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Chris Matthews on Morning Joe.

I’ve been trying to figure out what common trait binds Clinton supporters together. As far as I can tell, the most unifying characteristic is a willingness to bully in all its forms. If you have a Trump sign in your lawn, they will steal it. If you have a Trump bumper sticker, they will deface your car. if you speak of Trump at work you could get fired. On social media, almost every message I get from a Clinton supporter is a bullying type of message. They insult. They try to shame. They label. And obviously they threaten my livelihood....

Remember when the entire segregated account fiasco was supposedly fixed in the aftermath of the November 2011 MF Global bankruptcy, and where regulators: the CFTC, the SEC, the CME, and anyone you asked, swore up and down this would never happen again? Turns out that 7 months later, the spirit of MFG has struck again, only this time with one letter switched: it is now known as PFG, as we suggested first 3 hours ago when we broke the story.

To the drug courier, it must have seemed like extraordinarily bad luck: A police cruiser appeared with its lights flashing moments after the 300 grams of heroin allegedly was exchanged on a street in North Philadelphia. The suspect was handcuffed and driven away. But neither luck nor good police work had anything to do with what happened. According to a federal indictment released Tuesday, the arrest was staged by police officers who were working with a drug dealer in a scheme to steal heroin and sell it.

Mayor Nutter will announce drastic new steps today to close a $1 billion gap in the city's five-year budget, including the closure of 11 of 54 branch libraries and dozens of city pools, a freeze on tax reductions, reduced hours or programs at more than a dozen recreation centers, and fewer engines at some firehouses, according to sources familiar with his plans.

Egyptian held in anti-terrorist raid By Sean O'Neill and Richard Alleyne (Filed: 24/10/2001) AN Egyptian dissident with alleged links to the al-Qa'eda terrorist network was arrested in London yesterday. Yasser al-Siri, 38, who has been sentenced to death in Egypt in his absence for a bomb attack that failed to kill Atef Sedki, the former prime minister, in 1993 but in which a 12-year-old girl died, was taken from a tower block in Maida Vale, west London. At 7am, teams of police officers in blue overalls raided his flat on the 16th floor where he lives with his wife and ...

<p>EWING -- For years, the Wynnewood Manor development off Lower Ferry Road was an example of how suburban residents always seem to describe where they live: Quiet.</p> <p>Yesterday, residents of the 300-home West Trenton community of small, one-story houses didn't have noise to deal with but they did have to contend with a lot more than leaves to rake, grass to cut and children to meet at the school bus stop.</p>

Saudi Arabia is unsafe for Westerners, says dissident War against terrorism: Warning for WesternersBy Steve Boggan 13 October 2001 A leading Saudi Arabian opposition figure is advising British expatriates to get out of the country to avoid rising hatred directed at Westerners. Saad al-Fagih, the director of the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, who lives in London, said Britons living in Saudi Arabia would be wise to "take as many holidays as they can" and stay away until the war with the Taliban was over. His warning comes after a bomb attack in the town of Al-Khobar last weekend, ...

Is Lebanon the next US target? By Kim GhattasBEIRUT - With the start of the first phase of the war against terror, Lebanon is anxiously waiting to see what - and where - the next phase will be. Despite assurances from Lebanese officials that Lebanon is not a target, there are fears that the country could soon become the next point of focus. "Today we focus on Afghanistan but the battle is broader. Every nation has a choice to make. In this conflict, there is no neutral ground," US President George W Bush said in a statement on Sunday, without ...

FBI closes website linked to Real IRA BY IAN COBAIN THE FBI has begun an offensive against American supporters of the Real IRA as part of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. Federal agents have ordered an Internet company to close a website that was operating as a front for the group behind the 1998 Omagh bombing that claimed 29 lives. HyperVine, an Internet service provider, says the FBI threatened to seize its assets if it did not immediately close the site used by IRAradio.com, which was raising funds for the Real IRA. The move came after the discovery ...

thr 018 Indonesia-US /WRD/  American diplomats in Jakarta prepare to leave Kuala Lumpur, Oct 1, IRNA -- More than 1,000 protesters burned U.S. flags and an effigy of President George W. Bush outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta on Monday as some of its diplomats prepared to leave the world's most populous Muslim nation, the Antara news agency reported. The exodus of many embassy staffers and their families came after extremist groups threatened to round up and attack Americans even though Indonesia's government supports Washington's war against terrorism. President Megawati Soekarnoputri returned from a two-week visit to the United ...

ELECTION 2000, ACT II Bush's 'white knights' remain ever vigilant The state's rough-riding House Speaker and its quiet Senate leader haven't ruled out intervention. By Abraham McLaughlin (mclaughlina@csps.com) Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor TALLAHASSEE, FLA. All through the longsuffering battle for Florida's electoral votes, Republicans have taken sweet comfort in one thing: They could always call in a cavalcade of white knights to save the day for George W. Bush - a cavalry better known as the Florida state Legislature. It's a team led by rough-riding House Speaker Tom Feeney and quiet but feisty Senate President John ...

Disenfranchisement It's divine justice, Gore is told Drugs policy denied vote to 2m blacks Special report: the US elections Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Tuesday November 14, 2000 Al Gore may have lost America's presidential election not because of a badly designed ballot, dubious counting practices in Florida or the defection of independents to Ralph Nader, but because of the criminal justice policy he and Bill Clinton have pursued for the past eight years. That policy appears to have robbed the Democrats of victory by disenfranchising nearly one in three black men in Florida, most of whose votes he ...

With the recount of Florida's votes dominating every moment of the news cycle, a confused nation gets its first chance to see if the media has learned from its election night mistakes. The answer is not encouraging. Cable networks -- experiencing a ratings bonanza they haven't seen since those heady impeachment days -- compounded their misreading of election night results with barely qualified graphics and ''news stories'' about voter recounts in Florida. The networks' latest mistake: confusing unofficial tallies released by the Associated Press with official Florida tallies that show George W. Bush with a somewhat larger margin of ...