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?

On today’s bonus edition of The Update Journal, we’re stepping into two different kinds of chaos. First up: Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air after his suspension was quietly lifted, which means Disney has officially decided it’s safer to deal with angry late-night monologues than angry mobs camped out on their front lawn. And then there’s the Mets — oh, the Mets — who are somehow flirting with a collapse so spectacular it could rival 2007 and 2008. Translation: if the Mets and Reds both finish with the same record, the Mets finish even further out of the playoffs due to the Reds' tiebreaker.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, while close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.

We continue our coverage of The Road To City Hall. With six weeks to go until the general election, mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he’s willing to appear at a town hall hosted by a local ABC station now that the national network says it will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.

And in Washington, President Trump used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.

In The Update Journal: If I wasn’t covering the news today, I’d probably be…

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, we continue our coverage of The Road To City Hall. With 43 days to go until the general election, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic Minority leader from Brooklyn, is in discussions to endorse lefty Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani for mayor, sources said. Meanwhile, “A substantial” number of Gen Z voters supporting socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani have been brainwashed by leftist ideology into an army of “nasty,” USA-hating radicals — who routinely accost rival Mayor Eric Adams on the campaign trail.

A Bronx man was fatally shot on the sidewalk near his home after a witness said they heard two men arguing, police sources said.

And in the American West, President Trump praised Charlie Kirk as a “great American hero” and “martyr” for freedom as he and other prominent conservatives gathered Sunday evening to honor the slain conservative political activist whose work they say they must now advance.

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 Last Word: “Fridays remind us—no matter how the week was, we made it through.”

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, A New York City high school student was arrested after bringing a loaded gun to class and writing on social media that he wanted to “shoot the school up,” authorities said.

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees.

And the Kimmel fallout continues. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late-night shows Thursday using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel.

In The Update Journal: Jimmy Kimmel Live is suddenly off the air after his Monday night monologue sparked outrage over comments about Republicans and the Charlie Kirk fallout. We’ll take a step back from the headlines and look at the bigger picture—what this means for late-night comedy, why advertisers panic faster than I do when my phone battery hits 2%, and whether this might mark the beginning of the end for an institution that used to be America’s bedtime ritual.

In the headlines on The Update this Thursday, a proposed Caesars Palace casino in Times Square that’s backed by Jay-Z lost its bid for a gambling license after running into fierce opposition from Broadway theater owners and producers who were worried about its potential impact on the theater district.

Mayor Adams threw his support behind a proposal to end the horse-drawn carriages that have been fixtures in Central Park for more than 150 years as he ordered police to more stringently enforce laws already on the books to rein in the industry.

And ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely after comments that he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show and provoked some ominous comments from a top federal regulator.

It's the first Brandon’s Take- Tech vs. Tradition: You know, it’s funny—everywhere you look, tech is supposed to be making life “easier.” We’ve got smart fridges that text you when you’re low on milk, watches that tell you how many steps you didn’t take today, and even apps that order dinner before you realize you’re hungry. But sometimes, I wonder if in all this convenience, we’re losing a little of the tradition that grounded us.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a New York judge threw out terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, rejecting the Manhattan district attorney’s theory in a state murder case that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “intended to evoke terror.”

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died at 89.

And out in the American West, prosecutors brought a murder charge against the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk and outlined evidence, including a text message confession to his partner and a note left beforehand saying he had the opportunity to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it.”