Los Angeles put a “peace ambassador” on the payroll—and federal agents later hauled him away as an alleged violent gang figure, detonating a trust crisis bigger than one bad hire.Story SnapshotLos Angeles’ Peace Ambassadors program exists as a taxpayer-backed violence-prevention effort Federal authorities publicly...

Oregon’s latest animal-cruelty ballot fight is not really about one pastime; it is about whether a cruelty law can be rewritten so broadly that hunting and fishing lose their legal shelter.Story SnapshotThe proposal, Initiative Petition 28, is a real Oregon ballot measure on file...