Americans detained by foreign governments
The vast majority of Americans wrongfully imprisoned abroad today are not held by terrorist groups, but by foreign governments. Lesley Stahl reports.
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The vast majority of Americans wrongfully imprisoned abroad today are not held by terrorist groups, but by foreign governments. Lesley Stahl reports.
The vast majority of Americans wrongfully imprisoned abroad today are not held by terrorist groups, but by foreign governments. Lesley Stahl reports.
Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico, died Friday at the age of 75. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe reports on Richardson's legacy.
Former U.N. ambassador and renowned diplomat Bill Richardson died in his sleep on Friday at the age of 75, according to a statement put out by the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. The former U.S. Congressman traveled across the globe helping to secure the release of numerous Americans from North Korea and Sudan to Iran and Russia.
Richardson helped negotiate the release of detained Americans.
The American journalist was held captive in Myanmar for almost six months. He told 60 Minutes what his days were like inside the infamous lockup known for holding political prisoners.
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson joins CBS News' "Red & Blue" to discuss his role in helping Trevor Reed get released from prison in Russia.
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Danny Fenster, a Detroit native who had been locked away for nearly 6 months in Myanmar, was released this fall after efforts by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Lesley Stahl reports on detainees like Fenster, Sunday on 60 Minutes.
The American reporter swept up in Myanmar's post-coup unrest was sentenced only days ago to 11 years hard labor, but is now heading for home, U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson says.
New Mexico's commissioner of public lands has turned over 400 pages of Epstein's property records that may contain names of his alleged co-conspirators
The Justice Department is investigating how the disgraced financier died in custody over the weekend and why no one prevented it
Thousands of pages of court documents stem from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims financier Jeffrey Epstein kept her as a teen sex slave
President Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the near future for a presidential summit
As U.N. says still unsafe for Muslim refugees to return to Myanmar, veteran U.S. diplomat calls panel a "cheerleading operation" for Aung San Suu Kyi
Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. says there's a strong risk of starting a war by accident
Police say former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson rear-ended another vehicle in downtown Santa Fe