A Bet on Clinton: If They Network, She Will Run  —  A new group dedicated to paving the way for a Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 has already recruited dozens of the Democratic Party's most elite donors and bundlers, effectively kicking off the presidential money hunt more than three years before Election Day.

Obama to Offer New Deal on Corporate Taxes, Jobs  —  By - PETER NICHOLAS and - JOHN MCKINNON  —  Hoping to break an impasse, President Barack Obama today will extend a new offer to congressional Republicans in which he would back an overhaul of the corporate tax system in exchange for a guarantee …

Release Detail  —  July 29, 2013 - Weiner Should Drop Out, NYC Likely Dem Voters Tell Quinnipiac University Poll; Quinn Leads, With De Blasio, Thompson Tied For Second  —  Congressman Anthony Weiner drops to fourth place among likely Democratic primary voters in the race for New York City mayor …

Choosing the Next Fed Leader  —  Despite a campaign from allies both inside and outside the White House, the recent drive to install Lawrence Summers as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve seems to be faltering — and with good reason: He is not the best person for the job …

AP Exclusive: GOP Donor's School Grade Changed  —  Former Indiana and current Florida schools chief Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold “failing” schools accountable.  But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade …

Obamacare train wreck is crashing employment, too  —  Every day we hear new reports of challenges surrounding the implementation of the president's health care law.  More workers and businesses are coming forward to express frustration with the law.  —  Under the law's employer mandate …

A City Invokes Seizure Laws to Save Homes  —  The power of eminent domain has traditionally worked against homeowners, who can be forced to sell their property to make way for a new highway or shopping mall.  But now the working-class city of Richmond, Calif., hopes to use the same legal tool to help people stay right where they are.

GOP's Obamacare obsession is starting to look like political suicide  —  There is no chance Republicans will prevail in attempt to repeal or de-fund the health care law  —  Many present-day Republicans seem bent on making “Backward, Christian Soldiers” their marching song in their relentless determination …

Jackson County Circuit judge fires 34-year court veteran for good deed  —  A Kansas City man freed from prison three decades after being wrongfully convicted of rape considers Sharon Snyder his “angel” for giving him a public document that showed him how to properly seek DNA tests.

Abbas: ‘Not a single Israeli’ in future Palestinian state  —  PA president says would agree to int'l presence in W. Bank.  —  CAIRO - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas laid out his vision on Monday for the final status of Israeli-Palestinian relations ahead of peace talks due …

CNN to produce Hillary Clinton film  —  CNN Films has tapped documentary filmmaker Charles H. Ferguson to direct a feature-length documentary about former Hillary Clinton, POLITICO has learned.  —  “CNN is very pleased to be working with Academy-Award winner Charles Ferguson on the film …

Hollywood Studios Denied Payments from China  —  China's new value-add tax has kept profits away from studios since at least January  —  Sony just got the green light for “Smurfs 2″ to play in China, but there's one big problem facing the studio: China hasn't paid Hollywood in months.

Big-Name G.O.P. Donors Urge Members of Congress to Back Immigration Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party's establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

GOP launches summer assault on regs  —  House Republicans are pivoting to regulations as part of a broad assault on President Obama's economic record for the August recess.  —  The House is expected to approve a slate of bills this week that would limit the federal government's rule-making authority.

AP sources: Pentagon likely to cut furlough days  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense department civilians will likely face up to five fewer unpaid furlough days than originally planned, as Pentagon leaders scrimp to find up to $900 million in savings in the final months of the budget year that ends Sept. 30 …

Changing Colorado 6th could be 2014's tightest race  —  With the trifecta of big money, deep investment from both parties and a split electorate with a sizable swing vote, the race between Republican Rep. Mike Coffman and Democrat Andrew Romanoff in Colorado's 6th Congressional District stands …

Issa expanding probe into IRS scrutiny of conservative groups  —  The Internal Revenue Service subjected already tax-exempt conservative groups to additional scrutiny, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) charged on Monday.  —  Issa said his committee would expand …

Poll: 78 Percent of Young Women Approve of Weiner  —  Anthony Weiner courts voters in Harlem a day after announcing he will enter the New York mayoral race.  —  Anthony Weiner loves the ladies, and apparently they love him back.  —  Sugar daddy dating website SeekingArrangement.com found …

All employees accounted for in plant blast  —  (CNN) — When the propane tank cylinders began exploding at the central Florida refilling plant late Monday night, authorities braced for the worst.  —  And for a time, it seemed their fears were well-founded.

End the Damn Dickmanship!  —  When middle-aged libido meets a whiff of power, chaos strikes our political process.  Tina Brown on why Anthony Weiner and his ilk need to stop thinking with their genitals.  —  Carlos Danger was one blockbuster sequel that hasn't been welcomed (except by all of us in the news biz).

$1.35 Million Grant Will Examine Transgender Military Service  —  Palm Center's Transgender Military Initiative will investigate “whether and how the U.S. armed forces could include transgender troops without undermining readiness.”  “A crucial first step,” one of the key scholars on the military's gay ban says.