Vladimir Putin has killed nearly all internal opposition to his unprovoked war in Ukraine. Tonight, Scott Pelley travels to a foreign city that’s become a haven for courageous Russians defying Putin and speaking out. It’s something no one else has tried and perhaps only she could pull off. Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim, is bringing together crime survivors and people who were wrongfully convicted. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/pri...
Mar 18, 2024•52 min
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Mar 11, 2024•52 min
After President Biden and former President Trump’s visits to the Texas-Mexico border this past week, correspondent Cecilia Vega reports from Eagle Pass, Texas, where she interviewed Governor Greg Abbott. The governor’s controversial border enforcement effort, known as Operation Lone Star, has led to a showdown with the federal government. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the battle to ban 97 books in one South Carolina public school district and the role played by the national movement for ...
Mar 04, 2024•52 min
For nearly five months, Israeli forces have unleashed unrelenting airstrikes and a heavy ground offensive inside Gaza - decimating cities and displacing more than a million - all in response to the October 7th terror attacks by Hamas. It’s been reported that more than 29-thousand Palestinians have died. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the ongoing war and what’s been happening inside Gaza's collapsing humanitarian aid and healthcare system. Through CBS-shot footage and first-hand accounts...
Feb 26, 2024•52 min
As tensions continue to escalate in the Middle East and the Iran-allied Houthi militia launch strikes against commercial and U.S. Navy ships in the southern Red Sea, Norah O’Donnell was the first journalist to report from the region in the air, on the water, and inside the 5th Fleet’s Command Center at Naval Headquarters in Bahrain. O’Donnell speaks with the Deputy Commander of U.S. Forces in the Middle East, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper and other Navy officers about a new kind of warfare on the hig...
Feb 19, 2024•52 min
Following the Federal Reserve’s announcement to hold interest rates steady, correspondent Scott Pelley interviews Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Washington, DC on inflation risks and the economy, the timeline for cutting rates, the health of the country’s banks, and more. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the fastest growing group entering the U.S. through the southern border – Chinese migrants. Alfonsi speaks with the migrants about following instructions posted on TikTok that guided them on ...
Feb 05, 2024•52 min
Cecilia Vega interviews the woman charged with reforming the Federal Bureau of Prisons, director Colette S. Peters, as her agency is facing a major staffing crisis, aging, and deteriorating prison infrastructure and an alarming pattern of abuse that has persisted for years. Interpol, responsible for coordinating worldwide police cooperation, has come under some fire. Some members are accused of abusing its red notice system. Bill Whitaker speaks with Interpol's Secretary General Jürgen Stock. Pa...
Jan 29, 2024•52 min
With hybrid work hardening from trend to new normal, correspondent Jon Wertheim looks at the crisis in commercial real estate, specifically in New York City's office sector. As occupancy rates have hit historic lows and interest rates have spiked, the value of office buildings is tanking. It's a growing problem nationwide, with more than a trillion dollars in commercial real estate loans set to expire in the next two years. Wertheim speaks with industry players about how they're staying afloat i...
Jan 15, 2024•52 min
With brains six times larger than humans and most of their lives spent in the darkest depths of the ocean, sperm whales are largely misunderstood. Cecilia Vega searches the Caribbean Sea to find these massive mammals. Lesley Stahl travels to an island completely inhabited by monkeys. It’s not open to the public. Researchers have been studying the monkeys for decades. Learn about the behavioral scientific discoveries that may apply to humans. Sharyn Alfonsi reports from Costa Rica on sloths and t...
Dec 25, 2023•52 min
As Ukrainian families grieve the losses of their loved ones in Russia’s continued conflict, correspondent Scott Pelley joins a group of widows and children of the war on a mountain climb in the Austrian Alps, a journey of recovery and resilience. Welcome to Sealand. To enter, Jon Wertheim sat on a backyard swing and was winched over the North Sea. If you think entering Sealand is peculiar, wait until you hear its story. A country the size of West Virginia offers more than 40 varieties of wine, e...
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 20 min
While Iran’s backing of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon is widely known, the regime is quietly carrying out a shadow war in the U.S. and Europe, deploying proxy assassins to silence or eliminate critics of the regime. Britain’s head of counter-terrorism policing, Matt Jukes, tells correspondent Lesley Stahl they’re noticing a significant uptick in Iran’s efforts. In the U.S., Stahl meets some of the targets, including former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton and Iranian Am...
Nov 13, 2023•52 min
Scott Pelley interviews John Eastman, the conservative former law professor who championed a radical legal theory to keep President Trump in power. Eastman is now facing charges in Georgia’s election conspiracy case. He has pleaded not guilty. Few people realize it, but Social Security’s mistakes are your responsibility. It often doesn’t matter if it’s not your fault – you still must pay. Anderson Cooper reports. Lesley Stahl travels to an island completely inhabited by monkeys. It’s not open to...
Nov 06, 2023•52 min
As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies and Russia's assault on Ukraine continues, Scott Pelley meets with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the United States' role in these raging conflicts, efforts to locate American hostages, the brutality discovered in Israel and Gaza, and the state of the war in Ukraine. Lesley Stahl returns to Israel to meet the family behind the heroic rescue effort at kibbutz Nahal Oz after it was attacked by Hamas. 60 Minutes revisits the story of 50 migran...
Oct 16, 2023•52 min
Correspondent Scott Pelley sits down with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington D.C. Pelley speaks with the head of the Justice Department about the indictments of former President Donald Trump, the Hunter Biden probe, and the January 6th indictments. Days before FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to go to trial, 60 MINUTES conducts the exclusive first interview with author and financial journalist Michael Lewis who had a front row seat to Bankman-Fried's ...
Oct 02, 2023•52 min
Cecilia Vega reports from California on Governor Gavin Newsom's CARE Court - a bold, new strategy set to revolutionize the state’s approach to homelessness and the mentally ill with court-ordered treatment plans. Vega interviews Gov. Newsom on his passion project, investigates the broken system it hopes to mend and looks at the controversy surrounding it. As Congress considers financing another $20 billion in aid to Ukraine, Holly Williams reports on the impact and oversight of U.S. tax dollars ...
Sep 25, 2023•52 min
While the nation remembers the terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans more than 20 years ago, New York City firefighters who survived after being sent to rescue victims at the World Trade Center will relive a life-changing experience that’s now a part of who they are. “It’s a day that will never leave you,” former Fire Department of New York Commissioner Dan Nigro tells Scott Pelley. Nigro and other firefighters who were at Ground Zero, many of whom fill the top ranks of the FDNY, ...
Sep 11, 2023•52 min
Cyber con artists are using artificial intelligence, apps and social engineering to scam Americans out of $10 billion dollars a year. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. Four years after the Cathedral of Notre Dame was nearly destroyed by fire, Bill Whitaker returns to Paris to witness the resurrection of the medieval structure and powerful symbol of France. With brains six times larger than humans and most of their lives spent in the darkest depths of the ocean, sperm whales are largely misunderstood. Ceci...
Aug 28, 2023•52 min
Sharyn Alfonsi travels to the coast of Grimsby, England, where the world's largest offshore wind farm now powers millions of homes a day in the U.K. Bill Whitaker reports on the Lourdes Office of Medical Observations where world-renowned doctors and researchers conduct decade-long investigations into the countless claims of cures. Jon Wertheim profiles Shane Van Boening, the top-ranked pool player in the world for 2022, and explores how pool is trying to shed its rambling, gambling image and thr...
Jul 27, 2023•52 min
Scott Pelley is given access to Google's campus in Mountain View, California, and its AI lab in London to examine its new slate of technologies. Anderson Cooper profiles David Byrne, the lead singer and songwriter of Talking Heads, the influential post-punk rock band of the late 1970s and 80s. The band broke up more than thirty years ago, and ever since, Byrne has been on his own eclectic journey blurring the boundaries of music, theater, and art. At 70, he’s as creative, energetic, and unusual ...
Jun 12, 2023•52 min
An investigation exposed that the Pentagon, and taxpayers, get taken advantage of by U.S. defense contractors. Bill Whitaker sits down with a former top contract negotiator who says the accountability system is broken. Cyber con artists are using artificial intelligence, apps and social engineering to scam Americans out of $10 billion dollars a year. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. Famous for his giant sculptures, Jeff Koons holds the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a liv...
May 22, 2023•52 min
A Nebraska middle school’s concerns about the safety of its students led to one of the largest investigations into illegal child labor in this country. Scott Pelley reports. Bill Whitaker visits California’s massive lithium reserve to see why some are calling this the next phase of the Industrial Revolution. Photographer James Nachtwey has made a career covering the world’s most violent conflicts. He tells Anderson Cooper why documenting acts of compassion in the darkest times makes him believe ...
May 08, 2023•52 min
THE DOMINO EFFECT – A woman in the United States is currently twice as likely to die during pregnancy as her mother was a generation ago, indicating that the country is experiencing a maternal health crisis. Sharyn Alfonsi visits Louisiana to report on the state of maternal healthcare in the United States, which has some of the highest maternal mortality rates and where women already face additional obstacles to care due to the state’s abortion ban. The producer is Ashley Velie. OUT OF THIN AIR ...
May 01, 2023•50 min
After catastrophic earthquakes devastated war-torn northwest Syria in February, Scott Pelley travels to the battleground to meet an American medical charity and volunteers for the White Helmets who braved the odds. Pelley speaks with healthcare workers, survivors and first responders about the earthquakes and the constant attacks on healthcare ordered by Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad and his ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Bill Whitaker meets with Ray Epps and his wife Robyn. Epps is notorious among co...
Apr 24, 2023•52 min
Scott Pelley is given exclusive access to Google’s AI lab in London and their Mountain View, California, headquarters as society moves closer to embracing the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. How quickly machines can learn and teach themselves in the real world, the future of the artificial intelligence revolution, and other questions are discussed during Pelley’s interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other senior executives in charge of these systems. The Wager tells the tru...
Apr 17, 2023•51 min
Scott Pelley explores images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space telescope. Speaking with astrophysicists and astronomers, Pelley reports on the telescope’s discoveries of distant galaxies, including one that’s over 33 billion light years away, and an observation that, if confirmed, could upend the belief on how the universe formed and more. In the days of the Roman Coliseum, they called it “Bread and Circuses”—leaders using entertainment to distract ci...
Apr 10, 2023•52 min
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, nicknamed MTG, isn’t afraid to share her opinions, no matter how intense and in-your-face they are. She sits down with Lesley Stahl. Following his testimony before two Senate committees this week, United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas talks with Sharyn Alfonsi. They discussed the record numbers of migrants trying to cross the U.S. border with Mexico and why he refuses to describe the situation there as a “crisis.” Bill Whi...
Apr 03, 2023•51 min
Norah O’Donnell is aboard the USS Nimitz, a United States Navy aircraft carrier operating southeast of Taiwan and China in the Western Pacific. She reports on the state of the Navy amid threats of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan - an important American ally - and speaks with the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Admiral Samuel Paparo at sea. Florence’s ACF Fiorentina soccer team hasn’t won a championship in decades. The club’s fans ran their last owner out of town, but Rocco Commisso says he’s he...
Mar 20, 2023•52 min
One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Holly Williams is in Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city and only regional capital captured by the Russian Army. Residents of Kherson endured a brutal occupation until the Ukrainian army forced the Russians to retreat. After U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the country fell to the Taliban, Afghan girls have been barred from school beyond 6th grade. Lesley Stahl travels to meet a group of Afghan girls who are continuing their education in ...
Feb 27, 2023•52 min
Anderson Cooper investigates the brutal past of Canada’s “residential school system.” Leslie Stahl talks with the Miller family, who purchased a large house for family celebrations. Little did they know that property had a secret. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 13, 2023•51 min
A former member of SEAL Team 6, Mark Owen, recounts the raid that killed the world's most wanted man: Osama bin Laden. Owen, now retired, says the SEALs trained for the mission using a full-size replica of the bin Laden compound, and that a dress rehearsal was held for military top brass. And Owen refutes charges that he's trying to make a political statement with his book, "No Easy Day." Scott Pelley reports. This episode originally aired in September 2012. To learn more about listener data and...
Jan 30, 2023•49 min
