The Update- September 26th

We're closing out the week inside The Update Journal. Former FBI Director James Comey’s now the one facing questions — and this time, he’s not the one asking them. We’ll break down the charges and the irony behind them. Then, in Episode 3 of the Mets Playoff Chase Diary, the Amazins’ season continues to hang by a thread — and that thread’s starting to fray. And in The Last Word, as the leaves fall and the air turns crisp, a reminder that change doesn’t have to be loud to be beautiful — though try telling that to a New Yorker with a leaf blower.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, The 13-year-old boy gunned down outside a Queens Dunkin’ Donuts this week was slain over a gang beef, police claimed— as they identified a fellow teenager as the suspected killer.

Grand Central Terminal experienced a brief blackout that left some MTA workers trapped in an elevator and thousands of others left to navigate the cavernous halls with the glow of their cellphones.

And in Washington, James Comey was charged with lying to Congress in a criminal case filed days after President Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.