In The Update Journal: Something I’m really looking forward to is Halloween and spending time with my partner Tommie, even when time will get tight with my work schedule gradually picking up again.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, we continue our coverage of The Road To City Hall. Gov. Kathy Hochul urged New Yorkers to vote Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, giving the Democratic nominee one of his most significant endorsements to date in the contest to lead the nation’s biggest city.

The crazed drunk driver accused of mowing down a 16-year-old on a Queens sidewalk after she rejected his lewd advances was charged with murder Saturday night — and it’s not the first time he was nabbed driving under the influence.

And overseas, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel’s attack on Hamas operatives in Qatar that has upended efforts to broker an end to the conflict.