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1. President Barack Obama’s chief of staff says Republicans have given the White House a political gift by criticizing its push for a $20 billion compensation fund from BP. Rahm Emanuel told ABC's This Week that Republicans appear to consider BP the aggrieved¹ party instead of the Gulf² Coast communities hurt by the oil spill.

2. A gunman attacked his stepdaughter's family as they ate lunch at a California restaurant, killing³ her husband and six-year-old son, wounding the woman and another child, and then fatally shooting himself. Police say 56-year-old Jimmy Schlager walked over to a table at Del Taco and fired several shots.

3. Friends say the stepmom of a missing Oregon boy faced a second polygraph test this weekend. Terri Horman said she dropped seven-year-old Kyron at school more than two weeks ago. He hasn't been seen since.

4. Firefighters freed a three-year-old girl in eastern China who was stuck in a washing machine for more than an hour. Rescuers removed the machine's exterior⁴ panels before cutting a part of the plastic drum with a knife. At one point, her mother stoops down to comfort her, telling her she’ll be out soon.