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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.
Oakland State Administrator Randy Ward lays out plans this evening to remake 13 public schools — they might be turned over to private corporations to run.. .hundreds of teachers and parents turn out in protest… Health care workers in northern and southern California vote by a 90 percent margin to merge their unions.. it will … Continued
The U.S. Navy releases documents with new details of abuse, torture and execution of Iraqis. . . . .they show marines forcing juveniles to go through a mock execution, using electric shock on a prisoner and setting fire to a solvent on another. . .. President Bush gives former CIA director George Tenet, former Iraq … Continued
the Ohio delegation to the electoral college casts it 20 votes for the Bush-Cheney ticket as activists ask the state supreme court to examine the outcome of the vote that brought George Bush re-election…. .if the court takes the case it could declare a new winner or throw out the results
As presidential electors gather to meet tomorrow, voting-rights activists prepare to file legal challenges to the Ohio vote tally… Fighting flares anew in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where U.S. forces carried out a massive assault last month. . .. Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind again… the jailed militant leader is withdrawing from the … Continued
Jordan’s King Abdullah tells a San Francisco crowd he’s hopeful about achieving Middle East peace. . . . Israel’s Labor party votes to join prime minister Ariel Sharon’s ruling coalition…. Austrian doctors say that the man who hopes to become Ukraine’s next president was the victim of Dioxin poisoning…. Bernard Kerik withdraws his name from … Continued
The Pentagon is considering building a permanent prison to hold terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba …the revelation comes just a day after more accusations of abuse and torture of the detainees being held there in defiance of the Geneva conventions A U.S. soldier pleads guilty to killing a severely wounded Iraqi … Continued
Iraq’s Shiite community presents a unified slate of 228 candidates for next month’s parliamentary elections. . . . . .a congressional committee to investigate alleged harassment of defense intelligence agency investigators probing prisoner abuse in Iraq.. .an affidavit from a terror suspect at Guantanamo details beatings being administered there… .and a former CIA operative sues, … Continued
The Senate gives final approval to the biggest overhaul of U.S. spy agencies in a half century… Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faces open criticism from U.S. soldiers about to be sent to Iraq about the lack of armor for their vehicles and the stop loss policy that keeps them in the military after their term … Continued
Newly released memos show U.S. special forces in Iraq threatened U.S. government personnel who witnessed the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The House approves legislation overhauling U.S. intelligence agencies ..civil liberties groups are alarmed by many of its provisions. Civil rights advocates sue to stop the implementation of proposition 69, calling it an unconstitutional … Continued
Agreement appears near on an intelligence reform measure …civil liberties groups warn it will weaken the already loose safeguards intended to protect Americans from unwarranted surveillance by the government… A fierce gun battle erupts near the fortified green zone in Baghdad …in Washington, president Bush meets with Iraq’s interim president and says the U.S. will … Continued
