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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.
A fourth straight day of heavy rain for Houston as the nation’s fourth largest city reels from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. Organizers of one of the Berkeley counterprotests against a right wing rally that never materializes says antifa activists helped keep them safe. Donald Trump’s revised travel ban gets another hearing at the 9th … Continued
Hurricane Harvey bears down on Texas with predictions of torrential rains and flooding. San Francisco stages a United Against Hate rally a day ahead of a right-wing rally to be staged at Crissy Field. Unlikely allies from agriculture and environmental justice groups are backing safe drinking water legislation in Sacramento.
The California Supreme Court upholds a voter-approved initiative to speed up application of the death penalty — but says the time limits in the law are not mandatory. The city of Berkeley denies a rally permit to a right-wing group, but the event is likely to go forward anyway — anti-fascist groups are mobilizing. An … Continued
The National Park Service grants a permit for a right-wing rally in Crissy Field on Saturday, over the objections of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other public officials. Donald Trump addresses the American Legion in Reno after his campaign style rally in Phoenix filled with attacks on the media and other targets and … Continued
Local elected officials join Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin to urge residents to stay away from the downtown park on Sunday when white supremacists are expected to join a “No to Marxism” rally. State lawmakers prepare to return to Sacramento with hearings on the origins and funding of white supremacist groups. Featured Stories:
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Spanish authorities say a cell of at least nine people plotted to combine vehicles and explosives in a direct hit on tourists — and an accidental detonation of a gasoline bomb averted a more devastating attack. Steve Bannon is pushed out as White House strategist and back at Breitbart News. Berkeley officials grapple with how … Continued
Thirteen are dead and 100 injured after a van attack in a historic shopping and tourist area of Barcelona known as Las Ramblas, claimed by the Islamic State. Seven are injured in a second attack south of the city. Donald Trump doubles down on his defense of confederate monuments calling them” beautiful” and tweeting that its … Continued
A thousand people gather to remember Heather Heyer — killed when a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd of anti racist protesters in Charlottesville. Some Bay Area organizers say they’ll organize peaceful protests blocks away from right wing rallies planned in S.F. and Berkeley late this month — others say they’ll directly confront … Continued
A combative Donald Trump returns to his earlier insistence that “both sides are to blame” for the violence in Charlottesville on Saturday. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other city leader call for the National Park Service to withdraw permission for a right-wing rally at Crissy Field on August 26. Back from the brink on … Continued
