
From baseball to bureaucracy to bizarre beverages — today’s lineup in The Update Journal is one for the books. First up: Game 2 of the Yankees–Red Sox Wild Card series. The Yankees pulled off the comeback win to keep their season alive, which means fans can breathe again… at least until tomorrow. Then, it’s Day 2 of the Government Shutdown — or as Washington likes to call it, “Take Your Blame Game to Work Day.” And finally, our Chocolate Egg Cream Soda review — a drink that nobody asked for, but Arizona made anyway. It’s chocolate, it’s creamy, it’s carbonated… and it’s confused. It’s like drinking a dessert that’s also having an identity crisis.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, a massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building in the Bronx collapsed after an explosion, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.
President Trump’s administration, citing the government shutdown, said it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and an extension of the city’s Second Avenue subway.
And overseas, an assailant drove a car at people outside a synagogue in northern England and then began stabbing people, killing two and wounding three in an attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said.