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Headlines:
– Welcome to Mo News (00:00)
– Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Exit Plan For Federal Employees (03:50)
– White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers (08:00)
– New Orleans Prepares For Super Bowl 59: The Game, The Halftime Show, The Commercials (09:20)
– Latest Gaza Fallout: Rubio Planning First Middle East Trip In Mid-February (22:00)
– Blackhawk Helicopter Involved In Midair Collision Had Advanced Tracking System Turned Off (25:00)
– OpenAI Considering 16 States For Data Center Campuses As Part of Trump’s Stargate Project (27:50)
– Asteroid’s Chances of Hitting Earth in 2032 Just Got Higher– But Don’t Panic (29:35)
– What We’re Watching, Reading, Eating (34:50)
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Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022.
Jill Wagner (@jillrwagner) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. She's currently the Managing Editor of the Mo News newsletter and previously worked as a reporter for CBS News, Cheddar News, and News 12. She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.
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