6:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays to Fridays
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.
There’s no letup to violence in Iraq, as a car bomb explosion in Baghdad kills 12 Iraqis Secretary of State Colin Powell says he didn’t see the Justice Department memo that suggested President Bush had the authority to order torture…. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apparently mill avoid being charged with bribery… And a new … Continued
Hamas says it will continue attacks on Israel and does not trust the Israelis to live up to promises to withdraw from Gaza Iraq’s deputy foreign minister is killed in the first assassination of a senior official since the new interim Government was announced this month…. A senior U.S. military official says American forces will … Continued
An official Day of mourning for former president Ronald Reagan — with a State funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington and burial this evening at his Presidential Library in Simi Valley In San Francisco about two hundred people hold a funeral procession for the victims of Ronald Reagan including people with aids and the … Continued
More scandal on how the Bush Administration is treating detainees in its war on terror. ..the Washington Post reports that medical records on terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have been turned over to interrogators so that they can devise better methods of questioning them, in violation of international standards A setback to the government’s … Continued
Human rights lawyers file a racketeering lawsuit against two U.S. military contractors — accusing them of conspiring to torture, rape, and kill Iraqi prisoners… The Santa Cruz City Council calls for a probe and the possible impeachment of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld over the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners… San Francisco supervisor’s president Matt … Continued
Attorney General John Ashcroft refuses to release memos detailing U.S. torture policy …at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, Democrats say they may try to hold Ashcroft in contempt of Congress The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to adopt a U.S. – British resolution that nominally ends the occupation of Iraq on June 30th… Police … Continued
Thousands journey to the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley before Reagan’s body is transported to Washington D.C. for a state funeral on Friday… critics of the nation’s 40th President say the national adulation on his death should not interfere with an honest appraisal of Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies… A newly revealed Pentagon report … Continued
Setting aside differences over the Iraq war, U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac said leaders today had a duty to honor the values the soldiers died for by defending the cause of freedom and democracy together. The funeral for former president Reagan is set for Friday — a day that’s being … Continued
President Bush hears it on the streets and at the Vatican in Rome as tens of thousands of Italians demonstrate against the war and occupation of Iraq.. and the Pope calls for Iraqis to be given back their country In Baghdad a bomb attack on an army patrol kills five U.S. soldiers and wounds five … Continued
