It’s Day 35 of the government shutdown- at this point, Washington is like that one friend who says they’re “five minutes away” when they haven’t even left the house. Meanwhile, It’s Election Day in New York City — the calm before the political storm, where campaign volunteers are running on caffeine and hope, and voters are just trying to remember if their polling place is still the same deli they went to last year. The city waits, nervously, like a pitcher staring down the final batter in the ninth inning. Meanwhile, in Queens, the Mets are back to doing that thing they do best: convincing us it’ll be different this time. But that might be a little bit harder as Pete Alonso and Edwin Díaz have officially opted out of their contracts and are now free agents. The day before election day, President Trump seems to throw his support behind Andrew Cuomo, saying “Regardless of whether you like him or not, you must vote for Andrew Cuomo and hope that he does a good job.” And as ballots are prepped, curveballs are thrown, and coffee pots are refilled across the five boroughs, we’re left with one simple question: who’s getting the keys to City Hall? Whoever it is, I just hope they know how to fix a budget, a bullpen, and a broken MetroCard reader — in that order.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, we end our coverage of The Road To City Hall. On the last day of this long running campaign, New York City’s voters are deciding the outcome of a generational and ideological divide that will resonate across the country as they choose the next mayor to run the nation’s largest city.

A driver who crashed his pickup truck into a July Fourth barbecue and killed four people was convicted of murder in the 2024 wreck in a New York City park.

And in Washington, Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.