The Update- November 27th

The Update with Brandon Julien

Shane O’Farrell didn’t intend to get rich buying and selling Lego — all the 35-year-old from New Jersey, wanted was a connection to his childhood back in Ireland, where the modest Fort Legoredo was one of his favorite playthings. Twenty years later, when he saw the kit going for hundreds higher than its 1996 retail price of $85, it was a lightbulb moment for the side-hustle seeker. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, for half a century, New York City residents have taken out their trash by flinging plastic bags stuffed with stinking garbage straight onto the sidewalk. Now, New Yorkers are slowly adjusting to a radically new routine, at least for America’s biggest city: Putting their trash in bins. With lids. Federal investigators in New York are seeking records from the manufacturer of an AI-powered weapons scanner that was briefly deployed this summer in New York City’s subway system. And overseas, a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that began appeared to be holding, as residents in cars heaped with belongings streamed back toward southern Lebanon despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese militaries that they stay away from certain areas.