WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- The defense appropriations bill U.S. President Barack Obama signed Wednesday proves that Washington culture can change, Obama said.
CHESAPEAKE, Va., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A Virginia clergyman says federal legislation defining attacks on gays and lesbians as "hate crimes" will stifle religious freedom.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate, on a 68-29 vote Thursday, approved language that would add federal penalties for attacks on gays and lesbians.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's team is probing Bill Clinton's activities to see if they would prevent Hillary Clinton from serving as secretary of state.
LOS ANGELES, July 25 (UPI) -- Los Angeles recorded a 28 percent rise in hate crimes in 2007, largely resulting from hostilities between Latinos and blacks, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The 2008 U.S. defense authorization bill could be voted on soon after a congressional panel pulled controversial language extending hate crimes law to gays.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to attach a measure that would extend federal hate-crime protection to sexual orientation to the defense authorization bill.
WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to extend federal hate crime law to protect homosexuals.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- FBI agents interviewing Iraqis in the United States found evidence of 36 "backlash" hate crimes, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. He said more than 400 such crimes had been investigated by the FBI since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- State and local law enforcement agencies reported nearly 10,000 hate crimes in 2001, the FBI said Monday. Apparently motivated by the Sept. 11, 2001, terror att
