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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, AUG. 17 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this June 13, 2013 file photo Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks in Washington. This is the season of cultivation for people who might run for president in 2016. Itâs a time to get to know donors, to get the public to know you on TV and social media, to visit big primary states, network with the activists and ideologues, produce a vanity book, polish a record, deflect personal baggage, take a stand, develop a world view and scout for advisers and political organizations that can power up a campaign team. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

2016 campaign checklist: Who’s doing what

Calvin Woodward · August 17, 2013 7:18 am

ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, AUG. 17 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this July 18, 2013 file photo Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Washington. This is the season of cultivation for people who might run for president in 2016. Itâs a time to get to know donors, to get the public to know you on TV and social media, to visit big primary states, network with the activists and ideologues, produce a vanity book, polish a record, deflect personal baggage, take a stand, develop a world view and scout for advisers and political organizations that can power up a campaign team. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rundown on the 2016 presidential prep checklist

Calvin Woodward · August 17, 2013 7:15 am

FILE - In this July 9, 2013 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Get your face on TV and write a book: Check. Start meeting the big money people: Check. Visit Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina _ Israel, too: Check. Deny any of this has to do with running for president: Check. For politicians planning or tempted to run for the presidency in 2016, the to-do list is formidable. Whatâs striking is how methodically most of them are plowing through it while they pretend nothing of the sort is going on. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

SPIN METER: Who’s jumping through which 2016 hoops

Calvin Woodward · August 17, 2013 7:13 am

FILE - This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the intelligence agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reports. In one case, telephone calls from Washington were intercepted when the city's area code was confused with the dialing code for Egypt. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

New NSA revelations stir congressional concern

Kimberly Dozier · August 16, 2013 11:45 pm

Children inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. A wave of car bombs in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killed and wounded dozens of people, the latest attacks in a months-long surge in violence. More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence during the past few months, raising fears Iraq could see a new round of widespread sectarian bloodshed similar to that which brought the country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence

Lara Jakes · August 16, 2013 10:10 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2011, file photo, Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Itâs an issue lawmakers may not want to have to explain at town hall meetings back home. An attempt to fix a problem with the new health care law has created a situation in which members of Congress and their staffers could gain access to abortion coverage, something that currently is denied to federal employees who get health insurance through the government. "Under this scheme (the government) will be paying the administrative costs," said Smith, author of abortion funding ban for federal employee plans. "Itâs a radical deviation and departure from current federal law, and itâs not for all federal employees, but for a subset: Congress. Us." (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)

Abortion coverage for Congress under health law?

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · August 16, 2013 9:45 pm

Justice seeking to block Bernanke testimony

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2013 9:24 pm

Fed expects to get $440M in fees from 70 firms

The Associated Press · August 16, 2013 7:52 pm

Energy Dept.: Personal data compromised by hackers

Matthew Daly · August 16, 2013 7:38 pm

Longoria to receive Hispanic Heritage Awards

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2013 6:56 pm

McCain, Graham call for suspending US aid to Egypt

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2013 6:36 pm

SEC approves $8B sale of NYSE parent to ICE

Marcy Gordon · August 16, 2013 6:24 pm