When 82-year-old Dan Peterson lost his wife, he fell into a deep depression. He was ready to give up on life until a 4-year-old stranger turned everything around. Steve Hartman met the unlikely pair "On The Road."
Secret Service agents recovered $30 million in fake cash piled in houses and apartment buildings in Lima, Peru this week. Working with 1,500 Peruvian national police officers, "Operation Sunset" took two years to execute. Errol Barnett has the latest.
In the wake of the Flint, Michigan water crisis, a board appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder is calling for blood tests of children ages nine to 12 months, and again at 12 to 24 months, to determine if lead levels are elevated. High lead levels in the blood can cause cognitive and behavioral problems. Don Dahler reports.
1951 was a banner year for baseball. It was also the first year that Topps, then just a chewing gum company, began making baseball cards. While the look and feel of the cards have changed over the decades, one thing has not. Seventy years later, Topps is still bringing people closer to the game and its players. Dana Jacobson has the details.
Students at more than 100 colleges have walked out of classes recently to protest Donald Trump's hard line on immigration. A showdown is also brewing with cities that refuse to round up the people who are in the U.S. without documents. Ben Tracy has more.
Syria's civil war took another dark turn Thursday as regime airstrikes, supported by the Russians, targeted the remaining hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
President-elect Donald Trump will pay $25 million to settle lawsuits brought against Trump University. The students' attorney, Patrick Coughlin, says the majority of the students will receive at least 50 percent of a return. Anna Werner has more.
After a week of tough headlines about the Trump transition in disarray, it appears that the team is starting to take shape. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions was tapped for attorney general and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was offered the role of national security advisor. Major Garrett reports.
Many Democrats were critical of President-elect Donald Trump's choices of Mike Flynn for National Security Advisor and Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. In reality, Democrats do not have the numbers to block any of these appointments if Republicans stick together. Nancy Cordes reports.
The president of Turkey is "disillusioned" about U.S. policy on a number of issues. Recep Tayyip Erdogan to appear on 60 Minutes Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison after a jury convicted him of murder and manslaughter for the death of George Floyd. The verdict this week brought calm to the Twin Cities and a renewed push for police reform. Jamie Yuccas reports.
Surveillance footage shows a man drive a car through a street fight and into the door of a bar in Tampa, Florida.
President-elect Donald Trump's now-shuttered Trump University is in court facing a class-action lawsuit. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid discusses the potential implications of this case, and also Trump's selection of Senator Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general.
The latest viral trend is the #TrumpIsComing challenge, where crowds of people (or pets) run when someone says "Trump is coming."
"We are all just scarred and I think very, very scared," said independent journalist Smita Sharma.
German automaker announces massive layoffs; Janet Yellen vows to complete her term as Fed chief; and U.S. objects to Russia block on LinkedIn. These headlines and more from CBS MoneyWatch.
CBS News' Major Garrett reports on President-elect Donald Trump's latest string of appointments, which includes Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, retired Gen. Michael Flynn as national security adviser, and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director.
Designer Tom Ford is an icon in the fashion world. After more than a decade of rebuilding brands like Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, Ford has created his own fashion empire with his eponymous label. But Ford is also an award-winning filmmaker. Ford joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss returning to the director's chair for the movie, "Nocturnal Animals," a haunting thriller starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
First-class U.S. Women's National Soccer Team says they are being treated like second-class players compared to the men. Norah O'Donnell reports on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.
In this installment of our series, "A More Perfect Union," we take a look at an unexpected but powerful friendship. See how an 82-year-old widower was touched by an innocent question of a 4-year-old in the canned food aisle of a grocery store, just when he needed it most. Steve Hartman reports.
Three years ago, Time magazine began a massive project to pick the most influential photos ever, from the first photo of Earth from space to the world's most famous kiss. All 100 photos are featured in a new book and on an interactive website. Time editor-in-chief Nancy Gibbs and Kira Pollack, director of photography and visual enterprise, join "CBS This Morning" to share the stories behind some of the iconic photos.
David Remnick is editor of the New Yorker magazine and a longtime chronicler of President Obama. For his latest profile, "It Happened Here," Remnick interviewed Mr. Obama in the last days of the election campaign, then again after his first meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. Remnick joins "CBS This Morning" to offer an inside look at the president's thinking.
President-elect Donald Trump is taking new steps to fill his Cabinet. Sources tell CBS News that he offered the post of attorney general to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one day after he asked retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to serve as national security adviser. Major Garrett, who was first to report on the offer to Sessions, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the president-elect's pick and the controversy surrounding Flynn.
Scientists have discovered that two fault lines link together north of San Francisco, creating a new risk for the nearly seven million people living in the Bay Area. Some 1,200 emergency responders took part in an earthquake drill Thursday, and hundreds of scientists, engineers and politicians gather Friday in Los Angeles to discuss the next big quake. Mireya Villarreal reports.
A Soyuz rocket carrying new crew members to the International Space Station blasted off overnight from Kazakhstan. Peggy Whitson, a pioneering NASA astronaut on board, is now the oldest woman in space. In February, the first woman to serve as commander of the space station will celebrate her 57th birthday aboard.