Home from war, veterans' trauma still ripples through families
Millions of kids are stepping up to help wounded warriors and their families deal with the impact of service.
Scott Pelley, one of the most experienced and awarded journalists today, has been reporting stories for 60 Minutes since 2004. The 2024-25 season is his 21st on the broadcast. Scott has won half of all major awards earned by 60 Minutes during his tenure at the venerable CBS newsmagazine.
As a war correspondent, Pelley has covered Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was reporting from the World Trade Center when the North Tower collapsed. As a political reporter, Scott has interviewed U.S. presidents from George H.W. Bush to President Biden.
Scott has won a record 51 Emmy Awards, four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Batons and three George Foster Peabody Awards.
From 2011 to 2017, Scott served as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News." By 2016, Pelley had added 1.5 million viewers, the longest and largest stretch of growth at the evening news since Walter Cronkite.
Pelley is the author of "Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times" (Hanover Square Press, 2019) in which he profiles people, both famous and not, who discovered the meaning of their lives during historic events of our times.
Pelley began his career in journalism at the age of 15 as copy boy at the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal newspaper. He was born in San Antonio and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University. Scott and his wife, Jane Boone Pelley, have a son and a daughter.
Millions of kids are stepping up to help wounded warriors and their families deal with the impact of service.
More than 1,000 civilians in Ukraine have been wounded by landmines since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. While doctors help victims, deminers are working to find and safely remove the mines.
A lead Havana Syndrome investigator believes the U.S. is being attacked by Russia, despite a government report that deemed it "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was behind what they call "anomalous health incidents."
Efforts continue to investigate brain injuries suffered by U.S. officials. This is the fourth 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report and, for the first time, there's evidence of who might be responsible.
Russian dissidents living in Vilnius, Lithuania, are speaking out against Vladimir Putin, who's set to win a fifth term as president.
Students temporarily lost access to nearly 100 books in Beaufort County, South Carolina after a book banning push. Here's the full list of books.
A South Carolina school district's superintendent pulled 97 books from schools after a ban push from a few parents and residents. Almost all of the books have since been returned to school libraries.
The Beaufort County school district in South Carolina was blindsided by efforts to ban 97 books from schools. After a lengthy review, most of the books were cleared for return.
"Oppenheimer" star Cillian Murphy pulled back the curtain to talk about his approach to acting.
Cillian Murphy, who became a household name with "Oppenheimer," said yes to the role before reading a script. He's been in six Christopher Nolan films and says that saying yes to the director pays off.
In a rare interview, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled the U.S. is nearing a long-awaited shift toward cutting interest rates. He shared more on timing and what he's waiting for.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gives his thoughts on inflation risks, the economy, the timeline for cutting rates, the health of the country's banks and more. Scott Pelley reports.
Soldiers enlisted across Ukraine after Russia's invasion. Others, including a wedding planner, a farmer and a retiree, became civilian resistance fighters, determined to protect their country.
Ukrainian resistance fighters inside Kherson and Ukrainian forces outside the city refused to give up after Russia occupied the city.
Quantum computers could give us answers to impossible problems in physics, chemistry, engineering and medicine.