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1. Amish families gather to bury four of the five young girls gunned down inside their rural Pennsylvania schoolhouse. The families are pleading for privacy as they pray, while five other girls caught in the attack continue to fight their injury.
2. The House ethics committee is meeting today to decide how to investigate the Mark Foley e-mail scandal. The committee will also investigate House Speaker Dennis Hastert who's been criticized for failing to take action after being warned about the messages.
3. A US spokesman says it's highly unlikely that the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a raid by US forces. Iraqi officials are performing DNA tests on the militant to be sure the body is not that of Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
4. You might want to carry on your luggage next time you fly. The government says more than 14,000 pieces of luggage were lost each day by airlines this past August. The spike in lost bags has been blamed on tight security and short staffing
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. spike: n-count
A spike is an abrupt sharp increase.
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