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Oil Prices Plummet As Investors Brace For Flood Of Iranian Crude OPEC Won’t Cut Drilling, and Prices Plunge 5% - The New York Times Crude Oil Falls to Lowest Price in Nearly 7 Years OPEC’s Middle Finger to the Oil Markets | TIME Syria Blames U.S. in Base Bombing, but Americans Blame Russia - NYTimes.com Pentagon says Russian — not U.S. — warplanes hit a Syrian army base - The Washington Post Turkey Refuses to Withdraw Troops From Iraq Turkey pulls troops out of Iraqi border after Baghdad protests Israel's Netanyahu names security aide as new Mossad spy agency chief | Reuters A German official becomes one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent critics - The Washington Post Obama, Clinton Meet for Lengthy Lunch at White House - ABC News Obama, Clinton huddle over lunch at White House | TheHill Cristina Kirchner 'creating as many problems as possible for the new government' - Telegraph First Russian Activist Jailed Under New Law Police: Boy Killed in Knife Attack in B

Holly Woodlawn at the Hotel Chelsea in New York in 1971. Market Summary At 11:00 AM ET:   Dec '15 light sweet crude futures and Dec '15 gold futures are both down in electronic trading. Dec '15 light sweet crude futures are down  $1.69 , or  4.23% , at  $38.28  a barrel in Nymex trading and Dec '15 gold futures are down  $8.20 , or  0.76% , at  $1,076.30  an ounce. Dec '15 corn futures closed down  5.00  today, or 1.33% , at  371.25  cents a bushel. Lou Reed - Walk on the wild side Holly Woodlawn, Transgender Star of 1970s Underground Films, Dies at 69 Monday December 7 th , 2015  at  11:05 AM 1 Share Holly Woodlawn, a transgender actress who achieved underground stardom with her affecting performance as a starry-eyed down-and-outer in the 1970 film “Trash,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 69. The cause was complictions of cancer, her manager, Robert Coddington, said. Ms. Woodlawn had been i

California Terror Investigators Can't View NSA Phone Records - ABC News "President Obama has finally been forced to abandon the political fantasy he has perpetuated for years that the threat of terrorism was receding. We need to remove the self-imposed constraints President Obama has placed on our intelligence community and military , and we need to put in place an aggressive strategy to defeat ISIS and radical Islamic terrorism..." -  Jeb Bush " There were no new policy prescriptions , no fresh military strategies and no timelines . When President Barack Obama seized the spotlight for a rare prime time address Sunday night, he came with one major message: It's going to be OK." McCaul said it was unclear what ties the couple had with the Islamic State , which has said the pair were "followers." " His decision to speak on the terrorist threat from the Oval Office, just days after the deadly attack in San Bernardino, Calif., refle