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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 picks first term North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate..Edwards made a fortune as a trial lawyer before entering politics in .the 1990’s as a self-styled champion of the common man and woman and as a critic of corporate abuses… Fourteen are dead as a suicide … Continued
At least 10 Iraqis are dead after a U.S. jet fires a missile into a house in Fallujah. Meanwhile, a U.S. marine feared decapitated by an Islamist militant group may still be alive after all. Today marks 70 years since ‘bloody Thursday’, when two maritime workers on a picket line were killed by San Francisco … Continued
Iraqi fighters blew up a strategic oil pipeline that runs from the country’s northern oil field to the south; meanwhile, the country’s U.S.-chosen interim prime minister says Iraqi militias must lay down their weapons. While talk of a military draft resurfaces, U.S. military families speak out about their experiences More Israeli missile strikes against Palestinian … Continued
A militant group said today it beheaded an American Muslim. It’s the second reported killing of a kidnapped American soldier in Iraq this week. The Sudan government says today it will disarm outlaw groups who drove more than a million Africans from their homes. Human rights advocates a call it ethnic cleansing. The 9/11 Commission … Continued
Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad rocket two hotel compounds used by foreigners …No fatalities there but elsewhere two more American soldiers are killed…. Three US soldiers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of an Iraqi curfew violator who was shoved off a bridge and drowned. … Human rights lawyers file new appeals on behalf of … Continued
A defiant Saddam Hussein in court today to face preliminary charges ….Saddam lectures the judge, scoffs at charges of war crimes and says that President Bush is the real criminal Jordan the first Arab nation to offer to send troops to Iraq. . . .King Abdullah says Jordanian soldiers can go if the new interim … Continued
The U.S. army announces thousands more former soldiers could be ordered back to Iraq and in what officials concede could be a shock to many of them, who have been out of uniform for years… A report by the investigative arm of Congress says that, in some key areas, post war Iraq is worse off … Continued
Iraq’s interim prime minister announces that Saddam Hussein and 11 top members of his deposed government will appear before Iraqi judges this week.. Saddam is to be charged with crimes against humanity for a 1988 massacre of Kurds, the Iran-Iraq war and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait San Francisco Supervisors place an Anti-Iraq war on … Continued
In a surprise and secret ceremony, U.S. occupation authorities transfer nominal authority to the interim Iraqi Government two days early …the news is greeted with cynicism by the Iraqi population, explosions in Baghdad, fighting in Ramadi and a marine captured three months ago has been executed… The U.S. Supreme Court imposes the first limits on … Continued
With three days to go until the U.S. officially hands over power to a new Iraqi government, insurgents continue their attacks on U.S. occupation forces.. There won’t be a budget ready when the State begins a new fiscal year next week…. legislators say they’ve run out of time to finish the budget process by Thursday. … Continued
