B1 Intermdiaire English 8:36 1,131 mots News

2025, in 8 minutes

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B1

Niveau CECRL

1,131

Total Words

644

Unique Words

4/10

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Vocabulary Diversity 57%

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2025 was welcomed with a bang.

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Golden age of America begins right now.

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President Trump is the father of our movement.

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Breaking news overnight. The  social media app TikTok went dark.

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I want to thank President Trump  for his commitment to work with us.

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Users are migrating to a  different video sharing platform.

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Welcome to RedNote.

00:21

Six different wildfires in fire ravaged LA.

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It's believed some 12,000 homes and  structures have burned to the ground.

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Gestures some are comparing to a Nazi salute.

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This is an order creating and implementing the

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Department of Governmental  Efficiency, known as DOGE.

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One of his targets: the USAID.

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Thousands of staff and contractors were fired.

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The president has ordered to end all federal diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI programs.

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Elon Musk bids farewell to the White House today.

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DOGE is done.

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The Jeffrey Epstein files  were released last night.

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Many of the documents were heavily redacted.

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Houthi PC small group.

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They were running a war plan  on a messaging app and didn't

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even know who was invited into the conversation.

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Houthi is short for, "Who these  idiots running our government?"

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(Plane cockpit communication sounds)

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The deadliest plane crash in  more than two decades in the US.

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Claimed the lives of over two dozen  athletes, coaches, and family members.

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We cannot just let this break us.

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Turned out a Super Bowl halftime show:

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Kendrick Lamar will be the first  solo hip-hop artist to headline.

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Gaga set the world record for the highest  attended concert by a female artist.

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Two and a half million fans attended it.

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Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny making  history with his first ever residency.

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Bad Bunny said you were lit.

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Everybody was feeling it.

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And the Oscar goes to...

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Long live independent film.

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Sinners is topping the box office charts.

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Have a wonderful last day.

01:56

A man charging at Ariana Grande  as she walked a red carpet.

02:00

K-pop Demon Hunters is the movie.  Netflix's most streamed movie of all time.

02:04

People waiting on long lines for hours.

02:11

Trump telling Zelenskyy in a meeting:

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You're gambling with World War III.

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America's really scary right now.

02:20

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to  El Salvador, an administrative error.

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Sending National Guard troops into Washington.

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Rallies across the country  opposing President Trump's

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agenda as part of Saturday's No Kings protest.

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Gen Z protests erupting in  pockets around the globe.

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We are the movement.

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Nepal has been upended by a youthquake.

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At least 22 killed in anti-government  protests on the streets of Madagascar.

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Growing questions about what caused that  catastrophic ship crash into the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Astronauts Sunny Williams and  Butch Wilmore are back on Earth.

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Take up space.

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I feel super connected to love.

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Three for the win.

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And go!

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Last night in game seven of the NBA finals, he tore his achilles.

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The NBA champion resides in Oklahoma City.

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Coco has conquered the play.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers now celebrating back-to-back World Series titles.

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Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups have been arrested.

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This is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that span the course of years.

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Congress passed the one Big Beautiful Bill to make America great again.

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And he's signing the bill. The one Big Beautiful Bill.

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This is Cheesecake Factory menu.

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This for the luncheon after, okay. I'm getting bang bang tacos. Give me this.

03:43

Markets plunging.

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Hollywood is remembering Val Kilmer.

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Legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne has died.

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Gene Hackman and his wife and dog found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Diane Keaton has died in California.

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Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle are found dead in an apparent homicide.

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Pope Francis has died.

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Just a day after meeting with JD Vance.

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I think we can say this is white  smoke and they have selected a pope.

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Leonem Decimum Quartum.

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This is stunning. It is an American monsignor.

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Sydney Sweeney has great jeans

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I think her ad is fantastic.

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67 is dictionary.com's word of the year.

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6 7.

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6 7.

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The CDC's advisory panel was completely  overhauled by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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New numbers show the measles virus  spreading like wildfire.

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Acetaminophen.

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An earthquake caused a devastation  in Mandalay and other cities.

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A nighttime tornado in Arkansas Friday night.

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That was an EF4 tornado that caused a lot of damage in Diaz.

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The catastrophic  flooding killing at least 104 people in six counties.

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I just remember holding him

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so he wouldn't get swept in the flood.

05:24

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has arrived  in Beijing as the Chinese President Xi Jinping

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is showing off his country's arsenal and military might to the world.

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It's called DeepSeek.

05:35

Nvidia down big.

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President Trump just gave Nvidia and  AMD the green light to sell chips to China.

05:44

Hamas and Israel have reached a ceasefire.

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In Rafah, at least 31 Palestinians have been killed.

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Those who are supposed to represent us are betraying  all oppressed peoples of the world.

05:58

Famine has been declared in Gaza.

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Famine.

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The Gaza famine.

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The first images of those 20 Israeli hostages turned over.

06:05

Chaos and horror on a college campus.

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Charlie Kirk was shot.

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The alleged killer of Charlie Kirk reportedly confessing to the assassination.

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Jamie Kimmel alive will be off the air quote indefinitely.

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I absolutely  have the right to

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free speech.

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Free speech.

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It's so important to have a free press.

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Get the **** out of my face.

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Why are you in my face? Why you recording me?

06:25

Former FBI director James Comey has been indicted

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in one of President Trump's biggest grievances, the 2016 Russia investigation.

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John Bolton has  just been indicted.

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Week one of testimony in the Sean Diddy Combs trial coming to an end.

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50 months in prison.

06:44

In the last few moments, further files relating to the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

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have been released.

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And they show powerful figures like President Trump, Trump advisor Steve Bannon,

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and former President Bill Clinton.

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No more questions from you.

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Who else has a question?

06:58

Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.

07:03

I'll be resigning from  office with my last day being January 5th, 2026.

07:08

Japan's parliament has appointed  the country's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi.

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It means that Japan's  politics has taken a shift to the right.

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I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.

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New York will be the light.

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We will rise higher.

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Mikie Sherrill,

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Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's first woman governor.

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The current government shutdown  has now become the longest in US history.

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It's been about a month since the shutdown began.

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More than 500,000 federal workers are missing their first full paycheck.

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SNAP benefits and air  travel operations are facing growing disruption.

07:48

Sudan's civil war has entered a new horrific phase.

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40 million people have been displaced.

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Sudanese cities have become battlegrounds.

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Another US strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat.

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Here we go again.

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Nobody was texting war plans. And  that's all I have to say about that.

Key Vocabulary (50)

to A1 preposition

toward

"Go to school."

of A1 preposition

belonging

"Cup of tea."

and A1 conjunction

also

"You and me."

in A1 preposition

inside

"In the house."

that A1 determiner

specific

"That book."

it A1 pronoun

A third-person singular pronoun used to refer to an object, animal, or situation that has already been mentioned or is clear from context. It is also frequently used as a dummy subject to talk about time, weather, or distance.

for A1 preposition

Used to show who is intended to have or use something, or to explain the purpose or reason for an action. It is also frequently used to indicate a specific duration of time.

on A1 preposition

A preposition used to indicate that something is in a position above and supported by a surface. It is also used to indicate a specific day or date, or to show that a device is functioning.

with A1 preposition

A preposition used to indicate that people or things are together, in the same place, or performing an action together. It can also describe the instrument used to perform an action or a characteristic that someone or something has.

as A1 conjunction

A conjunction used to compare two things that are equal in some way. It is most commonly used in the pattern 'as + adjective/adverb + as' to show similarity.

you A1 pronoun

Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.

at A1 preposition

A preposition used to indicate a specific point, location, or position in space. It is also used to specify a particular point in time or a certain state or activity.

this A1 pronoun

Used to identify a specific person, thing, or idea that is physically close to the speaker or has just been mentioned. It can also refer to the present time or a situation that is currently happening.

his A1 pronoun

This word is used to show that something belongs to or is associated with a male person or animal previously mentioned. It functions as both a possessive determiner used before a noun and a possessive pronoun used on its own.

by A1 preposition

A preposition used to show the method or means of doing something, or to identify the person or thing that performs an action. It frequently appears in passive sentences to indicate the agent or before modes of transport.

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