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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.
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
The U.S. Navy releases documents with new details of abuse, torture and execution of Iraqis. . . . .they show marines forcing juveniles to go through a mock execution, using electric shock on a prisoner and setting fire to a solvent on another. . .. President Bush gives former CIA director George Tenet, former Iraq … Continued
the Ohio delegation to the electoral college casts it 20 votes for the Bush-Cheney ticket as activists ask the state supreme court to examine the outcome of the vote that brought George Bush re-election…. .if the court takes the case it could declare a new winner or throw out the results
As presidential electors gather to meet tomorrow, voting-rights activists prepare to file legal challenges to the Ohio vote tally… Fighting flares anew in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where U.S. forces carried out a massive assault last month. . .. Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind again… the jailed militant leader is withdrawing from the … Continued
Jordan’s King Abdullah tells a San Francisco crowd he’s hopeful about achieving Middle East peace. . . . Israel’s Labor party votes to join prime minister Ariel Sharon’s ruling coalition…. Austrian doctors say that the man who hopes to become Ukraine’s next president was the victim of Dioxin poisoning…. Bernard Kerik withdraws his name from … Continued
The Pentagon is considering building a permanent prison to hold terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba …the revelation comes just a day after more accusations of abuse and torture of the detainees being held there in defiance of the Geneva conventions A U.S. soldier pleads guilty to killing a severely wounded Iraqi … Continued
Iraq’s Shiite community presents a unified slate of 228 candidates for next month’s parliamentary elections. . . . . .a congressional committee to investigate alleged harassment of defense intelligence agency investigators probing prisoner abuse in Iraq.. .an affidavit from a terror suspect at Guantanamo details beatings being administered there… .and a former CIA operative sues, … Continued
