The Update- December 5th

The Update with Brandon Julien

Would you say “I do” to this bridal trend? A group of bridesmaids was forced to wear the bride’s name on their necklaces for a recent wedding, attracting much online outrage.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Investigators are searching for clues that could help them identify the masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk, then disappeared into Central Park. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, died in a dawn ambush as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton in Midtown. Meanwhile, that same suspect may have left a message on the bullets he used to kill the executive Wednesday morning, according to police sources. The NYPD is investigating the possible message — which appears to include the words “deny,” “depose” and “defend” — engraved on live rounds and shell casings left behind by the masked assassin before fleeing, the sources said.

In the midst of it all, Fifty-thousand multi-colored lights were illuminated on Rockefeller Center’s iconic Christmas tree to cheers from the crowds gathered to witness the annual New York City tradition. And in Memphis, the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers after he ran away from a traffic stop in January 2023 exposed serious problems in the Memphis Police Department, from the use of excessive force to its mistreatment of Black people in the majority-Black city, a federal investigation has found.