The Update- December 10th

The Update with Brandon Julien

Oh say can you AC? One heat happy New Yorker chose one of Summer 2024’s sweatiest days to fan up a heated debate over the merits and necessity of apartment air conditioning. The fresh air freak wound up triggering a BTU brouhaha by announcing their dislike of the seasonal window-killer on Reddit’s popular Ask NYC message board.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, in our continuing coverage of the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a man suspected in the brazen Manhattan killing of him was arrested and charged with murder after a quick-thinking McDonald’s customer in Pennsylvania recognized him from a surveillance photo and police officers found a gun, mask and writings linking him to the ambush.

Elsewhere, at the Daniel Penny trial, a Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism. And in the American west, firefighters battled a wildfire in Malibu that prompted evacuations near Pepperdine University, where students sheltering at the school’s library watched as the fire intensified and the sky turn deep red.