VOA · What's Trending Today?
Intermediate · B1–B2learner speed3:292018-10-09public domain
What's Trending Today? covers viral stories and social media moments in short, punchy reports. The episodes are brief and topical — perfect for a quick daily dictation session.
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01This is what's trending today.
02Taylor Swift is one of the biggest names in American pop music.
03Millions of fans follow the singer-songwriter on social media for the latest in music and fashion.
04On Sunday night, Swift did something that she has never done before.
05She announced her opposition to one candidate and her support for others, running in November's midterm elections.
06Swift wrote, Swift wrote that Blackburn is against gay rights, equal pay for women, and legislation to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape.
07President Donald Trump, who has campaigned for Blackburn, dismissed Swift's opinion of the candidate.
08He said, Swift doesn't know anything about her, and let's say that I like Taylor's music about 25% less now, okay?
09The singer also asked her 112 million followers on Instagram to register to vote.
10She wrote, The nonprofit website vote.org reported a flood of new voter registration after the post.
11A spokeswoman told BuzzFeed, We are up to 65,000 registrations in a single 24-hour period since T.
12Swift's post.
13The site reported that 190,178 new voters were registered in the entire month of September, and 56,669 were registered in August.
14The vote.org spokeswoman said, Thank God for Taylor Swift.
15Republican Party politician and television host Mike Huckabee, however, dismissed that idea.
16He tweeted that Swift won't impact election unless we allow 13-year-old girls to vote.
17And that's what's trending today.
18I'm Katie Weaver.
19I'm Katie Weaver.
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