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. ...

Fighters from 18 countries are here trying to knock each other's heads off. There's the bell. But wait, now the fighters strip off their gloves and play chess. This is chess boxing. >> Chess is battle on a board. And boxing is chess with my body. So when someone combined those two, I was like, "Yes, here's what I was made for. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along the way, she met another writer, the late Graham Gibson, who would become her longtime partner. So quintessentially Canadian, their courtship peaked with a canoe trip. >> We were both the kinds of people that if the canoe trip hadn't worked out, that would have been it.>> Good barometer for a relationship. >> Yeah, if you can deal with the canoe trip, you can probably deal with lots of other things, too. >> And they did.Gibson came to the relationship with some baggage. A quote univorced wife and two ...

When she graduated in 1961, Canadian writers were encouraged to pursue careers outside the country. >> Give us a sense of the Canadian lit scene when you were in college. >> What Canadian lit scene.Still, Atwood stayed and helped found the country's now thriving literary institutions. ...