ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou reshuffled his cabinet early on Tuesday to try to better deal with the debt crisis and signaled he would stay the fiscal course by leaving his finance minister unchanged.

With Labor Day marking the traditional starting point of the campaign season, Republicans have a nine-point edge among likely voters, according to a new NBC News/WSJ poll.

Outsiders could alter a staid chamber, which might become even more polarized. In a shift of political fortunes that seemed unimaginable even recently, Republicans now have a long-shot chance to take control of the Senate, bolstering their ranks with outsider candidates who would probably shake up the chamber.

With a 4-3 vote on Nov. 16, the Spencer City Council requested that city staff establish criteria for a pet cemetery in De Wolf Park near U.S. Highway 18 in east Spencer. City Manager Bob Fagen has...

Low turnout expected Sept. 14 As the Sept. 14 primary election nears, local clerks want to remind citizens to vote.

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has yet to outline whether his party would pursue policies being aired on the campaign trail, such as changing Social Security ...

Republicans want to cut guaranteed benefits and privatize Social Security for two reasons: because Wall Street wants to get its hands on the Social Security ...

... to vote by mail and are voting for the first time, bring your current New York driver's license or the last four digits of your Social Security number. ...

Or they try to convince us that Social Security has to be rolled back because "we can't afford it." Is this a reaction to a new reality? ...

... and would vote to give us back power over our finances. It is often forgotten that Social Security is not a retirement system but an insurance program. ...

How can Social Security be in trouble? Even if there have been no raises for the last year or two, if it were really in trouble, wouldn't people or multimillionaires like John McCain, who has been photographed proudly waiving his social ... People won't vote against them, they just won't vote. Gibbs, for instance, sure knows how to stab a 'gift horse' (progressives and liberals) in the heart, and I guess come future election Novembers, he will expect that dead horse to ...

In a letter to be sent to President Obama, obtained by TPM, House Democrats will pledge to vote against any legislation based on the commission's report unless Social Security is taken off the table. "We oppose any cuts to Social ...

I must have missed the recent Republican bill that almost passed the House and Senate that was going to privatize social security. When W proposed it, the Ds beat it down. So are we proles supposed to vote against the Rs because they ...

She does it well enough by opening her own mouth on record (See “Lemonade” quote or “Social Security is Welfare”). What kills me about this woman is that she is in a political climate that is heavily opposed to Democratic control and is ...

Dave Ramsey (for the record, I'm not much of a Dave Ramsey fan) frequently labels Social Security as “Social Insecurity” which is good for laughs and accurately displays how poorly the system has worked. I much prefer the idea that investors ... However, my generation isn't exactly the first in line to vote on election day, and as a result the representatives that call the shots are elected by those who are already getting their monthly check. Only time will tell how this ...