In today’s edition of The Update Journal, we proudly present the “Fare Inspector Era — Part 2,” because nothing says New York quite like a stranger in a reflective vest asking if you tapped your OMNY. Then, in The Last Word, your wallet delivers its annual holiday plea: “Stop. Please.” And finally, because we’re professionals who totally keep track of milestones, we’re celebrating the 1900th episode… a full day late. Look, between transit drama, holiday financial ruin, and remembering to eat lunch, something was bound to slip. But hey — 1900 episodes! We did it. Eventually.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, two NYPD officers won’t be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James’ office said.

Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

And in Washington, the FBI arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack, an abrupt breakthrough in an investigation that for years flummoxed law enforcement and spawned conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021.