The hunt for the Washington state murder suspect ended Tuesday with Los Angeles Police Department officers arresting Alexander Lee Rogers, after it was reported Monday that his car was found abandoned in Calabasas.

The new, partisan maps come on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s launch of California’s redistricting campaign on Thursday, an effort he touted as meant to favor Democrats in California in the upcoming midterm elections as a counter to similar efforts in Republican-led states elsewhere in the country.

The mid-decade redistricting effort in Texas has been yet another pressure point for Republicans. It has split the party, with more states looking to follow in the Lone Star State’s footsteps. Many Republicans have backed this aggressive redistricting effort,

Alexander Lee Rogers, 51, of Longview, Washington, is wanted as a person of interest in the murder of Dawn Peters, 64, and the attempted murder of Andrew Peters, 73, according to a Facebook post from the Longview Police Department.

The government and politics reporter comes from the Miami Herald, where she shared in a Pulitzer and Polk award for her work.

Pam Bondi warned that California and other sanctuary jurisdictions faced losing federal funds if they refused to cooperate with immigration enforcement laws.

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If President Trump deploys troops to other American cities, experts say it would be a clear departure from founding principles and invite a legal challenge.

SALT, which can be claimed by taxpayers who itemize their deductions, is why the very rich get less of a break in California than most other states. If the 2017 law had been allowed to end, they could have deducted all the state and local taxes they paid – presumably a lot more than $40,000. The pre-2017 law allowed unlimited SALT deductions.

California's economy is the largest in the United States and fourth-largest in the world with a $4.1 trillion GDP as of 2024. It bumped Japan down to No. 5.