From New York, the greatest city in the world, and also a tropical island paradise, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After a cold and miserable Spring, we're about to get on the fast track to warmer and summer-like weather! Brandon's fresh from the weekend with everything that you need to know.
Some stories talked about on tonight's show were:
1. A prosecutor says New York's former assembly speaker took millions of dollars in kickbacks, but his lawyer insists the money wasn't a bribe. The dueling portrayals of Sheldon Silver were offered Monday in opening statements at his corruption trial in federal court in Manhattan.
2. A theologian who linked Christian faith with the struggle for black liberation has died in New York. James Cone was 79. Union Theological Seminary says Cone died Saturday. Cone had been a distinguished professor at the school.
3. A house fire has killed three people and injured eight others. The blaze broke out Saturday night at a home in Queens.
