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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.
Chicago files suit against the Trump Administration over a policy withholding policing grants from sanctuary cities. Governor Jerry Brown says California may do the same. New state safety rules announces for the state’s oil refineries following the 2012 explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond. Israel announces plan to ban the Al Jazeera … Continued
Attorney General Jeff Sessions vows a crackdown on leaker and suggests it may extend to journalists who publish classified information. Venezuela installs a powerful new constituent assembly. Young people in Oakland stage a rally urging developer Paul Tagami to drop his lawsuit against the city for blocking his plans for a coal terminal. Featured Stories: … Continued
Nissan workers at the company’s Canton, Mississippi plant begin voting on whether to make the factory the first in the south to unionize. Interpreters at the Contra Costa courthouse in Martinez stage the latest in a series of Bay Area informational pickets by interpreters who could go on strike over a stalled contract. The cities … Continued
President Donald Trump embraces legislation that would cut legal immigration numbers in half and shift the nation towards a system that prioritizes skills and mastery of English over family ties. A new report looks at how anti-immigrant groups are ramping up their lobbying efforts at the state capitol. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is planning to … Continued
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s detains top opposition leaders in the dead of night. The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump personally dictated the misleading statement his son initially issued last month about the June 2016 meeting he had with a Russian lawyer and others. As Donald Trump threatens to let Obamacare “implode”, Covered California … Continued
President Donald Trump insists there’s no chaos at the White House as he swears in retired Marine General John Kelly as his new chief of staff. Transcanada indicates it may not build the Keystone XL pipeline after all — oil industry conditions. Opponents of San Francisco’s newly adopted ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products … Continued
A thumbs down by Arizona Republican Senator John McCain sends Republican health and tax cut legislation down to defeat. New White House Chief of Staff Anthony Scaramucci lets loose with a profanity filled attack on White House colleagues. San Francisco seniors and people with disabilities dramatize how they fear for their lives when they … Continued
A Republican Senator introduces a single payer amendment to the Senate health legislation — hoping to embarrass Democrats by putting them on the record. Single-payer supporter Bernie Sanders call the move a sham and says he’ll introduce his own legislation later. A statewide tenants coalition takes action in several California cities to confront the California Apartment … Continued
The Senate moves through health legislation,rejecting Rand Paul’s proposal to vote now to repeal Obamacare with a two year timeline to come up with a replacement. Donald Trump announces on twitter that he’s barring transgender people from serving in the military, with no word on what happens to current members of the Armed Forces. Featured Stories: … Continued
The Senate set to vote on beginning debate on health and tax cut legislation that was believed dead just last week. Governor Jerry Brown, joined by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, signs legislation extending the state’s cap and trade program until 2030. Donald Trump ramps up the pressure on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying he has … Continued
