Warren Buffett has long said he hopes his son Howard will follow him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and you'll hear that again on 60 Minutes Sunday. The question of his successor as CEO, however, is another matter.
Is insider trading by members of Congress legal? How common is it? What's being done about it?
Members of Congress and their staffs would be prohibited from using insider legislative information for investment purposes under legislation filed Tuesday in the wake of a CBS News "60 Minutes" report.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News' "60 Minutes" report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested could be "soft corruption."
Ethics reforms put in place since the influence-peddling scandal surrounding high-rolling lobbyist Jack Abramoff haven't cleaned up the system "at all," a now-free Abramoff says.
Known to generations for his wry and contentious television essays on CBS' "60 Minutes," Andy Rooney has died at 92.
Legendary CBS News commentator Andy Rooney, known to millions for his witty essays on mundane topics, died Friday night in New York. He was 92.
Andy Rooney, who died Saturday at the age of 92, had the last word each week on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes." Here are some of his great lines from those essays, along with a few others, that reveal his talent as a writer and the dry wit that made him famous.
CNN's Karen Caifa looks back at commentator Andy Rooney's career in journalism.
The son and wife of convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff said they had no inkling he was running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme until he came home on a December night three years ago and gathered the family together.
Legendary and curmudgeonly TV commentator Andy Rooney offered his final remarks Sunday on the news show "60 Minutes," capping a career that has spanned more than six decades.
In 1996, Larry King interviewed Andy Rooney about his "60 Minutes" segment and accepting criticism.
The TV talker ends 33 years on the show Sunday night, 1,097 essays later
The commentator will sign off this Sunday after 33 years and 1,097 original essays
Sunday will be Andy Rooney's last regular appearance on "60 Minutes," CBS News announced Tuesday.
In 2002, Larry King asked Andy Rooney when he would retire from "60 Minutes."
The New York Police Department has the capability to "take down" threatening airplanes, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in an interview broadcast on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday night.
How would going through a near-death experience change you? It's one of those questions that few of us ever ponder or could ever answer until, heaven forbid, it happens.
During a 2005 appearance on CNN's Larry King Live, Lance Armstrong denies ever taking performance-enhancing substances.
Scott Pelley, a correspondent for CBS' "60 Minutes" since 2004, will replace Katie Couric as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," the network said in a statement on its website Tuesday.
Always wanted to own a little piece of your local incinerator? Well you might be out of luck.
As a child, Brown was told by his camp counselor, "If you tell anybody, I'll kill you"
President Barack Obama on Wednesday telephoned CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who was brutally attacked last week in Cairo's Tahrir Square after the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
According to a CBS statement, correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering a story in Cairo.
"She's a very courageous woman," says Ling, whose sister suffered trauma while on assignment
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown is revealing he was sexually abused at the age of 10.
A CBS correspondent was brutally attacked Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square after the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the network said in a statement released Tuesday.
Roger Ebert and other journalists show compassion toward the brutalized CBS reporter
The news correspondent suffered a "brutal and sustained sexual assault," CBS reveals
Municipal bonds continued to sell off this week, as worried investors fled the market, and the media continued to churn out stories about state and local governments struggling with severe budget shortfalls.
Everyone seems to have an opinion about whether big men should cry, given Speaker-elect John Boehner's soggy "60 Minutes" on Sunday. Just for the record: fine by me, no big deal, even a good thing.
Economists are evenly split on whether the Federal Reserve's current policies are helping the economy. But they're in agreement on one point -- the Fed won't be raising interest rates anytime soon.
HLN's Joy Behar talks with S.E. Cupp and Dana Milbank about Rep. John Boehner's propensity for crying.
In a cute movie called "Bedazzled," Brendan Fraser plays a heartsick young man trying to woo the girl of his dreams, and Elizabeth Hurley plays a fetching variation of Satan who offers to help him for the usual going rate of one soul.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells 60 Minutes that user privacy is something the company takes "really seriously."
So you missed Mark Zuckerberg's Sunday interview on "60 Minutes"?
Your personal Facebook page is about to get a major revamp. Facebook on Sunday began rolling out a new design for members' profile pages, integrating in one place information currently scattered throughout the Wall, photo albums and other sections of the site.
On the heels of a disappointing jobs report, the country's top economist told 60 Minutes the outlook isn't much brighter.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this Sunday will make his second appearance on 60 Minutes, defending the central bank's controversial $600 billion bond buying program.
The 6-year-old mare hopes to retire undefeated after Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic in Kentucky
President Obama pressed Wall Street bankers at the White House on Monday, urging them to make more loans and modify mortgages to help taxpayers who propped their banks up with federal bailouts.
Preliminary programming note for our off-season 'Bag this week. We'll hold our annual Baggies Awards ceremony for 2009 next week. And 60 Minutes will be shown immediately following the game, except on the West Coast where it will air at its regularly scheduled time.
You get the feeling that a bunch of real-life Tony Sopranos and Don Corleones could sit courtside at an NBA game, hand out $100 bills to the refs as they run by, and the league executives would still insist that the NBA is clean as a whistle.
"60 Minutes" had a story several months ago about a type of weight-loss surgery that seemed to also cure type 2 diabetes in many people. Has more research been done on this? Do you need the full bypass of about one-third of the small intestine or just the duodenum and jejunum? My weight problem came about with/after diabetes, not before.
The court-appointed trustee in the Bernard Madoff case plans to sue four more of his family members for nearly $200 million this week, according to a broadcast report.
Don Hewitt created a remarkable system to get the best stories on the air.
The TV pioneer was 86 and directed the first 1960 Kennedy-Nixon TV debate
Television pioneer and longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of "60 Minutes," has died, the network said Wednesday. He was 86.
CNN President Jon Klein credits 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt for many of the innovations used in television news today.
I don't believe Michael Vick. In fact, while watching his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday, I pretty much thought he was full of it. But I also have no problem with his being allowed to return to the NFL, where he will no doubt juke plenty of tacklers and throw just as many inaccurate passes at the feet of his receivers. That may seem contradictory -- not buying his mea culpas and yet not objecting to his reinstatement -- but that's because the real issue is not what Vick gave us on Sunday night, it's what we expected from him.
James Brown says he spelled out the rules with Michael Vick last May when the two spoke for 45 minutes at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. Why was the CBS Sports anchor visiting Vick at a federal prison? He was looking for The Big Get, an interview with Vick following his 18 months in prison on charges related to his illegal dogfighting operation.
Relatives and friends of legendary newsman Walter Cronkite gathered at a Manhattan church for his funeral Thursday afternoon.
A Federal Reserve official tells CNN that the Fed has not ruled out the idea of having regular news conferences to discuss monetary policy and other issues.
I saw President Obama laugh last week on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." I saw the president giggle on "60 Minutes."
President Obama said in an interview aired Sunday that the hardest decision he's made since taking office was to send more troops to Afghanistan.
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Anderson Cooper and panelists discuss Obama's appearance on "The Tonight Show."
The venues could hardly be more different: Jay Leno's couch and Steve Kroft's hot seat.
"My entire life up to that moment had been a preparation to handle that particular moment," he says
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
President-elect Barack Obama said stimulating the economy is a top priority -- even if it means adding to the nation's growing deficit.
Despite the best efforts of our politicians to convince us otherwise, there is no easy way out of the financial crisis we've created.
As news organizations across the U.S. tighten their belts, one non-profit group is giving away high-quality journalism for free
We all want to live in a world that's clean, healthy and prosperous.
Time.com: Cannes Gets Realupdated: Sat May 17 2008 17:00:00
From the conflicted soul of Mike Tyson to the changing landscape of China, as seen through eyes of the acclaimed Jia Zhangke, documentaries flood the Cannes Film Festival
An Australian man and his daughter have created a furor after going on television to admit an incestuous relationship which has produced two children.
An Australian man and his daughter explain their incestuous relationship. National Nine News' Karen Tso reports.
The soccer star talks about his body art for a 60 Minutes profile
"It was a life-and-death situation," the actor tells 60 Minutes
As Roger Clemens opens a new chapter in his career -- the one where he defends everything that came before: the seven Cy Youngs, the 354 wins, the 4,672 strikeouts -- one aspect of the journey should be familiar to him. As was the case when he stared down hitters from the mound, Clemens has a single adversary with whom to do battle: his former personal trainer Brian McNamee.
Roger Clemens answered questions for the first time Sunday night on 60 Minutes about the steroid allegations made against him by his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, in the Mitchell Report. Please take the time to answer a few questions on how Clemens fared and what this should mean for his legacy.
Brian McNamee sits mostly stone-faced as Roger Clemens, his onetime client, brings the heat. "Ridiculous," "hogwash" -- terms used by the seven-time Cy Young Award winner to discredit McNamee's bombshell testimony in the Mitchell Report, in which the longtime personal trainer told investigators that he had injected Clemens with HGH and anabolic steroids -- fail to break McNamee's calm.
On Sunday, Roger Clemens spoke to 60 Minutes in his first interview since the release of the Mitchell Report. SI.com's Michael McCann tackles the legal questions surrounding the allegations and denials by Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee. He also analyses the defamation lawsuit Clemens filed against McNamee on Monday.
With his jaw clenched and the adrenalin flowing as if he were pitching the seventh game of the World Series, Roger Clemens pounced on the question from Mike Wallace. It came 250 seconds into his interview on CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday night, and the response was pure defiance.
"While the other guy's sleeping, I'm working. While the other guy's eating, I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too, but I'm working really hard at it!"
Tom Perkins, the famous venture capitalist, now regrets resigning from the board of directors at Hewlett Packard, according to a report.
The Federal Reserve is virtually certain to cut the target on a key short-term interest rate Tuesday. There is no mystery about that.
As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tries to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals in the race for president, he's also distancing himself from President Bush.
In her first public speech since announcing last Thursday that her breast cancer had returned, Elizabeth Edwards appealed Monday for more federal funding for health research of all kinds, including stem-cell research.
Since I didn't let the spotlight go to my head on the front end, I don't mind that it's not there now. It was crazy, right from the day--Jan. 14, 2002--when congressional staffers found my memos t...
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