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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.
Embattled President Jen-Bertrand Aristide says the United States should defend Haitian democracy and lead a deployment of foreign police to thwart a coup underway in his country… The Bush Administration tells Aristide to step aside in favor of his constitutional successor and contemplates sending U.S. troops off the shore of Haiti The California Supreme Court … Continued
IBM with a big court victory as a jury in Santa Clara decides the company is not liable in the case of 2 former workers who claimed their job conditions caused their cancers. The much-watched trial was the first of some 200 similar lawsuits facing IBM Secretary of State Powell for first time publicly suggests … Continued
President Bush rejects Haitian President Aristide’s appeal for immediate assistance to stave off a coup d’etat.. members of the Congressional Black Caucus demand and obtain a meeting with Bush on the Haiti crisis In an unprecedented raid, Israeli troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets storm 4 Palestinian banks and seize more than 8 million … Continued
President Bush urges approval of a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage…social conservatives praise the President – opponents say Bush’s action is election year pandering to the Right Wing A pair of conservative republicans who helped organize last year’s gubernatorial election say they’ll try to remove California Attorney General Bill Lockyer from office for failing … Continued
Ralph Nader says he shares a common goal with Democrats of ousting President Bush from the White House – and rejects charges that he is running as a spoiler in the Presidential Campaign The Bush Administration sends 50 marines to Haiti to protect the U.S. Embassy – as armed rebels vow to march on the … Continued
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader declares he’ll run again for the presidency, this time as an independent rather than a Green Rebels in Haiti continue their advance, attacking the country’s second largest city A suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus kills 8 Israelis and wounds 60. The attack comes on the eve of a World … Continued
Haiti’s president agrees to a peace plan aimed at ending an uprising in which at least 60 people have been killed so far Islamic hard liners and reformists are both claiming victory in Iran’s elections Thousands of Palestinians protest Israel’s West Bank security wall just 2 days before the start of World Court hearings on … Continued
Same sex marriages in San Francisco to continue as a Superior Court Judge rejects a conservative group’s legal effort to put a stop to them.. the judge consolidates all three of the lawsuits arising from SF’s action and says he’ll hold a hearing on the merits of the case next month – gay marriage opponents … Continued
Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards steps up his attacks on President Bush’s economic record, calling the loss of U.S. jobs overseas a moral issue and vowing to stop it if he’s elected to the Oval Office, meanwhile the AFL-CIO endorses Edward’s main rival Senator John Kerry Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling indicted on 35 … Continued
Howard Dean drops out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination – he says he’ll urge his supporters to work for progressive change in the Democratic Party President Bush says he’s troubled by gay weddings in San Francisco, but declines to publically endorse a constitutional ban on gay marriage Suicide car bombings kill at … Continued
