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In a recent video, investigative journalist Ben Swann takes a look at the federal data hub, a massive collection of information on Americans that is shared among government agencies. On top of the many questions this issue raises, the biggest question Swann examines is, does privacy exist anymore?

On August 28, California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, obliged calls from organizations like California Common Cause, Maplight, and others to make additional campaign finance information available online.

The Public Policy Institute of California's latest compilation of voter facts reveals the growth of non-affiliated voters in the state. Within the past ten years, registering as a non-affiliated voter increased by 5.6 percent:

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Poll results examining political tendencies among college students were released on August 23 by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Labor Day as a national holiday has progressed through various stages since its official genesis in 1894. The first informal Labor Day was September 5, 1882 organized by Peter J. Mcguire from the Carpenters and Joiners Union.

By 1894, Congress passed a bill that established Labor Day, the first Monday of September, as a federally recognized holiday. Protections for workers rights went through tumultuous steps to become law throughout the 20th century.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in 2013, but IVN feels it maintains a certain relevance today following the recent chemical attack in Syria and President Trump's subsequent airstrike. 

Arkansas residents that are in support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize marijuana for medicinal dedications in their republic have submitted a revised plan to the state’s Attorney General.

The new proposal comes on the heels of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s rejection of the wording on the initial proposal in July.

Predictably, media outlets worldwide are taking the debate of military action in Syria to the press and airwaves and just as with the responses from individuals, the various media outlets openly opine with a wide variety of reasons for either the benefit or the detriment of doing so. And, just as with the invasion of Iraq, the question of whether or not the US should take military action in Syria is generating a wide range of heated personal responses from around the globe.