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How President Trump is changing the pardon process, according to former pardon attorney
60 Minutes· 2025-11-17 00:44
60 Minutes overtime. All of the traditional rules and procedures pertaining to pardons have been thrown out the window. This administration appears to be working around the Justice Department rather than with the Justice Department to vet and review applications for pardons. This week on 60 Minutes, we report on President Trump's pardon of crypto felon Changping Xiao. The case is one example of a broad shift in how President Trump is using the power of the pardon. We spoke with Elizabeth Oyer who from 2022 ...
Why Anthropic's AI Claude tried to contact the FBI
60 Minutes· 2025-11-17 00:30
60 Minutes overtime. >> Our story this week on 60 Minutes is about Anthropic, which is an AI company based in in San Francisco. Claude is anthropic artificial intelligence and it's used by companies all over the world and CEO Dario Amade is very public about not only the huge possible benefits of artificial intelligence but also the potential dangers of artificial intelligence as well.>> The more autonomy we give these systems you know the more we can worry are they doing exactly the things that we want the ...
The President's Pardon | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-15 01:50
Changping Xiao is a billionaire felon whose company enriched a Trump family business. Months later, Xiao received a presidential pardon. The White House denies any connection.You would describe this pardon as unusual. >> The influence that money played is unprecedented. >> Hello everybody.>> The Trump firm Xiao helped is a major part of the president's family fortune. All of us whether Republican or Democrat or independent look at this system and say this is a corrupt. ...
Chess Boxing | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-15 00:41
Event Description - Fighters from 18 countries participate in chess boxing [1] - Chess boxing combines chess and boxing [1] Fighter Perspective - A fighter describes chess boxing as a combination of mental and physical battle [1]
Anthropic | Sunday on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes· 2025-11-14 22:45
If you're a major artificial intelligence company worth $183 billion, it might seem like bad business to reveal that in testing your AI models resorted to blackmail. Why does Enthropic consider disclosures like that so essential. Because you could end up in the world of like the cigarette companies or the opioid companies where they knew there were dangers and they they didn't talk about them and certainly did not prevent them. ...
Andy Rooney's penny test | 60 Minutes Archive
60 Minutes· 2025-11-13 19:37
60 Minutes Rewind. >> Tonight I want to talk to you about pennies. There 91 billion pennies in circulation according to the US Mint.Stores don't think that's enough. I think it's too many. Trouble is, those pennies are not in circulation.Stores run out of pennies because the pennies are all home in jars in our kitchens or in boxes in our bedrooms. Every night we empty our pockets of pennies. Next day we come home with more.Pennies are produced by sales taxes and by stores that charge $1.99% for things. Tues ...
Does making cents make sense? | 60 Minutes Archive
60 Minutes· 2025-11-13 18:11
60 Minutes rewind. >> Should we make sense. Think before you answer that.We're talking about those insignificant 1-cent pieces in your pocket or purse. It may or may not come as a surprise that it now costs the US mint almost two cents to make a penny and almost a dime to make a nickel. If the economy of that eludes you, join the club.Even in Washington, where they literally have the right to print money and where anything under a billion is chump change, there's an ongoing debate over whether it's worth th ...
Why Margaret Atwood says you need not fear her stare anymore #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-11-13 01:50
I'm paraphrasing here, but in your memoir, you say you you sometimes cut this Medusaike figure with a Medusa like stare with interviewers. I feel like we're doing okay. >> The earlier me. >> Yeah, >> the earlier me.Now I'm a nice old lady, so you don't have to be worried. >> Why the pivot. >> I got an older.I became a blonde. >> This was my way of saying I enjoyed this conversation. >> Oh, is that your way of saying it.>> So why aren't you a scary old witch. Is is that your your way of saying it. ...
Atwood pushes back on the idea of Canada as the 51st state #shorts
60 Minutes· 2025-11-13 01:49
We asked her about the recent chill between her country and the United States as President Trump raises tariffs and threatens to turn our northern neighbors into a 51st state. Atwood says the Canadian response is best summed up by one phrase. >> It's a hockey thing and it was this character called Gordy How who is a very revered hockey player.Elbows up is when somebody gets you into the corner and you block them by putting your elbow up and it means don't mess with me. And for those who speak of the 51st st ...
How motherhood changed Jane Goodall | 60 Minute Archive
60 Minutes· 2025-11-12 22:25
After I'd had my own baby, I then began to understand mother chimps much better. Much, much better. I was always surprised to see a mother chimp get so agitated and angry if another individual, another chimp came too close or, you know, sort of seemed to be interfering with the mother child bond.But then when I had my own child and somebody would shut a door loudly and and start waking up little grub, I get this surge of real anger which I couldn't quite understand. And if then I understood the female chimp ...