10/22/2009 02:18 PM | Via: San Francisco Sentinel

CONGRESS EXTENDS HATE CRIMES PROTECTION TO GAYS

BY JIM ABRAMS The Associated Press Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. A priority of the... read the full story

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Congress [...] in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack [...]

Associated Press [...] BY JIM ABRAMS The Associated Press Physical attacks on people based on their sexual [...]

Massachusetts [...] priority of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- Mass. , that had been on the congressional agenda [...]

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