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ISIS is grooming child recruits from a young age to be killers for the Islamic State. Charlie D'Agata investigates how hard it is to undo that brainwashing.
• iRobot: Japan is facing a population collapse that threatens its very existence. As with many of its problems, Japan is not looking for conventional solutions. It's pressing forward in its own, uniquely Japanese way. The world's third largest economy is looking to buttress its diminishing human population with a growing population of robots.
• Made in America*: A CBS News investigation team spent four months tracking more than 200 Eastern Europeans building U.S. auto factories
CBS News collected hundreds of videos and photos they posted on social media proudly showing off their American jobs, their work IDs, the money they were making, and the B1/B2 visas that got many of them into the United States. The visa costs less than $200 and allows foreigners to come and go for ten years. Visa holders are not allowed to work construction unless they are supervising a project which is not what appeared to be happening.
Adriana Diaz looks into Chicago's gun crisis; Ryan Chilcote talks to a man who thinks he has a 50/50 chance of being killed by Russian president Vladimir Putin; James Brown travels to Pakistan where an 86-year old televangelist is risking her life to preach Christianity; and Judd Apatow returns to standup comedy.
The team behind "CBSN: On Assignment" reveal how the program was made, and the challenges posed by investigating America's readiness for nuclear war, Iceland's preventative abortion, Instagram's battle against online hatred and urban explorers tiptoeing across skyscrapers.
• HATE RISING: In mid-August 2017, neo-Nazis marched in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. In the intervening days, debate raged over just how America's national conversation has become a real-time discussion of white supremacy and its place in the U.S., muddied by President Trump's ambiguity on the matter. The groups in question -- who openly espouse racist views and have felt newly emboldened since the recent presidential campaign -- find themselves firmly back in the mainstream.
The nation witnessed what's considered one of the largest white supremacy marches in decades as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Charlottesville. During the rally, a car rammed into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters, injuring dozens and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. All this against a backdrop of a national debate around the rights and wrongs of maintaining statues that celebrate the Confederacy.
The SPLC estimates that there are currently more than 900 hate groups -- organizations with beliefs that attack an entire group of people -- operating in the country. Many of these hate groups subscribe to the ideals of white supremacy.
In fact, the number of hate groups has doubled over the past two decades -- a trend that appears to follow the impact of minorities, financial crisis and political elections have on society.
• CYBER SOLDIERS: Since 2015, almost all healthcare organizations have reported at least one cyberattack. Dr. Jennifer Pugh runs their emergency room at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York, the largest U.S. hospital attacked in the U.S. 2017 so far.
She was on staff the morning the hackers infiltrated their system, sending a ransomware note demanding bitcoin equivalent to $44,000. They froze staff out of their machines, rendering patient files inaccessible in a now-familiar M.O. for hackers. "Honestly, I think it's disgusting … they're attacking some of the most vulnerable members in society by coming after a hospital," Pu
