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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.
Criticism for the Central Intelligence Agency on Capitol Hill for the agency’s failure to provide army investigators with information about so-called ghost detainees — suspects the CIA was holding and interrogating in Iraq without registering them with army authorities Vigils across the country and throughout, the Bay Area to mark the U.S. 1000th combat fatality … Continued
The U.S. stages a second day of airstrikes in the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah. ..Iraqi families flee the bombing… Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry links the Iraq war to U.S. economic woes and unveils a new ad that for the first time criticizes President Bush’s conduct of the war The Gay Log Cabin Republican … Continued
A grim milestone in the war in Iraq as the number of U.S. fatalities passes one thousand…. 16 American soldiers have been slain in the past two days and the number of U.S. wounded is close to 7000 Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia condemns an Israeli airstrike that kills 14 Hamas militants in Gaza. . … Continued
A suicide attack near Fallujah kills 7 U.S. marines and 3 Iraqi national guardsmen… An American lawyer investigating abuse of Iraqi prisoners says torture and other abuses did not end after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, but has continued on into this summer.. 13 Palestinians are killed by an Israeli attack on Gaza city… a … Continued
Russians begin burying the victims of this week’s school massacre, while president Vladimir Putin vows to crush the Chechen rebels he blames for the assault… A mortar attack in Baghdad takes the lives of two U.S. soldiers… The prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq widens, as four members of the navy seals now facing charges… Meanwhile, brigadier … Continued
Sudan calls U.S. attempts to label the conflict in Darfur a genocide nothing more than elections tactics aimed at appealing to African American voters… . The new Iraqi government announces that the shut-down in Iraq of news organization Al-Jazeera will continue indefinitely… A report by the Swedish international water institute fingers unsustainable water use as … Continued
President Bush leaves New York immediately after his acceptance speech to hit the campaign trail in the battleground state of Pennsylvania …in his speech Bush brands John Kerry’s positions policies of the past, saying his administration is on the path to the future and we are not turning back 18-hundred arrests during the Republican convention … Continued
The final day of the Republican National Convention in New York where President Bush will deliver a prime time speech accepting his party’s nomination for reelection After last nights bashing by Vice President Dick Cheney and Georgia Senator Zell Miller, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry fires back, saying he’s not going to have his commitment … Continued
Vice President Dick Cheney and democratic senator Zell Miller criticize democratic presidential candidate John Kerry — telling Republican delegates Kerry is wrong, weak, wobbly and a man who’s made a career out of changing his mind…. John Kerry speaks to veterans, offering a harsh critique of Bush’s leadership on the Iraq war and the failure … Continued
President Bush attempts to contain the political damage from yesterday’s statement that the war on terror might not be winnable…At the Republican National Convention California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a featured speaker… In Sacramento, outgoing state senate leader John Burton says Schwarzenegger will try to put a moderate face on a fascistic Bush Administration More … Continued
