Odds are improving that the Democratic Party will lose control of the U.S. Senate and the Republicans will retain the House of Representatives.

Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain said Sunday Congress doesn't have to raise the debt ceiling if lawmakers stop their "political posturing" and "make the hard cuts" needed to curb spending.

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As part of the continuing drawdown of American troops in Iraq, about 12,000 military personnel will leave Iraq by September and will not be replaced, Maj. Gen. David Perkins told reporters at a press conference Sunday.