I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters.

ALJAZEERA: … The head of Egypt’s armed forces issued a declaration on Wednesday evening suspending the constitution and appointing the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, as interim head of state…

We now know what would it take for a determined group of knee-jerk Pennsylvania legislators to reject a $3 billion a year shot into the state’s economy, one that creates 35,000 to 40,000 jobs while netting the state budget some $255 million a year and bringing potentially life-saving services to more than 400,000 vulnerable Pennsylvanians.

Corbett bit off more than he could chew, some said. He shouldn’t have set a deadline of July 1 to get everything done with the budget. His administration didn’t advocate hard enough or early enough. It was ill-prepared. Many also circled back to a persistent criticism that has dogged Corbett since he crossed the street in January 2011 from the attorney general’s office to the governor’s office…

During the annual convening of city mayors, hundreds of city leaders unanimously endorsed a resolution calling on the federal government to back off federal enforcement of marijuana law. The resolution also calls for Congress to amend the Controlled Substances Act to “allow states to set their own marijuana policies without federal interference.”

Sources say the military intends to install an interim council, composed mainly of civilians from different political groups and experienced technocrats, to run the country until an amended constitution was drafted within months.

A rail car carrying propane in Rapho Twp., Lancaster County, has interrupted Amtrak service from Lancaster to Harrisburg and is causing evacuations. The fire, which began around 10:30 a.m., is at the Lancaster Propane terminal, said a company spokeswoman.

Former Congressman William H. Gray III, a giant in Philadelphia politics who mentored a generation of African American leaders, died Monday in London, according to his office in Washington, D.C. He was 71. He was an F&M alum and trustee.

NEWSMAX / REUTERS: President Mohamed Morsi rebuffed an army ultimatum to force a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis, saying on Tuesday that he had not been consulted and would pursue his own plans for national reconciliation.

The U.S. Supreme Court finished its term with big decisions on voting rights, affirmative action and same-sex marriage. Following those rulings, public approval of the court has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in more than nine years of polling.

WASHINGTON POST: …. [U.S. District Judge Colleen ]Kollar-Kotelly disputed the NSA report’s suggestion of a fairly high level of coordination between the court and the NSA and Justice in 2004 to re-create certain authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that created the court in response to abuses of domestic surveillance in the 1960s and 1970s.

“For all of the needed attention paid to the sequestration of carbon in trees and vegetation, the amount of carbon sequestered in the first few feet of soil (mainly on the 1057 percent of the Earth’s land surface covered by arable land) is almost twice as much as all the carbon in the vegetation and the atmosphere combined.