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1. Police say six children are in temporary custody¹. That's after law enforcement raided a church compound in Arkansas yesterday as part of a child-porn investigation². The compound belongs to evangelist Tony Alamo. He's denying any involvement with pornography.

2. Doctors say former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity³ disc jockey DJ AM are expected to make a full recovery. They suffered burns in a fiery⁴ jet crash Friday night. Four other people died in the accident.

3. At least two Americans are among the dead in one of Pakistan's worst terrorist attacks. Rescuers have pulled more bodies from the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, pushing the death toll⁵ to 53. So far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

4. And some folks in Wisconsin had a rotten good time. They threw spoiled tomatoes in the Second Annual Tomato Romp⁶. The contest is a scale-down version of the Tomatina Festival in Spain.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. raid: v.

if police raid a place, they make a surprise visit to search for something illegal.

2. evangelist: n.

someone who travels to different places and tries to persuade people to become Christians⁷.

3. rotten: adj.

If you describe something as rotten, you think it is very unpleasant or of very poor quality. (INFORMAL).

4. romp: n.

informal a piece of amusing entertainment which has a lot of exciting scenes.

5. scale down: phr v.

If you scale down something, you make it smaller in size, amount, or extent than it used to be.

Scale-down: adj.

6. Tomatina:

番茄大战（La Tomatina，也译作西红柿大战）是西班牙巴伦西亚自治区布尼奥尔镇在每年8月的最后一个星期三举行的节日。 数以万计的参与者从世界各地赶来参加一场不会造成伤害的混战，在大街上投掷超过100吨熟透多汁的番茄。番茄大战起源于1944年，经过70年的发展，它已经成为布尼奥尔镇牢固的传统和城市特色。