The Update (First Day of Summer 2024)- June 20th

The Update with Brandon Julien

For over two decades, Madame Tussauds has been a Times Square institution, luring tourists and locals alike with its collection of 200-plus lifelike celebrity replicas. Now, the W. 42nd St. waxworks is giving visitors a peek inside the looking wax with an all-access pass, allowing the curious to delve into the day-to-day of doppelganger making. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, New Yorkers flocked to park fountains and city pools to cool off, as an oppressive “heat dome” baked the Big Apple just before the official first day of summer. One of the good Samaritans who nabbed the 25-year-old Ecuadorean migrant wanted for the brutal sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park recalled how she bravely placed him in a headlock during the citizen’s arrest to send the message to not “mess with the next woman.” And in Louisiana, they have become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.