Today, we reopen the Home Alone case files and ask the hard-hitting questions Hollywood never wanted answered—like why Mr. and Mrs. MacAllister were allowed to keep custody after losing their child not once, but twice, across international borders. TSA? Fine. CPS? Nowhere to be found. Then, at the same time, a very modern mystery: why can I find 400 channels I’ve never heard of, three versions of the same cooking show, and a channel exclusively dedicated to reruns from 2009—but not Freeform, the network currently holding Christmas hostage. Apparently, in order to watch holiday movies in 2025, you must either subscribe to yet another streaming service or be born in 1996 with cable that still respected you. And in today’s Honorable Mention: flying cars are officially in production. Yes, the future has arrived. No, you cannot afford it. With a price tag soaring higher than the vehicle itself, the world’s first airborne automobile is here to solve traffic… for people who already don’t sit in it. For the rest of us, we’ll continue commuting the traditional way—on trains, in traffic, and in disbelief.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a packed Bronx MTA bus slammed into several vehicles — injuring at least 7 people and sending passengers into a full-blown panic.

UPS stole tens of millions of dollars in pay from seasonal workers who help the shipping giant deliver packages during the busy holiday season, forcing some to clock in well after their shifts started and deducting pay for lunch breaks they never took, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges in a lawsuit.

And in Rhode Island, authorities knocked on doors and scoured yards in search of any video or other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two students and wounded nine others.