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President Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, gave us a heavy book that she described as the president’s health care plan. It was filled with executive orders and congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive healthcare plan.
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Once an avid runner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, power walks. Since receiving death threats, he is now accompanied by a security detail.
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Peter Daszak is a British-born American PhD who’s spent a career discovering dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially bats. In 2003, he warned 60 Minutes a pandemic was coming. Two weeks ago, NIH funding for his virology research was killed.
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“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
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She has been known to the world as “Emily Doe,” the sexual assault victim of Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. Now she’s revealing her name and face. Chanel Miller, here reading her victim impact statement, gives her first interview to "60 Minutes"
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Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled our questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.
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The White House switchboard connected a call to a rioter while the Capitol was under siege on January 6, 2021, according to former January 6 committee staffer Denver Riggleman. “I only know one end of that call,” Riggleman said.
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“I am not a traitor. I am not a spy. I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for.” Reality Winner explains why she leaked to the media classified information on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Stoneman Douglas student tells 60 Minutes why arming teachers is "stupid." Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of last month's school shooting in Florida, is fighting for gun safety. But there's one proposal she doesn't want to see implemented.
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Denver Riggleman says that text messages turned over to the January 6th committee by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provide “irrefutable” proof of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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“You will go to college for free!” Pete Kadens, a Chicago millionaire who retired at 40, created a charity called Hope Chicago that will pay for in-state college tuition, room and board, and books for 30,000 Chicago high school students.
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60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
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These photos show children working in a Nebraska slaughterhouse – their faces are obscured. The Labor Department found more than 100 children were working in dangerous conditions, some reporting chemical burns. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.
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Chanel Miller’s response to online critics who said she was partly to blame for the assault because she had too much to drink.
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“We can go on and on with all the farcical claims alleging interference in the 2020 election, but the proof is in the ballots. The recounts are consistent with the initial count,” says Krebs. “The American people should have 100% confidence in their vote.”
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Tonight, an inside look at a group of veteran Republican strategists working hard to convince Republican voters to vote for Joe Biden.
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Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt says his office, which runs the vote count, has received death threats.
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“It’s almost like [Chinese company Bytedance] recognize[s] that technology’s influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” says Tristan Harris.
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. @AOC says the president is a racist, “no question.” The White House told 60 Minutes that President Trump “has repeatedly condemned racism and bigotry in all forms.”
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"A lot of folks want to brand me a flamethrower." In this unaired clip, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's actually a "consensus builder."
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Rare footage shows chemical attack in Syria. A doctor who treated victims of the attack said it was 'like Judgment Day, the apocalypse.' 60 Minutes, Sunday.
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“I am somebody who does not blame the current partisanship solely on Donald Trump or solely on social media,” says Barack Obama. “You already saw some of these trends taking place early in my presidency. But I do think they've kept on getting worse.”
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The copy of the Homeland Security order to arrest and detain all adults who crossed the border illegally to seek asylum was censored. What the White House didn’t want the public to see was that child separation began 9 months earlier than initially acknowledged.
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“We told [Fox News]. We told them in real-time. Others told them. Government officials told them. Partisan government officials told them… This is not a matter of not knowing the truth. They knew the truth,” Dominion CEO John Poulos tells @andersoncooper .
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No, the government didn’t massacre billions of birds and replace them with drones. The Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy is pure parody, meant to mirror the absurdity of conspiracy theories that have taken flight across the country, says founder Peter McIndoe
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60 Minutes reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Palace representatives demanded that before considering commenting we provide them with our report prior to it airing, which is something 60 Minutes does not do.
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Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle recently sparked outrage, and also support, for his latest Netflix comedy special. Asked if Chappelle crossed a line, Trevor Noah says: “[The] matter is a lot more complex than that” for him and for many Americans.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s was working as a waitress and bartender when she decided to run for Congress. Like many millennials, she had student loans to pay and no health insurance. “When you can’t have healthcare, that is not dignified,” she says.
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“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen. She points to Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to launch a genocide.
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When we interviewed Peter Navarro, the White House official tasked with coordinating national PPE supplies, he was, at times, more interested in questioning 60 Minutes' record than discussing the Trump administration’s preparations for COVID-19.
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“I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's something out there that was better than our airplane,” says fmr. Navy pilot David Fravor about his experience with a UFO off the Pacific coast in 2004.
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“I say the president is the wrong man for the job.” Bob Woodward says he came to this conclusion “based on evidence, overwhelming evidence.”
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Three former administration officials tell us President Trump “pressured” government officials to direct wall contracts to Fisher Sand and Gravel. The company has been awarded almost $2 billion in contracts, despite questions about the quality of its work.
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The president of Mexico’s proposal for stemming immigration includes: - The U.S. commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean -Lift sanctions on Venezuela -End the Cuban embargo -Legalize law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S.
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Former President Barack Obama says President Trump should concede: “When your time is up, then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests, and your own disappointments.”
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The Republican lawyer who helped spearhead George W. Bush’s legal strategy during the 2000 Florida recount, urges President Trump to respect the outcome of this election. “Sir, you need to take a step back, look at the results. It is a democracy.”
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Special Counsel Jack Smith alleges the multistate scheme was designed to position VP Mike Pence to replace legitimate electors’ votes for Biden with fake elector votes for Trump and certify Trump as president.
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“It's emotional. It's hard to watch somebody change,” says Lady Gaga about performing with Tony Bennett, who has Alzheimer’s. “He really pushed through something to give the world the gift of knowing that things can change & you can still be magnificent.”
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“I can disagree with Bernie Sanders on 57 issues… But you know what he's not? He's not un-American. Donald Trump is fundamentally un-American,” says the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, media consultant and ad maker for Republicans like Giuliani and Rubio.
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“I don’t care. I believe Putin,” Pres Trump allegedly said, rejecting U.S. intelligence regarding North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile capability. McCabe says he heard this from an FBI official who was at the meeting with POTUS.
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“I was speaking to the man who had just … won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia." Former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe, Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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“They are attacking another country. They are demolishing infrastructure. They are killing civilians.” Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin said that Russian aggression poses a threat to all of Europe.
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Four years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci told 60 Minutes he was concerned about a flu-like "respiratory-borne virus that’s easily transmittable… [with] a high degree of morbidity and mortality… similar to the very tragic pandemic flu of 1918.”
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Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, texted links tied to QAnon to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to former Jan. 6th staffer Denver Riggleman. Riggleman says her actions “should be an eye opener for everybody”
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“I'm not telling you that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real,” says Luis Elizondo, a 20-year veteran of covert military intelligence operations, about UFOs. “What is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?”
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley is responding to comments by former President Donald Trump suggesting that Milley deserves to be executed for communications the general had with China.
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They’ve worked on election campaigns for big-name Republicans like Giuliani, Rubio, McCain, Kasich, and George W. Bush. Now these Republican strategists have banded together to defeat the candidate of their own party. Inside the Lincoln Project, tonight.
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Tony Bennett has Alzheimer's Disease, but when it comes time for him to sing, the 95-year-old crooner emerges from the fog of dementia. Sunday, @andersoncooper talks with Lady Gaga and others about Bennett’s onstage transformation.
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Few rookie members of Congress have put such bold ideas on the national agenda and stirred up as much controversy as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who supports a #GreenNewDeal and says, “only radicals have changed this country.”
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Prince Harry tells @andersoncooper he was the target of press leaks after private conversations with members of the Royal Family.
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“Putin, sadly, has got all of our political class, every single one of us, including the media, exactly where he wants us.” Fiona Hill speaks to Lesley Stahl in her first interview since the impeachment inquiry. Watch tomorrow on 60 Minutes.
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“I was wrong. I was wrong.” says Rep Liz Cheney about condemning same-sex marriage in 2013, a position that caused a split with her sister Mary, who is married to a woman. Rep Cheney says the sisters are now reconciled. “I love my sister very much.”
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Former January 6 committee senior staffer Denver Riggleman says Mark Meadows’ text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup”
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“I don’t have any more lives [to give].” President Zelenskyy explains why he has been so blunt when speaking with NATO and the UN Security Council, asking for help.
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“I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me,” President Trump says to Lesley Stahl.
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President Trump’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, calls the suggestion that there were warnings of catastrophic consequences from a pandemic “fake news.” But after our interview, a late January memo he wrote surfaced warning almost exactly that.
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“What we've seen is what some people call truth decay. Something that's been accelerated by outgoing President Trump, the sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn't even matter,” says former President Obama.
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“It was illogical; it could not be explained; it was crazy,” says Ambassador Bill Taylor about the Trump administration withholding military aid from Ukraine while pressing for investigations of Democrats.
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“I have confidence in the security of this election… Any attacks on the election were not successful,” says Chris Krebs, former head of CISA, a federal agency charged with election security. POTUS fired Krebs after CISA called the 2020 election secure.
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“Your success now is our country’s success. I’m rooting hard for you.” — Former President Bill Clinton reads from the letter outgoing President George H. W. Bush left for him in the Oval Office.
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At the end of Tony Bennett’s 2021 performance, Lady Gaga escorted him off the stage one last time. “Just simply being the woman that got to walk him offstage, that's enough for me,” said Lady Gaga. Bennett died Friday at 96.
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“It's… a travesty what's happening right now with all these death threats to election officials, to secretaries of state,” says Chris Krebs, former director of CISA. “They're defending democracy.”
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60 Minutes has identified a number of cases in Oklahoma in which, under state law, a woman received harsher punishments for “enabling child abuse” than the man who abused the child.
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Elon Musk had to step down as Tesla’s chair. So did he lose power? He handpicked his successor, and when asked about her watching over him, he says: “That's not realistic… I'm the largest shareholder in the company.” Does he want to be chair again? “No.”
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“Our kids should be learning how to read and write, not duck and cover,” an emotional President Biden tells 60 Minutes when asked about the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre.
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The Pentagon announced in March its largest-ever budget: $842 billion. Almost half will go to defense contractors. A six-month 60 Minutes investigation found that contractors are overcharging the Pentagon on almost everything.
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Two of Merrick Garland’s relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. Garland says his family’s history is the reason he devoted his life to upholding the rule of law.
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“What I saw was an apparent attempt to undermine confidence in the election, to confuse people, to scare people,” says the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about Rudy Giuliani’s unsubstantiated election claims.
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President Biden tells 60 Minutes that U.S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. However, after our interview, a White House official told us that U.S. policy on Taiwan has not changed.
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Anderson Cooper will interview Prince Harry on 60 Minutes next Sunday, January 8, on CBS. It will be Prince Harry’s first U.S. television interview to discuss his upcoming memoir “Spare.”
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Does Kamala Harris think President Trump is racist? “Yes, I do. You can look at a pattern that goes back to him questioning the identity of the first Black president of the United States.”
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60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley asks Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: “Can you give up any part of Ukraine for peace?”
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“Are you going to be Tweeting?” @LesleyRStahl asked President-elect Trump soon after the election. His reply: “I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all.” #60Minutes
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Bob Woodward says an hour and a half after he told President Trump that his new book would be tough on him, the president “tweeted out that the Bob Woodward book is going to be fake.”
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President Biden asked Mexican President López Obrador to contain the flow of migrants at the border. A month later, the number of migrant crossings dropped by 50%, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported.
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At the end of Tony Bennett’s performance at Radio City Music Hall, Lady Gaga escorted him off the stage one last time. “Just simply being the woman that got to walk him off stage, that's enough for me,” says Lady Gaga.
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McCabe says his notes from his conversations with President Trump and Rod Rosenstein have been turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller. “Those memos are in the custody of the special counsel’s team.”
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After Elon Musk took over X, most fact-checkers were fired. The site is now rife with trash talk and lies. "The toothpaste is out of the tube," says Darrell West of the Brookings Institution.
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“A vote against me in this race, a vote for whomever Donald Trump has endorsed, is a vote for… somebody who's willing to put allegiance to Trump above allegiance to the Constitution,” says Congresswoman Liz Cheney about her 2022 House race.
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“Nobody making less than $400,000 a year will pay a penny more in tax under my proposal,” says Joe Biden. “That’s a guarantee, a promise.”
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Dr. Fauci says he was “absolutely not” surprised that President Trump got sick with coronavirus after seeing POTUS at what “turned out to be a super-spreader event” at the White House.
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José Andrés has some 30 popular restaurants across the United States, but he barely stepped foot in them after Hurricane Maria. He and an army of chefs and volunteers were serving the people in Puerto Rico.
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Former strategists for John McCain and George W. Bush are calling on Americans to vote for a Democrat in the presidential election. Sunday, Lesley Stahl reports on the Lincoln Project super PAC that's aiming to unseat President Trump.
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“Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. She believes the federal government should impose regulations and plans to testify before Congress this week.
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The two attorneys who presented the prosecution’s closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial are not career prosecutors. They were recruited by Minnesota’s AG from big laws firms for their talent. Both volunteered to work the case for free.
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On Tony Bennett’s 95th birthday he performed at Radio City Music Hall. Tony has Alzheimer’s Disease and no one knew what to expect. But, “once he saw the audience… he became himself... it was like a light switch,” says his wife, Susan.
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Scott Pelley: You knew it was stamped "Top Secret." You knew what that meant. Reality Winner: …I knew it was secret. But I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people. And at that point in time, it felt like they were being led astray.
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“We have a standing buy on Fox News in Washington, D.C…. every night… because we know [President Trump is] in the residence with his super TiVo watching,” says the Lincoln Project’s Reed Galen about their strategy to provoke the President with their ads.
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As rioters broke into the Capitol on January 6, Pence's legal counsel emailed John Eastman saying, “Thanks to your bull****, we are now under siege.”
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“Imagine a technology that can… fly 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar… has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces… That’s precisely what we’re seeing,” says the former head of the Pentagon’s UFO investigation program.
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As the new head coach, Sanders encouraged the incumbent players on the team, which went 1-11 last season, to transfer out of Colorado to make room for what Sanders calls superior talent. More than 50 players decided to transfer.
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When COVID-19 surfaced in 2020, the medical field missed something, and it cost lives. Airborne viruses can travel much further than originally thought. To curb infection, we should have focused on indoor air systems. @DrLaPook reports, Sunday.
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Paper ballots were CISA’s number one priority for the 2020 election: “Paper ballots give you the ability to…go back… and make sure that you got the count right,” says Chris Krebs. “95% of the ballots cast in the 2020 election had a paper record.”
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The SEC found the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “went to great lengths” to hide $32 billion in securities – even creating shell companies. The church told 60 Minutes, “We don't feel it's being secret; we feel it's being confidential.”
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In a few weeks, a new Muppet will come to Sesame Street. Her name is Julia, and she has autism. Meet her next on #60Minutes
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See the interview with the man President Trump ousted after he said the election was secure, Sunday night on 60 Minutes.
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“We all had a conviction that there are millions of Republicans who look at this debacle and reject it,” says former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt about co-founding the Lincoln Project and trying to turn Republicans against President Trump.
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Sunday, Sharyn Alfonsi investigates allegations that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made decisions about COVID vaccine distribution favoring wealthy or connected individuals, including a supermarket chain that recently donated to the governor's PAC.
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A Florida mayor said he was trying to secure vaccines for his town’s firefighters when he learned that some board members of a local nursing home and their wealthy friends got vaccinated, using doses intended for elderly residents and staff.
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