WASHINGTON — Amid pressure from within the Republican Party to step aside, GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore on Sunday night called a newspaper report carrying allegations he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago “fake news” and said a lawsuit would be filed in response. Moore’s condemnation […]
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Philippine president Duterte kicks off Asian summit, shakes hands with Trump
MANILA, Philippines — President Trump is winding down his lengthy Asia trip with an international summit and a trio of meetings with Pacific Rim allies, including his host in the Philippines who is overseeing a bloody drug war. Mr. Trump, in Manila, attended the opening ceremonies of the Association for […]
Behind the Aly Raisman interview on “60 Minutes”
This week on 60 Minutes, three-time Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman tells correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook that she was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. “I was in denial,” she tells LaPook on the broadcast. “You don’t want to let yourself believe, but you know, I […]
Tennessee fires football coach
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee began the season in the Top 25 and is ending it with a coaching change. The Volunteers fired Butch Jones on Saturday as they enter their final two regular-season games searching for their first Southeastern Conference victory, a stunning fall for a team that had won […]
Aly Raisman: “I am a victim of sexual abuse”
Aly Raisman is one of the most accomplished American gymnasts of all time. She’s won six Olympic medals, three of them gold, and was captain of the U.S. teams that dominated the last two Summer Games: in London — in 2012 — and in Rio last year. She hopes to […]
This week in ’94: backstage with Mick Jagger
In honor of the 50th season of 60 Minutes, the broadcast has been looking back at classic episodes of the last five decades. This week in 1994, Mick Jagger, the lead singer of The Rolling Stones, told Ed Bradley that his bandmates hadn’t strayed from the basics: sex, drugs and […]
“He’s pretty much family”: When a woman met the man who received her husband’s face
In the summer of 2016, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota performed its first face transplant. A widow donated her husband’s face to a stranger in need. CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil shows us the overwhelming moment they finally came face to face. Lilly Ross had worried about this moment, […]
Canvasses from Vietnam warship bring back flood of memories for vets
NEW YORK — Half a century ago, young men, some still in their teens, boarded transport ships like the U.S.N.S. Walker, and set sail for Vietnam. Jerry Barker remembers the trip like it was yesterday. He describes the trip as “long and boring.” He just stayed up on the top […]
Record attendance at 1st service since Texas church shooting
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — The former pastor at the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church where a gunman opened fire a week ago says the first service since the worst mass shooting in Texas history is the most attended in the congregation’s 100-year history. Former Pastor Mark Collins said the First Baptist Church […]
Iraq-Iran earthquake kills at least 30, injures 200 others: official
Last Updated Nov 12, 2017 5:30 PM EST TEHRAN, Iran — A 7.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the region between Iran and Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 200 others, an Iranian official said. Deputy Gov. Mojtaba Nikkerdar of Iran’s Kermanshah province told state television exact numbers would not […]