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The men were sentenced under a federal hate-crimes law named for Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

Infidelity and intoxication led to a fatal fight between the young couple, police suspect.

The beating and robbing of a gay man in El Paso, Texas, is being investigated as a hate crime.

No one disputes that the killer stabbed a gay man twice in the back. But, they say, it was self-defense.

He's accused of impersonating his neighbor, whose remains were found tied up in a plastic bag inside a concrete bunker in the dead man's backyard.

Threats have been made toward doctors at gender-affirming health centers around the country following misinformation spreading on social media about trans care for youth. 

Salih Alhemoud, 28, of Houston, is accused of assaulting a trans woman he met on Grindr, whom he called a "demon," and authorities say he's a suspect in other, similar crimes.