Latest 60 Minutes: Newsmakers videos
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The murder of Louis Allen
July 3, 2011 | 5:00 PM PDT
Steve Kroft's 18-month investigation into a 47-yr.old murder in a Mississippi town sheds light on an unsolved civil rights killing near the top of the FBI's list.
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Hard times generation: Homeless kids
June 26, 2011 | 5:00 PM PDT
For some children, socializing and learning are being cruelly complicated by homelessness, as Scott Pelley reports from Florida, where school buses now stop at motels for children who've lost their homes.
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Tunisia and the spark that launched uprisings
June 19, 2011 | 5:00 PM PDT
Bob Simon reports from Tunisia, where protests against the repressive government not only toppled its autocratic ruler, but sparked the uprising in Egypt that forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign.
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"Huckleberry Finn" and the N-word
June 12, 2011 | 4:59 PM PDT
A Southern publisher's sanitized edition of "Huckleberry Finn" that replaces the N-word with "slave" over 200 times is the focal point for a debate on the use of the controversial word in American society. Byron Pitts reports.
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Jerusalem: City of David
June 5, 2011 | 4:59 PM PDT
Lesley Stahl reports from under the city of Jerusalem from a controversial archeological dig that has become a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Lin DeVecchio and "The Grim Reaper"
May 22, 2011 | 4:59 PM PDT
A former FBI agent says he considered his star Mafia informant, a hit man nicknamed "The Grim Reaper," a friend and did not investigate when this informant let him know he had killed a rival mobster. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.
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U.S. v. Whistleblower Tom Drake
May 22, 2011 | 6:00 PM PDT
Tom Drake, a former NSA senior executive indicted last year for espionage after leaking to the media allegations that the nation's largest intelligence organization had committed fraud, waste and abuse will appear in his first television interview. Scott Pelley reports.
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Al Sharpton, the "refined" agitator
May 22, 2011 | 5:58 PM PDT
The former street activist has tempered his style, become friends of the president and broadened his civil rights activism to include causes like immigration and same-sex marriage. Lesley Stahl reports.
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The debate on child farm labor
May 22, 2011 | 5:59 PM PDT
In agriculture, children as young as 12 are allowed to work unlimited hours outside of school. Byron Pitts reports on the "Migrant Stream" and the families who are part of it whose children work alongside them in the fields for minimum wage.
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Who are "sovereign citizens"?
May 15, 2011 | 4:58 PM PDT
Anti-government U.S. extremists who don't pay taxes and ignore requirements like social security cards and drivers licenses are on the rise. Called sovereign citizens, some have become violent and the FBI considers them a domestic terror threat. Byron Pitts reports.
