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In honor of Juneteenth, our newest federal holiday, this episode takes a look at the history of the day and what it symbolizes. While it was celebrated locally in Texas and other states for years, it was only officially made a federal holiday in June 2021. It is seen as a second Independence Day of sorts for many Black Americans who didn't actually get their freedom with the founding of the country.Today is the first edition of our new ongoing series, The Mo You Know, where we break down one topic in the headlines.Here are some great additional resources -- for kids and adults -- about Juneteenth.Feel free to suggest future topics for 'The Mo You Know' by emailing ContactMoNews@gmail.com.Mosheh Oinounou @mosheh is an Emmy award-winning producer with 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 launched the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020.Sign up for the Mo News Newsletter.Follow @mosheh on Instagram.

Headlines Fed vs inflation (1:55) Will there be a recession? (2:56) Housing Market Impact (4:22) Gas Update: Biden to visit Saudi Arabia (5:42) 69 cent per gallon gas? (7:28) Ukraine Latest: Russia Gains Ground (8:38) Speed Reads COVID vaccine for kids (15:58) Fauci tests positive (19:02) The robots are coming to life (20:19) Squid Game reality show (23:10) What We’re Watching, Reading, Eating This Weekend  Watching (25:42) Reading (27:17) Tom Hanks interview can be found here Eating (31:17) Final Thoughts  Father’s Day (31:49) Jill’s Birthday (32:23) Mosheh is joined by Jill on Monday and Thursday mornings, to discuss the most important stories of the week.Mosheh Oinounou @mosheh is an Emmy award-winning producer with 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 launched the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020.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. (Yes, she loves news!) She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.Sign up for the Mo News Newsletter.Follow @mosheh on Instagram.

Congress may be about to pass the biggest gun safety bill in a generation. On the heels of the bipartisan gun reform agreement in the US Senate, @Mosheh speaks with an activist who has been on the front lines of the fight for a decade for some insight into what this means.Shannon Watts is the founder of advocacy group, Moms Demand Action. Watts was a stay at home mother to five when the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 inspired her to do something about gun violence. She turned her Facebook message to 75 friends into the nation's largest grassroots anti-gun violence movement. Moms Demand Action now has more than 8 million supporters, making it larger than the NRA.Our conversation dived into the history of the fight, whether the new legislation will actually pass the Senate and what happens after that. Watts also talked about what she learned growing up in a family that owned guns, how she seeks to find a middle ground on the issue, what inspires her optimism and her concept of "losing forward," (aka how losing fights to the NRA has helped her cause). You can read and watch more from the conversation in the Mo News Newsletter. -- Sign up for the MO NEWS Newsletter.-- Follow @mosheh on Instagram. Mosheh Oinounou @mosheh is an Emmy award-winning producer with 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 launched the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020. 

Mo News for Monday, June 13 Historic Senate deal on new gun laws (2:21) 31 white supremacists arrested in Idaho (7:05) What's behind inflation (10:17) The latest product shortage ... and Amy Schumer is being blamed? (14:25) Concerns about babies raised during the Pandemic (18:03) Covid tests no longer required to enter the US (22:29) Record-breaking heat in parts of the US (23:53) Why it's now cool to be on time (25:38) A major cancer treatment breakthrough (27:43) Trained rats saving lives (29:28) Mosheh is joined by Jill on Monday and Thursday mornings, to discuss the most important stories of the week.Mosheh Oinounou @mosheh is an Emmy award-winning producer with 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 launched the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020.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. (Yes, she loves news!) She also co-founded the Need2Know newsletter, and has made it a goal to drop a Seinfeld reference into every Mo News podcast.Sign up for the Mo News Newsletter.Follow @mosheh on Instagram.