The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – March 17, 2005

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


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – March 16, 2005

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


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – March 15, 2005

Bay Area Democrats urge a NO vote as congress debates the 81 billion dollar emergency bill to fund the continued occupation of Iraq…Republicans balk at a more than half billion dollar item funding construction of a new U.S. embassy in Baghdad… In a surprising blow to the Bush Administration, Italian prime minister Berlusconi says Italy … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – March 14, 2005

A San Francisco superior court judge delivers a historic ruling that California’s ban on same sex marriage has no rational purpose and is unconstitutional…conservative leaders express outrage at the decision and vow to appeal. A Sacramento judge orders California hospitals immediately to provide one nurse for each five patients…she quashes a second emergency order by … Continued


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The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – March 13, 2005

Reports of up to three hundred thousand demonstrators at a rally against foreign intervention in Lebanon, while the United Nations presses demands for a Syria pullout United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan pressures Israel to make good on its promise to remove West Bank settlements Venezuela is poised to redistribute large portions of land from … Continued


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