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Colin Cunliffe, left, and Brewter Mccall, right, of Manhattan, celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York state outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in N.Y. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

Food bank shortages lead to new innovations to cope

Food banks around the country are trying to keep their shelves stocked as more people in the U.S. struggle to get enough to eat. Increasingly, that means finding new ways to salvage food.

NPR

Hackers release Arizona state files

A growing hacker collective has broken into the Department of Public Safety website of the U.S. State of Arizona and released hundreds of classified documents online to protest immigration law.

Al Jazeera

What does LulzSec want?

Christian Science Monitor

NY Gov. Cuomo signs gay marriage law

Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers.

ABC News

NY marriage bill paves way for divorce

Reuters

Gay marriage bill passes in NY

MSNBC

House votes against cutting off money to fund the Libyan war

The House has turned back a Republican-led effort to cut off money for military hostilities in the Libyan war.

TIME

House Libya vote: smell of victory

ABC News

Libya unrest: Football stars defect to rebels

BBC

House protests over US role in Libya

Al Jazeera

Evacuation urged after water breaches North Dakota dike

People in the town of Sawyer, N.D., were requested to evacuate after water breached a protective dike, the National Weather Service said in a civil emergency message.

MSNBC

NATION

Dozens of homes evacuated as fire rages in Oklahoma

Wildfire forced the evacuation of 70 to 80 homes in central Oklahoma officials said. The evacuations came as Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, declared a state of emergency for 33 Oklahoma counties due to drought.

CNN

Truck hits Amtrak train, causing an unfortunate fiery death in Nevada

Hours after a tractor plowed into the side of an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing about 70 miles east of Reno, Nev., officials continued to have trouble getting access to smoldering rail cars.

ABC News

Many gay couples with kids live in Tulare County, Calif.

U.S. census figures show that the county with the highest percentage of same-sex couples raising children isn’t San Francisco or Sonoma but Tulare, and many other places in the conservative Central Valley.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

President Obama has stepped into serious debt-limit talks

Struggling to break a perilous deadlock, President Barack Obama took direct control of national debt-limit negotiations with both Republicans and Democrats.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Obama steps in, but no debt deal in sight

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Obama invites top senators for debt talks

YouTube

Ind. Planned Parenthood law blocked

A federal judge in Indianapolis blocked part of an Indiana law that cut off public funding for the state’s Planned Parenthood outlets because they provide abortions.

Politico

President Obama announces an initiative concerning technology

President Obama visited a university research center outside Pittsburgh and announced a new partnership between the government, industries and leading universities.

New York Times

BUSINESS

Bourbon’s vast popularity feeds the growth of Ky. distilleries

At the new Wild Turkey bourbon distillery, the grainy smell of fermenting corn wafts from giant tubs as workers add a touch of grain or tweak the temperature, just as they had for decades.

USA TODAY

Bulls ready to charge into a wall of worry

A bounce could be in the cards for U.S. stocks as bulls defend a key technical level and managers buy the quarter’s winners to prop up their books.

Business Day

EDUCATION

As schools cut budgets, various strains on counselors grow

A study from Harvard University cited the nation’s weak guidance counseling system as one of the reasons why more students aren’t making a smoother transition into post-secondary education and careers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Slow growing

Published tuition and fees at private colleges and universities will be an average of 4.6 percent higher this fall than last, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Deaf to danger: the perils of earbuds

Last year, for the first time in four years, pedestrian deaths rose, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. And experts are blaming our beloved, never-leave-home-without-’em gadgets.

ABC News

Genetic testing in epilepsy — it takes more than 1 gene to see effects

Dr. Jeffrey Noebels, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, conduct project to survey genes encoding ion channels.

Medical News Today

Sitting for hours can shave years off life

What’s particularly interesting about recent research is the revelation that sitting for extended periods of time does significant damage to human health that cannot be undone by exercising.

CNN

SPORTS

Bradley yet to decide if Donovan will start

U.S. coach Bob Bradley has yet to decide whether all-time top scorer Landon Donovan will start against Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final.

Reuters

NBA players, owners close ranks as a very distinct lockout looms

NBA owners and players are closing ranks as a June 30 deadline approaches to reach a new collective bargaining agreement.

Salt Lake Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Esther Zuckerman):

Joyful revelers flock to Christopher St. after gay marriage passes

Village Voice

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Why Facebook isn’t a place for kids

ABC News

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Editorial cartoons

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Marijuana on the table

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Juliet Lapidos):

God, Albany and gay marriage

Slate

Column (Lydia Fisher):

What happened to shame?

Huffington Post

Column (Annie Lowrey):

Do tax cuts ever increase government revenues?

Slate

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Corporate court

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Linda P. Campbell):

Digital technology vs. students’ free speech rights

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Former auto workers have now switched gears to begin making human parts

If Cleveland is going to dig its way out of the doldrums, manufacturing may be the surprising solution. There’s a stirring now in the Rust Belt, and it can be felt at places where job orders are on the rise.

CBS News

Serengeti park road is scrapped over wildlife concerns

Controversial plans to build a tarmac road across the Serengeti National Park have been scrapped after warnings that it could devastate wildlife.

BBC

New combo analyzes spinal fluid with MRI, may predict Alzheimer’s early

Alzheimer’s disease may be early diagnosed based on spinal fluid samples combined with brain scans, according to new research.

Medical News Today

WORLD

Car bomb outside Afghan hospital kills at least 35 individuals