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The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Good evening. It’s Wednesday, March 16th…the U.S. Senate narrowly votes to approve oil drilling in the environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge… Iraq’s newly elected interim parliament is sworn in today — but the divided body conducts no business… Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi appears to back down from his surprise announcement that he would begin … Continued
Bay Area Democrats urge a NO vote as congress debates the 81 billion dollar emergency bill to fund the continued occupation of Iraq…Republicans balk at a more than half billion dollar item funding construction of a new U.S. embassy in Baghdad… In a surprising blow to the Bush Administration, Italian prime minister Berlusconi says Italy … Continued
A San Francisco superior court judge delivers a historic ruling that California’s ban on same sex marriage has no rational purpose and is unconstitutional…conservative leaders express outrage at the decision and vow to appeal. A Sacramento judge orders California hospitals immediately to provide one nurse for each five patients…she quashes a second emergency order by … Continued
Reports of up to three hundred thousand demonstrators at a rally against foreign intervention in Lebanon, while the United Nations presses demands for a Syria pullout United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan pressures Israel to make good on its promise to remove West Bank settlements Venezuela is poised to redistribute large portions of land from … Continued
The militant group Hamas announces it will participate in Palestinian parliamentary elections A major conference on the situation in Nepal at U.C. Berkeley…. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams comes to the United States in search of foreign support, but back in Northern Ireland a controversy over the IRA’s killing of a Catholic man refuses to … Continued
A House of Representatives committee holds a hearing on government secrecy — there are more government documents hidden from public view now than there were at the height of the cold war British lawmakers approve a new anti-terrorism law — the prevention of terrorism act allows the government to order house arrests and impose curfews … Continued
A military study concludes that the responsibility for torture and abuse of us prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan lays mostly with low and midlevel soldiers, clearing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and other top civilian and military officials…but the report fails to satisfy critics Pentagon documents released today indicate the U.S. military in Iraq and the CIA … Continued
Good Evening. It’s Wednesday, March 9th…The Senate prepares to approve a harsh new bankruptcy bill despite warnings about its impact on Americans who suffer financial turmoil after a medical crisis or unemployment… A senate committee defeats legislation to weaken the Clean Air Act, drawing praise from environmental groups…but the reprieve may be short lived…the environmental … Continued
Florida farmworkers with a victory over Taco Bell — the fast food giant agrees to pay a penny per pound surcharge on Florida tomatoes…..that will double the pickers’ yearly salaries and bring to an end a three year boycott of Taco Bell…. A political committee with close ties to governor Schwwarzenegger hires an out-of-state firm … Continued
A hero’s funeral for the Italian intelligence agent killed by U.S. forces in Iraq after he freed an Italian journalist taken hostage.. .the journalist says she may have been deliberately targeted because of U.S. opposition to negotiations with hostage-takers More shocking images from the war in Iraq …a video shows U.S. soldiers kicking a mortally … Continued
