How Trump is reacting to the embassy attack

President Trump has made ending U.S. involvement in the Middle East a major campaign promise. He knows increasing U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts could cost him votes. Paula Reid has more.

• Jan 2, 2020
• 00:59

What made headlines in 2019

Impeachment capped a year that also brought acts of shocking gun violence and celebrations of patriotic anniversaries that brought Americans together. “CBS This Morning” looks back at all of the pivotal people and moments that helped shape 2019.

• Dec 19, 2019
• 10:05

Almanac: The 1969 draft lottery

As the war in Vietnam raged on and anger about U.S. involvement burned in protests across the country, a lottery was held on December 1, 1969 in order to address perceived inequities in military conscription. Lee Cowan reports.

• Dec 1, 2019
• 01:55

Trump says peace talks with Taliban have resumed

President Trump is flying back to the U.S. after making a secret trip to Afghanistan to visit troops. While there, the president revealed the U.S. and Taliban have been engaged in peace talks aimed at ending America's longest war. The trip comes the same week Mr. Trump accused some members of the Pentagon of being part of the resistance against him. Weijia Jiang reports.

• Nov 28, 2019
• 02:59

Alert raised for Americans across Mideast as Israel poised to strike Iran

With Israel apparently poised to attack Iran, the U.S. government warns staff in Israel to restrict travel and clears service members' families across the Mideast to evacuate.

• Jun 12

Bana al Abed talks war and education

Bana al Abed, the 10-year-old Syrian girl who wrote "Dear World," speaks about war and education at the Women Political Leaders Global Forum taking place in Iceland.

• Nov 19, 2019
• 04:27

A new effort to help the youngest refugees

The International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop are teaming up on a major new effort to help young Syrian refugee children, including a new Sesame show in Arabic. Lesley Stahl reports.

• Nov 17, 2019
• 13:43

"Mobituaries": Marlene Dietrich goes to war

"During Hollywood's Golden Age, German immigrant Marlene Dietrich electrified audiences, defying the expectations of traditional women's roles in her films and in her life. And when the United States went to war, so did Marlene Dietrich. But it was her fiercely patriotic support for her adopted homeland that led Adolf Hitler to label her a traitor. Mo Rocca previews an excerpt from the audiobook of "Mobituaries." To hear this special episode in full, go to art19.com.

• Nov 10, 2019
• 00:55

Philippines journalist Maria Ressa, on threats

Rappler founder Maria Ressa discusses the threat she is under for aggressively covering the Duterte Administration and its wars on drugs. Sunday, on 60 Minutes.

• Nov 6, 2019
• 01:11

Is there a "civil war" within the Republican Party?

Key voices diagnose the state of the conservative movement within the Republican Party. Dr. Russell Moore, Alfonso Aguilar, Tammy Bruce and Matt Schlapp discuss the impact of campaign 2016 on the "cultural coarsening" of our nation.

• Oct 16, 2016
• 13:09

The U.S. presidency during the Vietnam War

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick discuss their latest project, "The Vietnam War," examining how multiple U.S. presidents dealt with that war.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 08:16

"The Vietnam War" explores U.S., Viet Cong perspectives

The latest project from documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick looks at the U.S. war in Vietnam through the eyes of both U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 04:36

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• Apr 8, 2018
• 23:14

Sen. Sanders is confident legislation to stop U.S. support of Saudi Arabia in Yemen will pass

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, joins Margaret Brennan to discuss the Climate Change report and pulling back support for Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen.

• Nov 25, 2018
• 07:02

U.S. allies sanction Israeli cabinet members "for inciting violence"

5 close U.S. allies sanction far-right Israeli officials Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over "extremist rhetoric" calling for "Palestinians to be driven from their homes."

• Jun 10

Top Saudi diplomat: Khashoggi murder "a mistake"

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir joins moderator Margaret Brennan to discuss the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the war in Yemen and more.

• Feb 10, 2019
• 06:22

Israel deports activist Greta Thunberg after seizing Gaza protest ship

Israel, accused by activists of piracy, says it lawfully seized a Gaza-bound protest ship carrying Greta Thunberg as the crew was planning to breach its naval blockade.

• Jun 10

From the archives: Ambush

In this report first broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on November 11, 1982, correspondent Bruce Morton talks with Vietnam War veterans who journeyed to Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to friends who died while serving with them in 1967.

• May 28, 2017
• 03:54

Remembering the lost platoon

Clifford Rountree, Kenny Barker and Victor Renza were three American soldiers in Vietnam whose platoon was ambushed in May 1967. Twenty-two of their comrades were killed. John Blackstone reports on how that battle shaped the lives of the survivors, and how some of them spent the anniversary of that battle, fifty years later.

• May 28, 2017
• 04:17

Russia and Ukraine begin new prisoner swap, as fighting continues apace

Ukraine's president says a new prisoner exchange with Russia is ongoing and will take days, as both sides continue launching hundreds of attack drones.

• Jun 9

Author Mark Bowden on Vietnam

Journalist Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down" and a new history of the Vietnam War, "Hue 1968," talks about America's misguided entry into the war, in which the United States projected its domestic political priorities that had little to do with the realities of Southeast Asia.

• Sep 17, 2017
• 02:52

Photographing Kent State shootings

Photographer John Filo was a journalism major on May 4, 1970, when he documented an anti-Vietnam War demonstration on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. In this web exclusive he talked with correspondent Maurice DuBois about capturing an iconic photo of the era - a picture that earned him a Pulitzer Prize.

• Oct 8, 2017
• 05:31

1968: The Tet Offensive

The month-long battle for Hue, in Vietnam, was fought street by street, house by house, room by room. Two-hundred-and-sixteen American troops were killed and another 1,300 wounded. On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, David Martin visits an exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and talks to Army photographer John Olson, who captured the bloody battle, and a former Marine who miraculously survived.

• Jan 28, 2018
• 06:18

Seymour Hersh on the golden age of journalism

“Reporter: A Memoir,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, recounts a blockbuster career in which he shone a spotlight on war crimes and political scandals. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin sits down with the 81-year-old Hersh, still breaking scoops with zeal.

• Jun 17, 2018
• 07:12

Body of Thai hostage kidnapped into Gaza is retrieved, Israel says

Nattapong Pinta worked in agriculture before he was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023.

• Jun 7

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