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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.
Iraqi resistance fighters ambush a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work, killing 17; meanwhile, Iraqi Sunni groups join the call to postpone the scheduled election for January 30 Ohio’s Secretary of State will official certify the vote count there tomorrow, as a new set of supreme court challenges are expected. Hospital workers demonstrate against the … Continued
Hundreds of protesters gather in Columbus, Ohio to support a recount of the presidential vote in that state The Green party of California holds its post election state conference, with the focus on major electoral gains made on November 2nd and the Ohio presidential recount effort…. The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq acknowledges that … Continued
More changes in president Bush’s second term cabinet …Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is out, former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik is in as Homeland Security Secretary and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is going to stay on President Bush’s margin of victory in Ohio narrows but not enough to prompt an automatic … Continued
13 Sutter hospitals lock out 8-thousand nurses and other workers after their one day strike….. .they won’t be allowed to go back to work until Monday Sharp differences at a hearing of the San Francisco board of supervisor’s budget committee as the public and some supervisors take issue with mayor Gavin Newsome’s proposals to solve … Continued
The Pentagon says it will increase U.S. troop strength to 150 thousand .in preparation for next month’s Iraqi election. . .soldiers tours of duty will be extended. . . Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti enters the race for Palestinian president — reversing his earlier pledge to back the candidacy of Mahmoud Abbas. . . … Continued
The Center for Constitutional Rights files war crimes charges against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the former head of the CIA, and eight military leaders charging them with acts of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq…. .the charges are filed in Germany which allows the prosecution of war crimes and human rights violations across national … Continued
U.S. Supreme Court justices question whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren’t really sick as it debates whether the federal government can prosecute patients whose doctors prescribe their use of marijuana. The court declines to hear a challenge to the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts . . . An … Continued
The confrontation over Ukraine’s election continues to build; the country’s Supreme Court will take up the issue tomorrow… Iran agrees to a complete freeze of nuclear enrichment activities, avoiding a possible confrontation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency… Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza, including a doctor… Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the … Continued
A trio of European states tells Iran that if it won’t agree by Monday to freeze parts of its atomic program, the European union would not stop moves to seek sanctions against Tehran. . . Ukraine’s parliament calls the contentious November 21st presidential election there invalid. the declaration bolsters supporters of liberal challenger Victor Yushenko … Continued
Marwan Barghouti takes himself out of the running to succeed Yasser Arafat, only one day after declaring he would be a candidate… Iraqi Kurdish leaders join the call to postpone the elections set for January.. A report published today says East Bay Mud was warned early last year of problems with a fuel pipeline at … Continued
