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Bill Whitaker retweeted
7 Jun 2024
Congratulations to @BillWhitakerCBS for marking 10 seasons as a @60Minutes correspondent and being named @UCBerkeley’s 2024 Alum of the Year.
Read about his path from Berkeley to 60 Minutes here: bit.ly/3x5y8Em
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
2 May 2024
Two high school seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years. @BillWhitakerCBS reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
28 Apr 2024
60 Minutes’ @BillWhitakerCBS went to Silicon Valley to meet Nvidia’s co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s birthplace: Denny’s. Whitaker found a self-effacing but demanding executive who has no doubt that AI is about to change everything. Sunday.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
12 Apr 2024
Ransomware attacks are on the rise across the world. How are U.S. companies being impacted and what can the government do about it?
@BillWhitakerCBS speaks with former NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce and Las Vegas publisher Anthony Curtis, Sunday.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
12 Apr 2024
O.J. Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76.
@60minutes’ @BillWhitakerCBS looks back on Simpson’s long and complicated legacy, including his infamous trial, which Whitaker covered for CBS News nearly 30 years ago: “It sort of defined us at that time.” cbsn.ws/3vRqA7w
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
31 Mar 2024
Brace yourself: this is “America's original extreme sport,” in which riders leap from one bareback horse to another while racing around a track. Sunday, @BillWhitakerCBS reports on Indian Relay. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Indian Relay is “America’s original extreme sport.” @BillWhitakerCBS reports from the chaotic, high-speed racetrack, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
25 Mar 2024
60 Minutes called the Republican senators who torpedoed the Law of the Sea treaty in 2012 to see if anything had changed. We found their opposition as strong as ever. cbsn.ws/3VxAzct
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
25 Mar 2024
“We are not only not at the table but we’re off the field,” John Bellinger says of the Senate’s refusal to ratify a U.N. treaty covering deep sea mining, which has broad support from businesses to environmentalists and the military.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
25 Mar 2024
Some of Earth’s most valuable metals sit on the ocean floor – estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. But the U.S. is blocked from the race to go get them – or even put a toe in the water – by the Senate’s refusal to ratify the Law of the Sea. cbsn.ws/4arBHCN
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
25 Mar 2024
While the U.S. Senate is locked in a stalemate over ratifying a U.N. treaty that would allow deep sea mining, China is forging ahead. Mining the international seabed could start next year. cbsn.ws/3VxQqYC
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
23 Mar 2024
The U.S. is conspicuously absent from the international race to explore deep sea mining.
Sunday, 60 Minutes’ @BillWhitakerCBS speaks with former diplomats and military leaders trying to break a Senate logjam, and with others standing firm in their opposition.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
29 Feb 2024
NASA plans to send Americans back to the moon with hopes of building a lunar outpost and traveling onward to Mars. This Sunday, @BillWhitakerCBS asks tough questions about the costs and timeline as they work towards this historic undertaking.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
26 Jan 2024
This Sunday on 60 Minutes:
⏱️ @CeciliaVega reports on the U.S. federal prison system, long considered broken and opaque
⏱️ @BillWhitakerCBS examines Interpol's successes and failures
⏱️ @jon_wertheim meets Pat Craig, a man devoted to animal rescues
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
25 Jan 2024
This Sunday, @BillWhitakerCBS examines Interpol’s successes in fighting global crime, as well as its failures in keeping authoritarian countries from misusing the agency's resources. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
10 Dec 2023
Republican Gov. Mark Gordon pledges to make Wyoming, the top coal mining state, carbon-negative in the future. He says the state needs to be aggressive in addressing climate change. Tonight, @BillWhitakerCBS meets Gordon at his family ranch.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
7 Dec 2023
In the conservative state of Wyoming, surprisingly climate-crusading Republican Governor Mark Gordon set a goal to make the state carbon-negative in CO2 emissions. @BillWhitakerCBS reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
30 Nov 2023
This Sunday, @BillWhitakerCBS witnesses pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli student rallies at Columbia University and department-led campus forums at Dartmouth in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and the ensuing Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
10 Nov 2023
Sunday, @BillWhitakerCBS visits some of the 700 Ukrainian churches that have been attacked by Russian forces. Some were collateral damage. Many were not.
“It’s an attempt to totally destroy Ukraine,” says museum director Ihor Poshyvailo. 60Minutes.com
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Bill Whitaker retweeted
30 Oct 2023
"I am her husband first," second gentleman Doug Emhoff told 60 Minutes' @BillWhitakerCBS about his role in the Biden administration. cbsn.ws/47b5luw
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