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Editor’s Note: Senator John McCain died Saturday at the age of 81. Below is the September 24, 2017 report from Lesley Stahl on McCain. For more from Stahl’s interview with McCain, click here. On Friday, John McCain announced that he will once again vote against repeal of the Affordable Care […]

Editor’s Note: Senator John McCain died Saturday at the age of 81. Below is the September 24, 2017 report from Lesley Stahl on McCain. For more from Stahl’s interview with McCain, click here. On Friday, John McCain announced that he will once again vote against repeal of the Affordable Care […]

Statistics on gun ownership across the U.S. are hard to nail down; the ATF’s National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is not all-inclusive, and some guns go unregistered.   But “Injury Prevention,” a scholarly journal, has released what may be the closest look yet. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a […]

A large part of Galveston, Texas, was reduced to rubble, as shown in this photo, after being hit by a surprise hurricane on September 8, 1900.  At least 8,000 people were killed, and some estimates range as high as 12,000, making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. More […]

Last Updated Dec 29, 2017 2:14 PM EST ‘Tis the season to start dreaming: Prizes for the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries have climbed past $300 million, with drawings set for Friday and Saturday.  But don’t quit your day job just yet. The odds of winning one of the jackpots is […]

Produced by Ruth Chenetz, Jamie Stolz, Marcelena Spencer, Liza Finley and Susan Mallie [This story previously aired on Aug. 5. It was updated on Sept. 22.] On August 3, a Massachusetts woman was sentenced to 15 months in jail for using text messages to encourage her friend to commit suicide. […]

Florida authorities got an unusual call on New Year’s Eve from a man who said he wanted to report himself for drunk driving.  When he was asked by a dispatcher what he’d been doing all night, he said, “I don’t know, driving around, trying to get pulled over, actually.” Deputies […]

A woman found chained in a storage container. Her captor: a successful realtor who confessed to seven murders — a double life beyond belief. Now, “48 Hours” has the story behind the story. The court has just released hundreds of documents, photographs and even hours of videotape that reveal, in […]

Produced by Ruth Chenetz and Lindsey Schwartz [This story previously aired on June 24, 2017] Rocky Mountain National Park is a place known for its soaring beauty, majestic wildlife and inspiring serenity, but in September of 2012, it was a site of heartbreak. The story of how love might have […]

Wright was convicted of murder in 1962 but escaped prison in 1970. In 1972, he and accomplices hijacked a plane using a handgun stashed in a hollowed-out Bible and demanded that FBI agents deliver $1 million. The hostages safely disembarked n Los Angeles, but the crew was forced to accompany […]