The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that expands federal hate crime protections to gays, lesbians and transgender people.
Known as the Matthew Shepard Act, the legislation would require federal prosecutors
more...to investigate crimes motivated by sexual orientation like the justice department currently does for crimes that are racially or religiously motivated.
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