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Charlie D’Agata and Taurean Small have the latest news on the Iran war, including details on the rescue of a U.S. airman whose fighter jet was shot down and President Trump’s new demand for the Iranians to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
In his first Easter as Pontiff, Pope Leo, the First American pope, called for peace amid an American war in Iran. Chris Livesay reports.
A nonprofit called RAM is bringing free health care to Americans who need it. Some patients wait days and sleep in their cars in order to get dental, vision, and medical treatment at RAM clinics.
Prior to 60 Minutes’ April 5, 2026 broadcast, which featured correspondent Jon Wertheim’s report on high-speed rail development in America, we reached out to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy provided a statement to 60 Minutes, printed here. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: “This Administration is working to usher in a Golden Age …
Every year, on Mardi Gras morning, something extraordinary emerges from the backstreets of New Orleans – groups of Black revelers most tourists will never see. They call themselves Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, and they roam the city’s neighborhoods in dazzling, hand-sewn suits. The tradition dates to the 1800s as a way to …
High-speed rail can be found around the world. Yet so far, the projects haven’t tracked in the U.S., where both the public and private sectors have faced ballooning costs and delays.
The Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, have been around since the 1800s. Members spend months painstakingly handcrafting suits to be worn while marching through New Orleans’ neighborhoods.
Each weekend across the United States, thousands line up before dawn for free medical care at pop-up clinics, but a patchwork of state laws is preventing volunteer doctors from helping as many people as they could. Despite those constraints, Remote Area Medical (RAM) makes life-changing differences each week. At a recent clinic, Dave Burge raised …
On Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, if you’re lucky or in the know, you can see a dazzling procession of Mardi Gras Indians, or Black Masking Indians, marching through the streets, resplendent in suits that are covered in beads, feathers, and rhinestones. “The makers of the suits work on them all year long for …
PHOENIX (AP) — South Carolina’s quest to win a fourth national title ended in ugly fashion for a second straight season when the Gamecocks lost to UCLA 79-51 in the NCAA women’s basketball title game on Sunday. Even so, the monster program that Dawn Staley has built over the past 15 years doesn’t look like …