Tis The Season- For Unaffordability. This Thanksgiving will cost the average American almost $1,000, new research has revealed. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults who celebrate Thanksgiving, split evenly by generation.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, an NYPD cop took a shotgun blast to the face after being ambushed in Brooklyn by a suspected killer — but got off the fatal shot that downed the crazed gunman, police and sources said.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that he hopes to meet with President Trump to find ways the political polar opposites can work together on the central focus of his winning campaign: affordability.

And in Washington, the House is heading toward a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department to release the case files it has collected on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, pushing past a monthslong effort by President Trump and Republican leaders to stymie the effort.