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Top News By the Millions, Egyptians Seek Morsi's Ouster By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, KAREEM FAHIM and BEN HUBBARD In an outpouring of rage against President Mohamed Morsi, a core of protesters set fire to the headquarters of Mr. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement in Cairo. The Lede: Video and Images of the Anti-Morsi Protests  Slide Show: Demonstrations Grip Egypt Job Title Key to Inner Access Held by Snowden By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID E. SANGER Edward J. Snowden's assignment as an infrastructure analyst helps explain how he could lay bare an agency's efforts to identify potential targets. Paying Till It Hurts American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Maternity care and childbirth cost far more in the United States than in any other developed country. For more top news, go to NYTimes.com »

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Editors' Picks WORLD Video: The Italian Gesture Can Italians talk without using their hands? Gestures that insult, beg and swear offer a window into Roman culture. Related Article OPINION | Opinionator An Orphan Jackpot By STEVEN RATTNER Combine ill-thought-out government incentives with a misguided corporate tax system and what do you get? A blockbuster drug.

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World Obama Visits Prison Cell That Helped Shape Modern South Africa By MICHAEL D. SHEAR After touring Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, President Obama lauded Mr. Mandela, South Africa's first black president, for his courage and refusal to yield to injustice. Center Is Helping to Preserve Mandela Legacy Blasts Kill Dozens in Pakistan During British Leader's Visit By SALMAN MASOOD and ISMAIL KHAN A visit by the British prime minister is overshadowed by attacks that killed at least 20, including 16 civilians, in northwestern Pakistan. Violent Episodes Grow in Tanzania, an African Haven By NICHOLAS KULISH Human rights groups and the largest opposition party say episodes of intimidation and suppression are growing in the country, an island of stability in an often-chaotic region. For more world news, go to NYTimes.com/World »

U.S. Fast-Moving Blaze Kills 19 Firefighters in Central Arizona By FERNANDA SANTOS A wildfire that began Friday with a lightning strike killed an entire team of specialist wildfire fighters on Sunday and left the town of Yarnell, Ariz., decimated. Deadly Heat Wave in the West Brings Fires and Travel Delays By FERNANDA SANTOS Amid punishing temperatures and canceled flights, forecasters called for a high of 130 degrees in Death Valley National Park, which hit a record 134 degrees a century ago. In Conservative Wyoming, Signs of a Thaw on Same-Sex Marriage By JACK HEALY A bill to create domestic partnerships, introduced by State Representative Cathy Connolly, advanced further than anything like it in state history. For more U.S. news, go to NYTimes.com/US »

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Politics Snowden Revelations Will Continue, Assange Says By ERIC SCHMITT Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said more secrets from the documents that Edward J. Snowden smuggled from the United States would be published. Ecuador Says Biden Called About Asylum Request The Media Equation: Journalism, Even When It's Tilted Report of U.S. Spying Angers European Allies By STEPHEN CASTLE European officials said a report that the United States had been spying on its allies could threaten talks with Washington on a huge trade agreement. Snowden's Fate Is Up to Russia, Ecuador Says By WILLIAM NEUMAN President Rafael Correa said it was up to Russia to decide what happens to Edward J. Snowden, the American intelligence leaker, but Russia maintains that Mr. Snowden is not its problem. For more political news, go to NYTimes.com/Politics »

Business Paid via Card, Workers Feel Sting of Fees By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and STEPHANIE CLIFFORD For many hourly workers, paper paychecks have been replaced by prepaid cards, which often involve fees that can quickly add up and take a bite out of their pay. Detroit, Embracing New Auto Technologies, Seeks App Builders By JACLYN TROP The old-line carmakers are suddenly hungry for information technology specialists who can create apps for the next generation of connected vehicles. DealBook Talk of Mergers Stirs the Big Players in Cable TV By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and BRIAN STELTER John C. Malone is weighing a deal for Time Warner Cable, using Charter Communications as the merger partner, people briefed on the matter said. For more business news, go to NYTimes.com/Business »

Technology Disruptions Social Media Images Form a New Language Online By NICK BILTON Photos, once slices of a moment in the past - sunsets, cappuccinos, the family vacation - are fast becoming an entirely new type of dialogue. From Texas Statehouse to YouTube, a Filibuster Is a Hit By BRIAN STELTER A live stream on YouTube provided by the nonprofit news organization The Texas Tribune went viral and gave the Texas state senator Wendy Davis a national platform. Raw Data E.U. Reaction to Data Sharing Revelations Grew Slowly By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN The disclosure last month of the covert Prism program has drawn criticism from privacy officials and activists in Britain, Germany and France, but it has hardly been a roar. For more technology news, go to NYTimes.com/Technology »

Sports Diamondbacks' Goldschmidt Has Little Ego and Few Limits By TYLER KEPNER An eighth-round draft pick, the coachable Paul Goldschmidt has worked his way into the top group of National League first basemen. Mixing Old and New, Williams Began Surge With Racket Change By BEN ROTHENBERG Serena Williams has a 94-4 singles record, including a current 34-match winning streak, since switching to a mix of natural gut and synthetic strings in her rackets. Belgian Wins a Day After a Bus Blunder By JON BRAND Before Jan Bakelants of Belgium won Stage 2 in Corsica, a bus driver who had become stuck at the Stage 1 finish received support from colleagues. For more sports news, go to NYTimes.com/Sports »

Arts Stars Align for a Gay Marriage Anthem By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. "Same Love," a hit single from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, is the first Top 40 song to promote and celebrate gay marriage. Museums Faulted on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art By PATRICIA COHEN Critics assert that museums have backtracked in recent years on returning art to the heirs of Jews whose property was seized by the Nazis.  Video: Heirs Fight Museums to Reclaim Art Trumpeting a Michelangelo (Cue the Trills of Dissent) By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO Scholars hear new evidence that a restored statue from a church in Spain could be a long-lost work by Michelangelo. For more arts news, go to NYTimes.com/Arts »

N.Y./Region

A Gay Pride March With Added Spring in Its Step

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

The annual celebration in Manhattan was especially joyous in the aftermath of two Supreme Court rulings.

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