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Taylor Swift on her family's support of her career

At age 13 Taylor Swift was signed to a development deal by RCA Records. As she tells Tracy Smith in this web exclusive video, her family agreed to pull up stakes and move from Pennsylvania to Nashville for the sake of her career.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 00:30

Taylor Swift on "Reputation"

In this web exclusive video Taylor Swift talked with Tracy Smith about her 2017 album "Reputation," which touched on celebrity and the pressures of fame and media attention.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 00:46

Taylor Swift on "Lover" and haters

After only 13 years since the release of her first album, Taylor Swift has become a musical force of nature, with an armload of #1 hits, more Grammy Awards than The Rolling Stones, and (according to Forbes) the distinction of being the highest-paid celebrity on the planet. By any measure, an astonishing young woman. But there were times, she tells Tracy Smith, that being young, and a woman, has worked against her. She opens up to Smith about songwriting; her supportive family; critics and stalkers; the sale of her back catalog; and what the future looks like to her. She also invites Smith on the set of the new music video for her latest album, "Lover."

• Aug 25, 2019
• 11:56

The view through Quinn's window

Three-year-old Quinn Waters' natural immunity was temporarily wiped out after he got a stem cell transplant to treat his brain cancer. As a precaution, he isn't allowed outside his Weymouth, Massachusetts house, and no one is allowed inside to visit. But that hasn't stopped the world from beating a path to his window. Steve Hartman reports.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 02:38

Argentina's Italian bloodline

Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the most-visited city in all of South America. And no visit is complete without a trip to La Boca, a colorful neighborhood that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries experienced a massive wave of Italian immigration. Today an estimated 62% of Argentinians claim some Italian heritage. Correspondent Conor Knighton gets a taste of Buenos Aires' best pizza, gelato and Italian liqueurs, and surveys the imprint that Italian immigrants had on Argentina's art and culture.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 04:49

"Fresh Off the Boat" author Eddie Huang

He's a restaurateur, streetwear designer, TV show host, and author of "Fresh Off the Boat," his humorous 2013 memoir about growing up the eldest of three sons of Chinese immigrants that spawned a hit ABC sitcom. Eddie Huang talks with Mo Rocca about his disciplinarian parents, the myth of the "model minority," and pork buns.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 07:43

Cowgirl photographer Barbara Van Cleve

Barbara Van Cleve is 84, born and bred in Montana, and she still runs cattle with the best. She is also a photographer with a passion for chronicling the ranching life she learned as a child, especially the lives of ranch women. Barry Petersen reports.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 04:07

Almanac: "Let's Make a Deal" host Monty Hall

On August 25, 1921, veteran game show host Monty Hall was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Tracy Smith reports.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 02:09

Dyslexia: Cracking the code

Yale researchers who have studied hundreds of kindergartners for nearly 40 years say one in five was dyslexic. But perhaps their most important finding: There is no link at all between dyslexia and intelligence. Susan Spencer reports on efforts to help those with dyslexia "crack the code," from students at a Louisiana school catering to dyslexic children, to a new law to help the high percentage of prison inmates who have dyslexia.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 09:07

Eddie Huang on Chinese cooking

Restaurateur Eddie Huang talks with correspondent Mo Rocca in this web exclusive video about authenticity and individuality in Chinese cuisine.

• Aug 25, 2019
• 00:51