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5/22/2016: All in the Family, Inside Edge, Valerie Jarrett May 23, 2016

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Morley Safer visits the more than the five thousand acres of vineyards farmed by the Antinori family in Italy. Bill Whitaker takes listeners into the secretive, illegal, and lucrative world of insider trading. And Norah O'Donnell sits down with Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama.

5/16/2016: Breakthrough Status, Collateral Damage May 16, 2016

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Scott Pelley follows patients in a clinical trial of a new cancer therapy with results promising enough to make the treatment a breakthrough.

Bill Whitaker reports on innocent American citizens accused of espionage-related crimes as the government steps up the fight against Chinese theft of U.S. trade secrets and intellectual property.

5/1/2016: Strike-through, Fintech, The Children's Village May 02, 2016

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At the height of the Ebola outbreak, 60 Minutes received a tip that a major American manufacturer had knowingly provided defective protective equipment to health care workers in the U.S. and abroad. Anderson Cooper investigates.

Patrick and John Collison are among a vanguard of entrepreneurs trying to make the movement of money online as easy as sending photos or videos. The young founders of Stripe, a $5 billion payments startup, appear in a Lesley Stahl report on the burgeoning industry known as “Fintech,” which is challenging traditional financial institutions.

India Howell is mother to more than ninety children. And her business partner, Peter Leon Mmassy, is the father. It's the biggest extended family we’ve ever seen. Bill Whitaker reports.

4/24/2016: The Heroin Epidemic, Dialing for Dollars, Gold Star Apr 25, 2016

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Ohio has been hit hard in the heroin epidemic and is taking extra measures, including drug courts, to reduce the deaths and the incarcerations caused by the drug. Bill Whitaker talks to former users and law enforcement.

Congressmen rail against the tedious task of fundraising, which many feel compelled to do to raise enough money to be re-elected. Some of them have sponsored a bill to outlaw members of Congress from personally asking for donations. Norah O’Donnell reports.

People who have lost loved ones in military service are attending an annual gathering where they can remember their fallen family members with other “Gold Star” people who share their pain. Scott Pelley reports from San Francisco.

4/17/2016: Not Paid, Rikers Island, Hacking Your Phone Apr 18, 2016

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Lesley Stahl investigates the life insurance industry; then, Bill Whitaker reports on a disturbing pattern of neglect and excessive force at Rikers Island; and, everything is hackable -- including your phone.

4/10/2016: 28 Pages, Rising in the East, Switching Teams Apr 11, 2016

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Steve Kroft reports on possible Saudi support for 9/11 hijackers; Holly Williams looks at China's fast-growing film industry; Lesley Stahl profiles Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailer, the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an NCAA Division I men's sport.

3/27/2016: Make-A-Wish, The Health Wagon, The Giving Pledge Mar 28, 2016

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Bill Whitaker meets some of the people behind the popular organization that grants the wishes of seriously ill children; Then, Scott Pelley meets nurse practitioners who are providing badly needed health care to the uninsured, working poor in Appalachia; and, Charlie Rose reports on new club for billionaires.

2/28/2016: A Monumental Project, Saving History, God's Architect Feb 29, 2016

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Scott Pelley reports on the making of a Smithsonian museum dedicated to African-American history and culture. Morley Safer takes a look at how the fashion business is rescuing Italy's most iconic sites, such as The Colosseum in Rome. Lara Logan brings listeners to the Sagrada Familia, a church in Spain that has become the longest running architectural project on Earth.

1/31/2016: Anonymous, Inc., Top of the World Feb 01, 2016

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The United States is becoming known as a go-to place for crooked foreigners, like corrupt officials, to launder their ill-gotten money. When non-profit watchdog Global Witness wanted to see how easy it was to move questionable funds, they sent their investigator posing as a representative of a fictitious African government minister into the offices of American lawyers to see if they would be willing to assist. Steve Kroft reports.

Sharyn Alfonsi goes to the top of the world to report on scientists trying to get to the bottom of climate change and sea level rise by studying one of the largest glaciers in Greenland.

1/17/2016: The Great Brain Robbery, Sean Penn, Mountain Lions of L.A. Jan 18, 2016

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Economic espionage sponsored by the Chinese government is costing U.S. corporations money and jobs; then, Sean Penn on his controversial meeting with the drug kingpin known as "El Chapo"; and Los Angeles is the only megacity in the world where mountain lions live side-by-side with humans

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