Another winter, another round of “Snow Day Politics,” the annual NYC ritual where logic goes to die. Once upon a time, we stayed up until 1 a.m. refreshing the DOE website like we were waiting to see who got the first pick in the NBA Draft. Then De Blasio came along and declared the snow day extinct, replacing it with remote learning—because nothing says “holiday magic” like logging into Zoom while the city is buried in powder. And under Mayor Adams? We finally got a snow day… only for the “bulletproof” remote-learning infrastructure to crash harder than the F train during rush hour. In New York, even winter weather has drama.

In th headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, as the first anniversary of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing looms this week, the man charged in his death will be in court fighting to prevent prosecutors from using evidence they say links him to the crime.

Hundreds of rabid anti-ICE protesters clashed with cops in New York City on Saturday — with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blasting the feds for putting her officers in harm’s way, according to sources.

And in Washington, the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weekslong cross-country drives.