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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 changes in president Bush’s second term cabinet …Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson is out, former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik is in as Homeland Security Secretary and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is going to stay on President Bush’s margin of victory in Ohio narrows but not enough to prompt an automatic … Continued
13 Sutter hospitals lock out 8-thousand nurses and other workers after their one day strike….. .they won’t be allowed to go back to work until Monday Sharp differences at a hearing of the San Francisco board of supervisor’s budget committee as the public and some supervisors take issue with mayor Gavin Newsome’s proposals to solve … Continued
The Pentagon says it will increase U.S. troop strength to 150 thousand .in preparation for next month’s Iraqi election. . .soldiers tours of duty will be extended. . . Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti enters the race for Palestinian president — reversing his earlier pledge to back the candidacy of Mahmoud Abbas. . . … Continued
The Center for Constitutional Rights files war crimes charges against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the former head of the CIA, and eight military leaders charging them with acts of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq…. .the charges are filed in Germany which allows the prosecution of war crimes and human rights violations across national … Continued
U.S. Supreme Court justices question whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren’t really sick as it debates whether the federal government can prosecute patients whose doctors prescribe their use of marijuana. The court declines to hear a challenge to the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts . . . An … Continued
The confrontation over Ukraine’s election continues to build; the country’s Supreme Court will take up the issue tomorrow… Iran agrees to a complete freeze of nuclear enrichment activities, avoiding a possible confrontation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency… Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza, including a doctor… Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of the … Continued
A trio of European states tells Iran that if it won’t agree by Monday to freeze parts of its atomic program, the European union would not stop moves to seek sanctions against Tehran. . . Ukraine’s parliament calls the contentious November 21st presidential election there invalid. the declaration bolsters supporters of liberal challenger Victor Yushenko … Continued
Marwan Barghouti takes himself out of the running to succeed Yasser Arafat, only one day after declaring he would be a candidate… Iraqi Kurdish leaders join the call to postpone the elections set for January.. A report published today says East Bay Mud was warned early last year of problems with a fuel pipeline at … Continued
An Iraqi official acknowledges that more than 2,000 people died in the U.S. attack on Fallujah earlier this month… Aides to Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti say Barghouti intends to run for president of the Palestinian authority… the would-be successor to Yasser Arafat is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison… This month harks the … Continued
Hotel workers are back on the job in San Francisco after a six week long lockout.. .negotiations in the dispute are set to resume next week… The opposition presidential candidate in Ukraine calls for a general strike to protest elections he says were marred by massive fraud …the country’s outgoing president warns Ukraine could slide … Continued
