CP President Trump has repeatedly claimed, including as recently as this weekend, that the war in Iran has been won. Still, he insists that Iran also wants to negotiate as more troops head to the Middle East. Cristian Benavides has more.
It was a week of chaos at airports across the country. Gridlock in Washington left TSA workers without pay, triggering four-hour security lines in some of the nation’s busiest airports. Last Sunday a commercial jet crashed into a fire truck while landing on a runway at New York’s Laguardia airport. Dozens were injured and two …
Prior to 60 Minutes’ March 29, 2026 broadcast, which featured correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on Flight 5342, we reached out to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford for comment on our story, “Inside the Tower.” The statements provided in response to 60 Minutes are printed here, exactly as received: Transportation Secretary Sean …
Internal safety reports obtained by 60 Minutes reveal that one day before the January 2025 midair collision over Washington, D.C. that killed 67 people, there were two close calls between passenger jets and military helicopters. On Jan. 28 around 4:30 p.m., a pair of Army helicopters approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, flying at a …
When America went to war with Iran last month, the U.S. military faced an enemy using mass-produced drones to deadly effect. The same weapons have been used for years in Ukraine – some of them supplied by Iran to Russia. Unmanned and remotely-controlled, drones have transformed the Ukrainian battlefield. They’re estimated to inflict around 80% …
Drones have revolutionized warfare, and with relatively cheap technology posing a deadly threat, the U.S. military needs to adapt, former Marine William McNulty said. His venture-capital fund has invested in Ukrainian drone technology, which has evolved rapidly over the course of the war with Russia. Drones are now estimated to inflict around 80% of combat …
Imagine, in the 21st century, discovering a marvel on par with Mount Everest or the Grand Canyon. It happened, in 2009, with the revelation of the largest cave passage in the world. It’s in Vietnam and they call it Hang Son Doong, “Mountain River Cave.” An intrepid British explorer, Peter MacNab, led the first team …
Vietnam’s Son Doong is big enough to fit a skyscraper, but despite its immense size, it took 18 years for Ho Khanh, the man who first found the entrance, to rediscover Hang Son Doong, deep inside a Vietnamese jungle. In 2009, Peter MacNab, along with a five-man team, were the first to explore the cave …
When a commercial flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in January 2025, one tight-knit Maryland community was left grappling with profound loss. Among the victims onboard American Airlines Flight 5342 were seven friends returning home from a hunting trip, whose sudden deaths transformed their wives into widows. This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent …
This week on 60 Minutes, CBS News correspondent Holly Williams and producer Erin Lyall reported on the cutting-edge of drone warfare: an innovation-driven arms race between Ukraine and Russia to dominate the battlefield with unmanned vehicles on land, by sea, and in the air. “There are estimates that 80% of combat casualties on both sides …