President Trump says he’ll sign an executive order on Monday that, if implemented, he says could bring down the costs of some medications. It is an attempt to revive a program he tried and failed to implement during his first term. The order Mr. Trump is promising will direct the U.S. Department of Health and … Read more
The collapse of the nomination of Edward Martin as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — and the surprise announcement of FOX News personality Jeanine Pirro as his replacement — has triggered a unique and mixed wave of reaction from former prosecutors, President Trump’s critics and people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot prosecutions. … Read more
The Trump administration has made fraud a buzzword in Washington and tasked the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, with eliminating it from the federal government. But the government’s fraud problem is much more complex and costly than most realize, according to Linda Miller, who spent a decade at the Government Accountability Office and wrote … Read more
For those who’ve suffered a traumatic spinal cord injury and are paralyzed, there’s rarely encouraging news, which is why what’s happening in early clinical trials in a research lab in Lausanne, Switzerland is so remarkable. A renowned French neuroscientist, Gregoire Courtine, and Swiss neurosurgeon, Dr. Jocelyne Bloch, have implanted a small stimulation device on the … Read more
Marta Carsteanu-Dombi was in the best shape of her life when a bike accident during a 2018 Ironman race left her paralyzed, robbing her of the ability to walk. Her spinal cord injury was so severe that doctors told her there was no sign of nerve connections left to her lower body. She also had … Read more
In Hollywood, it’s not unusual for actors to try and fit the industry standard of beauty and marketability, plotting every outfit and career move with the prowess of a chessmaster. But Jamie Lee Curtis is not one of them. Candid and spontaneous, she fearlessly calls it as she sees it, even when it comes to … Read more
Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we’re doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal cord injuries develop the ability to walk again. And not just walk again, but actually walk using their thoughts to control the movement of their limbs. Anderson Cooper: A French neuroscientist, Gregoire Courtine, … Read more
Jamie Lee Curtis was raised in the bosom of cinema royalty, her father was screen idol Tony Curtis and her mother, actress Janet Leigh, famously starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Psycho.” Despite that, she says she never thought she’d be an actor. “My life hinged on a couple seconds I never saw coming,” Curtis, now … Read more
On a Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, California, actor Jamie Lee Curtis stood over two leather-bound books. Costumes and props provided by the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Collection surrounded the actress and 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Curtis saw her donated copy of the script for “Halloween,” the 1978 horror … Read more
The first group of White South Africans who were granted refugee status by the U.S. is set to fly out of Johannesburg on Sunday, officials said. The flight from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport was set to depart around 2 p.m. ET en route to Dakar for refueling before flying to Washington, D.C. The group includes … Read more