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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.
Republican leaders are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling the Affordable Care Act, despite complaints that the measure is a rush job being drafted in secret. The most expensive race in Congressional history comes to a close with today’s vote in Georgia’s 6th district. Contra Costa County Supervisors vote a local match for … Continued
A 48 year old white man plowed into a group of Muslim worshippers leaving Finsbury Park Mosque in London early this morning, killing one person and wounding 10. British authorities describe it as a terrorist act. Russia’s defense ministry says it will treat U.S. led coalitio nplanes in the skies over Syria, West of … Continued
President Donald Trump reverses some, but not all, of the measures President Obama took to normalize relations with Cuba. Donald Trump acknowledges for the first time that he is under federal investigation as part of Special Counsel’s Robert Moeller’s expanding probe. A Minnesota police officer is acquitted of all charges in the fatal shooting of … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/alameda-county-say-gop-budget-cuts-and-healthcare-plan-puts-thousands-at-risk A rifle wielding attacker opens fire on Republican lawmakers at a Congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, wounding Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise and several others. The 66 year old white shooter is killed by return fire. A UPS employee opens fire at the company’s San Francisco package delivery facilities, killing three co-workers … Continued
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies to a hastily scheduled meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, less than a week after fired FBI Director James Comey appears. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says he sees no reason to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, despite remarks from a friend of the President that Donald … Continued
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to testify before an open meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee where he’s sure to be pressed about the firing of FBI Director James Comey and his own interactions with top Russian officials during the Trump presidential campaign. The Attorneys General of Washington D.C. and Maryland file an … Continued
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Blistering testimony from fired FBI Director James Comey, speaking publicly for the first time since Donald Trump dismissed him. Los Angeles Democrat Brad Sherman joins the call for impeachment of the President. After a nearly million dollar campaign, rent control defeated in Santa Rosa. Alameda County looks at the human impacts of the Donald Trump … Continued
Top intelligence officials tell the Senate Intelligence Committee they didn’t feel “pressured” to interfere with the ongoing Russia investigation, but they refuse to answer questions about whether President Trump tried to influence or shut down the probe. The Islamic State claims responsibility for a dramatic and unprecedented twin attack in Tehran which leaves 12 … Continued
