Jennifer Peebles

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Queen Elizabeth II during the Braemar Highland Games on September 6, 2014 in Braemar, Scotland. The reigning British monarch has made a rare public statement on a political issue, encouraging people to "think very carefully" as days remain before a vote on Scottish independence. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty images)

Queen encourages Scots to ‘think very carefully’ before independence vote

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 9:13 pm

NATO-member countries delivering weapons to Ukraine

NATO-member countries delivering weapons to Ukraine

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 8:43 pm

Many Germans have been angered by the revelations from Edward Snowden and others that the NSA had tapped the phones of Germans, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Snowden leaks again: NSA, UK taps Germans’ computers, phones

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 8:03 pm

Matthew Miller, a U.S. citizen, sits on the dock at the Supreme Court during his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. North Korea's Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced Miller to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

American man sentenced to hard labor in North Korea

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 7:11 pm

President Obama drives a golf cart as he arrives to play golf at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Saturday, March 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama plays 196th presidential golf round

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 5:18 pm

Arab allies willing to launch airstrikes against Islamic State

Arab allies willing to launch airstrikes against Islamic State

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 4:46 pm

Former top general in Afghanistan to head coalition against Islamic State

Former top general in Afghanistan to head coalition against Islamic State

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 3:58 pm

David Perdue "holds a small lead, at 45 percent, compared with 41 percent for ... Michelle Nunn and 6 percent for Libertarian Amanda Swafford, including leaners," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which commissioned the poll. "Perdue's advantage is at the edge of the poll's 4-percentage-point margin of error." (AP photos)

Nunn, Perdue statistically neck-and-neck in Georgia race: Poll

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 2:56 pm

A sign designates a workstation dedicated to Ebola in the Emergency Operations Center at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Obama to thank CDC Ebola workers in person

Jennifer Peebles · September 14, 2014 1:42 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is escorted past an honor cordon by Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania during a ceremony welcoming Hagel to the defense ministry in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 7, 2014. Hagel is making his first visit to Georgia as defense secretary. (Department of Defense)

Hagel reassures Georgia of its importance to U.S.

Jennifer Peebles · September 7, 2014 9:43 pm

The updated projection is based on the second wave of data from the Battleground Tracker poll from the New York Times, CBS News and YouGov. (iStock)

GOP’s chances of retaking Senate increase: NYT Upshot

Jennifer Peebles · September 7, 2014 8:23 pm

"I think the strikes that the United States took are very much in line with what the president Ã¢â¬" with what President Obama said were the guiding principles of military action in Iraq," Hagel said, according to a transcript of the press conference made available by the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Haditha Dam airstrikes not new to Iraq strategy: Hagel

Jennifer Peebles · September 7, 2014 6:03 pm