Raid Ends Australian Hostage Situation, UVA Rape Story Reinvestigated, Oil Prices Continue Plunge: P.M. Links

• Australian police
  stormed the café where a man held several folks hostage for 16
  hours. Three were killed in the siege, including reportedly the
  gunman. The suspect has been identified in the Australian media as
  Man Haron Monis, a Iranian immigrant and Muslim man with a lengthy
  criminal record.
• While we’re all watching Australia, there was a
  rampage in Philadelphia that has left six dead.
• Do-over! Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the reporter who wrote the
  
  heavily disputed University of Virginia gang rape story for
  Rolling Stone, is reportedly trying to get in touch with
  people connected to the story to “re-report” it.
• 
  Oil prices continue to plunge. Great for gas prices! Bad for
  Russia, whose ruble hit record lows.
• A U.S. Marine in the Philippines has been charged with the
  
  murder of a transgender woman there.
• Sony is trying to get news organizations to destroy and not
  report any
  information given to them from hackers who have stolen all
  sorts of documents from the company’s servers.
• With the death of a northern
  white rhino at the San Diego Zoo, there are now only five of
  the creatures left in the world.

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