A2 German News | White House Staffer Faces Betting Probe

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Improve your German with slow news for A2 listening practice.In this episode: A White House teleprompter operator is accused of using speech knowledge to make nearly $100,000 on prediction-market bets. Also: Uganda discharges its last Ebola patient and starts a 42-day countdown with no active confirmed cases.Today’s German focus: sich entlassen lassen = to be officially discharged. Vocabulary: die Entlassung (discharge), der Ausbruch (outbreak), verschärfen (to tighten or make stricter).Learn more from today’s episode with the full podcast transcript, English translation, vocabulary explanations, and extra learning materials: https://linguawire.com/episodes/german-a2-2026-07-17 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.