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It takes Alma Deutscher just four notes and forty seconds to improvise an impressive short piano sonata right before 60 Minutes cameras. That alone is remarkable — but she’s also just 12 years old.   This week on the broadcast, correspondent Scott Pelley interviews Alma, a musical prodigy who, by […]

When Sara Van Beck heard a loud “whistling noise” coming from her laundry room last week, she rushed over to investigate. The mother of five from Freeport, Minnesota, noticed the washing machine was starting to “shake” and “howl” as it reached the end of its spin cycle. As she bent […]

Last Updated Nov 3, 2017 3:41 PM EDT A new Trump administration report on climate change paints an apocalyptic portrait of global climate trends, saying the last three years have been the “warmest years on record for the globe” and that humans are almost certainly causing the climate to change. The massive, […]

It’s a story as old as cities themselves: prosperity comes to town and triggers a building boom. In modern San Francisco, rows of skyscrapers have begun lining the downtown streets and recasting the skyline, monuments to the triumph of the tech sector. Leading this wave, the Millennium Tower. 58 stories […]

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – A fourth employee from the Pasquotank Correctional Institution died Thursday from injuries he sustained during the attempted prisoner escape on Oct. 12, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. CBS affiliate WTKR reports that Geoffrey Howe, 31, a maintenance mechanic for the prison, died […]

HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas — A north Texas mother accused of fatally shooting her two young daughters planned the killings for at least two weeks, a sheriff told CBS DFW. Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse says 29-year-old Sarah Nicole Henderson confessed to shooting the girls, 5 and 7, in a Payne […]

HENDERSON COUNTY, Texas — The husband of a north Texas mother accused of shooting her two young daughters Thursday is heard sobbing on a series of 911 calls released by the Henderson County Sheriff’s office.  Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse says 29-year-old Sarah Nicole Henderson confessed to shooting the girls, […]

Last Updated Nov 3, 2017 4:51 PM EDT A South Carolina girl’s family said she shot herself to death because she was being bullied at school, CBS affiliate WTOC-TV reports. Toni Rivers, 11, told five of her friends that “she just couldn’t do this anymore, and she was going home, […]

We cannot explain what you are about to hear. Science doesn’t know enough about the brain to make sense of Alma. Alma Deutscher is an accomplished British composer in the classical style. She is a virtuoso on the piano and the violin. And she is 12 years old. She’s different […]

CHICAGO — A 24-year-old Illinois man is suing the state Department of Human Services and the social worker he said seduced and sexually abused him while he was at a state mental institution in suburban Chicago, CBS station WBBM-TV reports. “She engaged in all kinds of various sexual misconduct. The […]