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OAKLAND Just months after a drawn-out battle over efforts to close several Oakland Unified School District campuses an issue that last year led to sit-ins and even a hunger strike the board that voted to reject those closures in January may be reversing itself.It now appears that the possibility of shuttering schools, or at least merging the smallest ones with better-resourced campuses, can't be dismissed so easily in an embattled district that continues to struggle financially.

A little over a week after entering California's U.S. Senate race, Rep. Barbara Lee on Wednesday picked up the support of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, one of the state's most prominent and influential politicians.Bass, a fellow Democrat who served in Congress with Lee for over a decade, endorsed her former colleague and friend in the contest to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, also a Democrat, who announced in February that she would retire when her current term ends in January 2025.