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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.
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
CIA Director George Tenet with a sudden resignation… .he says for personal reasons …..the Bush administration denies Tenet is being forced out because of intelligence failure on the war against Iraq and prior to the September 11th attacks. . . President Bush admits he’s consulted with a lawyer concerning the investigation into who in his … Continued
In the broadest such order to date, the U.S. Army says tens of thousands of soldiers will be barred from leaving the military when their term of duty is up in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate votes to give President Bush 25 billion dollars for the ongoing military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan — but … Continued
A federal judge in San Francisco blocks the Bush administration from enforcing the partial birth abortion ban act. . . .District Judge Phyliss Hamilton rules that the ban on the late term abortion procedure is unconstitutional The U.S. – selected Iraqi governing council dissolves itself after a picking a new interim government that is supposed … Continued
