union bid. In Washington, it's a Supreme leak of massive proportions. A new draft opinion suggests that the U.S Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. And according to a new survey, cheating wives are more likely to own a cat than any other pet. Tropical fish were next, followed by rats, hamsters, and dogs. 👰🏽🐱🐀🐹🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, a top-level U.S congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Warsaw to express gratitude to Poles for their humanitarian and other support for Ukraine. Pelosi and half a dozen U.S lawmakers met with Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Polish lawmakers in Warsaw. 🇺🇲🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, Broadway theaters are ending the policy of requiring customers to show proof of vaccination. It doesn't specify however which theaters are ending the practice. Amazon and the nascent group that successfully organized the company's first-ever U.S union drive in Staten Island are headed for a rematch when a federal labor board will tally votes cast by warehouse workers in another warehouse there. We're remembering a cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that's bhelped countless heart patients live longer and healthier. Dr. Morton Mower was 89 years old. And there are a lot of rules when it comes to dating. But once you've settled in, you may not know what rules to follow. Relationship expert Louanne Ward from Australia reveals the five common mistakes you and your partner are making in public- and how it may break down your friendships. 👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's edition of #TheUpdate, the German government strongly criticized the Russian missile strike on Kyiv during U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' visit to the Ukrainian capital. 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the funeral was held for 31-year-old firefighter Timothy Klein, killed while battling that house fire in Canarsie. In Albany, the task of redrawing those congressional district maps (literally) has fallen to a rural judge and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches. And are you a radiator, an actor, an employee, or a child in your relationship? Forget about infidelity and mismatched libidos. Psychologist Emma Kenny is explaining the dynamics that really spell doom for any couple. 👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Thursday's edition of #TheUpdate, Ukraine says that Russia's offensive in the east is picking up momentum, with several towns coming under intense attack as Moscow's forces attempt to surround Ukrainian troops. In another reminder of the horrific toll the war has taken since it began, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited towns outside of Kyiv where evidence of mass killings of civilians was found after Russia's retreat from the area. 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, New York City has passed one of the nation's most far-reaching requirements for employers to tell job-seekers what they can make. The law says employers with four or more workers must include a minimum and maximum salary in any job ad. In Albany, the highest court in this state- the Court of Appeals- has rejected those new congressional maps that were widely seen as favoring Democrats. According to a new study, Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070- and it's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans. These include the flu, HIV, Ebola and coronavirus. And who says that chivalry is dead? A TikTok-famous divorce attorney divulged why it's important for men to fork it over on their first time out with a significant other. 👩❤️👨💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin met one-on-one for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. And the United Nations says they agreed on arranging evacuations from a besieged steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, as the MTA deals with more violent crimes and plans to crack down further on fare evasion with more cops actually riding the trains, the NYPD says that 24-year-old Marcus Bethel was shot to death inside the Jamaica Center-Parsons Archer Avenue at about 4:30 Monday afternoon following a dispute with someone he knew. In Albany, judges on the state's highest court peppered attorneys with sharp questions as they considered whether to throw out new congressional district maps that Republicans charge are unconstitutionally gerrymandered. Apparently, the older you are, the less you fret about aging in place. It's a key insight from a new poll from The Associated Press and The Center for Public Affairs Research, which found that people 65 and older feel much better prepared to age in their own homes than those 50-64. And milk's favorite cookie has a new field of science dedicated to it: Oreology, the study of the flow and fracture of sandwich cookies. 🍪🥛
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russia has pounded eastern Ukraine as U.S Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin promises to "keep moving heaven and earth" to get Kyiv the weapons they need to repel the new offensive. Moscow has earned that such support risks widening the offensive. 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, New York Judge Arthur Engoron has found former President Trump in contempt bof court for failing to adequately respond to a subpoena issued by Attorney General Leticia James as part of the civil investigation into his business practices. The fine is $10,000 a day. The failure of security cameras at the 36 St station where Frank James opened fire just a few weeks ago is now being investigated by the MTA's acting inspector general. In Florida, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson invited a homeowner when shot a would-be robber to attend a gun safety course to "learn to shoot a lot better" to "save the taxpayers money." And China has turned the other cheek at Megan Thee Stallion's recent booty-baring Coachella performance. In the heavily censored nation, fans were able to tune in via the WeChat app, but moderators used a floating black box to cover Megan and her dancers' butts. It went over as well as you'd expect. 👩🏽🎤📱🇨🇳
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, after a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv, U.S Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken says that Russia is failing in its war aims and "Ukraine is succeeding". The trip by Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was the highest-level American visit to Kyiv since the Russian invasion began. 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, we're remembering one of New York's bravest. 31-year-old Firefighter Timothy Klein was a six year veteran of the FDNY when he was killed in a house fire in Canarsie along with another civilian when a ceiling partially collapsed. Juries have heard an array of defenses at the first trials for rioters who stormed the U.S Capitol. But retired NYPD officer Thomas Webster may have a novel defense of his own: he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer outside the capitol. Are eggs sold as free range ok coming from chickens being kept inside? It's a question that comes lately as farmers try to be open about their product, while also protecting hens from a highly infectious bird flu that's resulted in the death of roughly 28 million poultry birds across the country. And an OnlyFans star says that her Miami landlord more than doubled her rent- from $2,300 to S4,800 a month- after finding out about her X-rated occupation. 💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
As part of our 5th anniversary, we're looking back at the best of The Update over the last 5 years! This time, we're looking back from February 2018 to February 2019- with a few bonus Year 1 highlights.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to meet Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to press for fighting to stop in Ukraine. The U.N. chief will travel to Moscow for conversations with Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. spokesperson Eri Kaneko said Friday. She said discussions about a similar visit to Ukraine are under way. We'll also talk about how the French accuse Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali, Japan says disputed islands 'illegally occupied by Russia', and Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against a prominent opposition activist for allegedly spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this #earthday, there are mounds of dirt seen in new satellite images that Ukrainian officials say indicate new mass graves have highlighted the savagery of a wat that shows no signs of abating. Russia has pindes targets in eastern Ukraine in a new offensive to take the country's industrial heartland. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally in the state capitol in Albany, a panel of five mid-level appellate judges rules that state Democrats engaged in gerrymandering when drawing new congressional district boundaries for the next decade. A Chinese man has now been sentenced to more than four years in prison after he admitted he fraudulently tried to get $20 million in federal coronavirus-relief funds that were supposed to aid distressed businesses. In Philadelphia, health officials are walking back the indoor mask mandate, abruptly reversing course just days after people in the city had to start wearing them again amid a sharp increase in infections. And we can all agree that it was a bust. Less than a month after its launch, Warner Bros Discovery is expected to shut down CNN+ on April 30th. 👨🏽💻
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. The Mariupol City Council says as many as 9,000 civilians could be buried in mass graves in the village of Manhush outside Mariupol.
In a post on Telegram, the city council quoted Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko calling the site ”the new Babi Yar.” We'll also tell you about why the battle for Mariupol's steel mill matters, and also how in a new poll, many say that President Biden is not tough enough on Russia.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to claim victory in the strategic port of Mariupol, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war's iconic battleground. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the 4/20 celebration continues in New Jersey as their recreational marijuana marketplace is now officially open for business. Recreational sales of cannabis for adults 21 and older are scheduled to start today with the first alternative treatment centers opening at 6am today in parts of the state. In Syracuse, New York, there's a widely seen video of an 8-year old black child sobbing as he's being led into a police car over a bag of chips that was called "heart wrenching" by Governor Hochul. In NYC, we occasionally come under fire for sometimes releasing massive amounts of water a day from a key reservoir in the Catskill Mountains. But residents that live downstream say that the high flows can sometimes be so murky with silt they turn the scenic Hudson River into the color of chocolate milk. And the messking and protective "monster-in-law" is an age-old stereotype, but instead of blaming your spouse the next time you leave a dreaded family dinner, you might be able to blame evolution. In a recent study published in the Evolutionary Psychological Science journal, it found that both men and women report having more conflicts with their mothers-in-law than their own mothers. 👰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Cyprus is moving to strip citizenship from another four Russians who appear on the European Union’s updated list of sanctions imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Deputy government spokesperson Niovi Parisinou said Wednesday’s decision brings to eight the number of Russians whose Cypriot citizenship will be revoked. They're among 1,091 people sanctioned by the EU. Parisinou said their family members also will lose their Cypriot citizenship. Also, Russian forces are tightening the noose around the defenders holed up in a mammoth steel plant that represents the last known Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Russian forces have pressures a stubborn pocket of resistance in Mariupol amid renewed hopes today for an evacuation of thousands of civilians from the shattered port city. It's a key battleground in Moscow's new onslaught to take control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, The Supreme Court is declining to ease into a lawsuit filed by four NYC employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19. Lamine N'Diaye, the warden who ran the federal jail where disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was allowed to quietly retire from the Bureau of Prisons in February. In Los Angeles, one of the world's leading dance competition companies sell the dream of Hollywood fame to hundreds of thousands of ambitious young dancers hoping to launch careers on TV, in movies and on stage. But according to a joint investigation by the Associated Press and the Toronto Star, several dancers say they were sexually assaulted, harassed and manipulated by the company's powerful founder, famous teachers and choreographers. And when it comes to fast food, size really does matter. A number of Burger King customers are taking the fast food chain to court, alleging "consumer fraud" as related to the company's sandwich ads. 🍔⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Russia assaulted cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long and poured more troops into Ukraine on Tuesday in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. If successful, the Russian offensive in what is known as the Donbas would essentially slice Ukraine in two. In Mariupol, the now-devastated port city in the Donbas, Ukrainian troops said the Russian military was dropping heavy bombs to flatten what was left of a sprawling steel plant and hit a hospital where hundreds were staying. We'll also talk about how for Russian diplomats, disinformation is part of the job. And also, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged world finance leaders to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia’s war in Ukraine has made worse.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russia has ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. It's intensifying assaults on towns and cities along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides are describing as a new phase of the war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, to mask? Or not to mask? That's the question depending on where you live and what mode of transportation you're using. A decision by that federal judge in Florida to throw out the national mask mandate on public transportation across the U.S created a patchwork of rules that vary by city and mode of transit. We're remembering pioneering hip hop artist DJ Kay Slay, born Keith Grayson, getting his start as a teenage graffiti artist and featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary "Style Wars." He died of complications of COVID-19. He was only 55. Do the apps that promise to deliver you anything- Tylenol, iced coffee, a roll of paper towels, etc. - in 30 minutes, and some cases even 15 minutes or less- really work? Venture capitalists have poured billions of dollars into this latest pandemic delivery craze, but the experts say they're unprofitable, and bigger companies are muscling in. And a bride-to-be cancelled her "dream" wedding after finding a shocking discovery on her partner's computer. Imagine being engaged and then finding out that your fiance has been hiding a porn folder which included photos of your sisters and his co-workers. 👰🏽👨🏽💻🖼️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Germany’s employers and unions have joined together in opposing an immediate European Union ban on natural gas imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. They say a boycott would lead to factory shutdowns and job losses in the bloc’s largest economy.
“A rapid gas embargo would lead to loss of production, shutdowns, a further de-industrialization and the long-term loss of work positions in Germany,” said Rainer Dulger, chairman of the BDA employer’s group, and Reiner Hoffmann, chairman of the DGB trade union confederation. Their joint statement Monday to Germany’s dpa news agency comes as European leaders discuss possible new energy sanctions against Russian oil, following a decision April 7 to ban Russian coal imports beginning in August. We'll also tell you about Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen planning to meet with Ukraine's prime minister during this week’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. At the same time, she’ll be trying to avoid contact with Russian officials who plan attend some Group of 20 portions of the event virtually.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, we have a developing story regarding the mask mandate for planes and travel. A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering planes and public transportation as exceeding the authority of U.S health officials. 😷✈️🚍🚇 In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials say that Russian missiles hit the western city of Kyiv, killing at least 7 people. The attack came as Moscow's troops stepped up strikes on infrastructure in preparation for an all-out assault on the east. Locally, for many Christians, this past weekend marked the first time in three years that they gathered in person to celebrate Easter Sunday, a welcome chance to share one of the faith's holiest days side-by-side with fellow parishioners. In Boston, runners were gearing up for the Boston Marathon, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began. And are they magically sickening? The FDA is now investigating why hundreds of consumers have reported becoming I'll after eating Lucky Charms cereal. Consumers are complaining that they began experiencing diarrhea and vomiting after eating a bowl. 🤢🤮🥣
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Ukraine’s foreign minister is describing the situation in Mariupol as dire and heartbreaking and says Russia’s continued attacks there could be a “red line” that ends all efforts to reach peace through negotiation. Dmytro Kuleba tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the remaining Ukrainian military personnel and civilians in the port city are basically encircled by Russian forces. We'll also tell you about how a Ukrainian village is digging up the dead.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest information in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Russia’s bombardment of cities around Ukraine on Saturday included an explosion in Kharkiv that destroyed a community kitchen. Associated Press journalists at the scene saw the immediate aftermath of the apparent missile attack. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said three people were killed and 34 wounded by missile strikes Saturday in that city alone. We'll tell you about how Asia Muhammad and Jessica Pegula beat Lyudmyla Kichenok and Dayana Yastremska 7-6 (5), 6-3 in doubles play Saturday to give the United States a 3-2 victory over Ukraine in a Billie Jean King Cup qualifier. Also, WNBA players say life in Russia was lucrative, but also lonely. Plus, the elderly in Ukraine, left behind, are mourning.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest information in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine loomed over the traditional Good Friday procession at the Colosseum in Rome because the Vatican's choice of a Russian woman as one of the cross-bearers angered Ukrainians. Participants in the solemn torchlit procession in the ancient arena Friday night took turns carrying a plain, tall and slim cross as part of the commemoration of Jesus’ suffering and death by crucifixion. We'll also tell you about how Ukrainian Jews are marking Passover, if they can. Also, we'll tell you about a Ukrainian mom's pain at watching her daughter's burial on a cell phone. Plus, More than 900 bodies of civilians were discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces. That's according to the regional police chief, who spoke Friday.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday at the Mets home opener, the Mariupol City Council said that local residents are reporting that Russian troops are digging up bodies previously buried in residential courtyards and not allowing any new burials "of people killed by them." The claim however couldn't be independently verified. Meanwhile, unbroken by a Russian blockade and relentless bombardment, the key port of Mariupol is still holding out, a symbol of staunch Ukrainian resistance that has thwarted the Kremlin's invasion plans. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally in New Jersey, in an announcement on Twitter bt Governor Murphy, recreational marijuana sales for those 21 and older will begin April 21st. On Long Island, former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribery. In the American west, a wealthy Democratic donor has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for injecting two men with lethal doses of methamphetamine as part of a fetish that turned fatal. And never pass on passing gas. A 19-year-old Irish barista had to be hospitalized after her refusal to fart around her boyfriend for two years allegedly caused her appendix to burst. A video detailing the girl's gaseous fiasco currently boasts over 2 million views on TikTok. 💨⚕️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest information on the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. The Russian military sustained a major blow Thursday when the flagship of the country’s Black Sea fleet was badly damaged and its crew evacuated. Ukrainian officials say their forces hit the vessel with missiles, while Russia acknowledged a fire aboard the Moskva but no attack. The warship was 60 to 65 nautical miles south of Odesa when the fire ignited, and the vessel was still battling flames hours later while heading east, according to a Pentagon official. We'll also talk about yhe Russian warship now known as the Moskva began its life as the Slava, or “glory” in 1979 at the height of the Cold War in what was the Soviet republic of Ukraine. And, hundreds of Russians are facing charges for speaking out against the war in Ukraine since a law was passed last month that criminalizes the spread of “false information” about the invasion and disparaging the military.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Ukraine says that they've hit and seriously damaged the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet. That could deal a major setback to Moscow's forces as they try to regroup for a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine after retreating from much of the north, including Kyiv. Meanwhile, France may be thousands of kilometers away from the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, but what happens in the French voting stations this month in a runoff election between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen could have repercussions there. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇫🇷
Locally, we're trying to dig into the psyche of Frank James, the man accuses if shooting 10 people on that N train in Brooklyn. He's been arrested and charged with a federal terrorism offense. He left behind a trove of angry YouTube videos, and police were studying them for a possible motive. Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to forcibly kissing a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018, calling himst a "celebrity figure" who meant no harm. In Michigan, new video shows a police officer struggling with a Black man over a taser before fatally shooting him in the head while the man was face down on the ground. And have you ever wondered if someone you know has secretly gone under the knife? Well, there are a few secret signs to look out for. Dr. Anthony Youn has been causing a storm on TikTok thanks to his viral videos, in which he reveals the markers to keep an eye out for. 🔪💆🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the Presidents of four countries- Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia- are on Russia's doorstep, visiting Ukraine in a show of support for the embattled country. The trip comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to continue his bloody offs since until its "full completion." 🇵🇱🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, police hunted late into the night for Frank James, the gunman who opened fire on a subway train in Brooklyn. 👮🏽♂️🔫
Human-caused climate change made the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season even wetter. A new study in the record busy hurricane year found it was 5% rainier than it would have been had there had been no global warming from the burning of fossil fuels. The debut albums by the Wu-Tang Clan and Alicia Keys, along with the Latin megahit "Livin' La Vida Loca" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," are just some of the 25 songs, albums, historical recordings and one podcast being inducted into the National Recording Registry. And your iPhone is more than just a cell phone. It's your music player, camera and your second brain- and you can do much more with it using this simple trick. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. The detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow. Analysts say Medvedchuk will become a valuable pawn in the Russia-Ukraine talks to end the devastating war that the Kremlin has unleashed on its ex-Soviet neighbor. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine this Tuesday, including the latest details on the subway shooting in Brooklyn, and Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin's resignation. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🗽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine this Monday. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine this Sunday. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We truly have a lot to cover on #TheUpdate this Tuesday. There's been terror on the subway in Brooklyn. At least 16 people have been either shot or injured by gunfire and shrapnel after a lone gunman in a reflective vest and possibly a gas mask threw smoke bombs on a N express train and began shooting. A manhunt for the suspect is now underway. The suspect was described as a black male, 5'5, weighing 175-180 pounds. 🚇🔫
Meanwhile, Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin has been arrested in a federal corruption investigation. The U.S Attorney's office said that Benjamin was arrested on charges of bribery, honest services wire fraud, and falsification of records. 🗽⚖️
In the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, the besieged port city of Mariupol has yielded up even more horrors after six weeks if pummeling but Russian troops. The mayor there said that more than 10,000 civilians have died there, their corpses "carpeted through the streets." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
The National Urban League has released its report on the State Of Black America, and its findings are definitely not good. This year's equality index shows that Black people still get only about 74% percent of the pie that white people enjoy. And generations of humans have been fooled by the commonly accepted G-spot theory, according to new research released by leading sexual health experts. And in a new editorial, co-signed by the three top editors of the Sexual Medicine Reviews journal, it suggests that we refer to it as a G-zone- part of the five "erotic zones" inside the vagina, they write. 👅💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Slovakia says that it can't confirm that air defense systems it's provided to Ukraine have been destroyed by the Russian armed forces. Meanwhile, The World Bank says that Ukraine's economy will shrink by over 45% this year because of the invasion, which has shit down half of the country's businesses, choked off imports and exports, and damaged a vast amount of critical infrastructure. 🇸🇰🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, the COVID battle is hitting close to home as Mayor Adams has tested positive for it. A spokesperson said in a statement that Adams woke up with a raspy voice Sunday. He took a PCR test that came back positive. In the Bronx, Jeremiah Ryan has been charged in the fatal shooting of a teenage girl who was just walking home from school when she was hit by a stray bullet during a street dispute. There's a new type of blood test that checks for signs of cancer in healthy people that's now hit the market. One company is promoting it for $949. And she's definitely not faking it. An Estonian yoga teacher has learned how to orgasm "almost instantly" without any stimulation. 🧘🏽♂️👅💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
The latest details in the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office says approximately 67 bodies were buried in a mass grave near a church in Bucha, a northern Kyiv suburb where journalists and returning Ukrainians discovered scores of bodies on streets and elsewhere after a Russian troops withdrew. Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said that 18 bodies had been located so far, with 16 with bullet wounds and two with bullet and shrapnel wounds. Two were women and the rest were men. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll tell you about experts being set to travel to Ukraine to identify the war's dead, and how celebrities are going online to voice support for Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, the European Union has returned its ambassador to Ukraine to the capital, Kyiv, in a move that underscores the improved security situation there and the 27-nation bloc's commitment to the beleaguered country. Meanwhile, the United Nations says that prices for worle food commodities like grains and vegetable oils have reached their highest levels ever because of the war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇳🌾
Locally, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg says that the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practices is continuing despite a recent shakeup in the probe'e leadership. Amazon is planning to file objections to the union election on Staten Island that resulted in the first successful U.S organizing effort in the company's history. In Washington, it's a moment 46 days and more than 46 years in the making. President Biden will celebrate the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black woman to reach the Supreme Court, marking the pinnacle of her legal career and bringing the President's political story full circle. And one psychologist has shared a handy trick that may help you combat intrusive thoughts. The mental health expert, Dr. Julie Smith, took to TikTok to break down how the mind works when it comes to avoiding certain thoughts. 💭👅💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. European Union nations have approved new sanctions against Russia, including an EU embargo on coal imports in the wake of evidence if torture and killings emerging from war zones outside Kyiv. The ban on coal imports will be the first EU sanctions targeting Russia's lucrative energy industry over the war, according to an official on the condition on anonymity because the official announcement had not yet been made. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll explain what happens now that Russia is not a "most favored nation", and Pink Floyd members are reuniting to records a song for Ukraine. 🎶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russia's top diplomat has accused Ukraine of derailing talks with Moscow by changing its negotiating stance. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Ukraine had walked back its proposal that international guarantees of its security don't apply to Crimea. Meanwhile, a new report from Facebook owner Meta finds a big jump this year in disinformation and propaganda linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺📱Locally, a Manhattan jury has found rapper Kidd Creole guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2017 fatal stabbing of a homeless man in the streets of Midtown. Judge Jenny Rivera, one of seven jurists on the state's Court of Appeals, has been referred to a disciplinary commission and could be kicked off the bench for failing to comply with a rule requiring that all court personnel to provide proof they've been vaccinated against COVID-19. In Nevada, family members of an Indiana couple that had been missing for more than a week are trying to figure out how they got lost in Nevada's high desert. She survived, but he didn't. And men, are you up for the challenge? So far, nobody's been able to pass it. Gabby, known on TikTok as @respectfullygabby, has shared her strict dating rules for men online, which include paying for dinner and caring about her safety. 🍽️👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Britain says that it will end imports if Russian oil and coal by the end of the year, and ban U.K investment in Russia as part of a new set of sanctions in response to the invasion. The British government also announced a freeze on the assets of Credit Bank of Moscow and Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, and slapped travel bans and asset freezes on eight more wealthy Russians. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇬🇧
We'll also talk about how a senior Russian lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West, but appealed to citizens' aggrievement and wounded pride has died at 75. 💀
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that negotiations with Ukraine are continuing despite allegations of war crimes against civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Peskov said that the talks continued, but that the Bucha revelations- which he referred to as a "staging"- had happened talks and there was a "fairly long road ahead." Meanwhile, the Dutch government says that they're making sure that a dozen yachts ordered by super-wealthy Russians are not delivered to anyone as part of sanctions imposed over the war. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇳🇱🛥️
Locally, two corrections officers- Katrina Patterson and Krystle Burrell- have been accused if accepting almost $45,000 in bribes and smuggling contraband including cell phones into Rikers Island. A lawyer for New York City- Daniela Jampel- was fired after she crashed a news conference Monday to confront Mayor Adams about the city's mask mandate for children aged 2-4. In San Antonio, former Trump administration officials are pressing Republican border governors to declare an "invasion" along the U.S-Mexico border. And every parent has different rules they like to follow when it comes to their own children. One mom has been very vocal about the guidelines she's put in place that others don't valways agree with. 👩👧👦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the wine of recording Monday) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged all Spanish companies to completely halt business with Russia and called for tougher western sanctions against Moscow that would include a ban on Russian oil imports. Speaking in a video address to the Spanish parliament, Zelenskyy denounced the Russian atrocities against civilians in Ukranian cities, saying they represents war crimes for which Russian officers should face an international tribunal. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🛢️
We'll talk about how the U.S Treasury is banning Russia payments in dollars from U.S accounts, and how Army General Mark Milley is urging more U.S troops in eastern Europe. 🇺🇦🇺🇸💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to address the U.N Security Council after more evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently left. Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow's diplomats and weighed further sanctions as the expressed their revulsion at what they say are war crimes. Meanwhile, the U.N migration agency now estimates that more than 11 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine since the invasion began. 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally in Albany, lawmakers approved stopgap legislation to help keep state government running through at least Thursday as negotiations on the overdue budget are continuing behind closed doors. Accounts of book bannings and attempted book bannings, along with threats against librarians, have soared over the past year. In Washington, Republican senators Lisa Murkowsky and Mitt Romney say that they'll vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Biden's nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first black woman on the high court. And have you ever wondered what the symbols on your iPhone screen mean? Nestled at the top of the display next to the selfie camera, the icons are largely innocuous- but they can alert you if you're being watched or listened to by sneaky apps. However, there are dozens of other, little-known symbols that flag stuff you might otherwise not be aware of. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording Monday) on the Russian war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
The French foreign ministry announced that France has decided to expel "numerous" Russian diplomats, saying their "activities were contrary to our security interests." The announcement came hours after Germany said it was expelling 40 diplomats, and Lithuania said that it has expelled the Russian ambassador and will recall it's envoy I'm Moscow. No number was immediately given for how many are being expelled by France. 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇱🇹
We'll also talk about why Europe is balking at a ban on Russian energy, Japan's Foreign Minister is bringing back 20 Ukrainians from Poland, and also how Russian & Ukrainian ballet starts are dancing together in Naples. 🌍🇯🇵🥿
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation after new evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some western leaders called for further sanctions on response, even as moscow continues to press its offensive in the east. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine's invasion by Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🏆
Locally, a debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion in rental assistance from places that have been slow to spend the funds to others that are running out. Judge Allison Nathan declined to throw out Ghislane Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction, despite a juror's failure to disclose that he'd been a victim of sexual abuse. Jon Batiste won album of the year honors for "We Are" at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, giving him five trophies on a night that saw the '70w funk of Silk Sonic take record & song of the year, and newcomer Olivia Rodrigo take three awards. And a woman's beloved cat named Chai was sick and died young, so she spent $25,000 to clone her companion "out of pure love" for her pet. Kelly Anderson says that she "couldn't be happier with her decision," despite the daily influx of hate mail from social media and a scathing letter from PETA. 🐈😸
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording Sunday) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a interview with CBS' "Face The Nation" that Russian attacks in Ukraine amount to genocide. He says that there are more than 100 nationalities in Ukraine and "this is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities. We are citizens of Ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also talk about a developing story in Sacramento, California where police are searching for a suspect in connection with a mass shooting that killed 6 and wounded 10 others. Plus, drug shortages are persisting in Russia, even after the start of the war. 🇺🇸🔫🇷🇺💊
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording Saturday) on the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll explain what's vbext for Europe's national gas during this war, and also how according to the Russian space chief, sanctions could imperil the international space station. ⛽🛰️👨🏽🚀
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording Friday) on the Russian war in Ukraine. The secretary of Ukraine'e national security has denied the country was responsible for a reported attack on a Russian fuel depot. Moscow had earlier placed the blame on Ukraine. There was no independent confirmation of details about the incident. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll tell you about how the war fuels fears among draft-age Russian youths, and also how the Russian war sanctions mean a struggle for Cuban car owners. 👦🏽🚘
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, talks between Russia and Ukraine have resumed via video link. Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky published a picture of the talks underway, saying that "our positions on Crimes and the Donbas are unchanged." Meanwhile, African refugees say the recent decision to grant refugee starts and other humanitarian protections to Ukranian fleeing war underscores the racial bias inherent in American immigration policy. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🌍🇺🇲
Locally in Brooklyn, NYPD officials say that a 12-year-old boy was killed by gunfire as he was eating in a parked car with two family members. A judge has ordered New York's Democrat-controlled legislature to redraw the state's congressional and legislative districts after finding they were unconstitutional. In California, a woman has signed a bill into state law for the first time in history. Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis signed two new laws filling in for Gavin Newsom, who's left the state for a family vacation. And if you struggle when it comes to getting a good night's sleep, chances are that you've tried quite a few remedies to try and improve the quality of your sleep. One expert has come up with a unique way of ensuring that you have a satisfying smooze- for women at least- and it involves putting an ice pack between the breasts. 😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll tell you about how the seafood industry is bracing for the loss of jobs and fish due to the economic sanctions.🦞🍤🐟💵
Also, as Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations are hoping to gain from it. 🇷🇺👨🏽💻
And, the war has transformed a Ukrainian brothers' YouTube channel. 🎮🎥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Britain has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Russian media figures and organizations accused of spreading propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, a U.K intelligence chief says that demoralized Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and accidentally shot down their own aircraft. 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, authorities say that a Chinese man failed to register as an agent of the People's Republic of China when he conspired with at least one U.S law enforcement officer and others to force individuals to return to China to face charges. In Suffolk County on Long Island, authorities say that a DNA match has helped police solve the murder of a 20-year-old woman who was killed in 1980. The U.N Population Dund says that new research shows that nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide- 121 million annually- are unintended, which it calls "a neglected crisis." In the report, the fund says that over 60% of unintended pregnancies end in abortion, and an estimated 45% of abortions are unsafe, causing 5 to 13% of maternal deaths. And the FDA recently approved its first ever authorization of a condom specifically intended for anal sex to help reduce transmission of sexually transmitted infections. 💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say that Russian forces pounded areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv overnight. The attacks came hours after Moscow pledged to scale back millitary operations in those places. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how Ukrainians that are stranded in Hawaii are getting some help from canoe paddlers. 🇺🇦🇺🇲🚣🏽♂️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the Kremlin says that there was no breakthrough bin the latest round of talks with Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it was a "positive factor" that Ukraine submitted its written proposals, but added that "we can't say there has been something promising or any breakthroughs." Meanwhile, the U.N food chief is warning that the war in Ukraine has created "a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe" and will have a global impact "beyond anything we've seen since World War II." Locally, out west in Buffalo, three police officers were hit by gunfire after a motorist fled a traffic stop and led them on a chase through the city's streets, firing at officers from the vehicle. In heated debates at school board meetings and in statehouses across the country on sexual orientation and gender identity being taught in the classroom, the argument they repeatedly put forth is that they are trying to prevent children from being "groomed." In Florida, them and 20 other states have sued to halt the federal government's pandemic requirement that people wear masks on planes, trains and other public transport. And Tinder is going old school by reviving the classic blind date with a virtual twist. Singletons will have to woo with words and "put their personalities first" before they get to see what their potential match looks like. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russia's millitary says it will "fundamentally" cut back operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv, as talks brought a possible deal to end a grinding war into view. Russia's deputy defense minister said today that the move was meant to increase trust in the talks after several rounds of failed negotiations to halt the conflict. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also explain what would paying for natural gas in rubles actually mean. ⛽💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the first face-to-face talks in two weeks between Russia and Ukraine began in Turkey. The talks sare raising flickering hopes there could be progress toward ending a war that has ground into a bloody campaign if attrition. Meanwhile, a second front line in Russia's war runs through the farmland of Western Ukraine far from the fighting. It's an uphill battle for farmers to feed not only their country, but the world. Ukraine and Russia account for a third of global wheat and barley exports. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷
Locally, former President Donald Trump filed a sprawling lawsuit last week accusing his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. He accused them of conspiring to sink his winning presidential campaign by alleging ties to Russia. The setting of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite" is under threat right at the beginning of the play, when we're told that the famous hotel is facing the wrecking ball: "Today it has to be new. Old is no good anymore." And according to Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy, that might be fitting for Neil Simon's comedy-drama as well. In Arizona, a civilian who held sensitive positions with the U.S Army there and in Afghanistan led a child sex abuse ring that involved his own adopted son. An AP investigation found that the U.S Army and the state of Arizona missed it if ored multiple red flags over more than a decade. And while sex scenes may seem romantic and well-played on screen, they're not all that sexy behind the scenes. But of course, there are times during filming when things can go wrong and accidents can happen- including when an actor gets physically aroused during a simulated sex scene. 👀🍆💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. We'll tell you about how Russia’s leading independent newspaper has suspended operations under pressure from the authorities. Also, Danish brewery group Carlsberg is pulling out of Russia, citing Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for humanitarian help has been answered by the European Commission, the government of Canada and dozens of celebrities assembled by advocacy nonprofit Global Citizen, including Oscar winners Billie Eilish and Finneas, actor Hugh Jackman, as well as Madonna and top Grammy nominee Jon Batiste. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the country could declare neutrality and offer security guarantees to Russia to secure "peace without delay" in talks expected to resume tomorrow. Zelenskyy says that only a face-to-face meeting with Putin could end the war. Meanwhile, in a welding shop in the western city of Lviv, workers are adding steel plates and bars to support a machine gun to a donated pickup truck so a volunteer can drive it to the front. One welder says that "our victory depends on us." 🇺🇦🇷🇺👨🏽🏭🚚
Locally, Mayor Adams and city officials are planning to remove the makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring the similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments. In Brooklyn, the NYPD says that a man who shot and wounded a 3-year-old girl while she was walking with her father outside a day care had opened fire at another man who was putting his 2-year-old son in the back seat of a car. She remains hospitalized and is expected to survive. This really reminded us of the world of professional wrestling. Was it a work? Or was it a shoot? Will Smith marches in stage and smacked presenter Chris Rock during last night's Oscars after Rock made a joke about the appareance of Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. And this is dire news for guys who regularly enjoy adult entertainment. A new study has found that frequent porn viewing can have disastrous effects on men's sex lives- leaving them with low self-esteem, erectile disfunction, and an ability to satisfy their lovers. 👨🏽💻😈💦📉
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. We'll tell you about how Ukrainian students overseas are offering about relatives and their future. And also, without Russia, science is going solo on the world's woes and dreans. 🇺🇦🇷🇺👨🏽🔬🗺️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording Saturday) on the Russian war in Ukraine. We'll tell you about how the northern Ukranian city of Chernihiv is fearing becoming the next Mariupol. Also, a Ukranian fashion brand in the Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha is picking up and fleeing. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🏃🏽♂️👗
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say that the death toll from a strike in the besieged port city of Mariupol is in the hundreds- the deadliest baingle attack since Russia's war started a month ago. The public outcry for war crimes prosecutions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and top Kremlin officials grows louder with every attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukrainians to keep up their resistance, insisting that his nation is "getting closer to victory" each day. President Biden was in Poland to pay tribute to a country that took in more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees who filed since the invasion began. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
We'll also try to answer a key question: How would those accused of Ukrainian war crimes be prosecuted? ⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his people to keep up their resistance to Russia's invading forces, saying "every minute determines our fate, our future, whether we will live." During his nightly video address to his people, Zelenskyy said that "With every day of our defense, we're getting closer to the peace that we need so much. We are getting closer to victory." Meanwhile, Pope Francis is presiding over a special prayer for peace in Ukraine that harks back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia. The prophecy was sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🛐🇵🇹
Locally, less than 24 hours after he made the announcement that athletes and performers could be exempt from the city's vaccine mandate, Police and the other unions are blasting Mayor Adams for seemingly treating the wealthy and famous differently. As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales are flourishing in some Native American territory in the state. In Minneapolis, teachers have reached a tentative agreement to end a more than two-week strike over pay and other issues that idles some 29,000 students and around 4,500 educators and staff in one of Minnesota's largest school districts. And is your relationship dead with no hope of recovery? A psychologist has revealed five signs that your bond is over and the two of you should move on. 👩❤️👨💔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukraine's cities are under relentless Russian fire as NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the alliance to provide “effective and unrestricted” support to his country, including planes, tanks, rockets and other military equipment. Western leaders pledged sanctions and more humanitarian aid, but not as much military assistance as Zelenskyy wants. On Thursday, Ukraine officials said Russian forces have taken thousands of Ukrainians to Russia against their will, but Russia countered that, saying it's evacuating civilians who want to go to Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also explain how the U.S and its allies can freeze Russian gold. 🥇
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Ukraine's cities are standing under relentless Russian fire as NATO leaders are huddling in Brussels and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged then to provide "effective and unrestricted" support to his country. Russian forces have brought death and destruction to a large swath of Ukraine over the past four weeks, but they appear to have stalled in many places in the face of fiercer-than-expected Ukrainian resistance. Meanwhile, countries from Turkey to Thailand, Egypt and Cuba are bracing for the loss of Russian and Ukrainian tourists just as their travel sectors were looking to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, it feels like justice for Kyrie Irving. Mayor Adams will announce that he's exempting athletes and performers from the city's vaccine mandate for private workers. It'll be effective immediately. A prosecutor who had led a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump before quitting last month said in his resignation letter that he believes the former president is "guilty of numerous felony violations." We're remembering Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state. She died of cancer at the age of 84. And would you pay a playboy model to try and "honeytrap" your husband? Carolina Lekker is making a fortune off suspicious women who pay her up to $2,000 to slide into their partner's DMs to see if they'll be up for an affair. 👙💵👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. One month into the invasion, fire rained down on a shopping mall and high-rise buildings in Kyiv, as the outnumbered Ukranian military eaged intense battles to defend the capital and other key cities from falling under Russian control. NATO estimated that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began in late February. Also, the U.S made a formal determination that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine, as Russian attacks have left destruction across the country. As one woman put it: "People are being killed day and night." 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
We'll also tell you about how Simba the lion, and a wolf were safely evacuated from Ukraine. 🦁🐺🇺🇦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, one month has passed since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, and there have been no major breakthroughs on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. The capital of Kyiv shook with intensified shelling that sparked fires in high-rise buildings, injuring four people. Russian bombs destroyed a critical bridge that had connected Ukraine's encircled city of Chernihiv to Kyiv and allowed aid to get inside. Meanwhile, European governments are slashing fuel taxes and doling out tens of billions of dollars to help consumers, truckers, farmers and others coping with spiking energy prices made worse by the invasion. 🇺🇦🇷🇺💶⛽
Locally, it's a big victory for the little kids. Mayor Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school. Adams said that he'll make masks optional for those in daycare and Pre-K starting April 4th if case rates and the risk of spreading the virus remains low. Two years into this state's bold quest to eliminate pretrial incarceration for most crimes, state officials are considering abandoning some reforms amid the public pressure to curb the rising violence. In Miami Beach, city commissioners have voted to extend a curfew (midnight to 6am until at least Monday), one day after it was announced by the city manager in response to violent incidents surrounding spring break. At least five people have been wounded in two separate shootings recently. And NASA has admitted it may have to study sex in space if humanity is ever going to make it to other planets. A growing number of scientists argue it's essential for human survival non long journeys, or for moving to Mars as Elon Musk is hoping to do so by 2050. 👨🏽🚀😈👅💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. The fight for Ukraine's cities continued to thunder across the suburbs. The Ukrainian millitary says that after a firce battle, Ukranian troops regained control of the suburb of Makariv, allowing them to retake a key highway to the west and block Russian troops. But Russian forces took partial control of three northwest suburbs. Russian forces also used ships in the Sea of Azov to shell the embattled southern port city of Mariupol. Civilians making the dangerous escape from Mariupol described fleeing through street fun battles and past corpses. More than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the war began. There's been no word of a diplomatic breakthrough, as the U.S is planning to announce more sanctions this week. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
We'll also tell you about a U.S hospital welcoming the first Ukranian child for child cancer patients. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the battle for Ukraine's cities is thundering through the suburbs, with the Ukranian military blocking Russian forces from a key highway and the invaders increasing air raids that have caused uncounted deaths and destruction. The U.N said that more than 3.5 million people have filed Ukraine since the invasion. The Russian military days it will continue using state-of-the-art hypersonic Kinzhal missiles to hit key targets. Meanwhile, Germany's parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II, but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He was 96. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳🇩🇪
Locally, the 9/11 Tribute Museum, which offered guided tours of the World Trade Center site well before the national 9/11 museum was built is in financial trouble. It's poised to close withing weeks unless it can find someone to provide a last-minute rescue from millions of dollars in debt. State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett say that she doesn't expect to see a "steep surge" in COVID-19 cases as a new omicron subvarient grows in the state. The state averaged around 2,100 new cases per day last week, according to state health officials. Overseas in China, mud-stained wallets and bank cards are among the personal effects found in a mountainside where 132 lives are presumed lost when a China Eastern plane inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a fireball. And the steamiest "Sex and the City" scenes aren't on HBO- they're being dialed into 311. New Yorkers made more than 270 sex complaints over the past year, with reports of everything from backyard orgies, to the sounds of "loud, ruthless sex", to the grunts that one caller described as a "sexual-tyrannosarus." 😈👅💦📞
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. The battle for the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol continues to rage on as the war, now in it's 26th day, shows no signs of abating. Ukraine rejected a Russian offer to evacuate its troops from the besieged city, and the Russian bombardment continues. One 77-year-old who filed to Poland from Mariupol says that 90% of the city has been destroyed. Russia also has earned that relations with the U.S are "on the verge of a breach," citing President Biden'e criticism of Russian President Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that about 400 civilians were taking shelter at an art school in Mariupol when it was struck by a Russian bomb. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
We'll also tell you about how a Russian court has banned Facebook and Instagram on "extremism" charges. 📱👨🏽⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, the battle for the strategic port city of Mariupol is continuing to rage on. Ukraine has rejected a Russian offer to evacuate its troops from the besieged city and the Russian bombardment continues. The U.N says that more than 3.38 million people have filed Ukraine. Meanwhile, European Union countries are accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine, but the 27-nation bloc appears unlikely to impose new sanctions on Moscow despite a clamor across Europe for those responsible to be held to account. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳🇪🇺
Locally on Long Island, a federal jury will hear the opening statements in the trial of a woman accused of luring four young men to their slaughter by more than a dozen members of the MS-13 street gang. A federal correctional officer was arrested Friday for lying to investigators after a loaded gun was found in an inmate's cell at a federal jail in New York City- the same troubled lockup where Jeffery Epstein killed himself in 2019. In California, more than 500 workers at a Chevron Corporation refinery in the San Francisco bay area have told the company that they'll go on strike at 12:01am. If the strike shuts down the Richmond refinery, it could crimp gasoline supplies in the state. And there's nothing like getting your own back on an ex partner who cheated on you. One woman did exactly this by completely transforming herself and losing a ton of weight as well. 👫🚶🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russian troops have stepped up their bombardment of the besieged port city of Mariupol, with Ukranian officials saying that a strike flattened an art school used as a shelter by hundreds of civilians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier today accused Russia of war crimes over its siege, describing the attack on the city of 450,000 as a "terror that will be remembered for centuries to come." In his nightly address to the nation, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is interested in peace, and that ongoing talks with Russia are "necessary." Pope Francis decried the "senseless massacre," but didn't name Russia as the culprit. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how campus ministries are trying to soothe and rally students that are shaken over the war. 👨🏽🎓🙏🏽✊🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Fighting is raging again on multiple fronts in Ukraine, with intense combat in the besieged port city of Mariupol- site of some of the war's greatest suffering. Ukranian officials say their forces there are battling the Russians over the Azovstal steel plant, one of the biggest in Europe. The war is now in it's fourth week. Overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately creating "a humanitarian catastrophe, " but also appealed for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him for direct talks. The war has displaced 6.5 million people inside Ukraine, along with the 3.2 million refugees who've already fled the country. Ukraine says that thousands have been killed. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how an Italian baker is making "peace" bread and sweets for Ukrainian refugees. 🇮🇹🍞🍪
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we're playing the best moments throughout the years in best of specials! Enjoy the first one from Year 1- 2017.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his country's troops at a huge rally at a Moscow stadium as Russian forces continue to press their attacks in Ukranian cities with shelling and missiles. Russian forces pounded the capital of Kyiv and the country's west with missiles, and the U.N migration agency estates that the war, now in week 4, has displaced nearly 6.5 million people inside Ukraine. That's on top of the 3.2 million refugees who have already fled the country. President Biden and China's Xi Jinping bespoke for two hours today as the White House tries to deter Beijing from providing military or economic aid for Russia's invasion. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳
We'll also explain why President Putin is using World War II to justify the war with Ukraine. 🇷🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, Russian forces have struck Ukrainian cities from a distance once again, hitting sites in Kyiv and the west as their ground offensive continues to inch forward under fierce Ukrainian resistance. The war launched by Russian President Putin is grinding into its fourth week as his troops have failed to take Kyiv- a major objective in their hopes of forcing a settlement or dictating the country's future political alignments. Meanwhile, Britain's communications regulator has revoked the license of the state-funded Russian broadcaster RT amid concern that its coverage if the war in Ukraine was biased. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇬🇧 Locally, will he or won't he run again? Former governor Andrew Cuomo is dangling the possibility he may run for his former job just six months after he resigned amid sexual harrassment allegations. When asked afterwards if he would run for office, Cuomo told reporters that he's "open to all options." In Rochester, the World Video Game Hall of Fame announced the finalists being considered for induction later this year. Some of the finalists are Assassin's Creed, Candy Crush Saga, Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and many others. In the west, drought-stricken California is facing another year of parched conditions and pleas for conservation as the winter comes to a close with little rain and snow. Meanwhile in West Texas, low humidity and gusty winds are fueling multiple wildfires, burning homes and other structures and promoting evacuations if small communities. And it looks like dressing up as Ariana Grande is out this year for these grade schoolers. Japanese schools banned female students from wearing their hair in ponytails because the "nape of their necks" could "sexually excite" male students. 🇯🇵🚫👱🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russian forces were largely bogged downoutside the major cities in Ukraine have turned to shelling them from a distance, including dozens of confirmed attacks in hospitals and health facilities during the war, now in week 4. The World Health Organization'e director-general said that the organization had verified 43 such attacks, with 12 people killed and 34 injured. Officials said also that a Russian airstrike just before dawn killed 21 people and destroyed a school and community center in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv. In the besieged port city of Mariupol, the search continues for survivors after authorities say that a Russian airstrike hit a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how according to Russia, the detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner has been extended until May 19th. 🇷🇺⛹🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this St. Patrick's Day, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has entered week 4, with Russian forces largely bogged down outside major cities and shelling them from a distance, raining havoc on civilians. A Russian airstrike destroyed a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering in the besieged port city of Mariupol. The number of casualties remain unclear. Meanwhile, President Biden flatly called Russia's Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine, where hospitals and maternity wards have been bombed. But declaring someone a war criminal isn't as simple as saying the words. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
Locally, New York has expanded workplace harrassment protection for all public employees, and had banned the release of anyone's employment records in retaliation for speaking up about alleged abuse. In Oswego, police there say the mother and stepfather of a 17-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who was severely underweight and covered with bedsores when he died last year have been arrested in connection with his death. Drivers of bigger vehicles such as pickup trucks and SUVs are more likely to hit pedestrians while making turns than drivers of cars. That's according to a new study released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. And would you sell your body online to stay in this city? A new survey by Cinch Home Services found that almost 1 in 5 people would start an OnlyFans account in order to make enough money to keep living here. ⛴️👀👨🏽💻👅💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked Pearl Harbor and 9/11 during a rare and urgent appeal to U.S Congress for more weapons to stem the Russian assault. He's also projecting optimism that Moscow's demands for haunting the nearly three-week war were becoming "more realistic." The remarks came on a day that local officials say that a Russian airstrike destroyed a theater building where hundreds of people were sheltering in the encircled seaport I Mariupol. There was no immediate word on deaths or injuries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that a "business-like spirit" has emerged in the diplomatic talks, which he described as focused on a "nuteral status" for Ukraine's military. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
We'll also talk about how 400 bulletproof vests that were donated to Ukraine were stolen in New York City. 🎽🔫🗽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, as Russia's offensive presses closer to Ukraine's seat of government, missiles and artillery have slammed into high-rise apartment towers in Kyiv, leaving buildings ablaze and smoke hanging over the capital and its suburbs. But diplomatic activity is quickening, as well. Russian and Ukranian negotiators agreed to meet again today after a fourth round of talks that Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as "more realistic" than previous meetings. Meanwhile in Mariupol, the bodies of the children all like there, dumped into a narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of the city to the constant drumbeat of shelling. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
Locally, a lawyer says that the convicted swindler who claimed to be a German heiress to finance a posh lifestyle in New York is making a new bid to fight deportation. Anna Sorokin- whose scheme inspired the recent Netflix series "Inventing Anna" was taken into U.S Immigration & Custom Enforcement custody nearly a year ago. In the Chelsea section of Manhattan, an 87-year-old singing coach has died from head injuries after being suddenly shoved to the ground on the street. The NYPD says that Barbara Maier Gustern died yesterday as they searched for a suspect. In Washington, the Senate unanimously approved a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent next year. The bipartisan bill approved yesterday would ensure Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year. And your iphone is always learning new tricks- and a recent update has added lots of them. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russian forces continued to pound Ukranian cities and edge closer to Kyiv, in a relentless bombardment that keeps deepening the war's humanitarian crisis. Diplomatic efforts appear to be improving however, with Russia circulating a proposed U.N Security Council resolution calling for protections for civilians in Ukraine and safe passage for humanitarian aid. Ukraine says its negotiations with Russia seemed more constructive and Russia has stopped asking for Ukraine to surrender. Still, a convoy of around 2,000 civilian vehicles left along a so-called humanitarian corridor from the besieged port city of Mariupol and another 2,000 vehicles were waiting to leave. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳🚘
We'll also tell you about how women are heading home to aid the war effort. 👩🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russian forces continued to pound Ukranian cities in a bombardment that deepened the war's humanitarian crisis as the countries kept open a narrow diplomatic channel with more planned talks. The U.N says that the number of Ukranians forces the flee the country has surpassed 3 million. A projectile slammed into a 15-story apartment building, killing at least one. Meanwhile, there are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine. They're looking for a cause it simply to fight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country's defense with a new layer of resistance to Russia's invasion is for now a ragtag army. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳
Locally, police got both men that they were looking for that are accused of various crimes. In D.C, police say they arrested the suspected gunman who has been stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of NYC and D.C, killing at least two and wounding three others in less than two weeks. Meanwhile in Philadelphia, they've arrested a man wanted in the stabbing of two employees inside of MoMA. Officers found 60-year-old Gary Cabana sleeping in a bench at a bus terminal. In East Flushing, Queens, police say that a dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement has been killed in his law firm's office. 66-year-okd Li Jinjin was stabbed to death in the city where had long worked as an immigration lawyer. In a new poll by the Associated Press and The Center for Public Affairs research, few Americans believe there's been significant progress over the last 50 years in achieving equal treatment for black people in dealings with police and the criminal justice system. And Generation Z has declared TikTok a no sex zone. Users have banned together to form #CelibacyTikTok - a place where young people have decided to practice abstinence. 👅💦📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russian forces continue their assault, firing in suburbs around Kyiv and attacking other cities, even as the two countries held another round of diplomatic talks. They ended today without a breakthrough, but more negotiations are scheduled for tomorrow. Now in week 3, thousands of civilians and soldiers have died, and the war has forced nearly 3 million people to flee Ukraine. Some of the exhausted refugees have shared heartbreaking stories about leaving family members behind, with one woman simply saying "I wish this war would end." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how in Ukraine, female war reporters are building on the legacy of pioneers. 🇺🇦👩🏽📰🎤
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russian troops are keeping up pressure on Kyiv and air raid sirens we're heard activated the country overnight, even as both nations were expected to resume diplomatic talks. The attacks in the capital come a day after Russia escalated its offensive by shelling areas close to the Polish border. The war has also taking a human cost as a pregnant woman and her baby died after Russia. Umber the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. Thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed. Meanwhile, President Putin, according to U.S intelligence as angry and frustrated more than two weeks into a war he thought would dominate in two days. But Putin may also be preparing to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
Locally, the NYPD is on the hunt for two different men. First, the search is in for a man who is believed to have attacked multiple people who were sleeping on the streets of NYC and Washington D.C, killing two and injuring three others. Meanwhile, new video released shows a man identified as 60-year-old Gary Cabana entering the MoMA lobby through a revolving door then climbing onto the desk and leaping over it before cornering the two employees and stabbing them. Winter isn't through with us just yet. A late winter storm blasted the northeast with strong winds and heavy snow, sending temperatures plunging after first taking aim at the deep south. In Delaware, a trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America's proposed reorganization plan should be approved is beginning more than two years after it sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations. And Christmas can be a very romantic time, with many people proposing to their partners. But the situation veas very different for one woman, whose romantic gift left her more than a little disappointing. 🎅🏽🎁
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russia has escalated their attacks in the west, striking a millitary base in Ukraine where its troops has drained with NATO forces and bringing the conflict closer to Poland and the bloc. The Ukrainians said that over 30 cruise missiles were fired at the base located 19 miles northwest of the regional hub Lviv, killing at least 35 people and wounding 134 others. Police in Kyiv confirmed that a U.S video journalist, Brent Renaud, has died, and another U.S journalist, Juan Arredondo, was injured when the two were attacked by Russian forces. Meanwhile, in Vatican City, Pope Francis called for the Russian attacks to stop, "in the name of God." 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸
We'll also tell you the harrowing tales of Ukranian refugees, even as the number of refugees fleeing is easing.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Now in week 3, Russian forces continued their relentless assault on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, shelling the city's downtown. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia is bombing Mariupol "24 hours a day." And as Russian units also fanned out to prepare for an assault on Kyiv, Zelenskyy urged his people to continue their resistance, saying that Russia would need to carpet-bomb Kyiv and kill its residents to take the city. The war has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also explain what the European Union is doing to help the Ukrainian refugees. 🇪🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording Friday) on the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Russian forces expanded their offensive in Ukraine today, striking new areas in the west, while President Vladimir Putin approved the recruitment of "volunteers" from Syria and elsewhere to join the fight. Sanctions against Russia are mounting, and the U.S and its allies downgraded Russia's trade status. Meanwhile, Russia's baseless claims that the U.S is conducting "biological activities" in Ukraine persist. At a meeting of the U.N Security Council, the U.S said that Russia was lying and spreading disinformation. Both Washington and Kyiv have denied that bioweapons are being made. The war has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee Ukraine as others are seeking refuge in basements, subway stations and underground shelters. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇸🇾
We'll also tell you how Russia is widening their social media crackdown by blocking Instagram. 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Friday's editon of #TheUpdate, as the Russian war in Ukraine enters week 3, President Vladimir Putin approved bringing "volunteer" fighters from the Middle Easy and elsewhere to join the war. Russian forces appeared to be expanding their offensive, striking new areas in the west. As the war grinds on, Ukraine says 100,000 people were evacuated over the past two days in a total of seven cities in the north and center of the country. Meanwhile, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war arriving in the Polish capital. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱Locally, an 83-year-old ex-convict who spent decades behind bars for killing two women is now charged in the dismemberment of a Brooklyn woman. Harvey Marcelin was arrested last week on a charge of concealing a human corpse after being recorded on surveillance video abandoning a bag containing the victim's torso. After two years of the pandemic battering the city, Mayor Adams is hoping to steer it towards an economic revival by luring tourists back, beautifying the streets, and embracing the looking legal pot industry, unveiling an economic development plan that he said would usher in a "New New York." Speaking of, on the two-year anniversary of the start of the pandemic, people are shedding their masks and getting back to normal as COVID-19 deaths and cases plummet. Meanwhile, federal officials are extending the requirement for masks on planes and public transportation through mid-April while taking steps that could lead to lifting the rule. And are you sick of always missing the postman? Or don't feel comfortable answering the door to someone you don't know? Either way, these are just some reasons why people install video doorbells outside their homes- but they also come in handy if you're worried about what your partner might be up to when you're not there. 🚪🎥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. It now enters week 3, with Russian forces continuing to bombard major cities and desperate civilians hoping to escape through agreed-upon safe corridors. Thousands of people have been killed, and more than 2.3 million have filed since the invasion began. Encircled cities have been suffering from shortages of food, medicine, heat and electricity, and thousands of trapped civilians were hoping to leave today during temporary cease-fires the two side agreed to- though most past attempts failed because of continued Russian shelling. The countries' top diplomats met in Turkey for the highest-level talks since the invasion began, but they couldn't find common ground. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷
And we'll tell you about how the war has prompted some of America's most prominent evangelical leaders to raise the question over whether the world is now in the "end of days". ✝️⛪
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 99 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, civilians trapped in besieged or destroyed cities and towns in Ukraine are suffering from electricity outages, food shortages and other vital services. Thousands are hoping to find relief through safe exits today agreed upon by Ukraine and Russia. 35,000 people already have been able to flee through these safe corridors. But, a Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three and wounded 17 others drew outrage. Among the wounded included women that were pregnant and children buried in the rubble. Meanwhile, colleges across the U.S are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, and ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion. At the same time, colleges have promised to support Russian students in their campuses, opposing calls from so in Congress to remove them from the country. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🤰🏽👨🏽🎓
Locally, the first licences to sell recreational marijuana in New York will go to people who were casualties of the war on drugs. We're remembering Charles Edward Entenmann, who helped then his family's New York-based bakery into a national brand. He's died at the age of 92. He's a grandson of William Entenmann, a German immigrant who founded a bakery in Brooklyn in 1898. You may have heard of it. In Chicago, Jussie Smollett is scheduled to return to court to learn if a judge will order him locked up for his conviction if lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated, or allow him to remain free. And Naia Okami works as an online investigator, but spiritually, identifies as a wolf. While she acknowledges that her body is in fact human, she told the UK daytime show "This Morning" that she psychologically believes that she's a British Columbian wolf. 👩🏽🇬🇧
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the lastest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukraine authorities bsat that a Russian airstrike hit a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, wounding at least 17 people in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called "an atrocity". The attack today came amid hopes for mass-evacuations of civilians from several Ukrainian cities, including Mariupol, which has been without food, water, and power for several days, and who've started to hurt bridges in a mass grave because its morgues are full. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🥪🚱🔌 Also, we'll explain what's behind the latest scare at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. ☢️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 98 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, efforts are still ongoing to coordinate safe routes of escape for Ukrainian civilians out of besieged cities as the invasion rounds out its second week. In the time since the invasion began, some 2 million people have filed Ukraine. Officials say that more people will be able to leave the port of Sumy today through a humanitarian corridor Russia and Ukraine agreed to. Meanwhile, of the more than 2 million who've fled, children make up more than 1 million of them. 🇷🇺🇺🇦👦👧
Locally, two modest rooms in New York City are the first places in the country where local officials are allowing illicit drug use in order to make it less deadly. Supporters of supervised injection sites see them as humane responses to a national surge in overdose deaths, while critics see them as illegal and defeatist. In Central Park, plumes of white smoke from multiple brush fires went spiraling up from the northern end, and authorities said they were investigating the possibility that arson was to blame. Multiple pockets of fire were extinguished and there were no injuries. In Minneapolis, teachers have hit the picket lines at public schools, calling their strike a fight to ensure "safe and stable schools" for students and for better wages for the lowest-paid support staff. But many families of the 29,000 students in one of Minnesota's largest school districts are worried. And a North Carolina woman has revealed that she's still married to her husband despite coming out as a lesbian two years ago- and she says that she and her spouse now go out on the town to pick up women together. 👩❤️👨👭
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. U.N. officials say 2 million people have fled Ukraine in the two weeks since the invasion began. As the cross-border exodus from Ukraine continued today, the humanitarian situation in the country’s besieged cities is growing worse, including in Mariupol, where bodies lay uncollected in the streets and hopes for a mass-evacuation of civilians were dashed yet again. A Ukrainian government official says 5,000 people, including hundreds of foreign nationals, did manage to leave the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy through a humanitarian corridor Russia and Ukraine agreed to Monday. They were driven by bus southwest to the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Meanwhile, President Biden announced a U.S. ban on Russian oil imports. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇲
Also, we'll explain what a U.S ban on Russian oil will accomplish. 🛢️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Happy International Women's Day to the women in our lives, and those who made- and continue to make- history every day! ♀️ It's also Day 97 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, A U.N agency and others tracking migration say that 2 million people have filed Ukraine in the two weeks since the invasion began. Russia and Ukraine agreed on establishing safe corridors for epole to escape the fighting. People from one eastern city were seen boarding buses amid the 12-hour-long cease fire there to allow for evacuations. Ukrainian officials say that Russian aircraft bomber cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, and as the war enters day 13, food, water, heating and medicine are growing increasingly scarce. Meanwhile, today is a global day to celebrate women, but many fleeing Ukraine feel only the stress of finding a new life for their children as husbands, brothers, and father's stay behind to defend their country from the invasion. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳
Locally, Judge Allison Nathan is set to question one of the jurors who conviction the British socialite Ghislane Maxwell of helping the millionaire Jeffery Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. It's a new world in New York City as they've shed major COVID-19 precautions. Masks are now optional in city schools, and restaurants and other businesses can stop asking patrons for proof of vaccination. Businesses can require vaccination if the choose to. MacKale McGuire, a cancer survivor who lost a leg, recently took the stage on his small northern Michigan hometown to star in his school's performance of Disney's "High School Musical." A show that's heavy on dancing was a particular challenge for him because he uses a prosthetic. 🎭👨🏽🎤
And what would happen if an asteroid we're to crash into the earth today? It isn't gonna happen anytime soon, but depending on the size of the space rock, an asteroid impact could be an extinction level event, and researchers have created simulations to see how bad it could be. ☄️🌎🦕
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian delegations resumed talks following failed attempts to begin evacuating civilians from besieged Ukrainian cities. After the first two attempts failed over the weekend, Russia announced another limited cease-fire that would allow desperate civilians to flee encircled cities through humanitarian corridors. A Ukrainian official said that today's talks with Russia yielded a little progress toward evacuations issue and that he hopes safe corridors will be "fully functional" by tomorrow. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his people to keep resisting the assault, which U.N officials say has forced more than 1.7 million people to flee Ukraine. Zelenskyy also called for a global boycott of all Russian products, including oil. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳
We'll also attempt to explain the humanitarian corridors- what they are, how they were used in Syria, and if they were actually effective.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
This is the first time without me wearing a mask since April 15, 2020. It's been a long time coming. 😷
It's also Day 96 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters Day 12 following what Ukrainian authorities described as increased shelling of encircled cities and another failed attempt to evacuate civilians from the port of Mariupol. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine starting today- two previous cease-fire attempts have failed. Meanwhile, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today that the government would speed through new legislation that would allow New Zealand to target people, companies, and assets connected to those in Russia associated with the Ukrainian invasion. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇳🇿
Locally, just six months after he resigned from office in disgrace over sexual harrassment allegations, former governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to be hinting at a political comeback in remarks at a t Brooklyn church Sunday. He offered no specifics. The likelihood of additional casinos opening in New York City concerns Atlantic City's casino bosses, but they feel there is still time to fix the seaside gambling resort's woes before that happens. In Florida, huge wildfires have forced veterans at a 120-bed nursing home to evacuate. Meanwhile in Iowa, authorities there say seven people are dead after tornadoes swept through, destroying homes, knocking down trees, and toppling power lines in the deadliest storm in the state since 2008. And an employee of Chick-fil-A has revealed items people can order on a supposed secret menu. It include a spicy chicken biscuit, a specialty coffee, and more. 🍔☕
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. On Day 11, Russian troops shelled the encircled cities, and it appeared that a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol had failed due to the continuing violence. Ukrainian officials had said that the shelling disrupted what was supposed to be a cease-fire beginning at noon local time, when a pro-Russian official said that safe-passage corridors we're to have opened. The number of Ukrainians forced from their country increased to 1.5 million, and as the Kremlin's rhetoric grows, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy. He likened the West's sanctions on Russia to "declaring war." 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll also tell you about how the Russian war in the world's "breadbasket" is threatening the food supply. 🍞
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. As it enters day 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin earned that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy and pinned the blame for the war on Ukrainian leadership. Undeterred, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians to resist and fight back. He also made a desperate plea to U.S senators to help his country get more planes. His plea comes as Russian forces continue to batter strategic locations with missiles and artillery, and also after NATO's refusal to impose a no-fly zone. Ukrainian officials also said that shelling had halted the work to evacuate civilians from two cities as a cease-fire deal quickly fell apart just hours after Russia announced it. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇲
We'll also tell you about President Putin's narrative argument for the Ukraine war.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. U.N and Ukrainian officials say that no radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility. More than 1.2 million people have fled to neighboring countries, according to the U.N refugee agency. 🇺🇳🇺🇦
NATO is refusing to police a no-fly zone over Ukraine, and we'll explain why it's unlikely to work.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 93 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, Russian forces have taken over the strategic port city of Kherson and shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant in another city, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight. In Belarus, Ukrainian and Russian delegates met and agreed to provide safe corridors to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, the Newark City Council voted unanimously to suspend two Lukoil gas stations' operating licences, citing Lukoil's base in Moscow. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱⛽
Locally, OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma had reached a nationwide settlement over it'se role in the opioid crisis. The deal announced would require members of the Sackler family who own the drugmaker to pay as much as $6 billion in cash. In exchange, they'll be protected from current and future lawsuits. Monday will be a whole new world in New York City, as the vaccine mandate for restaurants, sports and cultural venues and the mask mandate inside public schools are going away. Individual businesses can still decide to keep mandates in place if they choose, but the city will no longer require that they check guests' vaccine cards. In a Chicago area jail, a novel gang-cessation and jobs program is giving inmates a chance to escape their gang lives. A focus of the program at the DuPage County Jail is a new tattoo-removal wing where program participants remove or cover their gang tattoos to prove they're serious about wanting out of their gangs. And you probably use WhatsApp every day- but there are some clever tricks you may have missed. A popular TikTok video has revealed some of the best. If you're a regular user, it's work knowing these tricks.📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the lastest developments (at time of recording) of the Russian war in Ukraine. The Russians have seized the strategic seaport of Kherson and are besieging another even as the two sides held talks in Belarus. The tealks were the second round of face-to-face discussions since the invasion started, resulting in safe corridors being established to safely evacuate civilians. The Pentagon has established a channel of direct communication with the Russian minestry of defense to avoid unintended conflict related to the war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
And we'll also tell you about how you can help Ukrainians affected by the invasion.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 92 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Russia and Ukraine are expected to hold a second round of talks today in Belarus, but there appears to be little common ground between the two sides. The number of people who have filed Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on February 24th has reached 1 million. Meanwhile, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from competing at the Paralympics because of their countries' roles in the war in Ukraine in a swift reversal. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
Locally, prosecutors say that they'll likely offer immunity to a juror in the Ghislane Maxwell trial to force his testimony about why he said during jury selection that he'd never suffered sexual abuse only to later tell the media that he had. It also comes after the juror said he'll invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when Judge Allison Nathan questions him at a hearing next week. New York could legalize to-go sales of cocktails, bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages under a proposal Governor Hochul boosted at a Brooklyn wine bar. State liquor regulators would have the power to limit how much wine and liquors restaurants and bars could sell in New York, where local laws prohibiting open containers of alcohol in public are widespread. In California, the adoptive parents of two small boys who were reported missing in 2020 have been charged with killing the children, although their bodies still haven't been found. Kern County DA Cynthia Zimmer announced that Trezell West and Jacqueline West were arrested on murder and other charges in a grand jury indictment. And are you not sure what to get at McDonald's? Just combine a Big Mac, a McChicken and a Filet-O-Fish into a single, giant sandwich. They're rolling out "menu hacks" where customers can choose from four different combinations of their favorites- and which some weaker stomachs might find intimidating. 🍔🍗🐟
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine day that they're prepared to hold talks for the second time since the invasion began last week. The talks are expected to take place tomorrow in Belarus, according to the head of the Russian delegation. Meanwhile, the U.N General Assembly condemned the invasion and called on Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. Russia's assault on Ukrainian cities continued, including Russia's disputed claim that they've taken control of it's first major city, Kherson, and strikes on other cities, including Kyiv and Kharkiv. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
We'll also tell you about how Bitcoin is being viewed again as a safe haven amid the geopolitical tension. 💳
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 91 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the miles-long convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles continues to slowly advance towards Kyiv. Russia's escalation comes as President Biden in his State Of The Union speech last night warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't "pay a price" for the invasion, the aggression wouldn't stop with just one country. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said it had evidence that Belarus, a Russian ally, is preparing to send troops into Ukraine. Meanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee says that Russians and Belarusians at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing will compete as "neutral athletes" because of their countries' roles in the war against Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
Locally, New York City's coronavirus contact tracing program will end its universal tracing efforts towards the end of April. Officials are citing a significant caseload drop, high vaccination rates, new treatments, and new CDC guidance released Monday that said universal contact tracing was not recommended. Two British executives have been charged with cheating investors out of millions of dollars in a suspected scam that promised investments used for loans were backed by fine wines. In Phoenix, Arizona, the family of a little girl who was killed when her mother's car was rear-ended by a Jeep on a freeway can sue the SUV's manufacturer for wrongful death because it didn't install automatic emergency braking devices. And a porn star has shared the "cringe" message sent to her by her uncle after he discovered what she did for a living. Karlie Brooks (her stage name) had managed to keep it a secret from her family for five years- until now. 📱💦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces have stepped up their attacks in several Ukrainian cities, with a huge convoy of Russian tanks and armored vehicles on a road to Kyiv, and the fighting is intensifying not only there, but in other big cities as well. Ukrainian officials say that Russia shelled several key sites in Kyiv and in the country's second largest city, Kharkiv, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens of others. Among the sites hit were Kyiv's main TV tower and holocaust memorial. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 Also, we'll tell you about the danger that cluster bombs pose. 💣
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 90 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a miles-long convoy of Russian tanks and armored vehicles is inching closer to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and the fighting had intensified on the ground as Russia stepped up shelling of Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine. There were reports that more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery recently hit a millitary base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv. Meanwhile, as trains and buses bring people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carry not just Ukrainians fleeing a homeland under attack, but large numbers of citizens of other countries who had made Ukraine their home and whose fates, too, are now uncertain. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱🚂🚍
Locally, former President Trump had appealed a judge's decision requiring he answer questions under oath in New York state's criminal investigation into his business practices- a widely expected move that's likely to prolong the fight over his testimony by months. In Rochester, the ex-police chief La'Ron Singletary will recieve $75,000 from the city after he sued them for wrongful termination last year, alleging that former Mayor Lovely Warren fired him for refusing to lie during an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude. In Sacramento, California, authorities bthere say that a man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone, and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a church. The victims included three girls ages 9, 10, and 13. And a TikTok influencer is going viral after sharing the hilarious moment her boyfriend mistook her pregnancy test for a positive COVID diagnosis. The video has nearly 25 million views. 📱🤰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at time of recording) in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now into it's fifith day, there was a tense calm in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, but explosions and gunfire we're heard in embattled cities in the eastern part of the country as Russian troops met unexpected resistance. A Ukrainian delegation held talks with Russian officials at the border with Belarus, though they ended up with no reported agreements aside from plans for further talks. Western sanctions triggered by the invasion sent the ruble plummeting, so ordinary Russians flocked banks and ATMs to draw out cash. 💵🇺🇦🇷🇺🇧🇾
And the United States has announced it's expelling 12 members of Russian's U.N mission, accusing them of being "intelligence operatives" engaged in espionage. 🇺🇲🇺🇳
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's our 5th anniversary! Thanks for supporting us all this time. ❤️ It's also Day 89 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, Ukrainian troops have slowed Russia's advance on key cities, at least for now, while a Ukrainian delegation arrived at the border with Belarus for talks with Russian officials, though prospects looked uncertain at best. EU defense ministers are also meeting to discuss how to get weaponry they have pledged into Ukraine. Meanwhile, the U.N estimated that more than 500,000 people have already escaped. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇧🇾🇪🇺🇺🇳
Locally, New York state is taking a big and bold step in the COVID fight. Governor Hochul says that the statewide school masking requirement will be lifted by March 2nd. And then, hours later, Mayor Adams said that he's considering lifting the indoor school mask mandate and also the vaccine mandates for restaurants, bars, and theaters on March 7th. All of this is contingent on infections and hospitalizations continuing their downward trend. In the Bronx, a relative of a woman whose body was found Friday in a plastic storage container has been charged in her death. 21-year-old Khalid Barrow is charged with murder and concealing a human corpse. A new United Nations report on climate change harms people and the environment reads like an atlas of human and planetary suffering. The report says that the world is going to get sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier, and way more dangerous in the next 18 years. And if you're really desperate to get out of something, there's no denying that COVID is a pretty convenient excuse these days. Because no one is going to assume you're lying about the virus... Right? 😅
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We continue to have the latest developments (at time of recording) in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In Greece, authorities say that they're sending ammunition, assault rifles and middle launchers to Ukraine in response to a request by Ukraine's government. 🇬🇷
President Putin has put his nuclear forces on increased alert, in an unprecedented escalation of tension with the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He ordered Russian nuclear weapons prepared for increased readinessy to launch. ☢️🚀
And the Czech Republic has joined Poland and Sweden I'm refusing to play Russia in 2022 World Cup qualifying matches next month in response to the invasion of Ukraine. ⚽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments (at time of recording) on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
We'll talk about how Russian forces are closing in on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as the city is warning of street fighting and urging residents to stay inside. In Russia, more and more are speaking out against the invasion, even as the government's official rhetoric is growing increasingly harsher. At least 460 people in 34 Russian cities were detained today over anti-war protests. 🗣️
And bars/liquor stores across America and Canada have found another way to punish Russia for invading Ukraine: pulling Russian vodka off the shelves and promoting Ukrainian brands instead. 🥃
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the latest developments on the Russian Invasion Of Ukraine, including how this might impact you and your energy bill. ⛽🔌🛢️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 86 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, the Russian military claims that it's taken control of an airport just outside of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as Kremlin forces bear down on it, but the claim couldn't be independently verified. The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said that the Russian airborne forces used 200 helicopters to land in Hostomel and killed over 200 troops belonging to Ukraine's special forces. Meanwhile, Chinese state TV says that Russian President Putin has told his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that Moscow is willing to negotiate with Ukraine, even as Moscow's forces are continuing to invade. Locally, the MTA will install safety barriers in three subway stations in a pilot program aimed at preventing tragedies like the death of a woman who was pushed in front of a train at Times Square last month. On Long Island, a retired teacher who threatened violence against the New York City LGBTQ pride march and numerous other LGBTQ-friendly groups and businesses has pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications through the postal service. The Biden Administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission today. That will mean most Americans will no longer be advised to mask up in indoor public settings. And do the B's in AirBNB stand for Big Brother? For better or worse, home-rental services have revolutionized the way we travel. At the same time, surveillance technology has become more accessible- and now designed to be stealthier than ever. 🏠📷👀
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We'll have frequent updates around the clock, but here's the latest information on the Russian Invasion Of Ukraine. 🇷🇺🇺🇦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 85 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the invasion has begun overseas. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his military operation in Ukraine, and he's warning other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to "consequences they have never seen ." Meanwhile, President Biden is condemning Russia for an "unprovoked and unjustified attack" on Ukraine. He promises that the U.S and it's allies "will hold Russia accountable." Biden says he plans to speak to the American people today after a meeting with the Group of Seven leaders. Locally, the two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan DA's criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump have suddenly resigned, throwing the future of the probe into question. On Long Island, federal wildlife specialists will cull the deer population by shooting up to 180 of the animals in state parks and other locations this year. Authorities say that the cull is intended to reduce damage to habitats and prevent collisions between deer and motor vehicles. Freezing rain and drizzle is disrupting travel from Central Texas to the Great Lakes, with ice-glazed roads leading to hundreds of traffic accidents. And we're gonna take an inside look at the eerie rise of Witchtok as TikTokers around the world are sharing spells to hex their cheating exes and promote the occult to millions. Fans of it are into witchcraft and all it entails- magic, spells, manifestations, and other related activity associated with witches. 🧙🏽♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 84 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Cannabis retailer Ascend Wellness says that the legal record will show that its executives did not exert political pressure on Governor Hochul's administration by attending a December fundraiser and then meeting with state officials. Cannabis company MedMen argues in court that Ascend was using "political pressure and undue influence to force" the state board's approval. Speaking of Governor Hochul, she says that the state wants to improve its cyber security defenses. She announced that a new joint cybersecurity operations center will open in the coming months, and will unify threat assessments and responses between government agencies, critical businesses and utilities.
Pregnancy-rrlated deaths for U.S mothers climber higher in the pandemic's first year. Government data released today shows a decades-long trend that continued to disproportionately affect Black people. Overall, there were almost 24 deaths per 100,000 births in 2020. That compares with 20 per 100,000 the previous year. And everyone knows that Chipotle's guacamole is extra- but how extra is it really? A TikToker who goes by the name "The Chipotle Guy" shared the spicy behind-the-scenes secrets of the fast food chain. 🥑
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 83 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New York City's latest plan to tackle both crime and homelessness is rolling into action. Police are going to crack down on sleeping, littering, smoking, doing drugs or hanging out in the subway system. Upstate in Dannemora, an off-duty New York state trooper was killed Sunday in a snowmobile crash. Joshua Gushlaw lost control of the snowmobile, getting from the trail and hitting several trees, according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Overseas, Russia says that its recognition of independence for areas in eastern Ukraine extends to territory currently held by Ukrainian forces. That announcement further raises the stakes amid western fears that a fuil-fledged invasion of Ukraine is imminent. And with winter weather still around in the country, you may notice that your smartphone has been glitchy. And it may be in jeopardy if temperatures drop too low. We'll give you advice to protect it. 📱🥶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 82 of the MLB Lockout ⚾🔒. On #TheUpdate this President's Day Monday, Mayor Adams has a bold and ambitious plan to tackle the rising homeless crisis and crime in the subways, taking affect today. It wasn't soon enough as three people were stabbed Saturday alone in separate attacks. In Brooklyn, prosecutors say that a man punched an Asian American woman in the face in an unprovoked attack and later told police that Chinese people "are not supposed to be in this country." 52-year-old Mercel Jackson was arraigned on charges including assault, attempted assault as a hate crime, and menacing as a hate crime in the January 19th attack. Overseas, world leaders are making another diplomatic push in hopes of preventing a Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as heavy shelling continues in Ukraine's east. The White House said President Biden had agreed "in principle" to meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he refrains from launching an assault in his neighbor that U.S officials say appears increasingly likely. And a University of Washington language guide is calling everyday words used by Americans "problematic." The University of Washington IT department released an "inclusive language guide" that lists a number of "problematic words that are racist, sexist, ageist, or homophobic." 📙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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' questions, or invoking his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Federal authorities say a Marine Corps reservist that's charged in last year's U.S Capitol riot also schemed with a nurse to steal, forge and sell hundreds of coronavirus vaccination cards. Prosecutors bsat the nurse sometimes destroyed vaccine doses and made bogus entries in New York state records to help fake immunizations. In California, the chancellor of California State University, the nation's largest public university system, has resigned after accusations that he mishandled sexual misconduct allegations. The move comes amid reports that Joseph L. Castro, while he was president of Cal State Fresno, didn't properly follow up on years of complaints of sexual harrassment and other accusations against a top official who was allowed to retire. And if you have an iPhone, then you need to try this hidden feature that utilizes the Apple logo on the back of your phone. iPhones come equipped with several clever features, one of these features includes "back tap." 📱
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 crucial to making the investment effective. New York's high school graduation rate rose slightly last year after the pandemic forced the cancellations of regents exams that are normally required for a diploma. Without knowing how much cancelling regents affected the graduating class of 2021, the increase in the overall graduation rate to 86.1% is in line with an upward trend seen over the past several years. The omicron wave that assaulted bthe United States this winter also boosted its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less disruption to society. And with pandemic work-from-home situations breeding separation anxiety and other bad behaviors in dogs, more New Yorkers are scared of their pets blowing their co-op board interviews- so they're drugging their pooches, calling in stunt doubles, and even paying for special training. 🐶💊💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 in 2019 was found hidden under a staircase by officers searching a home. Officers executing a search warrant found the girl in a cold, wet, makeshift room under a basement staircase with her non-custodial mother. The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012. President Biden called the settlement "historic," saying it begins "the necessary work of holding hun manufacturers accountable for manufacturing weapons of war and irresponsibly marketing these firearms." And let's go to the lobby to get ourselves a beer. Cinemas can now serve wine and beer at concession stands, and movie-goers are allowed to take their drinks into the theater for the show- the State Liquor Authority made the ruling in a unanimous vote. 🎫🍺🍷
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 movement. An Amtrak train heading from Boston to Washington lost power in New York City and was stuck for almost 7 hours. When the train finally did get moving after a rescue engine, one passenger said there was a smell of smoke that made the last stretch of the journey scary. In the American west, the megadrought got even drier last year and is becoming the deepest dry spell in more than 1,200 years. The drought deepened so much in 2021, it's 5% worse than the old record in the late 1500s. And social media can be a great place to connect with friends and family, but doctors are warning to stay clear of the latest trend, which could be dangerous to your health. The so-called "sleepy chicken" trend sees users concocting their own chicken dish, braised in a cold & flu remedy. 👨🏽⚕️🍗💊😴
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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, including teachers, firefighters and police officers. The MTA is hoping that a recent uptick in subway ridership is a sign the city is bouncing back from the omicron surge. They reported ridership topped 3 million for three days in a row last week- the first time since the omicron wave hit the city in mid-December. In Washington, President Biden says that his administration stands with the advocates working to end gun violence and is urging the nation to uphold what he calls the "solum obligation" to "keep each other safe." It comes four years to the day since 17 people were killed in a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. And with alarming obesity rates on an annual basis, Americans are often accused of being imprisoned by their deadly addictions to fast food. About 37% of American adults eat fast food on a daily basis. 🍔🍕
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harrassment at work can seek recourse in the courts. It's a milestone for the #MeToo movement that prompted a national reckoning on the way sexual misconduct claims are handled in the U.S. In Utah, car crashes and traffic deaths decreased after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation. A study published by NHTSA suggests the state's roads became safer after they lowered the drunken driving threshold to .05% blood-alcohol content. And boyfriends deserve appreciation all year round, but Valentine's Day is the much anticipated holiday for the starryeyed couple: we'll tell you the best gifts for them. 👨❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 mandate for schools. While New York works to launch a legal recreational marijuana market, some entrepreneurs have jumped into a legal grey area. They say that they're not selling pot, but they're bjust giving it away while people buy other items. The Office of Cannabis Management said that it sent letters to more than two dozen enterprises it suspects of illigally selling weed, saying to either stop, or face fines and potential criminal charges. In rural western Alabama, there's a little-known, but important piece of American history that stands vacant on a two-lane highway. It's the house where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953. There's no sign or historical marker on the property. And Valentine's Day every year is a good time to remind spouses, partners, children, friends, neighbors, and even pets how much love there is to go around- and it's not even about the retail numbers. ❤️👩❤️👨🐶
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 before dropping the mask rules in the classroom. The broader masking order for indoors might be coming to an end. In the Bronx, several families whose loved ones died or were injured while trying to escape that smoke-filled apartment building that killed 17 people including eight children, are now suing the owners. They allege in five lawsuits that safety violations led to these wrongful deaths. They don't specify monetary damages or particular safety violations. In South Dakota, Republicans on a Senate committee have rejected a bull that would have banned transgender students from using school restrooms that match their gender identity. They argued that determining trans students' bathroom access was a policy best left to local school boards. And sex. We all want it. We all crave it. It's just a basic human desire. But when it comes to the zodiac signs, each sign has a different way that they like to get it on. ♑♓💦👅
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 his date for March 7th. The changes also come amid a feeling sense that the virus is never going to go away, and Americans bed to find a way to coexist with it. The Justice Department is signaling that it might be open to allowing so-called safe injection sites, or safe havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with protections against fatal overdoses. The department's stance comes a year after federal prosecutors won a major court ruling that found the sites would violate federal law. Hyundai and Kia are telling the owners of nearly 485,000 vehicles in the U.S to park them outdoors because they can catch fire. This time, the problem is contamination in the antilock brake control module that can cause an electrical short. And try not to get carsick over this news. White Castle has made the "difficult decision" of cancelling its traditional "inCastle" Valentine's Day dinner, during which the 101-year-old burger chain goes upscale for the most romantic night of the year. 🍽️🍔👩❤️👨
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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- treat white people as they have been treated. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is trying to blunt questions about his commitment to prosecuting armed robbery and assaults in police. Gunpoint and knifepoint stickups at stores will be prosecuted as felonies. His office will also prosecute anyone who harms or tries to harm a police officer. White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan say that Russia could invade Ukraine "any day," launching a conflict that would come at an "enormous human cost." Meanwhile, elite U.S troops and equipment landed in southeastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. And you have a hot valentine's month ahead of you. Yes, you. And every single zodiac sign had a major chance of hit sex and passionate love this year. 👆🏽❤️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 voters in 22 of them. President Biden is pledging to New Yorkers and the nation that the federal government will step up its fight against gun violence by working more closely with police and communities to stop the surging bloodshed. He told police, law enforcement officials and others at NYPD headquarters that "We can do something about this." That major winter storm that already cut power to about 350,000 homes and businesses from Texas to the Ohio Valley was set to leave Pennsylvania and New England glazed in ice and smothered in snow. Ice threatened to wreak havoc on travel and electric service in the northeast before the storm heads out to sea late today and tomorrow. And they say that lending you money can ruin friendships- especially when you falsely let a friends think you're dirt poor. A TikToker in the United Kingdom is going viral after sharing how a "broke" college friend she often supported financially was actually wealthy and lives in a "mansion." 🇬🇧💸👯
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is due back in court more than a week after her libal trial against the New York Times was postponed because she tested positive for COVID-19. A judge put off the trial until today to give an unvaccinated Palin time to get over ant possible symptoms. U.S school administrators that are dealing with pandemic-driven teacher shortages are getting creative to keep their classrooms staffed. But some experts are warming there are longer-term problems with the teacher pipeline that cannot be solved with emergency substitutes, bonuses and loosened qualifications. And what's the answer to New York City's affordable homeless crisis? Just make Manhattan bigger. Rutgers professor Jason Barr believes there's a single solution to both cheaper NYC real estate and the issue of increasing global warming related climate threats: build more NYC. 🗽🏡🏗️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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. Despite a deadly January that had 28 killings and including crimes like a teenage fast-food cashier shot to death in East Harlem, a woman pushed to her death in front of a subway train at Times Square, an 11-month-old wounded by a stray bullet in the Bronx, and the killing of two NYPD officers in Harlem, the homicide rate had remained lower than the rate in the next six most populous U.S cities. According to Punxsutawny Phil, there's going to be six more weeks of winter. That was the prediction made after he emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania to perform his Groundhog Day duties. And an upstate New York school lunch had prompted outrage after a father shared a photo of his son's meager cafeteria offerings. It consisted of four small chicken nuggets, a few unappetizing carrots and small side of white rice. 🍗🥕🍚
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 District Attorney Greg Oakes says that he won't bring criminal charges against former governor Andrew Cuomo after a woman accused him of running his fingers across the chest of her skirt at a public event. In a prepared statement, he said that there "wasn't a sufficient legal basis" to bring charges against Cuomo based on the allegation of unwanted physical contact made by Virginia Limmiatis. In California, officials say that a veteran firefighter was fatally shot when he and others responded to a report if a dumpster fire and authorities arrested a suspect. Fire Captain Max Fortuna was shot before dawn Monday in the city of Stockton and died at a nearby hospital. And a relationship expert has revealed the real reasons you and your partner may be constantly arguing. It isn't because of small tasks- it's because of three deeper emotions. 👩❤️👨👫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 emerged from their homes to dig out. Governor Kathy Hochul says that vthe state's mask mandate will be extended until at least February 10th. She announced the extension Friday for the mandate that requires face coverings in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues require COVID-19 vaccinations. She also says that the mandate could be lifted after that date if cases keep going down. Olympic athletes in Alpine skiing and other outdoor sports dependent on snow are worried as they see winters disappearing. Ski racers who will be competing entirely on manufactured snow during the Beijing Games in February know that global warming is threatening the future of their sport. And considering how we can easily swipe through hundreds of dating app profiles in a single evening, it goes without saying that there's a lot of pressure in people to stand out from the crowd. Body shaming someone you've literally never met won't help. 📱🙅🏽♂️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 58 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, mourning NYPD officers will give a final salute to a rookie colleague gunned down with his partners a week ago. A funeral mass for officer Jason Rivera is today at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Both he and his partner, Wilbert Mora, gree up in the city's ethnic enclaves and had hoped to help the department build bridges with the community. Federal labor officials say that Amazon workers have lined up enough support to vote in whether to unionize a Staten Island warehouse. It's a big step forward after a setback last fall for one of the first organizing drives at the nation's largest online retailer. The northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions were preparing for a powerful winter storm that's expected to produce blizzard conditions. Localized snowfall totals of up to 20 inches are possible. And this playboy playmate claims that she's so centerfold sexy, she can't get a date. A model might seem like they're be fending off guys 24/7. However, Elizabeth Marie Chevalier reportedly finds it nearly impossible to find suitors- which she attributes to men being intimidated by her hotness. 👯♀️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 57 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, as he prepares to be laid to rest at St. Patrick's Cathedral, officer Jason Rivera was no stranger to the tensions between the NYPD and some communities. He'd seen it up close, growing up in his heavily Dominican neighborhood in Inwood. And it's also personal, like when he saw his brother get pulled from a taxi and frisked. His partner, Wilbert Mora, spent his college years thinking about ways to address it. In Buffalo, a couple have been charged with a felony- accused of using falsified vaccination cards to get into the Bills playoff game against the Patriots earlier this month. They face a charge of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree. President Biden is eyeing at least three judges for the expected vacancy of Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the nation's highest court. And he was found all right. When a Pennsylvania woman named Mica Renee took to TikTok asking social media sleuths to help her reconnect with the would-be love of her life, she ultimately ended up connecting with his wife. 👩🏽👰🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 56 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the city was handed another gut punch. Two days after shooter Lashawn McNeil died of his injuries in the shooting that killed officer Jason Rivera, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced on Twitter that Rivera's partner, officer Wilbert Mora died of his injuries. He was only 27. An appeals judge has restored the state's mask mandate. While Governor Hochul's office works through the motions, Monday's ruling briefly overturning the mandate caused a day of confusion for parents. Some districts quickly announced masks would be optional and others continued to enforce them. In San Jose, California, the city council voted to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what's believed to be the first measure of it's kind in the United States. They also voted to require thousands of gun owners to pay a small fee, which would be used for firearms safety education and services such as domestic violence prevention and mental health services. And the federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program. Currently, truckers who cross state lines must be at least 21, but an apprenticeship program to help ease the supply chain backlog would let 18-to-20 year old truckers drive outside their home states. 🚛👨🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 55 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Mayor Adams has announced efforts to seize illegal guns and institute a multi-pronged plan to tackle the issue. It's now at the forefront of his administration after the starting string of violence that's shaken the city. It's also emboldened critics who say that criminal justice reforms and lax prosecutors are to blame for eroding hard-won declines in shootings and murders. All this comes one day after Lashawn McNeil died of his injuries in the shooting that killed officer Jason Rivera. A judge has ruled that the state's mask mandate can't be enforced. State Supreme Court Judge Thomas Rademaker said in his decision that the state Department of Health didn't have the legal authority to implement the mandate. Governor Hochul says she plans to appeal. Officials say that shark attacks increased around the world in 2021following three consecutive years of decline, though beach closures in 2020 caused by the pandemic could be making the numbers seem more dramatic than they actually are. And the bachelor lifestyle may not be all it's cracked up to be. Research had previously shown that years of living alone can have harmful effects on a person's health, and now a new study shows that at least one of those impacts may be particularly bad for men. 👨🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 54 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, this city, still feeling from a spate of violence is preparing to lay Officer Jason Rivera to rest after he was killed last week. He's being hailed as an inspiration to his immigrant community, as investigators sought to make sense of the domestic dispute that also left Rivera's partner, Officer Wilbert Mora "fighting for his life." Is it truly safe to ride the subways? Another rider was hospitalized with a leg injury after being pushed onto the tracks at the Fulton Street station. It's the latest incident amid the concerns about crime- especially after a rider was pushed to her death at Times Square only eight days ago. In Milwaukee, there's a murder mystery going on. Authorities say that six people have been found dead in a home in what police are investigating as multiple homicides. Police responded Sunday to assist with a welfare check at the residence where four men and one woman were found dead. And the Earth simmered to the 6th hottest year on record in 2021, according to new released measurements. Scientists say the exceptionally hot year is part of a long-term warming trend that shows hints of speeding up. 🌎🌡️🥵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 51 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, could Ghislane Maxwell get a new trial? She's formally requested one, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. In a letter to Judge Allison Nathan, Maxwell lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said that the motion for a new trial had been filed under seal and requested that all submissions related to "Juror No. 50 remain under seal until the court rules." Mayor Adams plans to convert his first patchy this week into two cryptocurrencies. The city noted in its press release that federal labor rules bar the city from paying employees in cryptocurrency, but that any worker paid in U.S dollars can use an exchange to buy digital coin. We're remembering Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his "Bat Out of Hell" album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and "Two Out of Thee Ain't Bad'. He's died at the age of 74. And one man is seeking the least desirable kind of positivity. A strange ad went viral on Thailand social media: paid work for a COVID-positive prostitute. It goes on to say the the client's goal is to be infected with the coronavirus. 🇹🇭😷
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 50 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, there's been yet another shooting in the Bronx. An 11-month-old girl is in critical condition after being shot in the face while in a parked car. The NYPD says that the child and her mother were in the vehicle while the father was in a grocery store. Her 1st birthday is in just a few days. The teenager who admitted to the stabbing of Tessa Majors has been sentenced to 14 years to life in prison. Rashaun Weaver had pleaded guilty in December to murder and robbery in the killing in 2019. Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an "endemic" disease, but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over. And not all that glitters is gold- sometimes it's revenge. One woman planned the ultimate comeback on her ex after she "caught him messaging other women" by dousing his belongings in glitter. 😈👩🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 49 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Attorney General Letitia James' office says its civil investigation has uncovered evidence that former President Trump's company used "fraudulent or misleading" asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits. In a court filing late yesterday, evidence showed that the Trump Organization routinely misrepresented the value of its properties and golf clubs in financial statements. Former mayor Bill De Blasio isn't running for governor. He ended months of speculation by announcing he wouldn't enter the Democratic primary in which Governor Hochul already has a commanding start, having locked up endorsements and fundraising. The House committee investigating the U.S Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani and other members of the former President's legal team who filed bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election that fueled the lie that race had been stolen from the former president. And according to researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the University of Toronto, in a study of 1.3 million patients treated by nearly 3,000 doctors, women are 15% more likely to die or incur serious complications if operated on by a male surgeon. 🏥👨🏽⚕️👩🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 48 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the streets of Brooklyn are turning deadly once again. Police say that a 15-year-old girl was found dead on Bedford Ave and Avenue P after she apparently was hit by a school bus around 8am Saturday. No city DOE buses were on the road, as schools were closed for the MLK holiday. New York tenants and homeowners have lost some protection from eviction and foreclosure as the state Saturday ended a nearly 2-year-old moratorium aimed at keeping New Yorkers from losing their homes during the pandemic. The airline industry is rasing the stakes in a showdown with AT&T and Verizon over the companies' plan to launch new 5G wireless service this week, warning that thousands of flights could be grounded or delayed if the rollout takes place near major airports. And what would you think about longer school days? Or classes on Saturday? Or in the summer? Or changing how students learn to read? School chancellor David Banks says he's looking to shake up the system in order to get better results. 🏫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 44 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, Mayor Adams might be having a change of heart. He's considering allowing NYC public schools to return to some form of virtual learning as the city continues to weather a wave of coronavirus cases. That would be a reversal from his pledge to keep children in schools, but while he said at a news conference that he still believes the safest place for children to be is in school, there are a substantial number of children missing classes. Ahead of Michael Avenatti's trial on charges that he cheated porn star Stormy Daniels out of book deal proceeds, Judge Jesse Furman warned prospective jurors during jury selection about potential purjury charges if they don't fill out a written questionare honestly.
Scientists have concluded that a meteorite from Mars contains no evidence of ancient Martian life. The four-pound rock caused a splash 25 years ago when a NASA-led team announced that its organic compy may have been left by living creatures. And you thought leaving your hear in San Francisco was hard? One Antarctica town requires new residents to literally have their appendix removed before settling there. 🇦🇶🏥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 40 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, hospitals in the Bronx are working around the clock to save the lives of multiple people that were gravely injured by inhaling smoke in a fire that was the deadliest the city has seen in nearly 30 years. Dozens are still hospitalized, and as many as 13 were still in critical condition after the fire that killed 19 people, nine of them children. The culprit? A malfunctioning electric space heater. More than 800,000 noncitizens and "dreamers" in the city will have access to the ballot box we soon as next year after Mayor Adams allowed legislation approved by the City Council to automatically become law. We're remembering Bob Saget, the actor and comedian best known for his role on "Full House" and host of "America's Funniest Home Videos". He died at the age of 65, according to authorities in Florida. Detectives found no signs of foul play or drug use. And a woman wanted to shout out to New York City that she had just gotten engaged. Her mistake? Thinking that people would care. The video's gone viral on TikTok. 💍👩❤️👨🎥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 43 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, President Biden is highlighting the federal government's effort to "surge" medical personnel to help overwhelmed medical facilities. The effort comes amid the upswing in coronavirus cases and staff shortages due to the omicron varient. Biden says that military medical terms are being deployed to Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. The MTA is getting a big chunk of federal COVID-19 relief funds. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that they received $6 billion, part of more than $14.5 billion in overall federal relief aid. And a judge in western Illinois who found an 18-year-old man guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl has come under fire after he threw out the conviction this month and said that the months he spent in jail was punishment enough. Adams County Judge Robert Adrian announced at a hearing earlier this month that the mandatory four-year prison sentence wasn't warranted and that the 148 days that Drew Clinton spent in jail was an appropriate sentence. 👨⚖️⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 42 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, are we at a COVID-19 turning point? State health officials say that New York will no longer require local health departments to conduct contract tracing for people who test positive for COVID-19. Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett says that the shift will help public health staff across the state focus on testing and vaccination. Governor Hochul says that tracing will be up to individual counties. As the smoke poured through the halls of that Bronx high-rise Sunday killing 17 people, tenants were faced with a life or death decision: Should they stay put or try to escape? And the COVID-19 surge caused by the omicron varient means that once-reliable indicators of the pandemic'e progress are much less so, complicating how the media is able to tell the story. There's no perfect alternative, however, and experts say that case counts can still offer some valuable indicators of where the story is going. 🕵🏽♂️📰
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 41 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, investigators are digging deeper as they try to determine why safety doors failed to close in the deadly Bronx fire. The failures allowed thick smoke to billow through the building and kill 17 people, including 8 children in the city's deadliest fire in more than 30 years. The northeast is getting slammed with extreme cold that was expected to reach a wind chill of -40 Fahrenheit in some areas and closed some schools elsewhere. New York City is also in for subzero temperatures with the wind chill factored in. And students in Chicago will resume classes this week after leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union accepted a proposal with the district over COVID-19 safety protocols. Both sides had been locked in an increasingly bitter standoff that cancelled classes for five days. 🏫👨🏽🎓
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 37 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, help is on the way for New Yorkers needing pandemic rental aid and temporary protection from eviction as a judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the state to reopen its application portal in three business days. It comes at a perfect time as the statewide moratorium expires January 15th. A juror at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial who told reporters he was sexually abused as a child has retained a lawyer. He says that the information helped him convince some jurors that a victim's imperfect memory of sex abuse doesn't mean it didn't happen. The symptoms of common colds, the flu, and COVID-19 can overlap, so experts say testing is the best way to determine what you have. We'll tell you the descriptions of each. And talk about daddy issues. A father and son are making a fortune on OnlyFans sharing naked photos of themselves hanging out together. The son used to make $9,000 a month by himself- now they make $40,000 a month together. 👨👦🤳🏽💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 36 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, there's another challenge to New York City's sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace- this time a lawsuit in federal court. It asserts that the mandate didn't have a mechanism allowing businesses to appeal. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers say that she's requesting a new trial after revelations came out that a juror in her case was a victim of sexual abuse. Even prosecutors say that this merits attention by the court. Today marks 1 year since insurrection at the Capitol, and President Biden with members of congress are marking the occasion by holding events. They'll be widely attended by Democrats, but almost every Republican will be absent. And a scorned woman got some sweet revenge and went viral for blasting her former boyfriend for cheating on her with her high-school age stepsister, telling the whole story in a TikTok tell-all. 👫🎥🤬
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 35 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, could former Governor Andrew Cuomo make a political comeback? It may be in the cards as he won't face criminal prosecution over an allegation that he fondled an aide. Albany's top prosecutor says he's dropping the case because he couldn't prove it. In her State of the State address today, Governor Hochul and the legislature is going to be making key decisions this year on everything from the roll-out of recreational marijuana sales to how best to help New Yorkers amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Tomorrow marks one year since the insurrection at the Capitol, and hundreds of people who assaulted officers and committed other crimes still haven't been caught. The investigation has been a massive undertaking for federal law enforcement officials. And a new study of nearly 400 scientific and medical professionals has revealed that professions like brain surgeons and rocket scientists possess no upper hand in logical mathematical professions. 👨🏽🔬👨🏽⚕️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 34 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, while Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is deciding whether to charge former President Trump with a crime, Attorney General Letitia James is firing the first shot. She recently issued subpoenas to Trump, his son Don Jr., and his daughter Ivanka, seeking testimony and documents "in connection with an investigation into the valuation of properties owned or controlled" by Trump and his company, the Trump Organization. In her State of the State address expected today, Governor Hochul is expecting the state to impose term limits on her office and other statewide officials and van them from earning an outside income. Ssays that the proposals are aimed at restoring trust and integrity in state government. AT&T and Verizon say they will delay new 5G wireless service for two weeks from tomorrow after a request from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and concern about possible interference with systems on board planes. And BlackBerry will discontinue service for its classic devices today. What originally was supposed to happen in September 2020, the shutdown means the phones will no longer reliably function for "data, phone calls, SMS and even for calling 911. 📵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Happy New Year everyone! It's Day 33 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒🎉.
On #TheUpdate this Monday, schools around the country are adapting soaring infections of the omicron varient- especially as NYC children returned to school from their winter vacation. Mask requirements are returning in some districts that had dropped them. Some are planning to ramp up testing almond students and staff. And a small number of schools are switching to remote learning- at least temporarily. In Manhattan, Alvin Bragg already made a historic first, being sworn in Saturday as the first black district attorney. Now, he's weighing another: whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime. With the omicron varient, it's complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world coexist with this virus? One thing scientists can agree on? Omicron likely won't be the last varient. And we all know that you shouldn't jump the subway turnstile. One man in Queens paid the ultimate price, hitting his head on the concrete floor and breaking his neck. 🚇💀
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 30 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this New Year's Eve, we had an entire rundown of things to talk about, but before we recorded today's show, the entire news cycle got in the bus to sadness junction when we learned that Betty White died today at the age of 99, just a few weeks before her 100th birthday in January. The other top story is New Year's Eve in Times Square, even as an uneasy nation tries to muster optimism that the worst days of the pandemic are now behind it. 15,000 masked and vaccinated spectators are expected, even as doubts swirled whether the city hould have to cancel the festivities for this year as the city posted record numbers of COVID cases in the last few days. Cities like Atlanta decided to cancel their own celebrations. 🗽🎉🎊
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 29 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Ghislane Maxwell is guilty as charged- at least on 5 of the 6 charges against her. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. On the five counts she was found guilty of, each count has prison time ranging anywhere from 5 to 40 years. The latest omicron surge is giving us flashbacks of 2020- and not in a good way. Governor Hochul is warning if a January surge in COVID-19 infections as hospitalizations from the virus continue to rise. More than 67,000 people tested positive statewide Tuesday, and new COVID-19 cases across the country have risen to their highest level on record: over 265,000 per day. And in Los Angeles, authorities say that 55-year-old Angela Kukawski, a business manager whose clients had included Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians has been killed, and her boyfriend, 49-year-old Jason Barker, has been charged with murder and torture. Police say they found her dead in her own car on December 23rd. 👩❤️👨💀🚘
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 28 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, outgoing mayor Bill De Blasio is making one last stand when it comes to COVID-19 and schools. He says that testing in schools will go up when the holiday break ends January 3rd in an effort to keep classrooms open despite a surge in infections due to the omicron varient. 2 million at-home test kits will be distributed so that tests can be sent home with students if a classmate tests positive. Students who test negative won't have to quarantine. With about 48 hours left in his tenure, we're taking a look back at Bill De Blasio's time as mayor. He swept into office in 2013 promising a liberal remolding of the nation's largest city that would level deep inequities and reform police practices. He had some successes, but his legacy will be remembered for his strained relationships with the police and reform advocates- both of which got him in office- public disagreements with former governor Andrew Cuomo, and gaffes memorized in the headlines. And we're remembering two American icons. NFL Hall of Fame coach and Super Bowl champion John Madden died unexpectedly at the age of 85, while Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader and Nevada's longest-serving member of Congress, died at home in Henderson, Nevada after a battle of pancreatic cancer. He was 82. ☠️🇺🇲🏈
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 27 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, is the jury in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial smelling like a deadlock? They've gone three full days of deliberations without sign of a verdict. Recently, they requested multi-colored sticky notes, a white board, and some trial transcripts. They also asked for the definition of enticement and a question pertaining to the law. Federal judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan has ordered New York City to install crosswalk signals to aid blind people and those with bad eyesight in more than 9,000 intersections over the next 10 years. It comes more than a year after he rules that most crosswalks in the city violate laws protecting people with disabilities, because they only communicate crossing information in a visual format. And Dr. Anthony Fauci says that the nation should consider a vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. He says that such a mandate might drive up the lagging vaccination rate as well as confer stronger protection on flights as infection rates spike, but a vaccine mandate for air travel is likely to spark legal challenges. ✈️💉
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 26 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, there's dwindling interest in the news, and it's definitely not good. The metrics are ugly for many TV, digital, and print news organizations: after record-setting engagement numbers in 2020, many people are cutting back in news consumption. Cable news and digital sites in particular are coping with a dramatic decrease in interest in political news after that was a major draw in 2020. Governor Hochul is going on the offense as people are starting to get weary of her coronavirus tactics. She insisted at a news conference Friday that the state acted early, and had gone everything it can against the rapid spread of the omicron varient. And even with some mighty competition from the new Matrix and Sing movies and rising concerns over the omicron varient, "Spider-Man: No Way Home" stayed in the #1 spot, with $81.5 million according to studio estimates. It also became 2021's top-grissing film and crossed the $1 billion mark globally in just 12 days. 🕸️💵🎥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 23 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. And yeah, it's also my birthday! 🎂🎁🎉
On #TheUpdate this Christmas Eve, revelers will still ring in the new year in Times Square next week, but there just won't be as many of them under new COVID-19 restrictions. Outgoing Mayor De Blasio says that viewing areas that normally accommodate about 58,000 people will be limited to about 15,000 people to allow for more social distancing. Everyone in attendance must show proof of vaccination and wear a mask. Amazon, which has been under pressure to improve worker rights, has reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board to allow its workers to organize freely and without retaliation. The settlement outlines that Amazon workers, about 750,000 of them in the U.S, have more room to organize within its warehouses. And Santa Claus is just like the post office. Nor rain, sleet, snow, or even COVID-19 can stop him from coming. A NORAD spokesman says that Santa Claus is a source of joy for many people, and the mission is even more important for a world suffering a pandemic. 🎅🏽🦌🎄
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 22 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the wait goes on. New York City officials say that they're opening more COVID-19 testing sites and restricting visitation at city-run hospitals and jails. Meanwhile, outgoing Mayor De Blasio says that no decision still have been made on whether to ban people from New Year's Eve in Times Square, even as Fox says they're cancelling its live broadcast because of concerns about the omicron varient. Christmas came early- or really late, depends on how you look at it- when a professor at CUNY City College in Harlem discovered a box postmarked in 2020, holding $180,000 in cash. The letter attached stated that the cash was a donation meant to help physics and math students there. And two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron varient of COVID may be milder than delta. Scientists stress however that even if the findings of these early studies hold up, any reductions in severity need to be weighed against the fact that omicron spreads much faster than delta and is more able to evade vaccines. 🇬🇧👨🏽🔬
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 21 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, are no lockdowns a realistic vision? Outgoing mayor Bills De Blasio says that he's committed to keeping the city open as it grapples with another spike in coronavirus cases. The mayor said that New York can't see schools and businesses closed again like the city did in 2020 when COVID-19 first spread widely. Incoming mayor Eric Adams has postponed his January 1st inauguration, but he hasn't said yet whether shutdowns are part of his COVID plan. The U.S population growth dipped to it's lowest rate since the nation's founding during the first year of the pandemic. Figures released by the U.S Census Bureau show that the country grew by only 0.1%. And the U.S has opened a formal investigation into a report that Tesla vehicles allow people to play video games on a center touch screen while they're driving. The action follows a complaint to the agency that Teslas equipped with "gameplay functionality" allow games to be played by the driver while the vehicles are moving. 🚘🎮
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 20 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, this is truly a wakeup call. Just a few weeks ago, this city seemed to be a relative bright spot in the coronavirus struggle. Now it's a hot spot once again, confronting a dizzying spike in cases, a scramble for testing, a quandary over New Year's Eve in Times Square, and an exhausting sense of déjà vu. There are important reasons why it isn't spring of 2020 all over again, but there are some echoes- like the hourslong lines at many testing sites. Former President Donald Trump is suing the New York Attorney General Letitia James, seeking to end her civil investigation into his business practices. Trump alleges the AG's investigation has violated his constitutional rights. And the holiday season is shining brightly despite COVID-19. From Maine to California, more light shoes have launched during the pandemic, and they're more elaborate than ever. Industry officials say that the events over a safe activity where people can enjoy a holiday spectacle either outside on foot or from their comfort of a vehicle. 🇺🇲🎄
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 19 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. Boy, that was one heck of a weekend, wasn't it?
On #TheUpdate this Monday, not too far from where we are, the fate of the annual New Year's Eve party in Times Square will be decided this week. Outgoing Mayor De Blasio says that a decision will be made before Christmas on whether it will go forward, as the omicron varient spreads rapidly through the city. This weekend truly brought a sense of deja vu- reminds you almost of where we were one year ago. The Rockettes Christmas show done for the year. Some Broadway shows cancelling performances because of outbreaks among cast members. Saturday Night Live with no audience- all thanks to the omicron varient. But one thing has changed: we have vaccines. And so far, city hospitals aren't seeing a repeat of the surges that swamped emergency rooms earlier in the pandemic. And in Washington, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia all but delivered a death blow to President Biden's $2 Build Back Better plan. Saying that he can't support the package in it's current form, he's single-handedly thrown his party's agenda into jeopardy. Furious colleagues are desperate to salvage what's left of a top priority, but the next steps are unclear. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 16 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, we're hitting the serious button when it comes to new COVID-19 cases. Alarmed by a rapid rise, and with the New Year's Eve party in Times Square in jeopardy again, city officials will distribute 1 million masks and 500,000 home tests. Mayor De Blasio says that the distributions are part of a broader plan to counter the virus' spread. A federal judge has rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's sweeping deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids. U.S District Judge Colleen McMahon found flaws in the way the bankruptcy settlement protects members of the Sackler family who own the company from lawsuits. And New Year's Eve fireworks that were called off last year on the Las Vegas strip due to the pandemic are returning with hopes for big crowds- even as the emerging omicron varient spreads in more states. New Year's Eve usually draws and estimated 300,000+ revelers and fills the city's more than 250,000 hotel rooms. 🎆🏨🎰
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 15 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, will he go out with a bang? After a dozen years in office, one piece of business remains for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. before he retires at the end of the month. Will he bring criminal charges against Donald Trump? Or will he leave it to the next DA, fellow democrat Alvin Bragg? Another inmate has died at Rikers Island after he was found in his cell in medical distress. The death of William Brown is the second inmate death the last five days, and the 16th this year- the most since 2013. And health officials say that pets and other animals can get the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but the risk of them spreading it to people is low. Dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, otters, hyenas and white-tailed deer are among the animals that have tested positive, in most cases after contracting it from infected people. 🦠🐶🐱🐰🦌
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 14 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, just call her madam commissioner. A Long Island police official will be the NYPD's next commissioner, succeeding Dermot Shea and becoming the first woman to lead the nation's largest police force. Mayor-elect Eric Adams told the New York Post that his choice is Nassau County Police Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell. New York City lawmakers are poised to decide whether to prohibit most new buildings from using natural gas. If it passes the City Council, most construction projects submitted for approval after 2027 would have to use something other than gas or oil- such as electricity- for heating, hot water, and cooking. And charges are expected soon for a Minnesota grocery cart delivery worker accused of drive by over sacks of food meant for an elderly couple because she was angry about their sign supporting law enforcement. 🛒🍞🚘
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 13 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, was it an intentional act? State parks officials say a car that was stuck partly submerged near the brink of Niagra Falls after a daring rescue attempt last week went over the falls and cannot be seen from the shore. A U.S Coast Guard swimmer who descended by a cable from a hovering helicopter pulled a woman's body from the car Wednesday. All five Democrats who had announced campaigns to succeed Letitia James as attorney general have now withdrawn from the race after she said that she would seek reelection rather than run for governor. And this year's inductees into the National Film Registry include an epic Star Wars and Lord of the Ring films, projects starring Jennifer Lopez and the late Cicely Tyson, "A Nightmare On Elm Street," and at least 25 others, along with films that took on racially motivated violence against people of color. 🎞️🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 12 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Monday, Connecticut residents will soon have an easier way to show their vaccination status by using a cellphone app, though whether it's required will be up to businesses, restaurants and other establishments. Governor Ned Lamont says that the app will give restaurants and stores the tools they need to determine what restrictions to put in place, if any. With a statewide deadline of December 31st to opt-in or opt-out of hosting local marijuana dispensaries or consumption lounges, more than 400 towns and villages across the state have opted to block them. And dozens of people in five states were killed by tornados that leveled entire communities on Friday night, but the toll at a Kentucky candle factory is not as devastating as initially feared. Officials initially said only 40 of 110 workers at Mayfield Consumer Products has been rescued. 🌪️🕯️🏭
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 9 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Friday, there's a late new development regarding COVID-19 restrictions in the State of New York. Facing a winter surge in infections, Governor Hochul says that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the business or venue implements a vaccine requirement. It'll be in effect from December 13th to January 15th, after which the state will reevaluate. This comes as 32 upstate hospitals have suspended non-essential elective surgeries under an emergency order from Hochul. Back in late October, Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was running for governor. Now, she's suspended her campaign, saying instead that she'll run for re-election in her current position. She said in a statement that she needs to continue her work as AG, citing "a number of important investigations and cases" underway. And this winter, motorists may find themselves stuck on snowy highways or have their travel delayed due to a shortage of snowplow driver's. States from Washington to Pennsylvania, and even some in the Rocky Mountains are having trouble finding enough people willing to take the comparatively low-paying jobs that require a Commerical Driver's Licence, and often entail works at odd hours in the most dangerous of conditions. ❄️🚒
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 8 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒. On #TheUpdate this Thursday, work has begun in giving some of America's most spectacular natural settings and historic icons a makeover. The Department of the Interior says that $1.6 billion a year for the next five years from The Great American Outdoor Act will go toward critical projects in national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other areas. In Midtown, police say that a mad is facing charges including arson for setting fire to a 50-foot Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters. The artificial tree outside the News Corp. building that houses not only Fox News, but also The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post caught fire shortly after midnight Wednesday. And there's a true burning question on the minds of many: how will the world decide when the pandemic is over? There's no clear cut definition for when a pandemic starts an ends, and how much of a threat a global outbreak is posing can vary by country, but it may be considered over when the World Health Organization decides COVID-19 is no longer an emergency of international concern, a designation its experts have been reassessing. 😷🤔
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's Day 7 of the MLB Lockout. 🥎🔒 On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, at the trial of Ghislane Maxwell, one of her accusers says the British socialite once felt her naked 14-year-old body before telling her it would be a "great body" for financier Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. She became the third woman to testify at the trial about the abuse the accusers said they endured at the hands of Epstein. On Long Island, a man is accused of sending violent, threatening letters to LGBTQ groups for several years. 74-year-old Robert Fehring of Bayport is accused in a federal criminal complaint of sending the letters as far back as 2013 and as recently as this June, and a seat h of his house found loaded weapons and ammunition, as well as 20 rainbow flags. And it's east to go overboard on gifts for your kids for the holidays, but the result could be a drained bank account and an overstuffed toy bin come January. Money and child development experts point out that setting a holiday spending budget keeps your finances in check, and could help avoid an overwhelmed child. 🎁💳🎄👨👩👦
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's day 6 of the MLB Lockout. ⚾🔒 On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New York City has long been a beacon for immigrants, and noncitizens are about to win an important civic duty thanks to the New York City Council: the right to vote. They're poised to push legislation that would allow some 800,000 noncitizens to help pick mayors, borough presidents and city council members. Mayor De Blasio is trying to prevent a winter COVID strike. He says that all private employers in the city will have to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 27th. Anyone 12+ who wants to dine indoors, go to a gym, or see a show will have to produce proof of two doses of the vaccine. Children 5-11 will have to show proof of one shot. And the list of 2021's most mispronounced words is out, and they're a mouthful. The U.S Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms, compiled the list, highlighting the names and terms that were most challenging for newsreaders and people on TV to pronounce. 📺⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's day 5 of the MLB Lockout. 🥎🔒 On #TheUpdate this Monday, the omicron varient may not be as dangerous as we first thought. U.S health officials are saying that while it is spreading across the country, the early indications suggest that it may be less dangerous than the Delta varient, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalizations. Leaders of New York's public college system are standing behind SUNY chancellor James Malatras. He's facing calls to resign after the release of text messages showing that he mocked one of the women who later accused former Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment. And we're remembering an American icon in former senator Bob Dole. He died over the weekend at the age of 98. In over 36 years in Washington, he became one if the most influential legislators and party leaders in the Senate, combining a talent for compromise with a caustic wit, which he often turned on himself but didn't hesitate to turn on others, too. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's day 2 of the MLB lockout. On #TheUpdate this Friday, the omicron varient of COVID-19 is here in the New York City area- now what? It's infected at least five people, including a man from Minnesota who attended the Anime NYC convention at the Javits Center in Manhattan in late November, where 53,000 people attended. Meanwhile, Mayor De Blasio is extending his order requiring COVID-19 vaccines to include teachers and staff at private and religious schools. NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea and his First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker have put their retirement papers in order in the weeks before mayor-elect Eric Adams takes office. Their last days are December 31st. And in Oregon, officials are asking for help looking for the person or people responsible for poisoning an entire wolf pack in the eastern part of the state earlier this year. The Oregon State Police said it's been investigating the killing of all five members of the Catherine Pack in Union County, plus three other wolves from other packs. 🐺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, the defense at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is now trying to play offense. They're trying to cast doubt on a key accuser's allegation that the British socialite helped financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse the woman for years, starting when she was 14. A lawyer confronted the witness with FBI documents that the defense says show that she's made inconsistent statements about Maxwell's participation in the abuse. The holly, jolly, beat time of the year has gotten a light-filled launch. The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was kit in a midtown Manhattan ceremony on NBC, once again open to the public, in contrast to last year's virus-impacted event. And in an Associated Press investigation, the U.S military has a missing explosives problem. Hundreds of pounds of plastic explosives have vanished over the past decade, as have hundreds- and possibly thousands- of armor-piercing grenades. 🇺🇲🧨💣
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, there's a surprise exit from an unexpected person. Less than a year after Meisha Porter became the first black woman to take the helm of the New York City public school system, the born and bred New Yorker from a family of educators is stepping down from the job. She told NY1 she'll leave the school chancellor position at the end of the year and take a new role as the CEO of The Bronx Community Foundation. CNN says that they're suspending Chris Cuomo indefinitely pending a further review of documents from that Assembly investigation that revealed how he helped his brother, former governor Andrew Cuomo, when he was going charges of sexual harassment. And in Washington, abortion rights are on the line at the Supreme Court in historic arguments over the landmark ruling Roe V. Wade nearly 50 years ago that declared a nationwide right to end a pregnancy. The justices today will weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks and overrule Roe v. Wade.🤰🏽⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, it's time to mask up once again. Governor Kathy Hochul and NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi are now urging people to wear masks in indoor public settings such as grocery stores and offices as scientists work to learn more about the newly identified omicron varient of the COVID-19 virus. Scientists have detected a rare species of whale southeast of New York City, and the federal government is using a voluntary protected zone to try to keep them safe. They are North Atlantic right whales, and there are fewer than 350 of them left in the world. And Barbados is making history in the 21st century. They've stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. 🇧🇧🇬🇧
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Boy that was one hell of a Thanksgiving holiday weekend, wasn't it? Hope you had a good holiday with those you love and care about. On #TheUpdate this Monday, the stage is finally set. Two years after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide behind bars, a jury was being picked here in New York City to determine a central question on the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's puppet? Or accomplice? We lost two icons over the holiday weekend. Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century, died suddenly at the age of 91. And designer Virgil Abloh, a leading fashion executive that was hailed as the Karl Lagerfeld of his generation, died of cancer at the age of 41. And the WHO says that it could still take some time to get a full picture of the threat posed by Omicron, a new varient of the coronavirus as scientists worldwide scrambled to assess its multiple mutations. Meanwhile in Australia, authorities have announced a third case of the new varient as government leaders are reconsidering plans to relax border restrictions this week. 😷🇦🇺
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
While many of us are shopping, there's a new COVID-19 varient of concern called "Omicron". So yeah. Let's talk about that.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, it was a rare case of man vs. wrestler on Raw Monday at Barclays Center. Spectators got an unexpected bout when a man got past a metal barricade and tackled Seth Rollins to the ground. Video posted to social media showed fans reacting in disbelief as the man rushed Rollins, bringing him to the ground and grappling with him before Rollins pushed him off and referees held him down. The New York Giants have fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett after a dreadful performance on Monday Night Football against the Buccaneers. And millions of Americans are loading up their cars or piling onto planes, determined to reclaim Thanksgiving traditions that were put on pause last year by the pandemic. AAA predicts that over 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home over the holiday period, an increase of nearly 4 million over last year despite sharply higher gas prices. 🚘✈️⛽🦃
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, it's the first warning sign that things are going back in the wrong direction. Masks are again required indoors in Erie County because of a spike in COVID-19 positive cases and hospitalizations in the region. Starting today, anyone age 2 and older must wear masks at all indoor public locations: from bars and restaurants to grocery stores, to gyms, fitness centers, and everywhere else in between. The legislative investigation into former governor Andrew Cuomo dug deeper, and found in their report made public yesterday there was "overwhelming evidence" that Cuomo engaged in sexual harassment, and also ordered state workers to help produce his book during work hours. And the suspect in the Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee that killed five people was freed on just $1,000 bail posted just two days before the deadly event. It's a fact that's leading to a review of what happened and renewed calls for giving judges more power to set higher bails. Legal experts are cautioning though that it would set a dangerous precedent. 💵⚖️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, there's been another deadly attack on the subway. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on a northbound 2 train at Penn Station, stabbing the victim in the neck in an unprovoked attack. The NYPD needs your help looking for a suspect. In Albany, the state Assembly's investigation into former governor Andrew Cuomo bae concluded that the Democrat's administration misrepresented how many nursing home residents died of COVID-19. And the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin says that at least 5 people are dead and more than 40 are injured after an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb. Police have said that a "person of interest" is in custody, but have not provided details about the person or a possible motive. 🎄🚙
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, this is a case of truly taking life for granted. A 15-year-old boy has died suddenly while at a tryout for his high school's basketball team on Long Island. Newsday reports that Carmyne Payton died Wednesday after collapsing during tryouts for his high school's basketball team in Copiague. His father says he died of an apparent heart attack. With Thanksgiving less than a week away, New Jersey Transit is adding buses and trains over the holiday weekend to get passengers to the airport, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and shopping centers. And a towering wooden screen once blackend with soot from worshippers' candles is being restored to its gilded glory in the Church of the Nativity, built at the site where many believe Jesus was born. But few visitors are expected to see the work during the upcoming Christmas holiday season in biblical Bethlehem. ✝️🇮🇱⛪
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, we're righting a historic wrong. Two men- Muhammad Aziz, now 83, and the late Khalil Islam, who died in 2009- who for decades steadfastly maintained their innocence in the 1965 assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X will be exonerated. Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr.'s office is expected to join attorneys for the two men in asking a judge to toss out the convictions. The remains of a 19-year-old soldier from upstate New York killed during the Korean war have been identified more than seven decades after he was reported missing in action. And the Biden administration is helping to distribute several billion dollars in aid for winter heating and utility bills. It's an unprecedented sum that comes largely from the administration's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. 🔥🔌
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Mayor De Blasio says that the crowds will once again fill Times Square this New Year's Eve, but with a twist. They mayor said that proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for revelers who want to watch the ball drop in person. Governor Kathy Hochul says that New Yorkers in upstate communities that are seeing upticks in COVID-19 cases could again face more pandemic restrictions if infection rates fail to drop. And with the concern about climate change growing, this holiday season is a chance to try celebrating in more planet-friendly ways, and save money in the process. 🎁💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, your money is safe from the MTA- for now anyway. New Yorkers won't be facing higher fares or service cuts on buses and subways for the time being. Governor Hochul and the head of the MTA said that the goal is to induce more people to come back to public transit, but pre-pandemic ridership levels won't return for at least a few more years. In the already crowded New York governor's race that includes Kathy Hochul seeking a full term in office and Attorney General Letitia James, New York City public advocate Jumaane Williams is throwing his hat in the race too. And there's no supply-chain shortage when it comes to holiday movies and TV specials. Old favorites such as 1965's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" however may require a bit of strategy to watch. 🎄📺🎥
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on trial in a sense in the coming weeks by a proxy: his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. A panel of 12 jurors and six alternatives will be picked just before opening statements start on the 29th at her highly anticipated trial. A program to help people obtain driver's permits during this pandemic by taking tests online may be rife with cheating. Workers say that applicants sometimes have others take the tests for them, and in some cases, complete them with perfect scores in under seven minutes. The 50-question test normally takes about 45 minutes to an hour. And at only 7 years old, Ji-Young is making history as the first Asian American muppet on "Seasame Street". She is Korean American and has two passions: rocking out on her electric guitar and skateboarding. It's the culmination of discussions after the rise in anti-Asian hate last year. 🌏🧸🛹🎸
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, federal prosecutors say that the operators of three doughnut shops in central New York were convicted of tax evasion after concealing nearly $3 million in cash sales from the government. The U.S Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York says that three Rome residents were convicted of one count of conspiracy to defraud the Untited States, seven counts of tax evasion, and seven counts of aiding and assisting in the filing of false corporate tax returns. Nearly six months ago, U.S immigration courts established a fast-track docket for families who recently crossed the border. And while it's still early, the effort faces some of the same challenges as similar programs under Biden's two predecessors. And Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling, is being considered for a posthumous pardon. Plessy was arrested in 1892 for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans, and died in 1925 with the conviction on his record. 🇺🇸
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Veteran's Day, former governor Andrew Cuomo appeared pugilistic and paranoid at times during an 11-hour deposition that was made public Wednesday. His alleged victims detailed a "toxic" workplace in the administration where they were subjected to crude remarks, creepy questions about their sex lives, hazing and bullying. In a fragrance company's lawsuit against Jay-Z over breach of contract claims, and his subsequent countersuit against the company, a jury has decided that nobody wins- neither side had proven their claims. And F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president that oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at the age of 85. 🌍
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, America's commerical casinos are truly rolling in the dough. They're marking the industry's best quarter ever- $14 billion in the third quarter- and pushing U.S casino revenue past what it was for all of 2020. They're on pace to break the annual record of over $43 billion set in 2019. After months of negotiations, New York and our two neighboring states have finally agreed on how to divide up billions in federal COVID-19 relief money aimed at mass transit. New York will get about $11 billion, New Jersey about $3 billion, and Connecticut around $500 million. And U.S food banks dealing with increased demand from families sidelined by the pandemic now face a new challenge- surging food prices and supply chain issues. As the holidays approach, some food banks worry they won't have enough turkeys, stuffing, and cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas. 🦃🎅🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, do you dare to look down? A new attraction gives thrill-seekers a unique perspective on New York City from almost 1,300 feet up. Participants of City Climb are equipped with specially designed safety harnesses that let them ascend to a platform near the top of the Empire State Building. A new report says that more than 100,000 New York City schoolchildren we're homeless at some point during the 2020-2021 school year. According to the group Advocates for Children, about 65,000 students lived "doubled-up" with friends or family, and nearly 3,900 students were living in cars, parks, or abandoned buildings. Nearly 28,000 of them were living in homeless shelters. And a new mandate in the city of Los Angeles now requires people visiting shopping malls, theaters, gyms or nail salons to verify they are vaccinated against COVID-19. Business trade groups say however that the mandate will sow confusion and could present safety concerns for employees tasked with checking customers' vaccination status. 💉🍿🏋🏽♂️💅🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, some motorists on Long Island are getting hit with $250 fines for a violation they're not even aware they're committing. A safety program that put cameras on school buses to catch drivers passing while the buses' stop sign activated lately, but some drivers say they've been surprised to receive violation notices for continuing to drive while a bus was stopped on the other side of a multi-lane highway. In the Bronx, 6-year-old Aiden Hayeard boy has died after a trash compactor fire filled a NYCHA building hallway with heavy smoke. Firefighters responding to the building shortly after 5pm Friday also found a 32-year-old male unconscious in a hallway suffering from smoke inhalation. And Travis Scott's high-energy performances are known for being chaotic and fun-filled shows with concertgoers encouraged to take part in a raucous nature involving mosh pits, crowd surfing, and stage diving. But with his past also including criminal charges stemming from shows in Chicago and Arkansas, experts believe he should take a hard look at changing the approach of his shows after eight people died at Astroworld Friday night. 👨🏽🎤
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, when New York City voters chose Eric Adams to be the next mayor and Alvin Bragg as the next Manhattan District Attorney, they elevated two black men into two of the city's most powerful elected offices. Itt a moment the city's African American officials say has been a long time coming. The current mayor, Bill De Blasio and four unions representing city workers have now reached an agreement on COVID-19 vaccinations that affirm the city's right to impose mandates. The deal affects about 75,000 people who work in settings from school lunchrooms to trash trucks- but not for the NYPD or FDNY. And the murder trial is set to begin for three white men in Brunswick, Georgia, who are charged with chasing and shooting Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man. The death in February 2020 was recorded on video and caused a national outcry. ⚖️👨🏽
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy pulled out a squeaker, winning reelection over his Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli. It Soares the Democrats the loss of a second gubernatorial seat, and he also becomes the first Democratic governor to get a second term in nearly 45 years. The new mayor-elect of New York City, Eric Adams, is promising not just to be practical and progressive mayor, but a "GSD" mayor. It's short for "get stuff done." And the woman in charge of weapons in the set of "Rust" where Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza now says that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot, but still doesn't know how a live bullet ended up inside. 🔫
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, for the first time since 1990 when David Dinkins was mayor, an African-American will be in charge of the nation's largest city as Eric Adams handily defeated Curtis Sliwa to become the next mayor of New York City. Across the river in New Jersey, the governor's race between Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy and the Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli was virtually deadlocked and still too close to call. A Ciattarelli win would send a jolt through state and national politics, while a win by Murphy for a second term would break historic trends in the state. And in Virginia, Republican former business executive Glenn Youngkin won the governor's race, a major political turnabout in a state that had been trending increasingly blue. The win has alarmed national Democrats already nervous about holding their party's narrow control of Congress in next year's midterms. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Election Day, prosecutors say that millionaire real estate scion Robert Durst is in even more trouble with the law. He's been indicted on a murder charge in the death of Kathie Durst, his first wife who disappeared nearly four decades ago. The long-anticipated and long-delayed rail route from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal is nearing reality. More than 150,000 customers per day are expected to use the service when it begins next year. And across America, voters are going to the polls. In Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin raced to fire up their party's base voters in opposite end of Virginia, while voters in Minneapolis are deciding on whether to give Jacob Frey a second mayoral term and whether to replace the city's police department with a new Department of Public Safety. 🇺🇲🗳️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's late edition of #TheUpdate, New Yorkers are set to go to the polls and make some important decisions in elections tomorrow to pick mayors, prosecutors, county leaders, and other local positions. Voters in NYC are picking a new mayor, while Buffalo has a mayoral race that has gained attention as the latest fight over how Democrats should beat tackle the plight of the poor and working class. Day 1 of the worker shortage is over as about 9,000 municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that's now in effect, and thousands of city firefighters have called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement. And as deadlines look for military and defense civilians to get mandated COVID-19 vaccines, senior leaders are wrestling with the fate of tens of thousands who flatly refuse the shots or are seeking exemptions, and how to be treated fairly and equally. 💉🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, if you're noticing that trash has been building up on the streets of the City of New York, it might be a drop in the bucket compared to what may happen come Monday. The city is bracing for a worker shortage as its COVID-19 vaccine mandate looms, and tens of thousands of municipal employees remain unvaccinated. They face a 5pm deadline to show proof of at least one dose, or be placed on unpaid leave come Monday. A sheriff's officer has accused former governor Andrew Cuomo of groping a woman in an investigation stemming from the scandal that drove him to resign earlier this year. And the U.S Justice Department is in talks to pay hundreds of thousands of to each child and parent who was separated under a Trump-era practice of splitting families at the border. The Wall Street Journal first reported that the government was considering payments around $450,000 to each person affected. 💵👨👩👦🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, New York Attorney General Letitia James, the woman who helped push former governor Andrew Cuomo to resign with her bombshell report, is planning to take his old job. She'll be entering the race as a formidable candidate for the Democratic nomination that features current governor Kathy Hochul, who's seeking a full term in office. The former bursar of the City College of New York has been charged with stealing $500,000 in student checks and spending the money on vacations and luxury goods. Fifty-eight-year-old Joseph Boselli was charged Tuesday with felony counts including grand larceny for allegedly stealing 900 checks that were issued to 700 current or former students. And in western Louisiana, a tornado has damaged more than a dozen homes in a part of the state still struggling to recover from repeated weather disasters. Several other homes received minor damage. 🏡🌪️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Wednesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the candidates running to become the next mayor of New York City- Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa- lobbed accusations at each other during their second debate about palling around with gangsters and acting like children or clowns, but it ended on a surprisingly tender note involving cats and veganism. The Brooklyn Diocese has fired a Catholic music teacher in Queens after he married a man. School and church officials said in a statement that Matthew LaBanca was fired because he violated a part of his contract that said teachers must "support and exemplify by his/her public conduct Catholic doctrine and morality." And the victims of a multi-vehicle crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that killed five people and hurt dozens of others nearly two years ago now claim in a lawsuit that one of the drivers was wearing noise-cancelling headphones. 🛣️💥🎧
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the shooting epidemic on the streets of the City of New York has now made it's way underground. A man riding a northbound N train during yesterday's evening rush was shot in the leg when a other man armed with a gun approached and demanded his cell phone. The NYPD say that a 2-year-old girl was fatally struck by an SUV driven by her mother's boyfriend. The toddler's 23-year-old mother was removing packages from the rear of a Nissan Rogue when the child wandered in front of the vehicle. And in a new poll by the Associated Press, the Center For Public Affairs Research, and the the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, a majority of Americans regard the deteriorating climate as a problem of high importance to them.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Monday, those damn pesky beavers are at it again. A family of them has been building dams near a small Hudson Valley town of Mechanicville that's imprading the flow of water into the small reservoir the town depends on. The beavers can build a dam in as little as two nights that can slow water flow and create algae on the reservoir. Police in Suffolk County on Long Island need your help solving a murder mystery. They're investigating the death of a woman found fatally stabbed outside of her home in Coram. And a camera operator has told authorities that Alec Baldwin had been careful with the weapons on the set of the film "Rust" before the actor fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a gun he'd been told was safe to use, according to new records released Sunday.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, a judge has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to block the public and news media from jury selection in her trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. Organizers of a bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City are preparing to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board. It would be an important milestone in efforts to form a collective bargaining agreement for employees of the online retail giant. And in New Mexico, authorities say that actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop hunt on the set of the movie 'Rust' that injured director Joel Souza and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the two men running to become the next mayor of New York City, offered starkly different visions at their first debate about how to lead the nation's largest city out of the pandemic, improve public safety, and lead the city of nearly 9 million people for more powerful storms driven by climate change. Scientists have temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watches it begin to work. The feat is a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. And bottlenecks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have spilled over into a neighborhood where cargo trucks are clogging residential streets. Residents of the Wilmington area just north of the ports have complained that trucks are backed up in the streets at all hours of the day and night. 🛳️
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, Mayor De Blasio has almost guaranteed himself another vaccine fight with the unions representing city workers. New York City will require police officers, firefighters and other municipal workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 29th at 5pm or be placed on unpaid leave, the mayor said today, giving an ultimatum to public employees who've refused. An associate of Rudy Giuliani had a few hours left to decide whether he was going to testify at his own trial. Lev Parnas is charged with illegally enabling a Russian financier to contribute to U.S politicians. And in Haiti, negotiations are stretching into a fourth day seeking the return of 17 members of a U.S-based missionary group kidnapped over the weekend by a gang that is demanding $1 million ransom per person. 🇭🇹🇺🇲💵
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, it's about time this happened. New York City's Board of Health has passed a resolution that names racism as a public health crisis, joining the growing list of state and local governments around the country that have done so in recent years. A judge now says that Cuba Gooding Jr. will go on trial in February in his New York City groping case. Prosecutors are expected to portray the actor as a serial offender, while the defense to contend the case is an example of #MeToo run amok. And in Atlanta, mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says that a Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed during the 1970s and 1980s. At least 29 black children and young adults were killed in the city between 1979 and 1981. 🧬
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Monday's edition of #TheUpdate, judges around the country are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. It's a drug for parasites that has been promoted by conservative commentators as a treatment despite a lack of evidence that it helps people with the virus. Eric Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president and the presumptive next mayor of New York City says that he doesn't intend to get rid of the city's program for gifted and talented students. Adams says that De Blasio can't get rid of the program until next year, when a new mayor is in place. And we're remembering Colin Powell, the former Joint Chiefs chairman and Secretary of State. He's died from COVID-19 complications, according to his family. 🇺🇲
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, a supposed love triangle has turned deadly in Brooklyn. An off-duty NYPD officer is now in custody after authorities say she shot two women, one of whom she was intimately involved with. The shooting left one woman dead and the other injured. Nearly all the female and transgender inmates at Rikers Island will be temporarily transferred to state lockups. Critics say though it will deprive inmates of services and move them farther from their families and other forms of support. And TikTok, the app best know for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a shopping phenomenon. The #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt has gotten more than 5 billion views, and the app has made a grab-bag of products a surprise hit: leggings, purses, cleaners, and even feta cheese.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a project to build a rail link connecting New York City to LaGuardia Airport has been put on hold. The FAA had issued environmental approval in July, but recently had asked the Port Authority to reconsider in light of a lawsuit filed by neighborhood and environmental groups. A federal judge had ruled that New York must continue to allow health care workers to seek exemptions from a statewide COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds as a lawsuit challenging the requirement proceeds. And The White House says that it had helped broker an agreement for the Port of Los Angeles to become a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week operation. This is an effort to relieve supply chain bottlenecks and move the stranded container ships that are driving prices higher for U.S consumers.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On Tuesday's edition of #TheUpdate, the show went on, regardless of your politics. The annual Columbus Day parade returned to New York City after being cancelled last year because of the pandemic. Organizers say 35,000 marchers took part in the parade and tens of thousands more watched. On Long Island, police say that a driver who caused a crash that killed himself and four others in July was driving in excess of 100 mph. The speed limit in the road where the crash happened? 40 mph. And members of the House scrambled back to Washington to pass a short-term limit of the nation's debt limit. The vote will ensure the federal government can continue fully paying it's bills into December.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Friday, a newly released investigation says that Mayor De Blasio misused city resources by taking his security detail with him on trips during his ill-fated presidential run. It recommends that the mayor reimburse the NYPD for the more than $300,000 spent on those trips, including for letting his adult son use his police security detail as a free taxi service. Pfizer is asking the U.S government to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. If regulators agree, shots could begin within a matter of weeks. And in a new poll, nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a problem. Most also think that individual users, along with social media companies, bear a good deal of blame for the situation. But few are very concerned that they themselves might be responsible.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Mama's Fried Chicken on 116 St in Harlem is the scene where two teens- ages 13 and 16- were shot, apparently by a 17-year old gunman who was quickly apprehended. The 13-year-old was shot in the head, but is expected to survive, while the 16-year-old was shot in the back. The victims and the gunman are part of rival crews, which are subsets of established gangs, and may be retaliation for another shooting on the same block last week. Transit officials and experts say that this past summer's storms were the latest reminders that more needs to be done to prepare the East Coast's vital transit systems in the face of more extreme and unpredictable weather caused by climate change. And in Texas, a federal judge has ordered the state to suspend a new law that has banned most abortions in the state since September. Texas officials were expected to seek a swift appeal.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, federal agents have raided the offices of Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins, who has clashed with city officials over his incendiary tweets and hard-line tactics. The union sent a statement to members that Mullins resigned to avoid hampering the union's operations. Officials have announced that the New York Public Library and its sister branches will no longer charge late fees and will waive existing fines for overdue books and other materials. And in Los Angeles, leaders are poised to enact one of the nation's strictest vaccine mandates- a sweeping measure that would require the shots for everyone entering a bar, restaurant, nail salon, gym, or even a Lakers game.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 leg, marking the third shooting this year in an area that's a top destination for Big Apple tourists. And no, you didn't win the Powerball jackpot. Sorry. 🤷🏽♂️ After 40 drawings without a winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize. The winner will be able to choose between the annuity option paid over 29 years, or the cash option of $496 million.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 their male counterparts who held equivalent positions. And in California, crews on the water and on the shore are working feverishly to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent history. Huntington Beach mayor Kim Carr says that the city's beaches could remain closed for weeks or even months.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 that would keep it from going into effect. The city has given school employees until 5pm today to get at least their first vaccine shot. And people who died, are healing, and are struggling will be remembered during the fourth anniversary of the Las Vegas massacre that became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S history. 🇺🇸
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Broadway show Aladdin was cancelled when breakthrough COVID-19 cases were reported within the musical's company, a day after the show reopened, a worrying sign for Broadway. It was the first Broadway COVID-19 cancellation since shows resumed in July. And political adversaries in Congress are united in outrage against Facebook for privately compiling information that Instagram appeared to grievously harm some teens, especially girls, while publicly downplaying the popular platform's negative impact.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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. The objections to a historic settlement with Perdue Pharma are mounting in the form of appeals. With Rhode Island's objection, any successful appeal could undo the whole deal, not just that state's piece of it. And the number of first-dose COVID-19 vaccinations is falling in the U.S, despite the spread of vaccine requirements across the country. Some experts worry that the move to dispense booster doses could undermine the efforts to persuade the unvaccinated to get their shots in the first place.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 without a court order. The preliminary injunction issued halts a long-standing practice of plying confidential information to aid investigations, target suspects and shape policing decisions. And Republican senators have blocked a bill to keep the U.S government funded and allow barrowing. But Democrats determined to avoid a federal shutdown say they'll try again this week.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 a federal appeals judge days before it was to take effect. The mandate for the nation's largest school system was set to go into effect Monday night. And Democrats are promising historic investments across all levels of education as they push ahead with President Biden's $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan. The proposal includes universal Pre-K, two years of free community college and expanded child care subsidies.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 latest in a long history of discriminatory U.S policies and indignities faced by black people. The images of men on horseback, appearing to use reins as whips to corral Hatian asylum seekers trying to cross into the U.S from Mexico horrified black observers. And the CDC has endorsed COVID-19 booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans. The move opens a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against the coronavirus.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 this week allows in the NYPD's community policing program to log neighborhood concerns like graffiti, loud music, and public intoxication- and also keep track of whether they've been addressed. And California will be the first state to bar mega-retailers (like Amazon) from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks. It also prohibits disciplining workers for following health and safety laws, and also allows employees to sue to suspend unsafe quotas or reverse retaliation.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 both of them. And the House has approved legislation to fund the government, suspend it's borrowing limit and provide federal disaster and refugee aid. Republicans in the Senate are expected to block the measure however, as Congress works to avoid a federal shutdown at the end of the fiscal year on September 30th.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 the international community of American leadership on the global stage, calling on allies to move quickly and cooperatively to address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 allegations he groomed young victims for unwanted sex and psychological torment in episodes dating back to the 1990's. And Pfizer says its COVID vaccine works for children ages 5-11. The vaccine maker said it plans to seek authorization for this age group soon in the U.S, Britain, and Europe- a key step towards beginning vaccinations for youngsters.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 Manhattan skyscrapers are a persistent problem. And the White House is warning state and local governments about severe cuts to disaster relief, Medicaid, inferstructure grants, school funding, and other programs if Congress fails to raise the U.S debt limit.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 robe to demonstrate she wasn't wearing a wire. And Tropical Storm Nicholas hit the Texas coast as a hurricane and dumped more than a foot of rain along the same area swamped by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. 🌀
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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 proof of vaccination to go indoors at restaurants, museums, and entertainment venues. At least Taylor Swift didn't win. 🤷🏽♂️ Lil Nas X won video of the year at the MTV VMAs on a night that Justin Bieber triumphantly returned to the stage as a performer and as winner of artist of the year. And in a blitz of TV ads and a last-minute rally, California governor Gavin Newsom urged voters to defeat a looming recall that could remove him from office.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Friday, even after 20 years, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex after it's destruction in the 9/11 attacks is still incomplete. Work has barely begun on two planned skyscrapers, including one that will be among the city's tallest buildings. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a former radio station intern says that the singer kept her locked in a darkened room for days before sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious in 2003. And a decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, as we approach 20 years since then, not so much.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Thursday, the New York City's medical examiner's office is continuing the difficult task of identifying remains recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Officials are hopeful, but acknowledge that some may never be identified. On Long Island, authorities say that a Suffolk County employee secretly installed dozens of machines in his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme and cost the county at least $6,000 in electricity bills. And a statue of General Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond, Virginia, for generations has been taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Friday, many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of Hurricane Ida's remnants in the Northeast, but some actually did. So, how did something like this happen? We'll attempt to explain. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a woman reluctantly took the witness stand against him to recount how he struck up a relationship with her in 2006 when she was 15, but she dodged questions about when they first had sex. And in the west, fire crews are taking advantage of decreasing winds to battle a California wildfire near Lake Tahoe, but dry weather and a weekend warming trend mean the battle is far from over.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On the late edition of The Update this Thursday, the aftermath of Ida continues. A stunned east coast is facing a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue after Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain. At least 45 deaths have been linked to flooding. The remnants of Ida may be our fault. Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made it deadly and more devastating in the tri-state area even though the weakened storm made landfall more than 1,000 miles away. And in other news, President Biden is denouncing the Supreme Court's decision not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state. He's directing federal agencies to do what they can to "insulate women and providers" from the impact.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul is calling the state legislature into a special session in hopes of extending an eviction moratorium and adding protections for tenants and property owners who fell behind on their rent or their mortgage because of hardships caused by the pandemic. Authorities say a New Jersey woman with the Instagram handle AntiVaxMomma sold several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 a poo to New York City-area jab dodgers, including people working in hospitals and nursing homes. And the remnants of Hurricane Ida are forecast to dump rain from the central Appalachians into New England, with up to 8 inches possible in spots from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts. But Kate's still out in the Atlantic, and Tropical Storm Larry forming off Africa.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Tuesday, resigning from office hasn't probably ended former Governor Andrew Cuomo's legal problems, and no matter what happens next, taxpayers are likely to wind up with a hefty bill: $9.5 million to lawyers representing and investigating Cuomo and his administration over sexual harassment allegations and other matters. Out west in Buffalo, workers at three Starbucks coffee shops filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a vote on union representation, the latest development in a nationwide, pandemic-era reckoning in wages and working conditions. And after two decades, the United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war and closing a sad chapter in military history. But it's likely to be remembered for collosal failures, unfulfilled promises, and a deadly frantic final exit.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Monday, cutting-edge DNA technology will be used to analyze the remains of more than 1,100 victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. If you experienced a brief power surge Sunday night, you weren't alone. A fire started in a manhole on a Queens street Sunday evening, delaying service on multiple subway lines and eliciting a response from Gov. Kathy Hochul. And Ida is now a tropical storm after spending 16 hours as a hurricane over Louisiana and Mississippi. Residents are now waiting for daybreak for rescues from flooded areas to begin and damage to be assessed.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On The Update this Friday, city officials are evaluating the future of the Vessel at Hudson Yards after a string of suicides, the latest coming last month after a 14-year-old boy jumped- the fourth death in 2 1/2 years. At the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial, a witness is saying that the R&B star once compared himself to rock legend Jerry Lee Louis, notorious for marrying his 13-year-old cousin decades ago. And the 16th time just may be the charm. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan, currently surving a life sentence for assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Harlem is being represented in a big way. Governor Kathy Hochul has selected Harlem senator Brian Benjamin as her choice for lieutenant governor. If he accepts, Benjamin would be only the state's second black lieutenant governor. It truly was a cunning scheme: authorities have taken down a criminal racket in which corrupt lawyers and doctors used hundreds of desperate people- including drug addicts and homeless individuals- to feign trip-and-fall accidents to collect damages. And the clock keeps ticking on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says that as many as 1,500 Americans still await evacuation as concerns of a terror attack targeting Kabul's airport grow in the arlift's final days.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
On the Season 8 premiere of #TheUpdate this Wednesday,, there's a new power structure in the state of New York. Kathy Hochul is now the first female governor, and in her first few hours on the job, she sought to bring a new sense of urgency to the immense problems that went unaddressed during her predecessor's distracted final months in office. At the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial, a woman testifying against him barred her and another live-in girlfriend from watching a documentary series that portrayed him as a sexual predator. And in Louisiana, graphic body camera video kept secret for more than two years shows a state trooper pummeling a black motorist 18 times with a flashlight- an attack the trooper defended as "pain compliance."
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's always strange how drama always starts when people don't do anything to cause it. That would also describe T's life to a certain point. Gather some snacks and take a seat- it's time for the first ever storytime with Tommie.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
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.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Governor Cuomo's resignation enough to drag him off of vacation- for a day at least.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
After a bit of a hiatus, Real Talk is back. With no Tommie, Chris dives in to talk about some thoughts about his wife- like does being popular lead to an overprotective partner?
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Welcome to something truly different- the debut of real talk with Chris and his wife Tommie. There's no filter, and no topic off limits. Why is Sakura from Naruto such a bitch? Is it wrong for pineapple to be on pizza? Have you ever seen in a food fight?And that's just scratching the surface. So get some snacks and get comfortable- it's time for some real talk.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York,the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the geatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In the words of a flight director at NASA, today was a bad day. On today's show, we talked about President Trump saying that he and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. His positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the president several times this week. We also talked about Melvin Gordon sealing the Broncos’ first win of the season with a 43-yard touchdown run with 1:48 left and the defense made just enough plays in the fourth quarter to beat the lowly and still winless Jets, and an audio recording of grand jury proceedings that ended with no criminal charges against police officers for Breonna Taylor's death is expected to be released.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatestity in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we offiially enter spooky season, on today's show, we talked about how in New York and Los Angeles, the nation's two largest school districts are rolling out ambitious and costly plans to test students and staff for the coronavirus. New York is set to begin testing 10% to 20% of students and staff in every building monthly today, the same day that middle and high school students return to classrooms. We also talked about DJ LeMahieu’s tiebreaking single in the ninth inning off closer Brad Hand sent the Yankees into the AL Division Series with a wild win over the Cleveland Indians in a Game 2 that started in September and ended in October, and the world came together 25 years ago to chart a new course for half the world’s population to gain the rights, power and status of the other half. But top U.N. officials say the hopes of achieving equality for women remain a distant goal in today’s more divided, conservative and still very male-dominated world.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From new York, the greatest ity in the world, it's The Update with Branon Julien! On toay's show, we talked about a wealthy benefactor of the disgraced leader of an upstate New York self-improvement group that is facing sentencing in a federal sex slave case. Her lawyers want three years of probation, but prosecutors want five years in jail. We also talked about the Yankees pounding Cleveland ace Shane Bieber and opening the AL playoffs with a resounding win over the Indians, and the first debate between President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and near chaos.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Fresh off a long weekend, we talked about on today's show about how hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms as New York City enters a high-stakes phase of resuming in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic. We also talked about how pitching matchups don't get any better than Game 1 of the wild-card series between the Indians and Yankees, and how the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 1 million.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest iy in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Before a long holiday weekend, we traveled out to Six Flags Fright Fest in New Jersey. On today's show, we talked about how a federal appeals court wasset to hear arguments in President Trump’s long-running fight to prevent a New York top prosecutor from getting his tax returns. We also talked about the Yankees and Mets keeping their postseason hopes alive, and a federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident extended for another month through the end of October.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we talked about how demonstrators packed a New York City plaza Wednesday night to protest a Kentucky grand jury’s decision not to indict any police officers for the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. We also talked about Gary Sánchez making two of his team’s season-high four errors to deal the Yankees erhaps a fatal blow in its race for home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs, and President Trump is declining to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we talked about how yhe Uncle Ben's rice brand is changing its name to Ben's Original. Parent company Mars Inc. is the latest company to drop a logo criticized as a racial stereotype. We also talked about Pete Alonso and the Mets preventing Tampa Bay from clinching the AL East crown, and Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Trump's pick to quickly fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Rolling right into fall on today's show, we talked about how The Justice Department identified New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle as three cities that could have federal funding slashed under a memorandum by President Trump that sought to identify localities that permit "anarchy, violence and destruction in American cities." We also talked about Nate Lowe homering and scored both runs against Jacob deGrom, and the Rays overcame 16 strikeouts to move closer to an AL East title by beating the Mets, and the Trump administration this week is set to resume this year's wave of federal executions following a 17-year hiatus.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this final full day of summer 2020, we talked about on today's show how for most schoolchildren in New York City, Monday meant back to school, but not back to the classroom. Only pre-kindergarteners and some special education students ended a six-month absence from school buildings because of the coronavirus pandemic. We also talked about how the higher seeded team reaching the World Series will have last at-bats in Games 1 and 2 and if needed Games 6 and 7, not necessarily the team with the best record, and President Donald Trump saying that he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of the final weekend of the summer, we talked about on today's show how Mayor De Blasio said that he was confident the city will meet a revised timeline to bring public school students back to classrooms within the next two weeks. We also talked about Anthony Cirelli scoring in overtime to send the Lightning to the Stanley Cup Final with a 2-1 victory over the Islanders in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, and how the coronavirus pandemic has led Europe's largest security organization to drastically scale back plans to send as many as 500 observers to the U.S. to monitor the Nov. 3 presidential election.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's episode, we talked about how Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he and about 500 employees in his office will take one-week, unpaid furloughs from their jobs starting in October as the city wrestles with the COVID-19 financial crisis. We also talked about in the Mets win over the Phillies, ace Jacob deGrom left his start in after two innings with a right hamstring spasm, and how a military whistleblower said federal officials sought some unusual crowd control devices — including one that’s been called a “heat ray” — to deal with protesters outside the White House on the June day that law enforcement forcibly cleared Lafayette Sqaure.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York,the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's episode, we talked about how as New York City’s already delayed school year is scheduled to start remotely today and in person on Monday, it’s an open question whether the city can pull off the hybrid learning system Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in July. We also talked about Jordan Eberle scoring on a two-on-one break 12:30 into the second overtime and the Islanders avoided elimination with a win over the Lightning in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final, and also in Decision 2020, Joe Biden has made his first trip to Florida as the Democratic presidential nominee with an urgent mission to boost support among Latinos who could decide the election in one of the nation’s fiercest battleground states.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we talked about how Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren fired police chief Le’Ron Singletary after he announced his retirement last week and also suspended her top lawyer and communications director in the continuing upheaval over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude. We also talked about Ben Roethlisberger doing a very Pittsburgh thing in his return to the lineup, riding the Steelers’ defense and running game to victory over the Giants, and President Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we talked about the body of a 21-year-old woman that was swept away by currents at Rockaway Beach has been recovered, the eighth person to drown there since 2019 after at least seven people drowned last year. We also talked about Josh Allen leading three consecutive first-half touchdown drives and the Bills overcoming their own sloppiness and injuries to two starting linebackers in a season-opening win over the Jets, and authorities continuing the search for a gunman who shot and wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in an apparent ambush in their squad car.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we remember those who died on this 19th anniversary of 9/11, we talked about on today's show how starting Monday, commuters that refuse to wear a mask on mass transit could be fined $50. We also talked about how on a day when the Yankees game against the Orioles was rained out and rescheduled as a doubleheader for today, James Paxton suffered a setback towards his return, and a federal appeals court ruled that Florida felons must pay all fines, restitution, and legal fees before they can regain their right to vote.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's episode, we talked about how after weeks of waiting for guidance, Gov. Cuomo says New York City restaurants can resume indoor dining on Sept. 30 at a quarter of capacity with other restrictions. We also talked about Nikita Kucherov scored with 8.8 seconds left to give the Lightning a 2-1 victory over the Islanders and a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference finals, and President Trump is acknowledging he played down the projected impact of the deadly coronavrius.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As the New York City malls reopen at 50% capacity, we talked about on today's episode how Governor Cuomo said that COVID-19 outbreaks at colleges are already a problem, with one school shut down and cases rising elsewhere. We also talked about Gary Sánchez and the slumping Yankees lost their fifth in a row and fell for the 15th time in 20 games, and how out west, authorities haven't made any arrests and haven't released a motive for a shooting at an illegal marijuana growing operation that left seven people dead.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we talked about how protesters demonstrated outside Rochester’s police headquarters naked except for “spit hoods” in reference to the killing of Daniel Prude, demanding police accountability and legislation to change how authorities respond to mental health emergencies. Chad Green and Adam Ottavino were routed during a 10-run sixth inning as the Blue Jays rallied to beat the Yankees, and hopes are dimming for another coronavirus relief bill from Washington as Congress returns to session.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we embark on Labor Day weekend, on today's show, as The NYPD tries to locate a car that drove through a group of protesters blocking a street in Times Square, seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude last spring in Rochester have been suspended by the city’s mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter. We also talked about how as New York City malls and New York casinos are getting the green light to reopen next week, Gov. Cuomo says he won’t let New York City reopen its restaurants for indoor dining until the city comes up with a plan to monitor them and make sure they’re following regulations to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's show, we remembered one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, and the star of the 1969 Miracle Mets championship team asHall of Fame pitcher and New York Mets icon Tom Seaver died at 75. We also talked about authorities investigating a Long Island bar that reportedly took bets on whether Chicago or New York City would see more shootings over Labor Day weekend, and a new study says that safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes in which semis rear-end other vehicles.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's episode, we covered a new start date for NYC public schools. The new September 21st start date comes after teachers said they might OK a strike over the city’s drive to open schools. We also covered Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman threw a 101 mph fastball near the head of pinch-hitter Michael Brosseau while closing out his first save of the season, and a new book about President Donald Trump is reviving questions about his unscheduled visit to a military hospital last fall.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the road to fall and the first day of a new month, we covered in today's episode the United Federation of Teachers Union preparing to go to court or strike because of COVID concerns with 9 days to go until the start of the school year in New York City, the Rays extended their mastery of New York with a victory, improving to 7-1 against the Yankees this season and stretched their division cushion to 4 1/2 games, and The United Nation chief says the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequality between men and women and reversed “decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and women’s rights.”
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this last day of August, we covered in today's episode that SUNY Oneonta will shut down for two weeks after 105 people in the college community tested positive for the coronavirus, the Mets placed two of their struggling pitchers on the injured list, and Democrats are accusing President Trump of trying to inflame racial tensions after a flurry of tweets.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's episode before we archival dipping for the weekend, we cover the shared moped service Revel returning to the New York City streets, previews for the season of the Giants and Jets, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigning because of a chronic illness has resurfaced.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's episode, we cover 43 students at SUNY Plattsburgh getting suspended for violating rules designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Yankees getting swept in a double-header in Atlanta while losing Aaron Judge again to an injury, and Hurricane Laura making landfall in southwestern Louisiana.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Hopefully you enjoyed our summer trip into the archives, but we're back with a brand new season and New episodes! In today's episode, we talk about the latest coronavirus developments, the Mets returning to play with two losses, and Night 2 of the Republican National Convention.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Here we are. The day before our Season 4 premiere in a new borough in Staten Island. In our Season 3 finale concluding our trips into the archives, we go back to the last official show we did at WKRB back in March of 2020. In this episode is also the full WKRB signoff we did the next day? I can't wait to start new episodes and a new season starting tomorrow.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! This summer, we did something a little unusual- we took a summer hiatus, and I started growing some facial hair. But in two days, we start Season 4 of our podcast. But before we can go forward, we have to look back all the way to show number 1 back in February of 2017. It sounds a lot different than today's shows doesn't it? And there is a rundown issue that you'll notice that we corrected in Season 2- as you know, we now do headlines and then traffic and weather together, not the other way around. But despite the rundown issue, the shows were actually very informative and fun. I hope you'll agree.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The countdown now stands at three days to go until our season 4 premiere, but for today's trip into the archives, we're going back to a show we aired earlier in the summer. The next solar eclipse won't happen until 2024, but let's revisit the most recent one back in 2017.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Our Season 4 premiere is not four days away, but in the meantime, the summer archives continue with today's trip back to August of 2017. The top story on this day was that the NYPD was investigating the stabbing of a homeless man who was playing chess in the middle of Union Square.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, we go back to August of 2017 where after surviving a case of laryngitis, the top story on this day was that a woman was sexually assaulted as she was about to enter her car in The Bronx.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As new episodes and our season 4 premiere comes closer, we're wrapping up a summer of looking into the archives. For today's trip into June of 2019, the top story on this day was about how a former prosecutor in the Central Park Five case was forced to step aside after a new Netflix documentary came out.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives back in June of 2018, the top story on this day was about a legacy being cut short as Kate Spade was found dead by an apparent suicide.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! 2020 was destined to be an important year. Not only was it a Presidential election year and supposed to be a summer Olympic year, but 2020 was also all about the Census. But in today's trip into the archives back in June of 2019 had a top story about how the Census could possibly be compromised with an undercount.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives back in August of 2018, the top story was some high flight drama after a plane carrying the rapper Post Malone had to make an emergency landing at Stewart Airport after two wheels blew off during takeoff at Teterboro Airport.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After surviving a summer camp year with my voice fully intact this time around, today's trip to the archives takes us back to August of 2018, where the top story on this day was the criminal charges that were about to be dropped against President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The summer hasn't exactly been very kind to us when we did shows. In 2017, I battled a summer camp job and a case of laryngitis. In today's trip to the archives in July of 2018, before I took another hiatus to work on another summer job, the top story on this day had to deal with the Harvey Weinstein case before it went to trial.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We may not like the snow, but sometimes we may prefer it to the searing summer heat. As we continue through our summer archival trip, we go back to the first few weeks our show existed in March of 2017, where we covered the aftermath of Snowstorm Stella.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we continue our summer archival trip, we go back to June of 2019 and the 75th anniversary of D-Day with co-host Cristopher Cruz, where the top story on this day was out of West Point, where a five ton cargo truck overturned, killing one cadet and injuring 21 others.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we continue our archival trip through the summer, today's trip into the archives takes us back to the very beginning in April of 2017, where the top story on this day was that the NYPD was investigating after two bodies were found in the Hudson River.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's trip into the archives back in February of 2020 (pre-pandemic), the top story on this day was that many people were starting to wonder if it was safe to walk around on the streets of the City of New York. Or at least the streets of East New York in Brooklyn after another accident that killed another child.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's trip into the archives back on this day in February of 2020 (as the pandemic was taking hold), there were several developing stories to lead off, including Roger Stone being sentenced to 3 and 1/2 years in federal prison.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As the summer of 2017 was winding down, we were about to make a major change and go from mornings (11:30AM) to evenings (5PM). In today's trip into the archives however, we go back to the show we did back on September 11th of 2017.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Midway through our first summer back in 2017, we were still trying to find the right balance as I was doing the show in addition to working a summer job. Regardless, in today's trip into the archives back in July of 2017, the top story was that New York state's top Democrats were joining together to stop the impending GOP health care bill.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! From archive trips that took us from the very beginning, today's archive trip takes us back to the pre-pandemic recent history. Back in February of 2020, the top story was at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial, where one name kept popping up more than any other: Annabella Sciorra.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Always wear the right shoes when it rains so you don't slip and fall. We'll explain why. As we were heading into our second full semester at Kingsborough (and a change in the timeslot to 5pm), in today's trip into the archives back in August of 2017, a new report found that transit delays had cost New York City over 17,000 hours in lost work time so far that year.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's very important to take care of yourself when you feel sick. As you'll hear in today's trip into the archives, back in season 1 in August 2017, while I was battiling the resaidual effects of laryngitis, the top story on this day was that the NYPD was looking for a man who tried to sexually abuse a woman as she tried to enter her car.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, the top story on this day back in August of 2017 was that a man was shot and seriously wounded in the Norwood section of The Bronx.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, the top story on this day back in August of 2018 was that the plane carrying rapper Post Malone had to make an emergency landing at Stewart Airport after two tires blown off during takeoff at Teterboro Airport.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip to the archives, the top story on this day was that New York City stopped a future terrorist the previous day, sentencing the man to 20 years in prison for trying to assist the Islamic State group.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, after taking more than a month off to work a summer camp job, the top story on this day in August of 2018 was that people that were aware of the federal investigation into Michael Cohen said that prosecutors were preparing criminal charges.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives in April of 2019, the top story was Chanel Lewis being convicted of murder in Karina Vatrano's death.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! My WKRB producers always liked to play tricks on me. Whether it was locking me out of the studio or giving me my coffee in a dribble glass, they were just full of surprises. April 1st is normally April Fool's Day and perfect for jokes, which is today's trip into the archives.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Every seven years (give or take a few months), a solar eclipse crosses over America. And while the next one won't happen until 2024, in today's trip to the archives, we go back to the Great American Eclipse in August of 2017 (our first year).
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Halloween is my wife's favorite holiday. She goes all out for it, and she's even gotten me into the swing of it now. Today's trip to the archives takes us to Halloween in 2019.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As the coronavirus slowly started to take hold, today's trip to the archives takes us to our 3 year anniversary of the show in February of 2020.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! If you remember how the year began, it all started with the Impeachment Trial of President Trump in January of 2020. In today's trip into the archives, we go back to Day 1 of the trial with the written Questions and Answers of impeachment, which were read by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's safe to say that 2020 has been a wild year, but do you remember how the year began? It all started in January with the opening Impeachment Arguments in the trial of President Donald John Trump, which is today's trip into the archives.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, we go back to a show we did on Yom Kippur in October of 2019, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Tax Day for 2020 has come and gone, but for today's trip into the archives, we go back to when Tax Day is traditionally: back in April- April of 2019 to be exact.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's summer archive trip, we take another look into the first year of the show in 2017 and the first major story we ever covered: the aftermath of the terror attack in Manchester.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We did it, we did it. Unless something has changed in the last few weeks that makes us ineligible for Phase 4 in which we tried, but that seems unlikely- we did it! We'll be back with new episodes in August, but in the meantime, our trips into the archives continue. In today's trip, we go back to celebrating International Women's Day back in March of 2019.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Here's a little fun fact for you: March 20th is the day my wife was born- and it's also usually the first day of Spring. On today's trip into the archives, we go back to the first day of Spring back in March of 2019.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Let's be real for a second: Summer 2020 doesn't feel like last summer, or even the summer of 2018. Speaking of, today's trip into the archives takes us to the official first day of summer back in June of 2018.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York,the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With MLB starting their summer camps in an effort to finally start the pandemic delayed season, today's trip into the archives seems like a good time to go back to MLB'S Opening Day back in March of 2019.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, we go back to the unofficial start of summer in the day before Memorial Day weekend in May of 2018.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Happy Tax Day everyone! That's sarcasm of course. In today's trip into the archives, we go back all the way to 2017- the first year of the show. We've covered lots of tragedies throughout my tenure. The aftermath in Manchester was the first major incident I covered, but the Las Vegas massacre took things to an entirely new level.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's awakening from our summer slumber talks about the confusing school path forward both locally and nationally. Parents and school administrators are getting long-awaited answers to their back-to-school questions as Gov. Cuomo said schools will be allowed to open for the fall in areas where the coronavirus is under control. Nationally, School board meetings, social media debates and online petitions over masks have often devolved into mudslinging.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We come out of our summer slumber to talk about the latest coronavirus developments, and despite several repeated statements by Governor Cuomo that opening schools is his call to make, a plan announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza say that most New York City students will return to their physical schools two or three days a week and learn online the rest of the time.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, we go back to Flag Day back in June of 2018- a day where we commemorate the adoption of the flag of the United States by the resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today is a special anniversary day for me and my wife, so today's trip into the archives is extra special. Today takes us to the first day of Fall in September of 2019, starting the road to one of my (and her) favorite holidays: Halloween.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Thanksgiving is a time to be around friends, family, and people you care about. The day before though is a day when people do the majority of their traveling. And today's trip to the archives takes us to a rare extended edition of our show- the first show of that kind since we ended the two-hour shows.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's trip to the archives on this 7/11 day takes us back to the end of January and the Impeachment Trial of President Donald John Trump. The biggest issue during this trial: Would there be witnesses? Or wouldn't there be? We obviously know the answer looking back on it now, but at the time, it was the great debate.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! All aboard! On today's dip into the WKRB archives, this is another version of The Update express.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Over the years, our shows have moved through various timeslots. Mornings/early afternoons (10:30/11:30AM-12:30PM) and evenings (5-6pm) have been our most popular spots, but in today's dip into the WKRB archives, we moved to our new timeslot in March of 2019: 9:30AM.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the road to NYC's Phase 4, today's dip into the WKRB archives takes us to a somber anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in New York City history- the 7th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy back in October of 2019.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we said on yesterday's show, this summer will be different than most. While we transition to the College of Staten Island, this summer is all about looking back at the best of our show over the last three years. We'll be here for big news (and for NYC'S Phase 4 reopening in two weeks) as needed, but after talking coronavirus for three months straight, even we need to enjoy what we can of a coronavirus summer 2020. In today's archive dip, we go back to our last show of the year back in December of 2018.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! So as you may have noticed, today wasn't the best day for reporting outdoors with the sweltering heat and the storms that followed, so we'll be recording today's show tomorrow and be including it as a bonus episode along with tomorrow's archive trip. For today's archive trip, we go back to February (pre-pandemic) when the big story back then was the Harvey Weinstein trial.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of NYC's Phase 3 reopening, we're continuing to dip into the archives. It's no secret that President Trump's first term has been "memorable." That's as kind a word that can be used for podcast, but that word could definitely be used for the major announcement he made on this day during our 2nd season in May of 2018.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Hopefully you're celebrating America's birthday safely and responsibly. As we await NYC's arrival into Phase 3, today's dip into the WKRB archives takes to another day that means a lot to Americans: Veteran's Day.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of the July 4th holiday weekend (and NYC's reopening on Monday), today's trip to the WKRB archives takes us to an early milestone of our WKRB career: our 200th episode. It came rather quickly after we went from three days a week to five days a week.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As NYC continues the road to Phase 3, we've been going into the WKRB archives until our newest episode on July 6th. In today's dip, we go back to February of 2020 (pre-pandemic). President Trump would be aquitted in his impeachment trial the next day, but in today's episode (or more accurately later that evening), he filled his constitutional duty and delivered his State Of The Union address to the nation.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Welcome to July in the summer of 2020- Three days until July 4th, and five days until NYC's scheduled Phase 3 reopening. On our way to our new episode, we've been dipping into the WKRB archives to look back at the best of our show over the past three years. In today's dip, it's another express version of our show.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As Pride Month sadly comes to an end and the July 4th weekend approaches (as well as NYC's Phase 3 reopening right afterward), today's dip into the WKRB archives takes us back to November of 2018. It was a busy month- not only did we go to Washington DC to cover the aftermath of the midterms, but Stan Lee died the day after we returned. In today's episode, we said goodbye to a legend in children's TV.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we continue on the road to NYC's Phase 3, today's dip into the WKRB archives takes us to October of 2019, when we celebrated our 400th episode with special messages from my WKRB collegues.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we await Phase 3 of NYC's reopening (and out newest episode) on July 6th, we're continuing our dip into the WKRB archives. In today's episode, we're going back to February 2018 and our one year anniversary.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As our time at WKRB continued to increase, we made a big roster move. In the Fall of 2017, we moved from three days a week to five days a week. And along the way, we hit a milestone, just one of many we hit along the way, which is today's dip into the WKRB archives.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! For those who listened to our show at WKRB over the years, there were two versions to our show. We had the traditional hour-long show, and then when times called for it (and has been the case since the pandemic started), we condensed the show to a half-hour. Today's dip into the WKRB archives is a radio sample of our express version of the show.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In college radio, there are a few important dates. The day that your station was created, the IBS Radio Conference in Midtown where the yearly awards are handed out, and then there's World Radio Day. In today's dip into the WKRB archives, that was this day (pre-pandemic) in February of 2020.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Before the coronavirus pandemic turned our world and lives upside down, as March began, we were also starting our third season at WKRB. So in today's dip into the WKRB archives, we go back to March of 2020 and the short-lived season 3 WKRB premiere.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's dip into the WKRB archives, before the coronavirus pandemic introduced us to the term "social distancing", we go back to one of the most romantic days of the year- Valentine's Day 2020.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's dip into the WKRB archives, before the Democratic field in Decision 2020 thinned out and Joe Biden was the presumptive nominee, there were LOTS of candidates and LOTS of debates- like this one in February of 2020 as the coronavirus was slowly starting to take hold.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's dip into the WKRB archives, during the impeachment trial of President Trump, even though the trial played out, the outcome was inevitable- which led to this day in February of 2020 (pre-pandemic).
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Baby fever was running high in this dip into the WKRB archives from May of 2019, when we all witnessed another royal baby birth.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In this dip into the WKRB archives, we go back to January (pre-pandemic) where it was a busy month. Not only were we in the middle of President Trump's Impeachment Trial, but we were one day removed from the tragic death of Kobe Bryant. This was the same day the Republicans delivered their opening arguments.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's dip into the WKRB archives, we go back to March (which feels like a century ago) before the pandemic started, when we were talking Decision 2020 and Super Tuesday II.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Bayview Terrace Park in the Southeast Annadale section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the day of Kingsborough's graduation, today's road stop takes us to Mariner's Marsh Park in the Arlington section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of graduation from Kingsborough, today's road stop takes us to Richmond Terrace Park in the Mariner's Harbor section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this Flag Day 2020, today's road stop takes us back to Cedar Grove Beach.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With the calendar start to summer one week away from today, today's road stop takes us to Cedar Grove Beach in the New Dorp Beach section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After a few days off to let the George Floyd situation and protests die down a little bit, today's road stop takes us to Jones Woods Park in the New Brighton section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's dip into the archives take us back to last November, when for only the fourth time in the nation's history, House investigators launched public impeachment hearings.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's dip into the archives takes us back to the one snow storm in late 2019 that forced the Kingsborough campus to close early.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's rebroadcast takes us to before the pandemic and Super Tuesday II, back when Decision 2020 was the main story in town.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With New York City officially in Phase 1 of reopening starting today, today's road stop takes us to a second stop at Conference House Park in the Tottenvile section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of NYC's anticipated arrival into Phase 1 and in the wake of Mayor De Blasio ending the curfew, today's road stop takes us to Conference House Park back in the Tottenvile section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us on a second trip to South Beach.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Von Briesen Park in the Fort Wadsworth section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Heritage Park in the Port Richmond section, not too far from yesterday's stop at Faber Park.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Going from South to North, today's road stop takes us to Faber Park in the Elm Park section near the Bayonne Bridge connecting Staten Island and New Jersey.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us away from the beach and over to Tottenvile Shore Park in the Tottenvile section of Staten Island, one of the southern points of the island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today, we wrap up a two day set at Midland Beach on Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Continuing our Staten Island series, today's road stop takes us to a two day trip to Midland Beach.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Ocean Breeze Park in the Ocean Breeze section, bordering the nearby Dongan Hills, Midland Beach, and Arrochar neighborhoods.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Continuing our Staten Island series, today's road stop takes us to Wolfe's Pond Beach in the Prince's Bay section.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's rebroadcast takes us to another monumental moment- the guilty verdict of Bill Cosby.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Continuing our Staten Island series, today's road stop takes us to Wolfe's Pond Park, home to the Battle Of The Bulge memorial, in the Prince's Bay section.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Midland Beach along the sand and the fog.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Starting our Staten Island series, today's road stop takes us to Great Kills Park in the Bay Terrace section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We're still enjoying the post Memorial Day weekend, so enjoy another rebroadcast from our WKRB days back in 2019 on a happy Tax Day for everyone. That's sarcasm of course.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With today being Memorial Day and a day off for us, enjoy this rebroadcast from our WKRB days late in 2018. Before we headed on a four day trip to Washington DC to cover the aftermath of the midterms, there was Decision Night in America- 2018 edition.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On the eve of Memorial Day, today's road stop takes us to the gates of Luna Park in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The rain day made us record this episode on Sunday, but regardless of the fact, today's road stop takes us to the closed doors of the New York Aquarium on the Rigelmann Boardwalk in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's an off day for us because of the rain, but enjoy this rebroadcast from our second year in 2018. This was one of our early milestones: our 200th episodes. It's a lot- especially for radio.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Before the Memorial Day weekend and starting our Staten Island series on Tuesday, today's road stop is a pit stop in Brooklyn, taking us to Brooklyn Bridge Park in the Brooklyn Heights section.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After an off day to enjoy the beauty of South Beach, Thursday's late edition is being recorded on Friday from 81 St at Central Park.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! While we take a off day to the beach, enjoy this rebroadcast of our WKRB radio days. We've been on the air for over three years, but this was on our first anniversary back in early 2018.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to the Christopher Street Pier in the West Village section of Manhattan.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us back to Empire Outlets in the St. George section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Back on the road, today's road stop takes us to near CUNY Kingsborough on the sand of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With today being an off day, enjoy this rebroadcast of The Update from our WKRB radio days late in 2018. We had just come back from four days in Washington DC, but had to deal with the loss of a comic legend.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Astoria Park in Queens, wrapping up our Queens series of shows.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Governor Cuomo making their own separate announcements about beaches for Memorial Day weekend, today's road stop takes us to the shores of South Beach in the Arrochar section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Resuming our Queens series, today's road stop takes us to Rainey Park in the Astoria section of Queens.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In a mini-detour from our Queens series, today's road stop takes us back to the Staten Island 9/11 Memorial in the St. George section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Starting three days of Queens shows, today's road stop takes us to Queensbridge Park in the Hunts Point section of Queens.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us somewhat closer to home in St. Nicholas Park in Central Harlem.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this Mother's Day 2020 (but isn't every day mother's day when you truly think about it?), today's road stop takes us to George Washington Bridge Park near the GWB in Washington Heights.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to the southern end of Central Park at Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza along Central Park South.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to the northern end of Central Park near 5th Avenue.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us out to the closed Empire Outlets in the St. George section of Staten Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to nearby Fort Tryon Park in the Fort George section of Manhattan.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this Cinco de Mayo, today's road stop takes us to Fort Washington Park in the Hudson Heights section of Manhattan.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Pier 15 on the East River Esplanade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to the main terminal of the NYC Ferry service: Pier 11 near Wall Street and the Two Bridges section of Manhattan.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With the warm weather, today's road stop takes us to Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With Governor Cuomo making an announcement about schools being closed for the remainder of this current academic year, today's road stop takes us to the outside of the main gates of Kingsborough Community College in the Manhattan Beach section of Brooklyn.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! With Governor Cuomo making a major announcement about the subways closing every night from 1-5AM for all trains to undergo daily sanitizing and deep cleaning, today's road stop takes us to the Washington Heights-168 St station on the 1, A, & C lines, where the C train is running again for the first time in a few weeks.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Pier 1 at Riverside Park South on the Upper West Side.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio oversaw the dispersal of a large, tightly packed Hasidic Jewish funeral and lashed out at the mourners who had gathered in defiance of social distancing rules. De Blasio tweeted Tuesday that his message to the Jewish community “and all communities” is that the time for warnings has passed.
-
People familiar with the discussions tell The Associated Press that Major League Baseball is exploring various options that could allow the season to start if the medical situation allows. Included is a plan in which the 30 teams might be split into three regional divisions. Teams could be restricted to playing within their region.
-
A biotech company says its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first treatment to pass such a test against the virus, which has killed more than 218,000 people since it emerged late last year. The study tested remdesivir versus usual care in about 800 hospitalized coronavirus patients around the world.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Pier 96 at Hudson River Park in the Clifton section of Manhattan.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City elementary school students will be graded “meeting the standards” or “needing improvement” for the remainder of this coronavirus-disrupted school year, while high school students will use the existing grading scales while having a pass-fail grading option. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that students who need help to catch up will be given academic support through the summer and into next fall.
-
A speeding car apparently struck several people at the scene of a crash on a roadway leading into the Holland Tunnel, leaving a Port Authority police officer critically injured. The first crash happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday on Route 139 in Jersey City Authorities say emergency responders soon arrived and were working at the scene when the second accident occurred shortly before 1 a.m.
-
Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini is undergoing chemotherapy for stage 3 colon cancer and expects to miss the season if major leaguers return this summer. Mancini had a malignant tumor removed shortly before turning 28 on March 18. Writing a first-person article for The Players Tribune, the 28-year-old says has been undergoing chemotherapy since April 13.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Chelsea Waterside Park near 12th Avenue.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City-run health clinics will soon take a new tack on coronavirus testing. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that in the coming days, the clinics will begin using a procedure that lets people collect samples themselves at a health care worker’s direction. He says the “self-swab” tests would allow for more and easier testing and make it safer for test-seekers and health care workers alike.
-
The Supreme Court has sidestepped a major decision on gun rights in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns. The justices ruled Monday that there’s nothing left for them to decide now that the city has eased restrictions on taking licensed, locked and unloaded guns outside the city limits and a new state law prevents New York from reviving the ban.
-
Social media content delivery platforms are ready to cash in along with college athletes. The NCAA is changing its rules on how athletes can be compensated for use of their name, image or likeness. Schools will likely make it part of recruiting, and some already have relationships with platforms such as Opendorse and Influencer.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After a day off because of the rain, today's road stop takes us to Pier 45 at Hudson River Park in the West Village.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York has reported its lowest number of daily COVID-19 deaths in weeks. The state on Friday reported 422 deaths as of the day before. That’s the fewest since March 31, when it recorded 391 deaths.
-
Police say a rollerblade-wearing robber skated off into the night after sticking up a Dunkin’ Donuts on Long Island. Nassau County police said the suspect glided into the Hicksville shop around 7:50 p.m. Friday, bought a cup of coffee and then demanded cash while making it seem like he had a gun under his clothing.
-
Linsanity is finally getting another run on MSG Network. In search of content with no games because of the coronavirus, the network is turning to Jeremy Lin’s memorable NBA breakthrough. MSG said Friday it will dedicate a week of programming to the 2012 stretch when Lin got his chance with the New York Knicks.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Rockefeller Park in Tribeca.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City’s health commissioner says as many as 1 million people in the city may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Dr. Oxiris Barbot said Thursday that more than 142,000 people in the city have tested positive for the virus but that's “the tip of the iceberg."
-
A lawyer for a college instructor who was accused last year of carrying gasoline and lighters into New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral says his client has died. Attorney Christopher DiLorenzo told the Daily News on Wednesday that Marc Lamparello died by suicide April 17. Lamparello had been released from a secure psychiatric hospital last month because of the spread of the coronavirus.
-
The New York Jets and team chairman and CEO Christopher Johnson and his family are making an additional $2 million donation to support the COVID-19 relief response in New York and New Jersey. The Johnson family and the Jets last month made a joint $1 million donation to multiple local United Way agencies to help combat the pandemic.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! While many are celebrating Earth Day, today's road stop is at Richmond Terrace in the St. George section of Staten Island.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
The coronavirus has sunk major New York City events from the St. Patrick’s Day Parade to the 50th anniversary LGBT Pride march, but its famous July Fourth fireworks extravaganza will happen -- in some form. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that one way or another, the show will go on. He says fireworks sponsor Macy’s agrees.
-
Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s “Girl, Woman, Other” are among six finalists for the international Women’s Prize for Fiction. The list announced Tuesday also includes Natalie Haynes’ “A Thousand Ships” and Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet.” Nominated alongside the four U.K. writers are American authors Angie Cruz for “Dominicana” and Jenny Offill for “Weather.”
-
Four-time All Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski is back in the NFL and reunited with Tom Brady. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers completed a trade for the retired New England star. They sent a fourth-round pick in this week's draft to the Patriots for Gronkowski and a seventh-round selection.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to nearby South Cove Park.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is heading to the White House as he seeks billions in federal aid and help with coronavirus testing. Cuomo will attend a White House meeting Tuesday afternoon. Neither side offered details on the meeting, but it comes as Cuomo lobbies for more federal help.
-
The Italian restaurateur who opened the celebrated French restaurant Le Cirque in New York has died. Sirio Maccioni watched his eatery grow into arguably Manhattan’s favorite dining room of the rich and famous. Maccioni’s son, Mauro, says his father died in the family’s villa in Tuscany early Monday. He was 88.
-
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has made a move that allows teams to lay off or cut the pay of major and minor league managers, coaches, trainers and full-time scouts. Manfred has suspended uniform employee contracts that cover about 9,000 people, including general managers on some teams. The layoffs and paycuts can start May 1.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Happy 4/20 to all the marijuana enthusiasts out there. Today's road stop takes us to Robert Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City won’t allow public events in June, including three of the city’s major annual celebrations: the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Celebrate Israel parade, and the Pride parade on its 50th anniversary. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the events would be canceled or at least postponed. He says it's a painful but necessary step as the city fights the coronavirus.
-
A judge has ruled that a man accused of stabbing five people with a machete at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration is not mentally fit to stand trial. Grafton Thomas is charged in an attack at a rabbi’s home on Dec. 28 that left five people wounded. The most critically injured victim, Josef Neumann, 72, died three months after the attack.
-
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Los Angeles Rams to send a lawsuit regarding their relocation from St. Louis into arbitration. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in St. Louis late next year, or it could be settled out of court. The city and county of St. Louis and the regional sports complex authority sued the Rams 15 months after owner Stan Kroenke returned his franchise to Los Angeles in early 2016.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us across the street from the Occulus and One World Trade Center.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients have died. Nineteen of the state’s nursing homes reported 20 or more deaths linked to the pandemic. One Brooklyn home was listed as having 55 deaths.
-
Socially distanced crews in New York and California are keeping horse racing on television in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic. Horse racing is one of the few sports ongoing, albeit in a limited capacity at a handful of empty tracks.
-
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the U.S. and Canada have agreed to keep their border closed to nonessential travel for another 30 days. Trudeau says it will keep people on both sides of the border safe amid the pandemic.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side, where we're also excited to be back on the 90.3 WKRB Mixcloud channel.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City is starting to open new coronavirus testing sites for hard-hit communities, and residents throughout the state are facing new rules on covering their faces. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that five new walk-in testing sites will be open by Monday, with a focus on residents ages 65 and older in areas with high numbers of cases of the COVID-19 virus.
-
Americans have been through a lot in the 25 years since the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, including foreign wars, mass shootings and the deadly Sept. 11 attacks. But on April 19, 1995, the attack on the nation’s heartland shocked Americans out of their sense of security.
-
The NFL will hold a practice remote draft on Monday, three days before the real thing is done in the same way. Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn said Friday morning that the mock draft will be Monday. He didn’t provide any details on the proceedings, other than what the Lions will be part of.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Stuyvesant Square Park near the Peter Cooper Village section of Manhattan.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City expects to take a $7.4 billion budget hit over the next 15 months because of the coronavirus. That's according to Mayor Bill de Blasio, who detailed planned cuts Thursday. He's appealing to President Donald Trump and Congress for an infusion of cash for cities and states.
-
An attorney for a man accused of committing an anti-Semitic attack with a machete wants the body of the victim who died to be exhumed. The Journal News reports that attorney Michael Sussman wants the body of Josef Neumann exhumed for an autopsy. Neumann was one of five people injured in the attack on a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, on Dec. 28.
-
WWE has started releasing professional wrestlers in budget cuts related to the coronavirus pandemic. The moves came after pro wrestling was deemed “essential” in an order by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The order from DeSantis allows WWE to put on shows without fans in the Orlando area.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to 34th Street and 1st Avenue, across the street from NYU Langone Health Center in Midtown.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City advised grocery stores Wednesday to require customers to cover their faces while shopping as officials said they would create an emergency food reserve and take other steps to safeguard residents’ sustenance. Meanwhile, the mayor urged a cautious and deliberative approach to reviving the economy.
-
Authorities say a New York City man has been arrested after he texted several friends that he was going to blow up a statue of Alice in Wonderland in Central Park with a pipe bomb. Prosecutors say 30-year-old Kevin Fallon was arrested Saturday after police found what appeared to be three pipe bombs in his apartment. The bombs turned out to be empty.
-
A celebrity branding company is seeking at least $10 million in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Ayesha Curry, food and lifestyle personality and wife of NBA star Stephen Curry. Flutie Entertainment said in the suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles that the five years it spent with Ayesha Curry brought “significant and unprecedented results,” including a Food Network show and bestselling cookbook.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop brings us back to a familiar spot: The East River Promonade. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. One thing the pandemic that has devastated New York hasn’t changed is the contentious relationship between its two most prominent politicians. The rift between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was made starker over the weekend with a dust-up between the two Democrats about when schools would reopen. It was just the latest tussle over who is in charge of the nation’s most populous city. 2. Kyle Larson’s racial slur cost him one of his primary NASCAR supporters. McDonald's and Credit One Bank ended its sponsorship of Larson and his No. 42 Chevrolet a day after the driver used the N-word during a live stream of a virtual race. The decision came hours after NASCAR and Chip Ganassi Racing suspended Larson indefinitely. 3. President Trump has used the daily White House briefing to air a taxpayer-funded promotional video praising his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak and slamming his critics and the press. In a highly unusual move, the lights in the briefing room dimmed for a video running more than 3 minutes that was a montage of officials offering laudatory comments about the president and of Trump discussing his steps to contain the virus.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to John V. Lindsay East River Park down by the Lower East Side near the Williamsburg Bridge. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s claim of “total” authority to reopen the nation’s virus-stalled economy. Cuomo said on NBC's “Today” on Tuesday that “We don't have a king. We have a president.” He said on CNN that if Trump ordered him to reopen New York's economy prematurely, he wouldn't do it. 2. Prosecutors say they properly seized electronic items that a Florida man tried to send to his lawyers after he was charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions. The prosecutors filed arguments Monday in Manhattan federal court as they defended their actions in the case against David Correia. 3. The mother of Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns has died due to complications from COVID-19. Jacqueline Cruz-Towns was 58. She had been fighting the virus for more than a month.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is at Andrew Haswell Green Park, near the underbelly of the Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. Mayor Bill de Blasio says that public schools in New York City’s 1.1 million-student district will be shuttered for the rest of the academic year, but that online education will continue. The mayor made the announcement about the nation's largest public school system Saturday. De Blasio says that the goal is to reopen school sites by September and that high school graduates may be denied a commencement ceremony. 2. 3M is alleging a New Jersey company tried to capitalize on the COVID-19 pandemic by falsely claiming it was connected to the St. Paul, Minnesota-based manufacturer and trying to charge five to six times the normal cost for personal protective equipment. A lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in New York accuses Performance Supply LLC with trademark infringement and false advertising. 3. The cancellation of this year's College World Series because of the coronavirus pandemic isn't hurting Omaha just economically. The eight-team tournament that decides the Division I baseball championship each June has long been a point of pride for the city of just under a half-million.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On this Good Friday, we make our third stop at the East River Promonade, this time near the Ed Koch Queensborough Bridge. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York state is getting help from Google to overhaul a decades-old unemployment benefits system that has left laid-off workers frustrated and awaiting help. Google helped New York design a revamped website that launched Thursday evening. 2. The chief executive of the Tokyo Games says he can’t guarantee the postponed Olympics will be staged next year because the coronavirus continues to spread in Japan. The country issued an emergency declaration this week to battle the virus. 3. Christians around the world observed a Good Friday like no other, at home watching livestreams instead of at church. Meanwhile, pressures are rapidly mounting on governments to restart some industries in order to fend off further economic devastation from the coronavirus.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We're back for another stop at the East River Promonade.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, has ended his presidential bid. His announcement leaves former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in November.
-
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city’s death toll from the coronavirus has been disproportionately high in black and Hispanic communities. He said that preliminary data indicates that black people account for 28% of the city’s COVID-19 death toll though they are just 22% of the city’s population. He says Hispanic people are 34% of the city’s virus death toll and 29% of its population.
-
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has raised the possibility of not being able to complete the regular season. During an interview on NBCSN, he stressed that all options remain on the table. Bettman said the league is hoping to have a clearer picture of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in the next few weeks, and that “nothing has been ruled in and nothing ruled out.”
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is over at Carl Schurz Park near Gracie Mansion where Mayor of New York City lives.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is at the East River Esplanade in East Harlem, and it's extra special because today's our first full show since our WKRB departure.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Coronavirus deaths in New York state climbed to nearly 4,200. But there is a slight glimmer of hope the spread is slowing. The state recorded a slight dip in fatalities Sunday compared to the day before. Gov. Cuomo told reporters it was too soon to say whether the pandemic had reached its apex and urged New Yorkers to remain vigilant.
-
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the new coronavirus. It's believed to be the first infection in an animal in the U.S. and the first known in a tiger anywhere. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday that the 4-year-old Malayan tiger, and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill, are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee.
-
With NBA games indefinitely on hold there has been a lot of discussion about postseason possibilities. That includes coaches around the league. If NBA games do resume this season in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic the league may choose to go with the option of immediately starting the postseason.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is at Madison Square Park near the Flatiron building. Some stories talked about in today's show were: 1. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will issue and order for ventilators be redeployed to overwhelmed hospitals from other places amid an alarming increase in COVID-19-related deaths. New York state tallied its biggest daily jump yet in deaths, up 630 to 3,565. Almost 15,000 people were hospitalized. 2. Kobe Bryant’s resume has yet another entry to prove his greatness. He’s now officially a Hall of Famer. Bryant, who died in January, and fellow NBA greats Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett headlined a nine-person group announced Saturday as this year’s class of enshrinees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 3. Despite state and local limits on public gatherings, some faith leaders have persisted in holding in-person services -- a matter of religious freedom, they say, as the nation approached its fourth Sunday battling the coronavirus pandemic. Law enforcement officials in Florida, Louisiana and Maryland took separate action this week against pastors who continue to hold in-person services in the face of stay-home orders in most states.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is on the Samuel L. Newhouse of the Staten Island Ferry. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for a national enlistment program for doctors and nurses to handle an expected surge in coronavirus cases in New York and other places around the country. De Blasio told MSNBC that the military should organize a program to move medical personnel where they are needed. He said on CNN that the country is fighting "an invisible enemy" and should be on a wartime footing. 2. Many funeral homes in New York and around the globe are in crisis as they try to meet surging demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. Funeral directors are being squeezed on one side by inundated hospitals trying to offload bodies, and on the other by the fact that cemeteries and crematoriums are booked for a week at least. 3. The Tribeca Film Festival, postponed by the pandemic, is moving some elements of its annual New York event online. Tribeca organizers say Friday that much of the planned programming will be available to the public or entertainment industry over roughly the same days that the festival would have taken place this month. That restores, at least in part, a showcase that filmmakers and artists that were relying on.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to City Hall Park, just outside of City Hall where Mayor De Blasio delivers his daily briefing on the coronavirus crisis. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New data shows that the coronavirus pandemic is hitting especially hard in New York City neighborhoods that tend to be poorer and might be more likely to have many people living under one roof. Data released late Wednesday by city health officials show that residents in the immigrant-rich Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona sections of Queens have tested positive for the virus at higher rates than in wealthy, mostly white parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. 2. New York lawmakers were preparing to work late to pass a budget that is expected to cut school aid as the coronavirus outbreak roils the state's economy. Lawmakers failed Tuesday night to pass a budget in place by Wednesday, the start of the state's fiscal year. 3. Emmy and Grammy winning musician and songwriter Adam Schlesinger, known for his band Fountains of Wayne and his songwriting on the TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has died from coronavirus at age 52. Schlesinger's lawyer Josh Grier says he died Wednesday in a hospital in upstate New York.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's the first day of a new month, and today's road stop takes us to Hudson Yards near Jacob Javits Center Hospital, where some coronavirus patients are being housed. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. Deaths from the coronavirus topped 1,000 in New York City as officials warned that the worst of the virus' toll is yet to come. The city's Health Department reported late Tuesday that nearly 1,100 people have died of the virus in the city. There are more than 1,500 deaths across New York state. Data released by the city shows that the virus is having a disproportionate effect in certain neighborhoods, mainly in Brooklyn and Queens. 2. Authorities say two NYPD officers have shot and wounded a man after he menaced them with a knife and what appeared to be a gun. Police say officers responded to a 911 call about a man with a knife at 4 a.m. Wednesday.They found a 55-year-old man holding a knife and what looked like a handgun. 3. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist who expanded the world's understanding of magnetism and superconductivity has died at 96. Philip Anderson's daughter says he died Sunday at the Princeton Windrows retirement community in Princeton, New Jersey. No cause was reported. The New York Times reports that Anderson researched the electronic behavior of glass, crystal and alloys.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today, we're reporting from the comfort of home, but we'll be back out on the road again soon. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York City reported its first coronavirus death of a person under 18 years old. Health officials report that the city's 914 deaths from the pandemic include one person who is under the age of 18. Details including the person's exact age have not been disclosed. More than 1,550 have died of COVID-19 across New York state, and 9,500 people are hospitalized with the disease statewide. 2. An Orthodox Jewish organization says a man stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City has died from his injuries three months after the attacks. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council says that 72-year-old Josef Neumann died Sunday and that his funeral is being held Monday. 3. A man in western New York who police say had nine explosive devices in his home is facing additional charges. Prosecutors say Jose M. Gandia has been charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device and unlawful possession of a shortened shotgun. Gandia is already facing other charges, including assaulting a police officer and menacing.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us to Park Avenue South between 28th and 34th Streets. These streets have been opened up to let pedestrians walk and exercise while practicing social distancing. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. President Trump and elected leaders in New York are clashing again over the depth of the state's coronavirus crisis. Trump says he doubts predictions the metropolitan New York City area will need as many as 30,000 breathing machines to treat the ill. Mayor Bill de Blasio says the need is real. 2. Officials say a New York City subway driver was killed and several other people were injured early Friday in a fire on a train that is being investigated as a crime. Police said fires were reported at three other stations nearby at the same time. The fire killed a motorman who was helping passengers to safety. 3. A person familiar with the agreement tells The Associated Press that Major League Baseball players have agreed to a deal that would preserve service time if the season is canceled because of the coronavirus. The agreement between MLB and the union gives management the right to cut the amateur draft in both 2020 and 2021.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's stop is from outside the closed steps of The Museum of Natural History. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. A health care worker at one of the New York City hospitals under siege by the coronavirus has died. Co-workers and his sister say assistant nurse manager Kious Kelly died Tuesday from the virus after he got sick two weeks ago. Kelly worked at Mount Sinai Health West Hospital in Manhattan. 2. The judge who sentenced the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine to prison says he would have ordered home confinement if he knew about the coronavirus in December. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer on Wednesday rejected a lawyer's request that the 23-year-old performer, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, be confined at home for the last four months of his two-year term. The Manhattan jurist said he didn't have legal authority to change his sentence. 3. Ballparks will be empty today on what was supposed to be Major League Baseball's opening day, with the start of the regular season on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. To help fill the void, MLB is offering fans some oldies but goodies. It will air one memorable game for each franchise Thursday on its YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages. And the MLB Network plans to broadcast classic opening day games throughout the day.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop takes us across the water to Staten Island and the site of their 9/11 Memorial. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic, with the numbers reaching nearly 31,000 positive cases in the state, and nearly 18,000 in New York City. He said Tuesday the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be two to three weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care. Such a surge would swamp hospitals, which now have just 3,000 intensive care unit beds in the entire state. 2. The former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump has been denied early release from a three-year prison sentence for campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress. U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III said Michael Cohen's request for release after serving 10 months in prison appears to be just another effort to inject himself into the news cycle. The judge noted that Cohen raised the danger of getting coronavirus in prison as the latest reason why he believed he was entitled to a reduced sentence. 3. The U.S. Justice Department is getting involved in a federal civil rights lawsuit that seeks to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from competing as girls in interscholastic sports. Attorney General William Barr argues in a filing signed Tuesday that a state policy that allows athletes to compete as the gender with which they identify violates Title IX the federal law that allows girls equal educational opportunities, including in athletics.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is at Battery Park, near the Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the number of positive coronavirus cases in the state surged to more than 20,000, with more than half the cases in New York City. Cuomo promised 1,000 temporary hospital beds will be swiftly placed inside a vast Manhattan convention center as officials raced to prepare for an overwhelming number of coronavirus patients.
-
PresidentDonald Trump will have to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if he wants to block critics from his personal Twitter ac count. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected his request for all of the court's judges to hear arguments that Trump can block critics. A three-judge panel had concluded that the president's daily pronouncements and observations were overwhelmingly official in nature.
-
The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee has decided that the Tokyo Games cannot go ahead as scheduled this year because of the coronavirus outbreak. The IOC says the games will be held “not later than summer 2021” but they will still be called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop brings us indoors, but out to the Oculus Transportation Hub near One World Trade Center. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. With schools shut down for the coronavirus outbreak, districts and educators are launching a massive, unplanned test of virtual teaching. Virtual school — sometimes known by “distance learning” or other terms — has existed for decades. But it’s far from ubiquitous in U.S. schools because of digital inequities among students, concerns about implications for teachers, and other factors. 2. The Tokyo Olympics are probably going to happen but almost surely in 2021 rather than in four months as planned. That seems clear after the International Olympic Committee said it was considering a postponement. Major Olympic nations like Canada and Australia are adding pressure by making it clear they will not go if the games are staged this year. 3. Administration officials and congressional leaders are struggling to complete a nearly $2 trillion economic rescue package as the coronavirus crisis deepens. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is suggesting he has qualms about extending the current 15-day suggested shutdown. Surgeon General Jerome Adams says “Things are going to get worse before they get better.”
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road assignment comes from Dante Park near Lincoln Center. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ordering all workers in nonessential businesses to stay home and banning gatherings statewide. Cuomo announced the restrictions Friday that take effect Sunday. He also says nonessential gatherings of individuals of any size or for any reason are canceled or postponed. 2. The Tokyo Olympics have reached a critical phase. The torch relay begins in a few days in northern Japan. Organizers are asking fans to attend but be restrained along the roadside for fear of spreading the coronavirus. Japanese organizers and IOC President Thomas Bach say the games will open July 24 at the $1.4 billion national stadium in Tokyo. 3. Mike Bloomberg is transferring $18 million from his presidential campaign to the Democratic National Committee in what is the largest such transfer ever. Bloomberg’s move will help the DNC make up for some of its steep fundraising disadvantage to its Republican counterpart.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road stop is over at Hudson River Park on the west side of Chelsea. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. Barbershops, hair salons, tattoo parlors and nail salons in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania must close Saturday to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The order from the governors of the four states is the latest in a series of business restrictions announced by the states to reduce chances for the virus to spread from person to person. The businesses must close by 8 p.m. Saturday. 2. Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service's miniseries about the Central Park Five case. Fairstein claims in the lawsuit that the four-part series “When They See Us” defamed her by portraying her as a “racist, unethical villain.” 3. The sentencing of a former Wake Forest University assistant basketball coach convicted of assault for fatally punching a man in New York City has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. A spokeswoman for the Queens district attorney's office says Jamill Jones' March 18 sentencing has been adjourned to June 16.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Today's road trip takes us to outside the Shops at Columbus Circle, a day where all indoor malls, amusment parks, and bowling alleys are to close at 8pm tonight. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. President Donald Trump agreed to deploy a 1,000-bed Navy hospital ship to New York City to relieve pressure on hospitals treating people with COVID-19. The ship would accept non-coronavirus patients. Anticipating a huge spike in coronavirus patients, New York City-area hospitals are clearing out beds, setting up new spaces to triage patients and urging people with mild symptoms to consult health professionals by phone or video chat instead of flooding emergency rooms. 2. Celebrities, politicians and professional athletes faced a backlash this week as several revealed that they had been tested for the coronavirus, even when they didn’t have a fever or other symptoms. That’s fueling a perception that the wealthy and famous have been able to jump to the head of the line to get tested while others have been turned away. 3. The first federal checks to families could be $3,000 for a family of four under the White House proposal to unleash $1 trillion for the coronavirus outbreak. That's according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He said the checks would be direct deposited into people’s accounts. The payments would be $1,000 per adult and $500 per child, Mnuchin told Fox Business Network.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Our road trip continues from the main Apple store on 5 Av in Midtown. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. Anticipating a huge spike in coronavirus patients, New York City-area hospitals are clearing out beds, setting up new spaces to triage patients and urging people with mild symptoms to consult health professionals by phone or video chat instead of flooding emergency rooms. Coronavirus cases in the state topped 1,300 Tuesday, with more than 800 in the city, but Gov. Cuomo warned that demand for hospital beds could soon outstrip capacity by tens of thousands as the outbreak surges to an expected peak in 45 days. 2. In one of the most expensive cities in the world, where monthly rents in wealthy neighborhoods surpass $10,000, people who scour through trash might be viewed by some as probably homeless, but many so-called canners refute that claim. They are called “bottle professionals” by some redemption centers. 3. The manager of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign says his candidate “is going to be having conversations with supporters to assess his campaign." But he also suggests Sanders is in no hurry to make any decisions about leaving the race noting, “The next primary contest is at least three weeks away.”
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Our road trip takes us today to Macy's in Herald Square, where all Macy's stores and their associates were closing until the end of the month at the end of business today. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. The governors of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey said Monday they have agreed to close bars, restaurants, movie theaters and casinos starting at 8 p.m. Monday. The governors said essential businesses like supermarkets and gas stations will be able to stay open after 8 p.m. All nonessential businesses must close in New Jersey and Connecticut. 2. A Florida man charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani to make illegal campaign contributions claims prosecutors shouldn't get to keep electronic evidence he mailed to lawyers. Prosecutors disagree. Prosecutors filed papers Monday in Manhattan federal court saying they legally obtained a hard-copy notebook and electronic devices belonging to David Correia. 3. Tom Brady is poised to leave the New England Patriots. Brady posted on social media “my football journey will take place elsewhere.” The comments by the 42-year-old quarterback were the first to indicate he would leave the franchise he’s led to six Super Bowl titles, and the only professional football home he has had.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We are yet again on the road, this time from the closed steps of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York City is closing the nation's largest public school system, sending over 1.1 million children home in hopes of curbing the spread of coronavirus. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that schools will close Monday through at least April 20 and possibly for the school year. And he says more measures to restrict movement of people were likely. 2. Federal prosecutors in New York City have hit R Kelly with more criminal charges. A revised indictment filed Friday accuses the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with an underage girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes. The new charges were included in a revised indictment filed in New York City a week after the 53-year-old Kelly pleaded not guilty to a separate updated federal indictment in Chicago. 3. A New York man accused of fatally stabbing a 78-year-old musician has been charged with murder. Rochester Police Investigator Frank Camp says Pedro Santiago Sr. was found bleeding in the front doorway of his Rochester home Wednesday afternoon. The Democrat & Chronicle reports officials charged 30-year-old Jose Sanchez with second-degree murder in connection with Santiago's death on Friday morning.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
At 5pm today, the order by Governor Cuomo that gatherings of more than 500 people are banned, and places that could seat less than 500 people could only be filled to half capacity. We didn't know wether this applied to malls, so one of the biggest malls in the city was a good place to find out while delivering the evening's headlines.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As our radio show ends and transitions into a podcast, our first road assignment in the midst of the coronavirus comes to the main branch of the New York Public Library because all NYPL branches were to close at the end of business today. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New Yorkers are finding the coronavirus has left their famously bustling city with no Broadway, no basketball and no more big events. Restaurants and subways cars are noticeably emptier. Residents known for their brashness are laying low amid worries about an ever-worsening crisis, and the big questions revolve around what will happen next. 2. New York City officials moved swiftly to knock down a text message circulating on social media claiming that the NYPD planned to enact drastic containment actions this weekend. The message falsely claimed the Metro North Railroad would be shutting down, subway service would be limited and only emergency vehicles would be allowed on the streets 3. New York’s attorney general is demanding that conspiracy monger Alex Jones stop hawking phony coronavirus treatments. Attorney General Letitia James’ office sent a letter Thursday saying it’s “extremely concerned” by Jones’ claims that toothpaste, dietary supplements, creams, and other products sold on his website can prevent and cure the disease.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
We have the !atest ongoing developments on the coronavirus, including how Mayor De Blasio has declared a state of emergency.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Boy, that was one hell of a Wednesday wasn't it. Stay with us while we figure out our show situation for the remainder of the Spring. It's going to be a wild ride.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
New York City has closed two co-located schools, the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology and South Bronx Preparatory: A College Board School, in the Bronx due to a student's self-confirmed positive case of COVID-19. The one-mile containment zone is officially in effect in New Rochelle. Governor Cuomo also officially postponed the NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade, and the Knicks have been told to self-quarantine amid growing coronavirus concerns.
-
The sell-off bludgeoning financial markets around the world got even worse Thursday as the economic pain caused by the coronavirus became more painfully clear. Worries are rising that the White House and other authorities around the world can't or won't help the weakening economy soon. The S&P 500 was down 7%, as of 10:15 a.m., after trading was temporarily halted following a steep drop in the first few minutes of trading.
-
Police on Long Island will no longer hold immigrants eligible for release who are being sought by federal authorities for deportations, putting an end to a lawsuit challenging the policy. Court records show Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder issued an internal administrative order rescinding the policy on Jan. 3.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The latest coronavirus news and Harvey Weinstein's sentencing leads things off today.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
(Has changed since broadcast) As coronavirus cases topped 200, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says CUNY and SUNY will move to online learning and called for other actions across the state to stop the spread of the disease. Cuomo said there are now 212 cases in New York with more than half in Westchester County. Gov. Cuomo said that health experts are recommending that New York City's venerable St. Patrick's Day parade be cancelled amid the coronavirus outbreak.
-
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault, a sight the disgraced Hollywood mogul's multitude of accusers thought they would never see. Weinstein, who has been accused of violating scores of women, was convicted last month of raping a once-aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on former TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006. He faced a maximum of 29 years in prison.
-
The leader of a cult-like self-improvement group that attracted heiresses and Hollywood actresses is requesting a new trial in his sex-trafficking case. A jury convicted Keith Raniere in June on all counts of sex-trafficking and coercing women into sex. He and his lawyers filed a motion Monday in Brooklyn federal court for a new trial, arguing that two witnesses perjured themselves when they denied they were planning to sue him after the trial.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The latest developing coronavirus news leads things off today. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York Gov. Cuomo said that the state's confirmed coronavirus cases are up by about 25 from Monday's official count of 142. He didn't give an exact figure of new patients. Cuomo said on CNN's "New Day" that only people in "vulnerable populations" such as the elderly and people with other health problems need to avoid air travel and large gatherings. 2. Lawyers for Harvey Weinstein say he only deserves five years in prison for his New York City rape conviction after already suffering a “historic” fall from grace and serious health issues. They made the argument in a court papers filed Monday in advance of the 67-year-old former mogul’s sentencing on Wednesday. 3. A former CIA software engineer accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's hacking tools and handing it over to WikiLeaks was convicted of only minor charges after a jury deadlocked on more serious espionage charges against him. He was convicted Monday by a federal jury of contempt of court and making false statements after a four-week trial in Manhattan federal court.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Developing stories about a shooting in Brooklyn and coronavirus lead off today.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A woman was fatally shot and a man is in critical condition after what is believed to be a murder-suicide attempt in Brooklyn that left a car riddled with bullets. It happened around 9 a.m. at Louisiana Avenue and Twin Pines Drive East in East New York. The NYPD says a 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 49-year-old man was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition.
-
Governor Cuomo says the number of coronavirus cases has jumped to 142 - the most in the country - with 19 in New York City and the most in Westchester County. Eight patients of the 142 are being treated in the hospital. Cuomo has stressed that most people who become infected will have mild symptoms. Some 6% of the patients are hospitalized. Among those testing positive for coronavirus is Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority, the bi-state agency that runs the NY-area airports and seaports.
-
The principal of a Harlem charter school has been arraigned for allegedly assaulting a 7-year-old student. New York Daily News reports that the boy's mother, Patricia Laforey, received a video chat from the school claiming that her son had run into a door Jan. 24. Laforey says that the story of how her son was injured kept changing and struck her as "a huge red flag."
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien, but this time on the road. We're again at the IBS conference from the Hotel Pennsylvania in Midown, where college radio stations and students from around the country gather to exchange ideas and listen to professionals from the industry on panels and discussions.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
The NYPD is investigating a deadly stabbing on a subway platform in the Bronx. Police say someone stabbed two men - one 25, the other 28 - at the Morrison Avenue/Soundview station. The attack happened just after 4:30 a.m. Saturday on the 6 train southbound platform.
-
The NYPD have charged five teenage boys in connection with a brutal gang assault and robbery caught on camera in Brooklyn. The NYPD told WABC that the five boys, ranging in age from 14 to 17 years old, turned themselves at the 77th precinct. All five were charged as minors with robbery and assault. Their fate will be decided in Family Court.
-
Blueprints for the original World Trade Center are on sale until Sunday at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The James Cummins Bookseller team says the set includes over 500 plans and is the largest for the Twin Towers ever offered for sale.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Yet another March brings us on the road to the IBS Radio Conference, where students from around the country gather to listen to speakers and exchange ideas. Some stories talked about on today's show include the continued increase in coronavirus cases, the outrage over a new video showing the NYPD arresting a young black man, and the latest in Decision 2020.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Developing news on Decision 2020 and the coronavirus leads things off today.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the race for president, a source familiar with the campaign told ABC News. So far, she has not yet indicated who she will endorse. This news comes after a dismal Super Tuesday for Warren, when the U.S. senator didn't win a single state and finished third in her home state of Massachusetts.
-
There are 11 new cases of novel coronavirus reported in New York state, according to officials. Two of the new cases are from New York City, eight are from Westchester County and one case is from Long Island, marking a total of 22 across the state. All of the new cases in Westchester are connected to a lawyer hospitalized with the disease. The case on Long Island is a 42-year-old man in Nassau County who is hospitalized.
-
A man accused of opening fire on a NYPD van and a police station last month, wounding an officer and a lieutenant, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! A trio of developing stories leads things off today.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
The wife, 20-year-old son, 14-year-old daughter and neighbor of a Westchester man who tested positive for the novel coronavirus have also all tested positive. That makes six positive cases in New York state. Governor Cuomo announced the additional cases at a press conference.
-
L train service has resumed between Brooklyn and Manhattan after a water main break. Water flooded the intersection of Driggs Avenue and North 7th Street around 4:30 a.m. Crews were able to cap the main and the water receded.
-
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg suspended his campaign for president, he said in a statement released Wednesday. Bloomberg said disappointing Super Tuesday results combined with the goal of defeating President Donald Trump in the 2020 race led to his decision to leave the race.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and where winter doesn't really exist, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After a long hiatus, The Update podcast is back! On the radio side of things, today was the premiere of our third season and our 17th different introduction of The Update. This is going to be our best season yet, or we'll change the intro again darn it. And as we get into today's top stories, the show must go on. Some stories talked about on today's show were: 1. New York leaders are seeking to calm jittery nerves after the city recorded its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus. They said that the disease is dangerous but a manageable threat. The state is increasing its testing capacity and telling people to expect the smell of bleach from cleaning in public areas, including subways. 2. A prosecutor says an ex-convict charged with sex trafficking after posing as a father figure to college women was in bed with a victim when he was arrested. A prosecutor revealed the detail of Lawrence Ray's arrest as she argued that bail be denied in Manhattan federal court. It was. 3. Millions of voters from Maine to California are headed to the polls on Super Tuesday, a day that's rich with delegates in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. The race is shaping up as a contest between two starkly different visions for the party's future and a November rematch with President Donald Trump: former Vice President Joe Biden vs. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and also the place where kids eat free, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's another getaway Friday, but with the rain around, it has a damper feel to it. The spring feel comes back Sunday!
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to sending a wave of pipe bombs to CNN and prominent critics of President Trump. Cesar Sayoc entered the plea before a federal judge in New York.
-
A volunteer treasurer for a charity benefiting the families of fallen NYPD officers has been arrested on charges she stole funds to pay personal expenses like dental work and tickets to a Barbra Streisand show. Lorraine Shanley of Staten Island was facing bank fraud and identity theft charges on Thursday. She's accused of stealing more than $400,000 from Survivors of the Shield.
-
The Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico will face scrutiny from a U.S. judge in San Francisco. Judge Richard Seeborg has scheduled a hearing Friday to help him decide whether to block the policy while a lawsuit moves forward.
Before heading out for the weekend, Brandon has everything you need to know with The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and home to 8 of the FBI's 10 most wanted, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! It's the first full day of spring, but you wouldn't have realized it by looking outside. Is warmth on the way?
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A man who joined the Marines two days after the Sept. 11 attacks has been sentenced to a decade in prison after blaming post-traumatic stress disorder for car bombing his neighbor after a parking dispute. Despite a fireball and an explosion powerful enough to buckle the car's doors, the victim miraculously escaped injury when the bomb was detonated as he drove down a Bronx street in 2016.
-
A Florida man who authorities say sent pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Trump is expected to plead guilty. Cesar Sayoc is scheduled to enter the plea in Manhattan federal court.
-
Ichiro Suzuki started for the Seattle Mariners on Thursday in what the Japanese news agency Kyodo is reporting will be his final major league game. The 45-year-old Ichiro fouled out his first time up and grounded out in his next at-bat against Oakland. Each time the crowd chanted "Ichiro, Ichiro" as camera flashes and iPhone flashes lit up the 45,000 sellout at the Tokyo Dome.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A Bronx man has been arrested in the death of his 1-month-old son. Police say 24-year-old Christian Rodriguez faces several charges including reckless assault that resulted in a brain injury and assaulting a child under the age of seven.
-
Education advocates are urging New York lawmakers to leave the discussion of recreational marijuana out of the state budget process. Several groups sent representatives to Albany, including the PTA, Rural Schools Association and Association of School Business Officials.
-
President Trump is returning to Ohio, the state that foretold his 2016 victory and serves as the linchpin of his re-election effort. Trump's visit marks his first trip to Ohio since last year's midterm election campaign, when Ohio was a rare bright spot for Republicans in the upper Midwest.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and now in technicolor for the new Spring season, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Spring draws closer and closer, which brings us one step closer to the true favorite season: summer.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Defense lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people in a New York City terrorist attack say the U.S. surveilled their client surreptitiously and perhaps illegally for years. The lawyers said in a court filing that they think Sayfullo Saipov's electronic communications may have been vacuumed up through bulk surveillance or by targeting individuals overseas.
-
An important subway station in Queens has closed for the rest of the year due to a need for repairs and renovations. The MTA closed the busy Astoria Boulevard station Sunday and it will remain shut down until December as crews make major renovations.
-
A new Associated Press data analysis shows that over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through record-breaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold. The AP looked at 424 weather stations throughout the Lower 48 states that had consistent data since 1920 and counted how many times daily hot temperature records were tied or broken and how many daily cold records were set.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! For the second time in as many weeks, there's been a deadly shooting overseas. First there was the New Zealand mosque shooting, and then, there was this.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A gunman killed three people and wounded nine others on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, sparking a manhunt that saw heavily armed officers with sniffer dogs zero in on an apartment building close to the shooting. Authorities immediately raised the terror alert for the area to the maximum level, and the city's mayor said a "terror motive" was the most likely theory.
-
The arrest of singer R. Kelly on charges of sexually abusing girls as young as 13 has focused the lens of the #MeToo movement on young victims. Studies show that 7 in 10 girls are sexually harassed by age 18, and 1 in 4 are sexually abused. Experts believe the rates are higher for girls of color. The national nonprofit Girls Inc. has launched a #GirlsToo campaign to ensure that young survivors are included in the conversation around #MeToo.
-
An appeals court will consider the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas statute that had required people to provide documents proving U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote. A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments today in Salt Lake City in a case with national implications for voting rights.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and home to the grand old opry, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Temperatures are going to be spring like this weekend- but for today, it'll come at the cost of some showers.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
NYPD officers say the man who fatally shot the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family may have staged a car accident to lure him out of his home. Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said police are reviewing surveillance footage that captured the events surrounding Frank Cali's death Wednesday night in Staten Island.
-
Mayor Bill de Blasio is announcing a plan to protect lower Manhattan from rising sea levels by surrounding it with earthen berms and extending its shoreline by as much as 500 feet (152 meters).The Democratic mayor announced the plan after previewing it in New York magazine. Officials have been developing schemes to fortify New York City's waterfront ever since Superstorm Sandy destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in 2012.
-
Bangladesh's honorary consul in Auckland, New Zealand, says three Bangladeshis were killed in today's mosque attacks in Christchurch and at least four others were injured, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned the attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch calling it the "latest example of rising racism and Islamophobia."
Get caught up on the day's top stories before you head out for the weekend with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and also in the spectacular country countryside, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We're inching closer and closer to spring, and one sign of that is the St. Patrick's Day parade this weekend!
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A man with reported ties to organized crime has been shot and killed. Police say 53-year-old Francesco Cali was found with multiple gunshot wounds to his body at his home in the Todt Hill section of Staten Island just after 9 p.m. Cali was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
-
New York lawmakers say they will work quickly to close a loophole in state law to ensure anyone pardoned by President Donald Trump may still be charged in state court. The change is proposed by Democratic state Attorney General Tish James. It aims to alter the state's double jeopardy law.
-
Former congressman Beto O'Rourke is running for president. The 46-year-old officially announced his 2020 Democratic primary bid with an online post. After months of teasing a bid, he's finally, formally hoping to turn buzz from a close loss in Texas' 2018 Senate race into a White House try.
On this beautiful springlike day, get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and home to the Metropolitan Division leading New York Islanders, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We're continuing the early Spring feel with only 7 days to go until it's officially the season!
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, and the effort has spurred over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions so far. That's according to a report released by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and data provided by the federal Department of Justice.
-
A former road test examiner with the New York state Department of Motor Vehicles has been arrested and accused of demanding bribes from female drivers in Queens. The office of the state inspector general announced the allegations facing Ian Cioffi.
-
An investigation by The Associated Press has found that police departments routinely withhold video taken by body-worn and dashboard-mounted cameras of officer-involved shootings and other uses of force. And to test the public's ability to access police video under state open records laws for Sunshine Week, the AP made requests for roughly 20 recent incidents in a dozen states.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and based on a true story, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We didn't mention this, but today is the 30th anniversary of the world wide web! Look at how far it's come.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
There'll be no mystery meat (or any other meat) on Mondays at New York City public schools. That's because the city is expanding its "Meatless Mondays" program in the fall. The initiative will provide the system's million students with all-vegetarian breakfast and lunch menus every Monday.
-
Jury selection is expected to start today at the retrial of a man accused of killing a runner near her family's home. Chanel Lewis was accused of killing 30-year-old Karina Vetrano as she ran on a park trail in Howard Beach, Queens, in August 2016.
-
President Trump is giving little indication in his latest budget proposal of any new policy ambitions for the coming two, or six, years. Trump's budget plan increases spending on his border wall and the military but is light on fresh ideas heading into his re-election campaign.
get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and also the legendary forbidden city, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We sprung forward over the weekend, and so has the weather! How long can it last?
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
An attorney representing R. Kelly says the R&B artist denies being on yet another videotape that allegedly appears to show him sexually abusing young girls. Steve Greenberg told The Associated Press that he hasn't seen the videotape that attorney Gloria Allred said one of her clients turned over to law enforcement.
-
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams says he'll mark the birthday of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg as part of his push to rename a municipal building for the jurist. He'll be marking Ginsberg's 86th birthday on March 15 with a large party and rally to demand the city rename the Brooklyn Municipal Building for Ginsberg.
-
President Trump's new budget is returning to an old fight over spending on a border wall with Mexico. The president's proposal, set for release today, also seeks to increase spending for the military but cut back sharply on money for domestic programs in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and home of the original pizza pie, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Some of the stories talked about on today's show were: 1. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson is calling for the city to take control of all of the city's subways and buses under an ambitious proposal. He also called for the creation of a new agency called Big Apple Transit during his state of the city address that would absorb a number of city entities under the MTA. 2. Longtime prosecutor and former judge who presided over the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" killer, Queens DA Richard Brown, says he's resigning due to poor health. He said that he has designated his chief assistant, John Ryan, to exercise his duties until his official resignation on June 1. 3. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, much less than what was called for under sentencing guidelines. Manafort, sitting in a wheelchair, had no visible reaction as he heard the 47-month sentence.
Before the weekend arrives, Brandon has what you need to know with The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, and now available on DVD, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Some stories that were talked about on today's show were:
-
Rape charges have been dropped against two former NYPD officers who had sex with an 18-year-old woman in a police van after arresting her for marijuana possession. The New York Times reports the Brooklyn District Attorney's office dropped more than 40 charges against former Detectives Richard Hall and Edward Martins, including rape, sexual assault and kidnapping.
-
A 30-year-old Long Island man is being accused of gouging out his grandmother's eyes and blinding her during a dispute over money. Prosecutors say Michael Grief was arguing with his grandmother at their Sayville home for allegedly using her debit card to overdraw her account by $1,000.
-
Facebook's priority is no longer connecting the world. Instead, it wants to help individuals and small groups to carry on private conversations that even Facebook can't listen in on. The company's new strategy, laid out by CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, is to prioritize its messaging services over its traditional social network.
Get caught up on the other top stories of the day with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! First, developing news leads off. Nineteen people have been injured, two critically, in an apartment fire in the Bronx early Wednesday. The fire broke out around 6:15 a.m. inside the second floor of the Holland Avenue building and quickly spread throughout the building.
Then, Three men received prison sentences in the widespread college basketball recruiting scandal that has tainted two dozen schools.
And U.S. health officials have approved a medication related to the mind-altering drug ketamine as a new option for patients with severe depression as the FDA cleared the inhalable drug for patients who have failed to find relief with older antidepressants.
Get caught up with the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
-
A three-alarm fire burned through two buildings in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. The fire broke out on Boston Road just after 5:40 a.m. No injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
-
Mayor Bill de Blasio says a record number of city students took Advanced Placement exams during the 2018 school year. The mayor says the increase is due to his "AP for All" plan announced in 2015, which called for all city students to have access to at least one AP class by 2021.
-
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer says he'll propose legislation to get the stalled, multibillion-dollar Gateway rail project moving forward.
We're back to doing our podcast! Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
The Justice Department says it will work with the Bureau of Prisons to examine what happened at a federal detention center that lost heat and electricity last week and ensure there is a backup system to prevent it from happening again, newly unsealed documents in the U.S. case against the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo say witnesses described the notorious kingpin having sex with minors, and the Republican speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates says there's little appetite to try to impeach the state's embattled governor and that he should step down instead.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
The nation's immigration courts were severely backlogged even before the government shutdown, and according to attorneys, it could take years just to deal with the delays caused by the five-week standoff. The infamous drug lord known as El Chapo has told a judge he won't testify at his U.S. trial, and Apple has made the group chat function in FaceTime unavailable after users said there was a bug that could allow callers to activate another user's microphone remotely.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
A school bus with with children aboard crashed into a utility pole in New Jersey, causing live power lines to fall on top of the bus, Police are continuing to search for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a home on Staten Island, and a majority of Americans don't like the way President Donald Trump handles U.S. foreign policy and about half think the country's global standing will deteriorate during the next year.
Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Delays were reported at LaGuardia, Newark and other airports due to air traffic controller staffing shortages amid the government shutdown and a small uptick in air traffic controllers calling out sick according to the FAA, Roger Stone, longtime associate of President Trump, was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and arrested in Florida, police are investigating a high-speed crash involving a stolen vehicle that left two teenagers dead and forced at least one family out of their home in Newark, and a newly released video shows the brutality of an Ohio inmate's knife attack on four prisoners who were handcuffed to a table and unable to defend themselves. Before you head out for the weekend, get caught up with what you need to know with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
A disgraced former commander in the New York Police Department's gun licensing bureau says President Trump and his eldest son were among celebrities and donors who got licenses without proper credentials, the teenager accused of dragging a NYPD officer while driving a stolen car is only sentenced to 1 & 1/3 to 4 years in prison, and on day 34 of the partial government shutdown, the Senate's new approach to ending the partial government shutdown actually takes votes instead of just pointing fingers.
On a dreary, windy, and rainy Thursday, get caught up with what you need to know with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Police say no one was injured when a construction elevator accident caused debris to fall in midtown Manhattan, authorities are looking for a man they say took a joyride on a MTA bus, and the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.
Get caught up with today's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Conflicts over control, inclusivity and alleged anti-Semitism mean that women protesting on the second anniversary of the Women's March on Washington are faced with competing NYC demonstrations, Harvey Weinstein's high-profile criminal defense lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, is leaving the movie producer's rape case, and the nation's deadly opioid crisis is bringing new and unwanted attention to the wealthy Sackler family and complicating its philanthropic legacy. We're off for the MLK holiday, but before you leave for the weekend, get caught up on everything you need to know with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
An American drug enforcement agent says he purposely kept Mexican police in the dark about efforts in 2014 to hunt down the drug lord El Chapo, a 34-year-old man is arrested on murder and attempted murder charges in the unprovoked hammer attack on three employees at a Brooklyn restaurant, and Democrats weighing presidential campaigns in 2020 face a stark choice: how — and whether — to respond to President Trump's attacks on his political opponents. Get caught up on the day's top stories with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
An off-duty NYPD officer dies following a horrific two-car crash in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx, SUEZ water announces that quality testing has found elevated levels of lead in the drinking water in some homes in two New Jersey counties, and Gov. Cuomo wants to add a 5-cent deposit to most non-alcoholic beverages not already included in the state's bottle bill.
Brandon has what you need to get up to speed with the day's top stories on #TheUpdate!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
An art exhibit installed on the grounds of the World Trade Center wrapped in the Saudi Arabian flag is being relocated, A Manhattan nanny convicted of stuffing a baby wipe down the throat of a 2-month-old boy in her care is sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 percent to 18 percent, its biggest increase ever.
Get caught up with what you need to know with Brandon and The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
It's been 10 years since The Miracle On The Hudson, Gov. Cuomo wants to see single-use plastic bags banned, and congress returns to Washington for its first full week of business on day 24 of the government shutdown. Brandon has all the top stories of the day with The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
The funeral for FDNY firefighter Steven Pollard is held in Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address next Tuesday in Albany, and data obtained by The Associated Press shows thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved. Brandon has what you need to know with the podcast edition of The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
The FDNY mourns one of their own, one peraon dies in an Upper West Side apartment fire, and Kevin Spacey pleads not guilty to battery charges. Brandon gets you caught up with the leadlines from Today's episode of The Update!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support
Starting January 7th, we're beginning something new on The Update. We're turning everything that you know and love about The Update and turning it into a 15 minute podcast. So no matter how you listen to us, you'll still be caught up with everything you need to know, because anything can happen in New York.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brandon-julien/support