Teen girls are abusing drugs far more than their male peers, according to an alarming new study. Eighteen percent more girls are misusing drugs than boys, while teen drug use overall has steadily risen and the use of opioids, including fentanyl, has skyrocketed, the data showed.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69.

The NYPD are investigating two detectives who worked security at an upscale Manhattan townhouse where a man says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks by two crypto investors who wanted to steal his Bitcoin, a city official says.

And in Washington, once again, President Trump’s biggest policy plans were stopped in their tracks. On Wednesday, an obscure but powerful court in New York rejected the legal foundation of Trump’s most sweeping tariffs, finding that Trump could not use a 1977 law to declare a national emergency on trade imbalances and fentanyl smuggling to justify a series of import taxes that have unsettled the world.