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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.
Bipartisan anger over the Iraqi torture and abuse scandal as a house committee votes by voice vote to bar the Justice Department from providing legal justifications for the of torture. International outrage over the Iraqi prisoner scandal prompts the Bush Administration to withdraw its attempt to win United Nations support to renew a measure shielding … Continued
The case of three young men accused of killing transgender teenager Gwen Araujo ends in a mistrial after jurors deadlock on the murder charges Longtime civil rights attorney Lynn Stewart goes on trial. She’s charged with helping one of her clients – a jailed sheik – communicate with his followers. A sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart … Continued
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader selects California Green Party activist Peter Camejo as his Vice Presidential running mate. . . Four U.S. Marines are killed in Ramadi…while hundreds protest in Fallujah following a weekend airstrike by the U.S. on a house authorities claimed was the base of a Jordanian born resistance leader… The C.I.A. is … Continued
At least 22 are killed — among them women and children — as a U.S. f-16 jet fires missiles into a residential area in Fallujah. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Amman has stepped up his campaign against a U.S. bid to renew the U.S. military’s immunity from war crimes prosecution Israel appears to be moving ahead … Continued
An Al Qaida group in Saudi Arabia executes American hostage Paul Johnson Jr. after the Saudi government refuses demands to release jailed Al Qaida fighters… ..hours later Saudi security forces track down and kill the leader of the group in a shoot-out President Bush presses ahead with charges on Iraqi ties to Al Qaida in … Continued
The September 11th commission says U.S. officials were so slow to react on September 11th, 2001, that the last of four hiacked planes had crashed by the time Vice President Cheney ordered hostile aircraft shot dowm.. .the panel found the federal aviation administration fatally slow in alerting the military to the seizure of the planes … Continued
The 9-11 Commission says there is no evidence that Al Qaeda had strong ties to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein …the commission also says Al Qaeda originally had plans to crash as many as ten planes into targets – including buildings on the west coast. Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate introduce legislation to roll … Continued
President Bush declares victory over terrorism in Afghanistan.. Bush’s election-year declaration comes as the president of Afghanistan visits the White House. ..the U.S. has 20-thousand troops in the country and 500 people have died in fighting there since the first of the year. The American general formerly in charge of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison says … Continued
A car bomb blast on a busy Baghdad street kills at least 13 people, wounds dozens, and draws a crowd of Iraqis who loot and shout anti occupation slogans. . . Attorney General John Ashcroft announces indictments against a Somali man living in Ohio charging he plotted with Al Qaeda supporters to blow up a … Continued
