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By Maria Shriver
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I didn’t know Minnesota’s Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman or her husband, Mark, but when I read the news early Saturday that they had been assassinated in cold blood at their home, by a man masquerading as a police officer, tears immediately welled up in my eyes.

Then I read that another Democratic lawmaker, Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, had also been shot and were in surgery (they are expected to survive). This breaking news popped up on my phone while I was reading about the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel.

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