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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.
The sky’s the limit — a Sacramento superior court judge clears the way for governor Schwarzenegger to raise unlimited cash to promote his agenda to voters…. the judge rules that the state’s political watchdog has improperly limited donations for ballot measures A Good Friday observance of the Stations of the Cross in San Francisco’s Tenderloin … Continued
California for Democracy launches a grassroots effort to educate Californians on the impacts of governor Schwarzenegger’s plans for a special election this fall…..the group says Schwarzenegger’s ally, citizens to save California, is paying up to fifteen dollars a signature to qualify the governor’s four initiatives for the ballot and that the election will cost taxpayers … Continued
Planned Parenthood charges that state attorneys general in Kansas and Indiana have launched an inquisition of reproductive health clinics, aimed at discouraging women from seeking abortions… Terry Schiavo’s parents lose their federal court appeals and are preparing a Supreme Court request to re-insert their daughter’s feeding tube… A San Francisco judge gives final approval to … Continued
A Santa Clara County judge holds a hearing on the claims of a former Alameda county prosecutor who says a judge and the district attorney’s office routinely excluded Jews and Black women from juries deciding death penalty cases……the allegations could lead to new trials for as many as eleven condemned men whose juries may have … Continued
A federal judge considers whether to order a new feeding tube for Terry Shiavo, hours after Congress and president Bush intervened to move her case out of the Florida state courts. Six people are dead at a high school on a Minnesota Indian reservation in the nation’s worst school shooting since the 1999 incident at … Continued
A spate of attacks in Iraq claims the lives of 24 resistance fighters, a U.S. soldier, and a high ranking police official Antiwar demonstrators hold a march and rally in San Jose… A gunbattle in Haiti kills a U.N. peacekeeper– the first death of a U.N. soldier since the force arrived in Haiti in june… … Continued
More Shiite protests against Jordan in Iraq over…protestors say the Jordanian government is not doing enough to keep its citizens from joining the Iraq insurgency…a Jordanian is supected of carring out a bomb attack last month that killed 125 mostly shiite police and army recruits It’s the eve of the second anniversary of the U.S. … Continued
The United States Senate rejects president Bush’s plan to cut billions from Medicaid….that puts the chamber on a collision course with the House of Representatives and could result in a budget stalemate Militant Palestinian groups vow to halt attacks on Israel for the rest of the year, their longest ceasefire promise ever…..Israel however must hold … Continued
Good evening. It’s Wednesday, March 16th…the U.S. Senate narrowly votes to approve oil drilling in the environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge… Iraq’s newly elected interim parliament is sworn in today — but the divided body conducts no business… Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi appears to back down from his surprise announcement that he would begin … Continued
