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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.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry delivers a blistering attack on president Bush’s Iraq policy, saying he ”misled., miscalculated, and mismanaged” every aspect of it A militant group in Iraq beheads a U.S hostage and posts a video of the killing on the internet CBS admits it was deliberately misled over the authenticity of documents it … Continued
A militant Islamic group threatens to behead two Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents carry out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 20 Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers. . . . On National Women’s Election Action Day, hundreds of volunteers join forces in swing states to make sure that … Continued
Baghdad is the scene of another deadly car bombing today ..this one targeted a U.S. and Iraqi security operation… in.Fallujah, dozens are dead ad wounded in fresh U.S.aerial assaults Democratic presidential candidate john Kerry accused president Bush of Hiding plans to call up more members of the National Guard and Reserve after the November election… … Continued
A new Bush Administration intelligence report on Iraq paints several grim scenarios with the worst being deterioration into civil war….Independent analysts say the situation is even worse than presented by the- new report Speaking to National Guard veterans, John Kerry accuses President Bush of failing to tell the truth about the situation in Iraq. ..Bush … Continued
Car bombs and clashes claim another 10 Iraqi lives today. . .on Capitol Hill, the Bush Administration defends its conduct of the war at a hearing on its request to divert Iraqi reconstruction funds to the Iraqi police and security. It’s one of the bloodiest single days for Palestinians in the West Bank in two … Continued
A huge car bomb rips through a market near a Baghdad police headquarters. ..dozens are dead and more than 100 wounded in the deadliest single attack in Iraq’s capital in six months. President Bush and John Kerry trade charges on Iraq…bush again slams Kerry for shifting views on Iraq.. while Kerry says Bush is using … Continued
U.S. air strikes on Fallujah kill up to 20 people — including women and children – in the northern city of Tal Afar, U.S. troops bar anguished crowds from returning home.. and Turkey delivers an angry protest over the treatment of ethnic Turkmen… Secretary of State Powell and Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge endorse the … Continued
A U.S. helicopter gunship fired at Iraqis milling around a burning U.S. tank in a Baghdad street today, killing at least 13 and wounding over 60. The city also suffered at least seven car bombs and insurgents fired a dozen mortars into the U.S. occupied green zone compound. Afghan protestors angered at president Hamid Karzai’s … Continued
Family members of those lost on September iith mark the third anniversary of the attacks by reading the names of the people who died at New York City’s World Trade Center
