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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 13: Oakland Athletics fans display signs during a reverse boycott game against the Tampa Bay Rays at RingCentral Coliseum on June 13, 2023 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Brandon Vallance/Getty Images)

MLB Owners Approve Athletics’ Relocation To Las Vegas, Sources Say

It’s official the Oakland Athletics are calling their new home Las Vegas.

US-POLITICS-RACE-UNREST A sign reading "sorry temporarily closed" is seen behind a shattered glass of a storefront after a night of protest over the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis on June 1, 2020 in Lower Manhattan in New York City. - Thousands of National Guard troops patrolled major US cities after five consecutive nights of protests over racism and police brutality that boiled over into arson and looting, sending shock waves through the country. The death Monday of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis ignited this latest wave of outrage in the US over law enforcement's repeated use of lethal force against African Americans -- this one like others before captured on cellphone video. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

Oakland Businesses Close Down For Crime Strike

Over 200 businesses in Oakland have participated in a one-day strike in hopes the city will have more police on the street due to rising crime rates.

Protestors Chain Themselves To Oakland PD Headquarters OAKLAND, CA - DECEMBER 15: Protestors assemble in front of the Oakland police department headquarters during a demonstration over recent grand jury decisions in police-involved deaths on December 15, 2014 in Oakland, California. Over 200 hundred protestors blocked entrances to the Oakland police department and adjacent streets during a demonstration against recent grand jury decisions in New York and Missouri to not charge white police officers with the deaths of black men. Dozens were arrested. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Oakland NAACP Seeks State Of Emergency

The NAACP Oakland chapter and religious leaders joined forces to call for a state of emergency. This push comes amid rising violent crimes in the California city.

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CA reparations plan could cost the state $800 billion

Economists warned a legislative commission studying reparations that paying Black residents for decades of disproportionate policing, incarceration, and housing discrimination could end up costing California more than $800 billion in state revenue.