The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

04.10.04 - 6:00pm

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04.09.04 - 6:00pm

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Fighting in the Central Iraq city of Falluja resumes after a pause in the Marine offensive.. During a brief ceasefire, hundreds of women and children flee, but the marines won’t let men of fighting age out.. U.S.-appointed members of the Iraqi Governing Council denounce the assault – one is threateneing to quit Thousands of Japanese … Continued

04.08.04 - 6:00pm

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National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice before the September 11th Commission for 3 hours today.. Rice insists President Bush fully understood the threat of terrorism before September 11th, 2001.. But she says there was no silver bullet that could have prevented the deadliest attacks ever on American soil Four more American soldiers killed in Iraq – … Continued

04.07.04 - 6:00pm

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Fighting rages in Fallujah for a fourth day between resistance forces and U.S. occupation troops – who drop a 500 pound bomb on a Mosque compound Across Southern Iraq, Simultaneous battles between supporters of Shiite Cleric Al Sadr and U.S. Allied Troops Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says U.S. commanders are considering whether to send more … Continued

04.06.04 - 6:00pm

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One of the bloodiest days of fighting in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over.. At least 13 American soldiers are killed.. A dozen of them marines in Ramadi.. Dozens of Iraqis are slain, many of them non-combatants, including women and children as occupation forces battle Sunni insurgents west of Baghdad and Shiite militants … Continued

04.05.04 - 6:00pm

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More than a thousand U.S. troops surround the city of Fallujah in possible preparation for a door to door search for Iraqis who took part in the killings and mutilation of U.S. security contractors last week In Baghdad U.S. authorities vow to arrest radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr.. Helicopter gunships fire on a Shiite … Continued

04.04.04 - 6:00pm

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Intense fighting in Iraq leaves scores of people dead.. and in an article to be published this coming week, the former British Ambassador to the U.S. says President Bush began planning to attack Iraq less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks The Federal Election Commission is considering new regulations on Political Action Committees.. … Continued

04.03.04 - 6:00pm

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Spain’s Interior Minister says three suspects in the Madrid Railway bombings blew themselves up in a building while surrounded by police More than a hundred people gather in front of the U.N. Plaza in San Francisco to demand that China stop persecuting spiritual, religious, and political groups Two community groups – one in Arizona and … Continued

04.02.04 - 6:00pm

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The U.S. economy creates more than 300,000 jobs last month, the most in four years.. Good news for President Bush’s election campaign.. but the official unemployment rate rises a tenth of a percent and the job creation is just a fraction of the jobs lost on George Bush’s watch The city of Richmond laying off … Continued

04.01.04 - 6:00pm

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A State lawmaker shows the videotape of a beating of two wards of the California Youth Authority at a hearing in Sacramento.. Senator Gloria Romero says she’ll author legislation empowering the State Attorney General to prosecute such cases U.S. occupation authorities vow to punish the deaths and mutilations of four American contractors at the hands … Continued