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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.
One person is killed in Baghdad when a fuel truck explodes… authorities call the blast a suicide bomb attack… meanwhile, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld pays a surprise Christmas eve visit to U.S. troops in Iraq… Candidates from the Hamas movement post strong showings in local Palestinian elections… ‘A Sudanese official says his government will soon … Continued
Another day of arguments about same sex marriage in a San Francisco courtroom ….opponents of the unions argue that California’s marriage laws do not discriminate against gays and lesbians because the purpose of matrimony is to produce children and same sex couples can’t do that…. Palestinian voters overwhelm polling stations in the west bank as … Continued
Supporters of same sex marriage urge a superior court judge to overturn the California law restricting marriage to one man and one woman… In a separate case, an appeals court refuses to bar a new domestic partners law that goes into effect on January first… The Pentagon acknowledges a suicide bomb was the likely cause … Continued
An explosion rips through a tent in Mosul where U.S. soldiers were eating lunch. ..19 soldiers and three others are reported dead, in the deadliest single strike against U.S. occupation troops in Iraq… More internal army documents obtained by the ACLU describe killings, theft and other mistreatment of Iraqis by U.S. troops… A month before … Continued
A newly released document indicates president bush may have directly issued an executive order authorizing abusive interrogation methods against prisoners in iraq.. .the administration denies there was such an order… For only the second time a military panel reverses the designation of a Guantanamo prisoner as an enemy combatant. .the unidentified prisoner will be released… … Continued
Car bombs in Iraq’s two main Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala kill at least 62 people and wounding nearly 130.. it was the highest bombing death toll in Iraq since July and the bloodiest attack since last month’s U.S. assault on Fallujah Sudan’s foreign minister tells United Nations and African union officials that … Continued
The Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali is among the first of Saddam Hussein’s aides to be questioned by Iraqi judges in the opening phase in the of the trial process for leading figures of the former regime…. A top Democrat wants to know why U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan don’t have the proper … Continued
President Bush signs legislation overhauling the U.S. intelligence system, its biggest reworking in 50 years ….civil liberties groups are worried about a number of the measure’s provisions Antiwar protestors getting shut out of the parade route for next month’s presidential inauguration in Washington, while a for-profit group has been granted permission to sell curbside seating … Continued
President Bush wraps up his two day White House conference pushing his second term economic objectives of spending cuts, permanent tax cuts and privatization of Social Security ….elsewhere in the nation’s capital a rally in defense of Social Security Ten more dead in fighting in Iraq as Saddam Hussein meets with a lawyer for the … Continued
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
