- Egypt’s military-led interim government on Tuesday laid out a brisk timetable to overhaul Egypt’s suspended Constitution, elect a new Parliament and choose a new president, all in the space of about six months.
- White House: budget deficit has fallen to 4.7% of GDP. It was over 10% four years ago. Also, GDP is projected to expand in 2013 by an annual rate of 2%.
- Kroger Co., the largest U.S. grocery-store chain, agreed to buy Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc. for $2.5 billion in cash
- Four reasons so many people survived the Asiana Crash
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry won’t seek another term
- Rating Alison Lundergan Grimes‘ chances in Kentucky
- The collegiate reaction to Obama’s climate speech
- The American Civil Liberties Union said it will file the first known legal challenge seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn’t allow it or civil unions
- Legal battle over NSA surveillance grows
- Pakistan’s Bin Laden report
Morning Must Reads: July 9
In the news: Egypt, Rick Perry, the budget, Alison Lundergan Grimes, ACLU, and Bin Laden