Today’s Update Journal is a study in loss, confusion, and national priorities. We say a proper goodbye to the $6 Dunkin’ Deal—a brief but meaningful chapter in American history where coffee, breakfast, and hope briefly aligned. It was affordable. It was customizable. It got us through inflation, seasonal depression, and mornings we absolutely did not consent to. Gone now, but never forgotten. We will speak of it in hushed tones, like elders recalling a better time. Then we turn to Tony Dokoupil’s debut on the CBS Evening News, which featured awkward pauses, unsettling silence, and the unmistakable energy of a network that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be when it grows up. Was it technical issues? Was it a creative choice? Was someone supposed to talk and simply… didn’t? We may never know. But dead air is still air, and CBS sure filled a lot of it. And finally, in today’s honorable mention, we cleanse the palate with something that actually makes sense: Buffalo, New York, setting a chicken wing world record. No identity crisis. No silence. Just sauce, confidence, and a city fully committed to its brand. Cheap coffee fades. Broadcasts stumble. But wings? Wings endure.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a machete-wielding maniac was shot and killed in a chaotic confrontation with police at a New Jersey home— before cops discovered three dead victims inside the residence, according to authorities and reports.

A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela.

And in Washington, the U.S. took the unprecedented step of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.