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There's no magic bullet to stop coronavirus variants, says virologist Paul Duprex, and that's giving the virus a competitive edge. There are three new COVID-19 variants now spreading around the country. 60 Minutes reported on variants in 2021.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, then-President Trump called Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, imploring him with veiled threats and lies to change the outcome of the November election. Raffensperger talked to Scott Pelley about why he didn't give in, in a report that first was broadcast in January 2021.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 19 more years in prison on extremism charges today. Lesley Stahl spoke with Navalny in 2020. "I don't feel any fear," he told 60 Minutes after surviving an assassination attempt by poisoning.
In 2021, Anderson Cooper reported on the last concert Tony Bennett would perform at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Lady Gaga was there to help him through it. Bennett died Friday morning at 96.
Andy Rooney on how to make classic vanilla ice cream. "I'm one of the most experienced ice cream eaters in the world today," he proclaimed to 60 Minutes viewers in 1982.
The Clotilda was the last known slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to America in 1860. The burned ship was discovered in Alabama – not far from where many of the descendants live today. The stories of those enslaved Africans have been passed down for generations.
In 1971, Morley Safer reported from Taiwan and interviewed the island's ruler.
Railroad evacuated more than 600 LGBTQI+ individuals from hostile countries from 2006 to 2019. "People that we help have told harrowing stories of being hunted down," Executive Director Kimahli Powell told 60 Minutes in 2019.
In 2001, Lesley Stahl reported on "The Secret Life of Robert Hanssen." The former FBI agent was convicted of spying for Russia, and began serving a life sentence in 2002. He died in prison this week at the age of 79.
"There've only been a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed in one 24-hour period by an act of man," Andy Rooney said about the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
