Get the biggest scoops and best storytelling on television from 60 Minutes - on your schedule. Now you can listen to the show in its entirety every week. 60 Minutes is the most successful broadcast in television history with 82 Emmys under its belt. It won four Emmys this year for Ed Bradly's story on the Duke University rape case, Lesley Stahl's piece on ousted Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn, Scott Pelley's report on the genocie in Darfur and Mike Wallace's interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 60 Minutes is also the only show to obtain interviews with every American president from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. The correspondents and contributors of 60 Minutes are Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Steve Kroft, Lara Logan, Scott Pelley, Morley Safer, Bob Simon and Lesley Stahl. Andy Rooney is the broadcast's commentator.
On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on the manufacture and distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine, and more importantly if it's safe to take. Lara Logan investigates the Yakuza, Japan's mafia, and how they may help foreigners jump the line in America for a life-saving liver transplant. Lesley Stahl looks into Hollywood Pirates...criminals who copy films and distribute them illegally before they hit theaters. Those stories and more on 60 Minutes.
...MOREMedicare and Medicaid fraudsters are cheating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates. More Americans suffer from epilepsy than Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis combined. Katie Couric reports on a disease that may not be getting the attention it deserves. Those stories and more, on 60 Minutes.
...MOREScott Pelley reports on the H1N1 virus and its growing toll on children and teens. Lesley Stahl speaks with John Kanzius, a man with leukemia who invented a radio wave machine to help cure his cancer. Finally, Anderson Cooper sits down with Drew Barrymore to discuss her transformation from a troubled child star, to a successful actress, producer and director.
...MOREScott Pelley reports from Afghanistan, where he spends time with a U.S. Marine company sent as part of President Obama's troop buildup. Bob Simon reports on connections being found between concussions and brain damage, particularly in professional football players. Steve Kroft reports on the latest trend in extreme sports, where men donning wing suits "fly" at speeds of 140 miles per hour.
...MOREOn 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviews Marc Dreier, the so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer to help better understand how Bernard Madoff could have done what he did. Lesley Stahl reports on 130 million tons of waste in Kingston, Tennessee. Later on in the show, Scott Pelley travels to Kenya to see the great wildebeest migration. That and more, on 60 Minutes.
...MOREOn the season premiere of 60 Minutes, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports on General Stanley McChrystal--the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan--and the mission that lies ahead for him and American troops in the country. Later in the show, 60 Minutes Correspondent Morley Safer reports on the aftermath of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme and the man charged with finding billions of dollars owed to investors. And 60 Minutes Steve Kroft takes an interesting look behind celebrity deaths and what can come from it. That, and more, on 60 Minutes.
...MORETonight on 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on new technology that is making it possible for amputees to pick up small, delicate objects thanks to the biggest innovation in prosthetic arms since World War II.
...MOREOn "60 Minutes": Steve Kroft interviews President Barack Obama at an important time in his presidency. Ted Kennedy Jr. and "True Compass" editor and publisher Jonathan Karp sit down with Lesley Stahl to reflect on the legacy of the Lion of the Senate. Also in the show, Morley Safer interviews the actors and writers of television's longest running drama, "Guiding Light."
...MOREOn tonight's edition of 60 Minutes: global warming is increasing the intensity and number of forest fires across the American West. Scott Pelley goes to the fire line to report. Also tonight, Lara Logan reports from a forward operating base in Afghanistan on the fight against the Taliban. And later, Morley Safer reports on mentally ill musician Nathaniel Ayers who has become the subject of a book, and now a Hollywood film, after he was discovered living on the streets by Los Angeles Times newspaper columnist Steve Lopez.
...MOREOn tonight's "60 Minutes": Every year, millions of valuable electronics generated by the U.S. often illegally make their way to China, harming the environment and the people who salvage their components. And later, Steve Kroft reports on the roles certain complicated financial instruments are playing in the economic crisis, and Morley Safer delves into the life of Forrest Bird, famous for inventing the respirator.
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