UCLA is the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament. The Bruins were joined by South Carolina, Southern California and Texas as the No. 1 seeds that the NCAA revealed Sunday night. It’s the first time in school history that the Bruins are the top team in the tournament. They had two losses on … Read more
Last month – the head of NORAD and NORTHCOM – the military commands that defend North America – told Congress some of those mysterious drones seen flying inside the United States may indeed have been spying. He did not say for whom. 60 Minutes has been looking into a series of eerily similar incidents – … Read more
Officials in Washington have underestimated the threat posed by drones in U.S. airspace, despite several cases of mysterious drone swarms over sensitive military sites, warned Glen VanHerck, the former joint commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. Elusive drones flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia over 17 nights in … Read more
The United States Marine Band was founded in 1798. Thomas Jefferson gave it its nickname, “The President’s Own.” Today, 135 Marines still perform the score of the White House from parties to inaugurations. So, there was excitement, last year, when the Marines judged a contest for teenage musicians. The winners would perform with the band. … Read more
Werner Herzog may not be a household name but he is one of the most respected and unusual filmmakers of our time. Over the last six decades the German director has made more than 70 documentaries and feature films about everything from an unhinged cop in New Orleans, to a guy who thought he could … Read more
A teenage Werner Herzog needed just one thing after he decided filmmaking was his destiny: a camera. He found one at a film school in Munich and walked off with it — something he calls “more expropriation than theft.” “You have to have a certain amount of, I say, good criminal energy [to make a … Read more
This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker reports on drone incursions that have pierced the skies above significant military and infrastructure sites around the United States over the last six years. No one seems to know where the aircraft are coming from or who is operating them, including three four-star generals, a senior member … Read more
In an editing suite in Los Angeles, filmmaker Werner Herzog and editor Marco Capaldo played back footage of murky water at the bottom of a desert pool. “It’s very strange now. Look at this here,” Herzog told correspondent Anderson Cooper, seated just behind him. A tail swung past the frame, suddenly recognizable as belonging to … Read more
The Trump administration and Israel approached the governments of Sudan and Somalia, and have also been interested in Syria, as potential places to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, according to three sources familiar with the effort. The idea of Palestinian resettlement in another country is one of several options the Trump team is chewing over as … Read more
The Vatican on Sunday released the first photograph of pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar in the hospital chapel. The Vatican said he was participating in the celebration of the Mass with other priests. No one else … Read more