This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds?

Several correspondents recently pointed out how the division of hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds (and a full turn into 360 degrees) is almost certainly based on the Sumerians’ very ...

For more than five decades, 60 Minutes has covered it all — from headline news to quiet human stories — fit neatly in one hour. Now in the digital age, we have more time and use novel approaches to ...

CBS News abruptly pulled an episode of 60 Minutes just hours before its scheduled broadcast and people think it was a politically-motivated decision. 60 Minutes is a long-running investigative news ...

What in the world is going on at "60 Minutes?" Nothing good. In a stunning move, Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, pulled a planned segment hours before it was scheduled to air on Sunday's ...

CBS pulled a "60 Minutes" segment hours before it was set to air on Dec. 21, a move that has apparently sparked backlash from its correspondent. The segment was set to feature the notorious El ...

"60 Minutes" abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air.

“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the network announced this evening, just hours before the planned ...

Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition ...

First, keep in mind that in the 400,000-odd years that Homo sapiens has been around, most people had no use for exact time. Dawn, sunrise, sunset and night were very important, but no cave person ...