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Anti-lynching bill stalls in Senate as emotions run high
4:50am PDT - June 5th, 2020 rand paul - NBC NewsA Senate impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime boiled over on Thursday in an emotional debate cast against a backdrop of widespread protests over police treatment of African Americans.