Parasite Outbreak Due To Lettuce; Deadly Flooding in Texas; Trump Claims China Election Fraud; 100 Dems Vote To Cut Israel Aid

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Hey everybody, it is Friday, July 17th. You're listening to the Mo News podcast. I'm Moshe Oinounou.

**Jill Wagner** (2:06)
And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:10)
And where we read all the news and read between the lines so you don't have to. And sometimes we got to mask up here in the Northeast as we're dealing with this smoke.

**Jill Wagner** (2:18)
Yeah, it's like 2023 Moshe all over again. That was the last time that we got that wildfire smoke from Canada that really impacted us, at least here on the East Coast. And it is not the only weather story that we're following.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:33)
We'll get more into those fires in a second. We're also watching the flooding down in Texas. And so we'll have a bit of the fire and floods in today's podcast. We can't eat lettuce anymore, Jill.
Can't have anything nice right now.

**Jill Wagner** (2:45)
The news is not great, but the memes are great.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (2:49)
Some people really embracing this and enjoying the humor out of it. Some people very serious, Jill, as we found out on the Instagram feed yesterday, some people were like, how can you joke about that? It's like, we will make jokes here on the Mo News feed. Maybe we're just not for you right now.

**Jill Wagner** (3:04)
We will try to find lightness in everything. That's the role here at Mo News.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:09)
My favorite clip from the office, one of my favorite clips in the office is, Correll's character, Michael Scott, saying, why are you the way you are? Every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way.
And that's the way I felt a bit yesterday, is we were just trying to lighten the mood. I made all the headlines.

**Jill Wagner** (3:27)
All right, let's get to those headlines. Hundreds of millions of Americans are either dealing with catastrophic flooding or smoke from wildfires impacting their air quality.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:38)
And we'll take you north of the border as Canada tries to get those fires under control and what some members of Congress in Michigan are saying about it.

**Jill Wagner** (3:45)
On Capitol Hill, something that would have been pretty unthinkable just a couple of years ago, more than 100 House Democrats vote to end all aid to Israel.

**Mosheh Oinounou** (3:55)
And it wasn't just progressives this time. It included a number of Democratic members who have supported Israel for a long time. But we're looking to send a message to the Israeli government. We'll take a look at the state of foreign aid and the U.S.-Israel relationship.