Posted on 09 March 2013.
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HOST: President Obama signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act into law yesterday. Though the law has existed since 1994, the renewed act expands protection and funding to additional victims of domestic violence. Tenzin Shakya reports.
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Posted on 07 May 2011.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo has starting a campaign to drum up support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York state. Within the next two months, the state legislature is expected to take up the matter.
Two years ago, the Senate rejected a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriages. But Gerald Benjamin, a political scientist at SUNY New Paltz, says this bill has a chance of passing — even though the Senate is now controlled by Republicans.
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