With record low turnout but strong anti-incumbent attitudes, voters dramatically changed the way California elects state officeholders by approving Proposition 14, which creates a non-partisan primary where the top two vote-getters advance to a November run-off.

According to an official Treasury Department report to Congress, total U.S. public debt will hit nearly $20 trillion by 2015.  The report states that the ratio of total public debt to GDP will rise to a staggering 102% over the same period.

Fusion voting was once ubiquitous in the United States, legal in every state of the union.  With the rise of relatively powerful third party and independent political movements in the late nineteenth century, state legislatures dominated by the Democratic and Republican parties began banning the practice, and today it is prohibited in all but eight states.

California's pivotal June primary is here, and CAIVN is covering all the latest news stories.  Much is at stake as voters take to the polls to decide a number of critical races and game-changing ballot propositions.

California prison and safety reform consists primarily of finding ways to reduce costs in an overburdened system without sacrificing the safety of California's residents.

Osama Bin Laden has repeatedly expressed his primary intent:  to bankrupt America.  Sadly, his methodology has caused the United States to spend over $1 trillion on the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.