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The father of an escaping Ukrainian family that was killed said he found out his wife and two children were dead by seeing the now famous picture on Twitter.

"No states had "significant reductions in violent deaths, as advocates often argue when justifying these laws," the study says."

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Sheldon Silver, the once-indomitable leader of the New York State Assembly whose career and reputation were undone by a 2015 corruption conviction, died on Monday. He was 77.