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The Empire State Building, right, is lit up with rainbow flood lights in honor of New York City’s gay pride week. A surge of weddings is expected by New York officials after the state legalized same-sex marriage. (Photo by Karly Domb Sadof / AP)

Farewell to a jewel of Manayunk, Philadelpia

A.I. Poland Jewelers, of Manayunk in Philadelphia, Pa., a fixture for 112 years, saw hard times and hip times and recently gunslingers. Old friends matter most.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Generous residents help neighbors in flooded Minot, ND

Clergymen Mike Johnson and Mike Pancoast have been too busy helping people chased from their homes by rising waters to give much thought to their own predicament.

Houston Chronicle

Flood victim: ‘It’s pretty hard to just walk away’

BBC

New Yorkers cheer historic vote in parade

Forty-two years after a police raid sparked rioting and perhaps the birth of the American gay rights movement, New Yorkers rejoiced in celebration of same-sex couples’ newly-acquired right to wed.

CNN

Several tires slashed on dozens of gay pride parade floats

Chicago Sun-Times

Rep. Michele Bachmann says poll shows Iowa voters are taking her seriously

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said the results of a new poll that shows her in a statistical tie with ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney proves that voters are taking her and her message seriously.

USA TODAY

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Rep. Bachmann: I’m serious, not a flake

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Politico Live

Bristol diabetes pill tied to a fair amount of certain cancers

A new type of diabetes pill being developed was effective in a two-year study but more bladder and breast cancers have been found in patients treated with the drug.

Reuters

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Farmers sow a paddy in a field on the outskirts of Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)	A fan waits for a match at the Women’s Soccer World Cup in Berlin. (Photo by Michael Sohn / AP)	Scott Oosting and Dave Tuxbury fly in Key West, Fla. (Photo by Florida Keys News Bureau, Rob O’Neal / AP)

NATION

Death toll from Amtrak crash raised to 6

Two truck drivers and a train engineer watched helplessly as a semitrailer skidded before it smashed through crossing gates and into two double-decker cars of an Amtrak train at a Nevada highway crossing.

CBS News

Driver tried to stop before hitting Amtrak car

YouTube

Among the costs of war: $20B in air conditioning annually

The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion. That’s more than NASA’s budget and what BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill.

NPR

US mayors awaken early to costs of war

Bangkok Post

POLITICS

Comparing Obama and Romney health care laws

The White House and Romney’s Republican opponents argue that the two laws are near-mirror images. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty went so far as to coin a term: “Obamneycare.”

USA TODAY

Mass observation

Economist

Maher: Defending health care system is ‘like defending slavery’

RealClearPolitics

Obama campaign team courts very wealthy donors

The effort to raise money from deep-pocketed backers comes amid uncertainty about whether the president will be able to reenergize the network of small donors who helped sweep him into office.

Los Angeles Times

BUSINESS

Investor George Soros: ‘Probably inevitable’ a country will exit euro

Billionaire investor George Soros thinks a country will eventually exit the euro zone and urged policymakers to come up with a “plan B” that could rescue the European Union from looming economic collapse.

Reuters

Court has struck a law that restricts the sale of prescription info

The Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law that prevented pharmacies from selling prescription information for drug marketing purposes, by a 6-3 vote in a closely watched data-mining dispute.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Mayor Emanuel encourages education grads to work for public schools

While many Chicago public schools teachers believe Mayor Rahm Emanuel has put a target on their backs, the mayor nevertheless encouraged a crop of new graduates work for Chicago schools.

Chicago Sun-Times

Schools stretch into summer to recoup snow days

Thanks to last winter’s snow days, thousands of students across New England are spending the first days of summer with noses in books rather than toes in the sand.

Boston Globe

HEALTH

The male biological clock

“As men get older, maybe there is some sperm available, but a lot of that DNA may be abnormal,” says author Harry Fisch.

Wall Street Journal

Breast cancer prostate drug hope

Drugs used to treat prostate cancer in men may also be useful for difficult-to-treat breast cancers in some women, a Cancer Research UK study suggests.

BBC

Global diabetes epidemic balloons to 350 million individuals

The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to 347 million, a larger number than previously thought and one that suggests costs of treating the disease will increase.

Reuters

SPORTS

Mexico rallies to top US and win high-scoring Gold Cup final

In one of soccer’s biggest showdowns, Mexico rallied from an early deficit with four straight goals to defeat the United States 4-2 and win the 2011 Gold Cup.

CNN

Phone updates on lockout for NFL players

The key issue is how to divide revenues — the NFL took in about $9.3 billion last year. The players’ share could approach the 50 percent the NFLPA has said it has received throughout the last decade.

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Reginald F. Lewis Foundation honors Eugene A. Profit, former NFL player

After a hamstring injury forced Eugene A. Profit to hang up his cleats and retire from the NFL in 1991, the Yale University graduate set his sights on making a name for himself on the Wall Street playing field.

Bloomberg

USF football player recognized for lifting car off trapped man

Anyone could have heard the screams. But fortunately for Pedro Arzola, Estenor is not only a football player at USF, he is one of the strongest ones, a 6-foot-3, 295-pound offensive lineman.

Ledger

Sick penguin offered lift home

A young emperor penguin stranded in New Zealand has survived two medical procedures and now has an offer of a lift home.

NPR

WORLD

Fleeing Syrians cross into Lebanon