From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

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.

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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.

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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. 🤯