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The Jordanian ruler says the reaction to ISIS must be swift, but he is pleased with the action President Obama is taking
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Scott Pelley, one of the most experienced and awarded journalists today, has been reporting stories for 60 Minutes since 2004. The 2024-25 season is his 21st on the broadcast. Scott has won half of all major awards earned by 60 Minutes during his tenure at the venerable CBS newsmagazine.
As a war correspondent, Pelley has covered Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. On Sept. 11, 2001, he was reporting from the World Trade Center when the North Tower collapsed. As a political reporter, Scott has interviewed U.S. presidents from George H.W. Bush to President Biden.
Scott has won a record 51 Emmy Awards, four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Batons and three George Foster Peabody Awards.
From 2011 to 2017, Scott served as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News." By 2016, Pelley had added 1.5 million viewers, the longest and largest stretch of growth at the evening news since Walter Cronkite.
Pelley is the author of "Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times" (Hanover Square Press, 2019) in which he profiles people, both famous and not, who discovered the meaning of their lives during historic events of our times.
Pelley began his career in journalism at the age of 15 as copy boy at the Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal newspaper. He was born in San Antonio and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University. Scott and his wife, Jane Boone Pelley, have a son and a daughter.
The Jordanian ruler says the reaction to ISIS must be swift, but he is pleased with the action President Obama is taking
Scott Pelley speaks with two men who recognized the threat of ISIS early and warned of the possible consequences of not acting
Scott Pelley reports from the front lines in the fight against ISIS in northern Iraq. He speaks with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and victims of ISIS atrocities
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells "60 Minutes" why he thinks ISIS was able to flourish in Syria and then in Iraq
Scott Pelley reports on severe shortcomings in the state of mental health care for young people in the U.S.
Kurdish fighters asking the White House to greatly expand the air strikes and rush heavy weapons into the fight against Islamic extremists
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Nurse practitioners are providing badly needed health care to the uninsured working poor in Appalachia -- medical mercy for those left out of Obamacare and ineligible for Medicaid
Details in the doping case of A-Rod, including an interview with MLB's chief witness against him, the recently indicted Anthony Bosch
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After half a century, Lamborghini is still making the kind of cars that dreams are made of -- a precious handful a day
Families are fleeing the violence from both Iraq and Syria into neighboring Jordan, worsening what is already the world's greatest humanitarian crisis
When shots rang out in the Ohio HS, coach Frank Hall ran toward them instead of away, saving an untold number of young lives
60 Minutes gets a rare look inside new therapy sessions that are changing the lives of vets who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder