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COVER STORY: Encyclopedia Britannica is turning 250 – look it up! | Watch Video
Two hundred and fifty years ago, in Edinburgh, Scotland, a printer, an engraver, and an editor teamed up to produce the first Encyclopedia Britannica, which contained scholarly essays and short definitional entries about practically everything. It was a revolution in information. But now that we have instant access to all knowledge from throughout human history via our smartphones, what would kids today think of the encyclopedia, which now encompasses 44 million words, in books? Luke Burbank reports.

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BEST OF 2018: Books | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews the tops in pop culture from the past year.   

       
A LOOK BACK: Top news stories of 2018 month-by-month | Watch Video
What about the year gone by? Time for one last look with Jane Pauley.

      
A LOOK AHEAD: What's next for Washington in 2019? | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" begins the New Year with a look ahead based on events of the year gone by, reported by CBS News correspondents from around the world, beginning with National Correspondent Chip Reid in our nation's capital.

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Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy in the biopic "Stan & Ollie." Sony Pictures Classics

MOVIES: The return of Laurel & Hardy | Watch Video
The lovable comic duo who, beginning in 1926, starred in more than a hundred feature films and shorts during the Golden Age of Hollywood, are the subjects of a new biopic, "Stan & Ollie," about the aging comedians on a music hall tour of Britain in the post-war years. Lee Cowan reports.

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BEST OF 2018:  Movies | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews the tops in pop culture from the past year. 

       
A LOOK AHEAD: What's next for the Middle East in 2019? | Watch Video
Correspondent Seth Doane on the prospects for diplomacy in a region torn by war and political upheaval.

       
OPINION: Jim Gaffigan touches on the prevalence of screens | Watch Video
Jim Gaffigan on a 21st century obsession none of us can escape.

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BEST OF 2018:  Online | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews the tops in pop culture from the past year. 

       
A LOOK AHEAD: What's next in Asia? | Watch Video
Correspondent Ben Tracy on North Korea's failure to denuclearize, and the bombastic trade war between the Trump administration and China.

    
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IN MEMORIAM: Hail and Farewell to those we lost in 2018 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley pays tribute to the creative, inspiring and newsworthy men and women who passed away this year, who'd touched our lives in unforgettable ways.

      
BEST OF 2018: Music | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews the tops in pop culture from the past year. 

      
A LOOK AHEAD: What's next in Europe and Russia? | Watch Video
Correspondent Charlie D'Agata on Britain's troublesome Brexit, and Trump's troublesome relationship with Putin.

       
BEST OF 2018:  TV | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" reviews the tops in pop culture from the past year. 

       
NATURE: White Deer | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" checks out a herd of rare deer in Seneca County, New York. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.       

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Northern Lights
What causes the stunningly beautiful aurora borealis?

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HEADLINES: No end in sight for government shutdown (Video)
It's not looking as if the standoff between President Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats over having American taxpayers fund his border wall will end any time soon. Correspondent Ed O'Keefe has the latest. 

         
COVER STORY: How Apollo 8 sent a timeless holiday greeting from the heavens | Watch Video
On Christmas Eve 1968, the first humans to circle the moon aboard Apollo 8 sent back the first image of the Earth above the lunar surface. The picture, dubbed "Earthrise," showed us the beauty and fragility of our home planet, and helped invigorate the environmental movement. Lee Cowan talked with astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders; with Jeffrey Kluger, author of a book on Apollo 8; and with former Vice President Al Gore, who talks about the impact of that mission on man's environmental awareness.

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'TIS THE SEASON: Fruitcake: More than a hefty holiday gift | Watch Video
It's that time of year when some of us will reach into our Christmas stockings and wish we found coal instead. What is that lumpy thing down there? It's fruitcake, that classic hockey puck of a dessert with the Christmas ornament-looking fruit on top. Nancy Giles visits a company that has been making fruitcakes since the 19th century, and talks with a nutritionist who explains why long-distance runners and hikers are turning to fruitcakes as the perfect energy food.

RECIPE: Brenda Braaten's Fruitcake

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PASSAGE: Penny Marshall | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" remembers the actress and filmmaker Penny Marshall, who died this week, who was best known for starring in the comedy "Laverne & Shirley," and for directing such acclaimed motion pictures as "A League of Their Own" and "Big." Jane Pauley reports.

DANCE: Ballet for special children | Watch Video
At a workshop by the New York City Ballet, children with disabilities can wear tutus and top hats, and experience the joy that dance brings. Lesley Stahl talks with Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky, a specialist in cerebral palsy, and with parents of children experiencing movement in a studio with live music and other dancers.

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'TIS THE SEASON: One family's Christmastime tradition: A tamale-wrapping party | Watch Video
Mo Rocca reports on one Austin family's Feliz Navidad tradition: a tamale-making party known as a tamalada.

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TELEVISION:  "Property Brothers" stars Drew and Jonathan Scott: All in the family | Watch Video
They are the reigning kings of home renovation reality TV: identical twins Drew and Jonathan Scott, known as the Property Brothers. Michelle Miller visits with the Scotts to experience their storytelling and humor (and home demolition) firsthand; and then heads out to their family's home on the range, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies outside of Calgary, Alberta, where the boys came to their entrepreneurial spirit at an early age.

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MUSIC: "Silent Night": A song for peace | Watch Video
Faith Salie looks back at the history of one of the Christmas season's most revered songs, written 200 years ago, and attends a special performance at New York's Trinity Church, commemorating the song's American debut in 1839.

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HARTMAN: The greatest gift (Video)
Not so long ago, Bo and Lake Giles toiled as sharecroppers in a field in Kelton, South Carolina. Their children, raised in poverty, would look upon a nearby house as a veritable Taj Mahal of luxury. Steve Hartman reports on how the family's poor circumstances did not prevent them from succeeding – or from one day moving into the house to which they aspired.       

MUSIC: Shawn Mendes: His star has taken off | Watch Video
Shawn Mendes, a young, Canadian self-taught musician with little more than a guitar, skinny jeans and a megawatt smile, has cheerfully become one of the biggest names in pop music. At just 20 years old, he's already a veteran of three world tours and three hit studio albums. Tracy Smith talks with Mendes about "In My Blood," the Grammy-nominated single from his Grammy-nominated new album, which speaks to the crippling anxiety he's learned to live with since his star took off.

To watch Shawn Mendes perform "In My Blood," click on the video player below. 

Shawn Mendes - In My Blood by ShawnMendesVEVO on YouTube

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MUSIC: Holiday music by Charles Osgood (Video)
The "Sunday Morning" anchor emeritus and the Young People's Chorus of New York City join us for a musical celebration of the season.

      
CALENDAR: Week of December 24 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

       
NATURE: Northern Lights | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes in a spectacular evening's view, in Norway, of the Aurora Borealis, by videographer Kyle Meek.

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MUSIC: Check out the "CBS Sunday Morning" Christmas song playlist on Spotify!
Our staff wanted to share our favorite Christmas tunes!

NATURE UP CLOSE: Why can't we all be like Costa Rica?
Judy Lehmberg visits the Central American country with a higher percentage of land protected by national parks than any other in the world.

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COVER STORY: What's in store for Sears? | Watch Video
At its peak, Sears, Roebuck was the biggest retailer in the world. And then, the company that dominated the department store business for much of the 20th century officially filed for bankruptcy, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. David Pogue looks at the company and its failure to evolve in a changing economy.

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COMMERCE: Pop-ups are popping up all over | Watch Video
More and more retail stores, restaurants, museums and other "experiences" are popping up all over, as "pop-up" operations. Luke Burbank reports.

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ALMANAC: The first vending machine | Watch Video
On December 16, 1884, William Henry Fruen patented his "Automatic Liquid-Drawing Device," leading the way to coin-operated devices dispensing a myriad of products. Jane Pauley reports. 

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MUSIC: How marimbas sing | Watch Video
A mallet instrument that traces its roots to Africa, marimba in the Central African language of Bantu means "wood that sings." Problem is, that wood is running out; Honduran Rosewood, responsible for the unique sound of the marimba, is grown only in a few parts of Central America, and in 2008 the tree was added to the Endangered Species List. Serena Altschul gets some percussion lessons, and talks with experts intent on making sure this ever-evolving instrument continues to sing.

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TOYS: Building a better Lego | Watch Video
Lego, the tiny plastic bricks that engage young minds and fingers, have clicked with generations of kids. So, why is the popular toy undergoing a remake? Roxana Saberi visits the Lego factory in Billund, Denmark, to find out. 

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HARTMAN: Secret Santa's homeless elf (Video)
During this holiday season in Phoenix, a homeless man, Moses Elder, took on the role of a Secret Santa helper, giving away money to some unsuspecting and grateful passers-by. The anonymous, wealthy businessman who goes around the country every year handing out Benjamins to random people has now recruited his most unlikely elf. Secret Santa also gave Moses some money to keep for himself, but he says that reward pales to the joy he's received from helping others. Steve Hartman reports. 

PASSAGE: Nancy Wilson (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers the Grammy Award-winning song stylist Nancy Wilson, who died this past week at the age of 81.

MUSIC:  Michael Bublé is back with "Love," and takes nothing for granted | Watch Video
The chart-topping singer took a two-year break from performing after learning in 2016 that his then-three-year-old son, Noah, had been diagnosed with liver cancer. Bublé opens up to Tracy Smith about how there was "no choice" for him and his wife to put their careers on hold. 

To watch Michael Bublé perform "When I Fall in Love," from his new album "Love," click on the video player below. 

Michael Bublé - When I Fall In Love [Official Music Video] by Michael Bublé on YouTube

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COMMENTARY: Do we have to do Christmas in December? | Watch Video
Comedian Jim Gaffigan says the stress of the holidays in the bleakest of months makes moving Christmas to a sunnier time a smart idea.

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MOVIES: Emily Blunt on "Mary Poppins Returns" | Watch Video
In the sequel we've waited half a century to see, Mary Poppins has returned to the screen. The children she cared for in the 1964 original have grown, but their nanny is mostly unchanged, except she is played now by Emily Blunt. Anthony Mason talks with Blunt about bringing P.L. Travers' beloved, eccentric character back to life in a magical musical. 

To watch the trailer for "Mary Poppins Returns," click on the video player below. 

Mary Poppins Returns | Official Trailer by Walt Disney Studios on YouTube

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'TIS THE SEASON: "Yes, Virginia": The story behind the letter about Santa Claus | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the original New York Sun Letter to the Editor of a child's query: "Is there a Santa Claus?"

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NATURE: Boise National Forest | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" takes us today to the Boise National Forest in Idaho. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

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MUSIC: Isaac Mizrahi's "Peter and the Wolf" | Watch Video
The fashion designer's childhood fascination with Prokofiev's beloved symphonic fairy tale has led to him designing, directing and narrating an annual performance at New York's Guggenheim Museum. Nancy Giles reports. 

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CALENDAR: Week of December 17 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Spitfire, the little wolf that could
This Thanksgiving, one of the most beloved wolves in Yellowstone National Park was legally shot and killed outside the park's boundary.

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COVER STORY: Titanic: The untold story | Watch Video
In 1985 a top-secret Cold War search for two missing Navy submarines in the Atlantic would lead to discovering the final resting place of RMS Titanic, the luxury liner that sunk on April 15, 1912, with more than 1,500 souls aboard. Chip Reid visits an exhibition at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., about the search for the fated Titanic, and talks with Robert Ballard, the man whose classified hunt for the USS Scorpion and USS Thresher – nuclear submarines lost in the 1960s – would bring him to the most famous shipwreck in history. 

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ALMANAC: London's killer smog | Watch Video
On December 9, 1952, a mixture of smoke and fog that became one of the greatest mass murderers of modern times finally lifted over the English capital. Jane Pauley reports.

FASHION: Fashion icon Ralph Lauren on a lifetime of style | Watch Video
Jane Pauley talks with 79-year-old fashion legend Ralph Lauren, who gives her a tour of his 20,000-acre Colorado ranch, and talks about the origins of his Polo brand, as well as the purpose of fashion – and his own longevity. (Portions of this interview were originally aired on the "Sunday Morning" primetime special, September 14, 2018.)

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HOLIDAYS: Tech gift ideas from Techno Claus | Watch Video
Ho ho ho! David Pogue, disguised as a jolly man in red, emerges from the "Sunday Morning" chimney to share some gift suggestions for those on your list who love gadgets.

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HISTORY: A friendship born in one of America's darkest hours | Watch Video
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, approximately 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent were transported to concentration camps, including one at Heart Mountain in Wyoming, where young Norman Mineta, a Boy Scout, was sent with his family. There he met another Boy Scout from Wyoming, Alan Simpson, and the two forged a friendship that endures to this day, even after each has served in Congress on opposite sides of the aisle. Lee Cowan talks with Mineta and Simpson about the story of Heart Mountain, and the brightness of the human spirit that shone in their bond. 

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HEADLINES: The longest hatred: Anti-Semitism on the rise | Watch Video
This year the Jewish festival of Hanukkah comes at a time when hate incidents targeting Jews - involving incitements to violence, mass shootings and online attacks - have increased dramatically. Correspondent Rita Braver talks with The New York Times' Jonathan Weisman, whose experience being trolled by anti-Semitic hatemongers online inspired his book, "(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump." Braver also talks with historian Deborah Lipstadt, and with Rabbi Jeffrey Meyers, who witnessed 11 congregants being gunned down at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

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JOURNALISM: Band of brothers: The lives and deaths of war photographers | Watch Video
Many photojournalists have lost their lives or limbs on the battle lines, because the only way to document the violence of war is up close. "Sunday Morning" Special Contributor Ted Koppel looks at the legacy of two noted war photographers, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were killed in pursuit of the truth amid the chaos of battle. Koppel also talks with documentary filmmaker Greg Campbell and journalist Sebastian Junger about the dangers faced by journalists in conflict zones; and with former New York Times photographer Mike Kamber, who helped found the Bronx Documentary Center, where youth people are taught about photojournalism.

GALLERY: The timeless photojournalism of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington

GALLERY: Young photojournalists' work from the Bronx Documentary Center

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SUNDAY MORNING INDEX: Pantone's Color of the Year
       

MUSIC: Cardi B on her determination: "I get up every single time, honey" | Watch Video
It's been an extraordinary year for Cardi B, the woman who keeps beating the odds. Last summer's smash, "Bodak Yellow," catapulted her to the top of the Billboard charts, and she became the first female rapper to have three Billboard #1 singles. But while her music has attracted attention, it's the Bronx native's personality that people can't seem to get enough of. "You just gotta be yourself," she told correspondent Maurice DuBois. "When I talk, I make a lot of mistakes. Like, I might say words, and the words are not even in the dictionary! But people still like it, because you can tell that I'm saying it from the heart." 

To watch Cardi B perform "Ring" (featuring Kehlani), from her album "Invasion of Privacy," click on the video player below: 

Cardi B - Ring (feat. Kehlani) [Official Video] by Cardi B on YouTube

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CALENDAR: Week of December 10 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Puffins | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" takes you this morning to northwestern Iceland, a home for puffins. Videographer: Jim Napoli.  

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IN MEMORIAM: Remembering 41: The life and career of George H.W. Bush | Watch Video
Rita Braver looks back at the life and career of President George Herbert Walker Bush, remembered for his sense of honor, decency and fair play. In addition to reviewing highlights from his impressive resume as a World War II Navy pilot, businessman, Congressman, diplomat, Vice President and President, she interviews former Secretary of State Jim Baker, historian David McCullough, and former CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante. 

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Former President George H.W. Bush on his election loss (Video)
Four years after losing his re-election bid to Bill Clinton, President George H.W. Bush was profiled by Paula Zahn for "Sunday Morning." While fishing, he talked – for the first time publicly – about how he processed the loss, and of making the transition from U.S. president to private citizen.

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ALMANAC: Aaron Copland | Watch Video
On December 2, 1990, a most un-common man, composer Aaron Copland, died at the age of 90. Jane Pauley reports. We are joine dby members of the Copland House ensemble who perform Copland's own piano and violin arrangement of the "Hoe Down" section of the ballet "Rodeo."  

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PERFORMANCE: Illusionist Jason Bishop: Creating magic in life | Watch Video
Illusionist Jason Bishop's life wasn't always magical. Born to drug-addicted parents and shuttled from one foster home to another, Bishop found a way to escape his world via escape artists like Harry Houdini, and would discover a talent for magic that has since taken him around the world. Faith Salie finds out how one magician has created magic in his life.

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MOVIES: An "Annie Hall" for the ages | Watch Video
Intrigued by the change that came over his aging grandmother with early onset Alzhiemer's when she watched an old movie, millennial filmmaker Matt Starr came up with a novel idea: ask seniors to act in a remake of a film. The movie they chose to remake? Woody Allen's "Annie Hall," a comedy about sex, death and memory. Starr and partner Ellie Sachs talked with Serena Altschul about working with their cast from Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in New York City (not to mention the live lobsters).

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PASSAGE: The creator of "SpongeBob SquarePants" | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" remembers Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher with a talent for art who dreamed up the gleeful cartoon residents of Bikini Bottom. Jane Pauley reports.

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HARTMAN: A very personal "thank you for your service" (Video)
John Metzler says a letter he received on the battlefield on Christmas Day 1970 from a sixth-grade girl helped him get through the Vietnam War. It was a simple note, with a simple message: "Thank you." Today, Metzler prizes the letter and its sentiment, and always wondered what happened to the little girl who wrote it. Steve Hartman was there when he found out.       

ART: The chronicles of "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley interviews her husband, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, whose '60s comic strip at Yale, "Bull Tales," evolved into one of the most influential and enduring chronicles of the generational counter-culture. Now 70, Trudeau talks about his Pulitzer Prize-winning strip, and the effect his memorable characters' journey has had on him.

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STAGE: Lin-Manuel Miranda brings "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico | Watch Video
The revolutionary musical is on the road on the island ravaged by Hurricane Maria. David Begnaud reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The autograph wall backstage at "Hamilton"
At New York's Richard Rodgers Theatre, Lin-Manuel Miranda shows correspondent David Begnaud a noted stopping-off point for famous visitors to "Hamilton": the celebrity signing wall.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda talks nerves on stage
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of "Hamilton" and "In the Heights," talks to correspondent David Begnaud about his response to nerves from being on stage: treating them like fuel.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda on his "Hamilton" elevator pitch
A rap musical about a founding father? O-kay. In this web extra, Lin-Manuel Miranda recalls for correspondent David Begnaud his very first public performance of music from "Hamilton," at the Obama White House.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda on a president's visit to "Hamilton"
Lin-Manuel Miranda recalls for correspondent David Begnaud when President Barack Obama came to see his Broadway show "Hamilton," when he wasn't scheduled to perform.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda on making other people's dreams come true
Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about bringing his Broadway hit "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico, and of casting Puerto Rican native Rick Negron as King George III.

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COMMENTARY: Evan Thomas on George H.W. Bush, "the last of his kind" | Watch Video
President George H.W. Bush died on Friday, November 30, at the age of 94. His passing has prompted reflection and respect from veteran journalist and author Evan Thomas.

      
FROM THE ARCHIVE: George H.W. Bush in his own words (Video)
We present highlights from an August 4, 1996 "Sunday Morning" interview of former President George H.W. Bush by Paula Zahn, in which he talks about campaigning, the media, character, and life after the White House. 

        
CALENDAR: Week of December 3 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Florida Everglades | Watch Extended Video
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Florida, home to flowers, turtles, and the occasional gator. Videographer: Charles Schultz.      

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Glossodoris cincta, a species of sea slug.

NATURE UP CLOSE: Nudibranchs are just weird
These ocean-dwelling mollusks are extremely colorful, and their behavior and reproduction extremely fascinating.

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COVER STORY: What's REALLY behind conspiracy theories? | Watch Video
Human beings are skeptical of coincidence, and think in terms of cause-and-effect, which is why many people are attracted to conspiracy theories to explain seemingly inexplicable events, like the assassination of a U.S. President – or, to explain things that never really happened, like "Pizza Gate." Susan Spencer talks with spy novelist Gayle Lynds and psychologist Rob Brotherton about humans' propensity to seek out clandestine, nefarious plots, and with professor Joseph Uscinski, who has studied hundreds of bizarre theories, and who thinks a little dose of conspiracy-thinking actually may be good for democracy.

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ALMANAC: Andrew Carnegie | Watch Video
On November 25, 1835, the steel industrialist and philanthropist was born in Scotland. Lee Cowan reports. 

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ART: Potter and author Edmund de Waal on the poetry of objects | Watch Video
Artist Edmund de Waal creates a kind of tactile poetry with the thousands of porcelain "pots" he creates each year in his South London studio. But he's probably even better known for "The Hare With Amber Eyes," a very personal family history which has sold more than a million copies worldwide. The book is named for a tiny Japanese sculpture called a netsuke, one piece of a family collection passed down through five generations to de Waal, all that is left of their once-stupendous wealth. For de Waal, his two great talents are a single shared vocabulary that informs his life. Martha Teichner reports.

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MUSIC: Singer-songwriter Alessia Cara on "The Pains of Growing" | Watch Video
The Canadian R&B singer-songwriter talks to correspondent Lee Cowan about her new album, "The Pains of Growing," and how this one-time closet pop-star became a genuine one.

To hear Alessia Cara perform her song "Not Today," from her new album "The Pain of Growing," click on the video player below. 

Alessia Cara - Not Today Official Live Performance (Vevo X) by AlessiaCaraVEVO on YouTube

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FURNITURE: A new wave in waterbeds | Watch Video
People fell hard for waterbeds when the aqua-filled bedding was introduced half a century ago, but waterbed sales have tanked since their high-point in the 1980s, when about one in every five beds sold in America was a waterbed. Luke Burbank interviews Charlie Hall, the inventor of the waterbed, who has introduced a "new and improved" version of the water-filled mattress, the Afloat.

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HARTMAN: Thanks for the help of a loving neighbor (VIDEO)
For many people flooded out of their homes in and around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the most welcoming port in the storm has been a total stranger. Jaret Hucks, who owns the Midtown Inn and Cottages, has given away almost a thousand free nights to this community's poorest and most vulnerable evacuees. Steve Hartman revisits the story he first reported earlier this fall, and about a new flood that followed. 

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POLITICS: Gary Hart on "The Front Runner," politics today, and how "all the rules have changed" | Watch Video
The new movie "The Front Runner" focuses on how, in 1987, the presidential campaign of Colorado Senator Gary Hart was upended by a newspaper story that raised allegations of an extramarital affair. "Imagine out of the blue, somebody came to you and said, 'There's good news and bad news – we want to make a movie about you, but we want to make it about the worst week of your life,'" Hart told correspondent Rita Braver.

In a rare television interview, Hart talks about his eventful career, and about how the media's examination of the private life of an untraditional politician like himself has changed the way character is measured, leading America to get "the kind of leaders we deserve."

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MUSIC: Singer-songwriter John Prine: Still alive and kickin' | Watch Video
John Prine started writing songs while delivering mail in Chicago in the late 1960s. Over the last 50 years, classic tunes just seemed to pour out of him – some sad, like "Angel From Montgomery" and "Sam Stone"; some funny, like "Illegal Smile" and "In Spite of Ourselves." Now, after beating cancer twice, the 72-year-old Prine is back with a new album, "The Tree of Forgiveness," and it's turning into the biggest record of his career, debuting at #2 on the Billboard Rock and Country charts.

As Anthony Mason learned when he spent some time with Prine in Nashville, the "Mark Twain of American Songwriting" (that's what Rolling Sone called him) says he couldn't have done any of it without the help of his wife, Fiona, and a heaping helping of meat loaf.

To hear John Prine's song "Summer's End," from his album "The Tree of Forgiveness," click on the video player below.

John Prine - Summer's End Official Video by John Prine on YouTube

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OPINION: A.J. Jacobs on giving thanks for a cup of coffee | Watch Video
The bestselling author, commentator and columnist A.J. Jacobs describes the delightful trouble he went through to thank everyone who helped create his morning cup of coffee.

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CALENDAR: Week of November 26 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

        
NATURE: Colorado mountains | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" takes you this morning to the San Juan Mountains near Durango, Colorado. Videographer: Scot Miller.   

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NATURE UP CLOSE: A wolf pack love story
Photographer Deby Dixon and "Sunday Morning" videographer Judy Lehmberg on the Wapiti Lake Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park.

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RECAP: NOVEMBER 18

Jane Pauley hosts our annual holiday broadcast devoted to all things epicurean. Check our our show's menu!

(And don't forget to check out our index of recipes and delicious menu suggestions from top chefs, cookbook authors, food bloggers, celebrity cooks, and the editors of Delish.com, including dishes featured on the show.)


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COVER STORY: Bowled over for breakfast | Watch Video
What happened when food blogger Wil Fulton tried an experiment of eating nothing but breakfast cereal for a week – 82 consecutive bowls? Susan Spencer talks with Fulton about his serial dining on cereal. She also talks with Yale University's Paul Freedman about the history of breakfasts; Dana McNabb, of General Mills, who is bowled over by new varieties of cereal; and registered dietitian Wendy Lopez, who reveals her secret to breakfast smoothies.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Picture perfect: Nathan Myhrvold's eye-popping pictures of food | Watch Video
Former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold is a man of many talents, from geophysics and space physics to economics – and now, taking eye-popping portraits of food. To get his perfect pictures, which have been featured in art galleries and in a book, "The Photography of Modernist Cuisine," Myhrvold had to design robots to better capture food at the perfect moment. David Pogue reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: High-tech photographer Nathan Myhrvold on the work of Harold Edgerton
Former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, a man with many scientific credentials, has also developed a passion for technically-savvy photographs of food. In this web extra he talked with "Sunday Morning" contributor David Pogue about the work of another photographer celebrated for high-speed images, Harold Edgarton.

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NUGGETS: Tater tots go gourmet | Watch Video
The humble tater tot, that staple of American casseroles and cafeterias, was created in the 1950s when a French fry company envisioned a way to use up all those potato scraps. Today, tater tots are even served in gourmet restaurants. Luke Burbank talks with food blogger Dan Whalen, author of a cookbook devoted to tater tots.

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CONDIMENTS: The craving for hot sauces is heating up | Watch Video
Hot sauce sales are increasing faster than any other condiment. To get a taste of what people can't get enough of, the hugely popular web series "Hot Ones" features celebrities sampling some really hot foods, and at about 3 million views per episode, the series shows no signs of cooling off. But could correspondent Michelle Miller pass the hot sauce test? She decided to put her mouth where her mouth is.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Michelle Miller sits in the "Hot Ones" hot seat
Many have tried to beat the heat on the hugely popular web series, "Hot Ones," in which celebrities are interviewed while eating excruciatingly-hot chicken wings. In this web extra, correspondent Michelle Miller sits in the hot seat herself opposite series host Sean Evans to test her mettle when it comes to tasting "the bomb."

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BEVERAGES: SeltzerSparkling water is making a splash | Watch Video
The market for sparkling water is positively bubbling over. Serena Altschul reports.

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PLASTIC: The last straw? | Watch Video
Millions of plastic drinking straws end up as litter, often in the oceans, which is why this summer Seattle became the largest city in America to ban plastic straws in restaurants, to be replaced with compostable or paper options. Tony Dokoupil talks with anti-straw advocates fighting the preponderance of single-use plastic in a throwaway culture, and with representatives of the food service industry in search of alternatives that will be easy for consumers to swallow.

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ELIXIR: Balsamic vinegar, the "black gold" of Modena | Watch Video
It's called the "black gold" of Modena, the northern Italian city where balsamic vinegar has been produced for generations – and where some varieties take up to a hundred years to age. Seth Doane dives into the process of creating a product once used as a gift among nobility or as a wedding dowry, and is now a favorite of food connoisseurs the world over.

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PALATE: Tastemaker: Food designer Sarah Masoni's million-dollar palate | Watch Video
As the director of Product and Process Development at the Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center, Sarah Masoni uses her uniquely-qualified taste buds as a "food designer." Lee Cowan reports on someone with most exquisite taste (buds).

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SNACK: Pepperoni rolls, West Virginia's most popular snack | Watch Video
In the 1920s, a coal miner from Calabria, Italy who resettled in West Virginia coal country, opened the Country Club Bakery in Fairmont, and introduced the pepperoni roll, a portable meal that miners really dug into. Conor Knighton explains the pepperoni pride West Virginians have for their delicious, utilitarian snack.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: In the kitchen with Chrissy Teigen | Watch Video
Rita Braver goes into the kitchen with social media star and bestselling cookbook author Chrissy Teigen, and her husband, music superstar John Legend.

RECIPE: Chrissy Teigen's Asian Pear & Avocado Salad

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SERVERS: Pizza by the deaf | Watch Video
Mozzeria is ranked among the top pizza places in San Francisco, and is one of the first to be entirely owned and operated by people who are deaf. Tracy Smith reports.

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CUISINE: The Sioux Chef | Watch Video
Chef Sean Sherman, who belongs to the Oglala Lakota tribe, spent a couple of decades cooking in fancy kitchens around Minneapolis before deciding to apply what he knew to native foods. He is on a mission to celebrate and showcase native cuisine with "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," which won this year's James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. Martha Teichner reports.

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BEVERAGES: Irish Coffee, at a San Francisco institution | Watch Video
The Buena Vista Café, which opened in 1916, is a San Francisco institution. And for more than 40 years, bartender Paul Nolan has been making the same drink that made the Buena Vista famous: the Irish Coffee. He demonstrated for John Blackstone the mixture of coffee, Irish whiskey and heavy cream that has kept locals and tourists coming back again and again.

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COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan on a favorite topic - Food | Watch Video
Seventy percent of Americans are overweight. Commentator Jim Gaffigan suggests that, really, 30 percent of Americans are just lagging behind the rest of the country.

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NATURE: Wild turkeys | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" takes viewers to California's Marin County. Videographer: Lee McEachern.
      
            

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CALENDAR: Week of November 19 | Watch Video

From Thanksgiving to Black Friday, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

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HEADLINES: Deadly wildfires decimate California communities (Video)
Wildfires are still burning across Northern and Southern California, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. The death toll now stands at 25. Jamie Yuccas reports from the Pacific Ocean enclave of Malibu. 

      
COVER STORY: Conversion therapy: A debunked practice aimed at "converting" homosexuals | Watch Video
An estimated 700,000 adults in the U.S. have received a controversial treatment known as Reparative or Conversion Therapy, under the belief that homosexuality is caused by nurture, not nature, and can be "cured." 

Erin Moriarty talks with young men and women who had undergone the treatment (voluntarily or at the behest of their families) in order to adhere to their church's teachings; and with Alan Chambers, who was the charismatic director of Exodus International, which promised to convert those with "same-sex attraction."

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FOOD: A slice of Japan: Tokyo's pizza makers | Watch Video
If you're searching for the best Neopolitan pizza in the world, some of the tastiest can be found in Tokyo. Ben Tracy reports.

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TELEVISION: Ben Stiller on directing the prison-break drama "Escape at Dannemora" | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil talks with the comic actor-director whose latest project is the Showtime miniseries "Escape at Dannemora," the too-weird-for-real-life story of a pair of convicted murderers who fled a prison in upstate New York in 2015 with the help of a female employee. The mini-series stars Benecio Del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette.

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VETERANS DAY: A World War II veteran's memories of a shot fired | Watch Video
Clarence Smoyer, now 94, was a gunner with the U.S. Army's Third Armored Division who'd come ashore in Normandy three weeks after D-Day, criss-crossed France and Belgium, and in March of 1945 fought to capture the German city of Cologne. There, during a firefight with a German tank, a car rounded a corner and was hit. Katharina Esser, a young girl, was wounded and later died. For years, Smoyer has played that scene (which was caught on film by an Army photographer) over and over, wondering if his shot killed Katarina. Seth Doane traveled with Smoyer to Cologne to revisit the site of the World War II battle, to meet with Katarina's relatives as well as the German soldier who was on the other side of that firefight.

READ A BOOK EXCERPT: "Spearhead: The World War II Odyssey of an American Tank Gunner"

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HARTMAN: Reviving a squirrel with CPR (Video)
"Life is life," said 19-year-old Chris Felix, who was desperately trying to revive a young one who'd darted out in front of his car in Brooklyn Park, Minn. The subject of his attention was a squirrel. Steve Hartman talked with Felix and with two police officers who responded to the scene of a unique application of CPR.

BIOGRAPHY: The Who's Roger Daltrey: Music legend, teen cancer warrior | Watch Video
"You'll never make anything of your life, Daltrey": Those words by the school principal who expelled Roger Daltrey for misbehavior at age 15 resonated enough to fuel the young man to one of rock's most prestigious careers: Front man of The Who, star of "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia," fashion icon – and cancer warrior. He talks with Jim Axelrod about his new memoir, "Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite," and about his 30-year mission of aiding hospital wards to deal with teenage cancer patients.

BOOK EXCERPT: Roger Daltrey's "Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite" (with audio excerpt)

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REMEMBERING 1968: Richard M. Nixon's election victory | Watch Video
Richard Schlesinger look back at the hard-fought race for the presidency in the turbulent year of 1968, when President Johnson withdrew from seeking re-election, and Richard Nixon – following losses in runs for the White House and the California Governor's Mansion – won the Republican presidential nomination and, ultimately, the presidency. Richard Schlesinger talks with Nixon aide Dwight Chapin and speechwriter Pat Buchanan, and with then-Senator Walter Mondale, about the unpredictable contest between a law-and-order candidate hoping to shed his image as a "loser," and a sitting vice president breaking from his own administration to vow an end to the bombing of North Vietnam.

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STAGE: Kenneth Lonergan on "The Waverly Gallery" and its personal story of dementia | Watch Video
Serena Altschul interviews the Oscar-winning writer-director ("Manchester by the Sea") about the revival of his play, "The Waverly Gallery," on Broadway, starring Elaine May.

EXTENDED TRANSCRIPT: More from Serena Altschul's interview with Kenneth Lonergan

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NATURE: Autumn colors | Watch Extended Video
"Sunday Morning" takes us to Stinson Lake in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.
        

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ALMANAC: Historic Route 66 | Watch Video
On November 11, 1926, officials green-lighted plans for the future highway, stretching 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles, nicknamed the "Mother Road." Jane Pauley reports. 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bill Geist travels Route 66, the "Main Street of America" (Video)
It's a storied American highway that traversed 2,400 miles beginning in Chicago, and not ending until it had to, at the Pacific Ocean. Bill Geist gets his kicks on a stretch of the historic Route 66 in New Mexico, riding along with Tom Snyder, author of "The Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion," and talks with Tom LaMance, proprietor of Swap Meet 66 in Prewitt, N.M., in a story originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" July 28, 1991. 

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CALENDAR: Week of November 12 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

        

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COVER STORY: Civics lessons: Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch on promoting education in citizenship | Watch Video
Since civics was dropped from school curriculums, awareness of our constitutional government (and our participation in it) has gone downhill. Only about 25% of Americans can name the three branches of government, 10% think that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court, and only 30% of millennials believe that it's "essential to live in a democracy."

Mo Rocca talks with Supreme Court Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch about promoting civics education. Rocca also talks with Eric Liu, who created Citizen University to help cultivate the values of good citizenship; and with Chicago social studies teacher Mary Ellen Daneels, who uses what passes for politics these days as object lessons in how not to be a good citizen.

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ALMANAC: Walter Cronkite | Watch Video
On November 4, 1916, legendary CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite was born. Jane Pauley reports.

GALLERY: Walter Cronkite

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ART: Lisbon street artist Vhils: Scraping and carving art into cityscapes | Watch Video
Instead of a paintbrush, Alexandre Farto uses drills and jackhammers to create large-scale public art that exposes layers of a city's history. Once seen as a vandal known by his tag, Vhils, he has fueled the flourishing street art scene in his native Lisbon, Portugal, where murals have added a colorful touch to the otherwise overlooked or mundane, and he has transformed buildings in cities around the world by exposing layers of history. Seth Doane reports.

GALLERY: Chiseled portraits of street artist Vhils

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TELEVISION: "Big Bang Theory" creator Chuck Lorre on his Netflix series, "The Kominsky Method" | Watch Video
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil talks with the producer of such TV hits as "The Big Bang Theory," "Young Sheldon" and "Mom," who discusses his latest streaming show, "The Kominsky Method" also with the series' star Michael Douglas. Lorre also talks about his tough childhood on Long Island and his later-in-life success in TV, and in rewriting his reputation as "The Angriest Man in Television."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Chuck Lorre on lessons learned from his father
Veteran TV producer Chuck Lorre, noted for creating such comedy hits as "The Big Bang Theory" and "Mom," has extended his support to a health facility, the Venice Family Clinic's Robert Levine Family Health Center, in Venice, Calif. He explained to correspondent Tony Dokoupil why he built the clinic, dedicated to his father: "It's a frightening things to be ill and not know where to go."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Michael Douglas on finding the humor in getting old
Oscar-winning actor-producer Michael Douglas is stepping into a rare comedic role with the new Netflix series, "The Kominsky Method." Produced by Chuck Lorre, the show is about an aging actor and his aging agent-friend, played by Alan Arkin. Douglas talked with correspondent Tony Dokoupil about why he chose to sign onto working with Lorre and develop his "comedy chops."

To watch a trailer for the new Netflix series "The Kominsky Method" click on the video player below.

The Kominsky Method | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix by Netflix on YouTube

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PASSAGE: The killing of "Whitey" Bulger | Watch Video
The former Boston crime boss and FBI informant, jailed in connection with 11 murders and other crimes, was slain in a West Virginia prison. Jane Pauley reports.
      

SEASONS: Photographer "Jeff Foliage," the pied piper of New England's fall colors | Watch Video
Jeff Folger goes by the name "Jeff Foliage," and he REALLY loves fall colors. In New England, where tourists spend around $3 billion over the course of leaf peeping season, he heads off in his red SUV in search of the most beautiful yellows and oranges and shares them with the world. He also shared his search with Conor Knighton.

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MUSIC: Max Richter's music to sleep by (Video)
British composer Max Richter's most ambitious work," Sleep," is an eight-hour "lullaby" that is to be heard while tucked into bed. Richter recently performed it under the stars in Los Angeles, at a giant slumber party with 500 guests. Tracy Smith reports.

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HARTMAN: Striking a chord for civility in politics (Video)
Zac Mayo and Lucy Rogers are Republican and Democratic candidates aggressively competing for a State House seat in Vermont. But this highly-competitive race took a dramatic turn when the two recently ended a debate by joining together in harmony. Steve Hartman reports. 

SUNDAY PROFILE:  Jeff Goldblum: Living life like a jazz piece | Watch Video
Jeff Goldblum's life is like a jazz piece: his acting improvisational, his style unpredictable. He's made an art of being offbeat, and is this week releasing his first album. Anthony Mason reports.

PREVIEW: Jeff Goldblum made sure his quirkiness "didn't hold me back"

To watch Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra (featuring Haley Reinhart) perform "My Baby Just Cares For Me," click on the video player below:

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra feat. Haley Reinhart - My Baby Just Cares... by JeffGoldblumVEVO on YouTube

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OPINION: Jackie Speier on Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple cult, and surviving the Jonestown massacre | Watch Video
In November 1978 Jackie Speier was an attorney on the staff of Congressman Leo Ryan that was investigating human rights abuses by Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple cult in Guyana. While on a fact-finding mission, Speier was shot five times by Jones' followers, but survived. Some 900 members of the cult did not, victims of a mass murder-suicide. Speier, now a Congresswoman from California, talks about surviving the horror, and how that formative moment changed her. 

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MIDTERM ELECTIONS: What to watch for | Watch Video
CBS News' director of elections and surveys, Anthony Salvanto, says midterm elections are really the most important one.

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CALENDAR: Week of November 5 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE: Wolves | Extended Video
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the wolves at Yellowstone National Park. Videographer: Judy Lehmberg.
       

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove on sharing the stage with giants (Video)
Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove died Saturday, November 3, 2018, at the age of 49. In this profile originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" September 8, 1991, Hargrove, then 21, talked with correspondent Billy Taylor about maturing as an artist. Taylor also spoke with musician Wynton Marsalis, a mentor of Hargrove's; and with George Wein, who brought Hargrove into a new group called The Jazz Futures, which toured music festivals around the country.

NATURE UP CLOSE: Educating your eyes
A lesson in microclimates and the north-south slope effect.

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HEADLINES: Gunman kills 11 in Pittsburgh synagogue, yelled "All Jews must die" (VIDEO)
In one of the deadliest attacks on Jewish-Americans in U.S. history, a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday and opened fire. In minutes, 11 people were killed. Police say the suspect, who is in custody, yelled that "All Jews must die." David Begnaud reports.

      
COVER STORY: The banking crisis 10 years on, and the danger of another crash | Watch Video
In 2008, the banking system was near collapse, the stock market was in free fall, and government officials (it seemed to many) were as clueless as the rest of us. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger looks back at the housing and banking crisis that almost dragged the world down into another Great Depression, and talks with historian Adam Tooze and Wall Street Journal reporter Gretchen Morgenson about how many of the new rules put into place to protect the system from suffering another meltdown are being diluted.

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ALMANAC: The 1858 launch of Macy's | Watch Video
On October 28, 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened a small dry goods store in New York City that would grow into a retail giant renowned for parades. Jane Pauley reports. 

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POSTCARD FROM DENMARK:  Licorice: Love it or hate it | Watch Video
Salty licorice is a favorite Scandinavian treat, and quite different from the "licorice" candy that many Americans are used to eating, which sometimes contains no real licorice at all. 

Conor Knighton visits Copenhagen, where bitter licorice candy has a strong following, and where entrepreneur Johan Bulow's company Lakrids has launched high-end, authentic licorice to discriminating palates around the world.

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HALLOWEEN: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" at 200 | Watch Video
Two centuries ago, at a storm-tossed villa in Switzerland owned by Lord Byron, a young girl named Mary Shelley accepted a challenge to write a ghost story, and created what would become one of the most famous names in horror: Frankenstein. Roxana Saberi looks at the creation of Shelley's mythic tale, published in 1818, and what her story of a scientist who harnesses life itself has to teach audiences today.

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CULTURE: Unmasking the history of blackface | Watch Video
With the recent controversy over Megyn Kelley's remarks in which she questioned why wearing blackface on Halloween was offensive, "Sunday Morning" contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois looks at the long and complex history of white (and even black) performers painting their faces black. For more than 100 years, minstrel shows were a popular form of entertainment on stage and film, reducing an entire race of people to stereotypes. DuBois speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson, and with Eric Lott, cultural historian and professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, about the complicated history of a racist theatrical form.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Margo Jefferson on the history of black performers wearing blackface
As a theatrical art form that began in the 19th century, minstrel shows featured white performers wearing blackface to evoke stereotypes. But African-American performers have also worn blackface when taking the stage. In this web exclusive, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks with "Sunday Morning" contributor and WCBS anchor Maurice DuBois about why black performers felt the need to don a black mask.

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PASSAGE: Dorcas Reilly, creator of the green bean casserole | Watch Video
This week we learned of the death earlier this month, at age 92, of Dorcas Reilly. A long-time employee of the home economics department at Campbell Soup, Reilly invented the recipe for the "Green Bean Bake" back in 1955. Her combination of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried onions, and seasonings was a near-instant hit with homemakers, and is today used by millions each Thanksgiving. 
      

MOVIES: Jonah Hill on directing "Mid90s" | Watch Video
"Mid90s" is about a tight-knit band of skaters growing up and raising hell in mid-'90s Los Angeles.  For first-time director Jonah Hill, who earned Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for "Moneyball" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," it's another chance for him to "mess up." He tells Tracy Smith, "I mess up every day. I mess up in a way that makes me human. It's what you do after you mess up that makes you someone worthy, you know?"

To watch a trailer for "Mid90s" click on the video player below.

Mid90s | Official Trailer HD | A24 by A24 on YouTube

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ADVENTURES:  "The White Darkness": One explorer's obsession with Antarctica | Watch Video
Henry Worsley's lifetime fascination with Antarctic explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott led him to retrace their expeditions in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. In 2015 Worsley set off yet again to emulate his hero, Shackleton, by embarking on the first solo crossing of the continent. Anthony Mason reports.

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HALLOWEEN: "Halloween" and the surge in horror films: Why audiences are dying to get their fix of fear | Watch Video
The latest iteration of the horror film "Halloween," a sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter classic, scared up a staggering $77.5 million when it opened last week. Lee Cowan talks with actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who returned to once again face off against the masked Michael Myers, and who admits she doesn't like scary movies!  He also talks with Vulture film critic Jordan Crucchiola about the popularity of horror films; sociologist Margee Kerr, who studies what happens to our brains when we experience fear in the theatre; and with Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions was behind last year's Oscar-winning horror hit "Get Out."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How Jamie Lee Curtis was scared off the horror genre
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of the star of "Psycho," was born into horror film royalty, and she earned a place herself when she starred in the original 1978 "Halloween." But as she tells "Sunday Morning" correspondent Lee Cowan, she's not a fan of horror films, and she credits one movie in particular for scaring her off the genre: "The Exorcist."

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REMEMBERING 1968: Raised fist: Tommie Smith and his "moment of truth" at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics | Watch Video
One of the 20th century's best-known images is of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in 1968, their fists raised in protest, taking a stand for civil rights on a world stage. Smith and Carlos would become pariahs to some, heroes to others. Today, some NFL players are modeling their activism, using their platforms to call attention to racial injustice. 

Jim Axelrod talks with Smith; sociologist Harry Edwards, who taught Smith and Carlos at San Jose State, and whose Olympic Project for Human Rights organized athletes to protest; and the Philadelphia Eagles' Michael Bennett and Malcolm Jenkins.

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NATURE: Spiders | Watch Extended Video
A few days before Halloween, "Sunday Morning" shows viewers a spider weaving a web. Videographer: Carl Mrozek. 

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CALENDAR: Week of October 29 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. 

NATURE UP CLOSE: The best wolf ever
Judith Lehmberg looks back at the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park, and the legacy of one special male.

PRE-EMPTED: OCTOBER 21

"Sunday Morning" will not be broadcast Sunday, October 21, as CBS presents, live from London, England, the NFL matchup between the Tennessee Titans and the Los Angeles Chargers at Wembley Stadium.  

We will be back on October 28, just in time for Halloween!

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COVER STORY:  The Flat Earth movement: A society of disbelievers in scientific fact | Watch Video
"The Truth is out there," and the Flat-Earthers know it. They'll tell you that not only is the Earth a flat disk, but also that we've never been to the Moon or Mars, and that all the footage of floating astronauts is faked. It's a sign of a lack of faith in expertise, where people only choose to believe what they can see for themselves.

Correspondent Brook Silva-Braga talks with "Mad Mike" Hughes, who ascended 1,800 feet in a self-built rocket to see if the Earth actually curves; "conspiracy realist" Patricia Steere, host of the YouTube channel "Flat Earth & Other Hot Potatoes," who believes NASA is part of a conspiracy directed at all of humanity; and Thomas Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," who talks about a reverse-snobbery expressed by some people against the well-educated.

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ALMANAC: Matthew Shepard | Watch Video
Twenty years ago this past week, a 21-year-old gay man died of injuries he'd received in a beating - and would become a martyr in the cause for gay rights. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: Unlocking the wonders of Tiny Doors ATL | Watch Video
Karen Anderson's art project featuring tiny doors – all of seven inches tall – installed in neighborhoods across Atlanta invites people to unlock their imaginations. Mark Strassmann reports. 

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COMEDY: Cheech & Chong's "Up in Smoke," 40 years later | Watch Video
It was 40 years ago that the stoner comedy "Up in Smoke" wafted into theaters – the perfect film vehicle for Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. John Blackstone talks with the comic duo, and with record producer Lou Adler, who was a first-time director on the 1978 comedy hit.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: The mystery of Jamal Khashoggi | Watch Video
A writer for The Washington Post who has written columns critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week and has not been seen since. U.S. intelligence reportedly intercepted Saudi communications portending a plot to detain Khashoggi, while Turkish officials have said they feared he has been murdered. Holly Williams reports. 

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POLITICS: Looking at 2018's "Pink Wave" - and an uphill run for women | Watch Video
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil looks at the historical under-representation of women in elected office, and the spike in female candidates in 2018. Interviews include two-time presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Democratic Congressional candidate Jahana Hayes (Teacher of the Year from Connecticut), and GOP Congressional candidate Kimberlin Brown Pelzer from California. 

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HARTMAN: Putting a town treasure on a pedestal (Video)
Todd Kirnan, a 45-year-old man with autism, has been making deliveries and doing odd jobs for virtually every business in downtown Gresham, Ore.  Todd is so treasured here that people have often joked that he should have his own statue, or have a parade thrown in his honor. Which is why Kirnan got a very special surprise recently. Steve Hartman reports.         

MUSIC: Tina Turner on her voice, finding serenity, and losing a son | Watch Video
The music legend talks with CBS News' Gayle King about her new memoir, "My Love Story."

BOOK EXCERPT: Hear Tina Turner read the prologue from "My Love Story"

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COMMENTARY: BREAKING NEWS! Faith Salie has some words about "breaking news"! | Watch Video
Contributor Faith Salie on the fake urgency of 24-hour cable news channels that hype everything as a breaking news story.

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HISTORY:  "On Desperate Ground": The story of Chosin Reservoir, the Korean War's greatest battle | Watch Video
It was Thanksgiving 1950, when U.S. Marines – enduring temperatures of 50 degrees below zero  -- advanced through a mountain pass towards the Yalu River in northern Korea, only to be met by 100,000 Chinese forces. Their clash at the Chosin Reservoir would be called the Korean War's greatest battle.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with Hampton Sides, author of the new book "On Desperate Ground"; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, whose father fought at Chosin; and Warren Weidhahn, who was a private during the battle.

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CALENDAR: Week of October 15 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

       
NATURE: Woodchucks | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes you among woodchucks at the Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, Maine. Videographer: Mauricio Handler. 

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ART: Georgia O'Keeffe and her visions of Hawaii | Watch Video
An exhibition of paintings and flowers at the New York Botanical Garden showcases one of the lesser-known subjects of the great American artist: Hawaii.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: A coalition of the killing
Videographer Judy Lehmberg witnesses a group of cheetahs in the arduous process of taking down a wildebeest at Kenya's Maasai Mara.

       

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GUEST HOST: Mo Rocca

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HEADLINES: The confirmation victory of Justice Brett Kavanaugh | Watch Video
The nasty, divisive battle over replacing the Supreme Court's "swing justice" was not ended by a swearing-in ceremony. Rita Braver reports.

         
COVER STORY: Vaping: Clearing the air | Watch Video
Will e-cigs make the traditional cigarette obsolete? Vaping is catching on among smokers switching from cigarettes, but it is also attracting a new demographic: young people who'd never smoked before. Tony Dokoupil reports on the possible benefits and unknown effects of transitioning tobacco products to a smoke-free market.

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ALMANAC: The invention of carbon paper | Watch Video
On October 7, 1806, the duplicative stationery was patented by English inventor Ralph Wedgwood. Mo Rocca reports.

CITIES: A walk in Moscow's grand new park, created by an American | Watch Video
Built adjacent to Red Square, Moscow's Zaryadye Park, the city's first new park in 50 years, recreates Russia's many landscapes in the center of one of the world's biggest, busiest cities. The park, which features 32 undulating acres covered in native plants and trees, was designed by an American, architect Charles Renfro, who was responsible for New York's High Line. Correspondent Liz Palmer talked with Renfro and landscape architect Mary Margaret Jones about the backstory of this grand public space.

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PASSAGE: "Sunday Morning" remembers (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the notable figures who left us this past week, including French singer, actor and activist Charles Aznavour; Oscar-winning "Claymation" animator Will Vinton; and Juan Romero, a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles who cradled a dying Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968.   

MEDIA: Cindy Adams' bold-faced life | Watch Video
At 88, Cindy Adams is the last of her generation, but after nearly four decades her New York Post gossip column is still going strong. She dishes with Mo Rocca about why she doesn't like the word "gossip"; her affection for Yorkshire Terriers and friendships with dictators; her late husband, comedian Joey Adams; and her buddy Judge Judy, who also turns up with some dating advice.

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HARTMAN: Love thy neighbor: Helping Florence evacuees (Video)
For many people flooded out of their homes in and around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the most welcoming port in the storm has been a total stranger. Jaret Hucks, who owns the Midtown Inn and Cottages, has given away almost a thousand free nights to this community's poorest and most vulnerable evacuees. And his generosity has inspired many others. Steve Hartman reports. 

MUSIC: How Steve Perry started believin' again | Watch Video
Tracy Smith catches up with Steve Perry, who talks about life after leaving as the lead singer of the rock band Journey.

To watch Steve Perry perform "No More Cryin'," from his new album 'Traces," click on the video player below.

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ON BROADWAY: Kerry Washington on calling the shots | Watch Video
The "Scandal" star has returned to Broadway in the new drama "American Son," playing the mother of a young man who has disappeared. Michelle Miller reports.

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OPINION: Doris Kearns Goodwin on whether we are living in "the worst of times" | Watch Video
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian says a crisis can be overcome if aroused citizens join together toward a moral purpose.

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CALENDAR: Week of October 8 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Mo Rocca reports.

      
NATURE: Ghost crabs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning on a dark night in Avon, North Carolina, where ghost crabs are getting an early start on Halloween. Videographer: Joseph L. Frandino.         

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"An Evening with CBS Sunday Morning"
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NATURE UP CLOSE: Dolphins
"Sunday Morning" videographer Ziggy Livnat on his encounters with the curious, playful marine animals while filming under the sea.

      
NATURE UP CLOSE: Traveling to Kruger
Videographer Judy Lehmberg offers tips on a self-driving vacation through South Africa's splendid Kruger National Park.

EMMY WINNER: Aftermath - A family's recovery | Watch Video
After the Brussels Airport blast killed his wife and seriously injured two of their children, an Air Force Lt. Col.'s family adjusts to a new life, and finds strength together. Winner of this year's News Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast. Congratulations to correspondent David Martin, producer Mary Walsh, editor Joseph L. Frandino, executive producer Rand Morrison, and senior producers Gavin Boyle, Amy Rosney and Jason Sacca.

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COVER STORY: Hearing aids: You ain't heard nothing yet | Watch Video
Two out of three people over age 70 have trouble hearing, but only about 20% of adults who have hearing loss actually use a hearing aid, for the most part because of costs related to the devices themselves and to testing and consultations with a doctor or audiologist. David Pogue checks out the latest advances in hearing aid technology that have reduced size and added unique features, and finds out what changes consumers can anticipate after Congress passed a bill allowing hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter. 

EXTRA: Guide to hearing aids
Information on improving your hearing is just a click away.

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ALMANAC: The inventor of the Geiger Counter | Watch Video
September 30, 1882 was the birthday of physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger, who developed a method for detecting and measuring radioactivity.

ART: Balloon art: A POP! culture competition | Watch Video
The competition was blowing up at the World Balloon Convention, where balloon artists created massive sculptures almost out of thin air. Conor Knighton was there.

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REMEMBRANCE:  Documentary "Love, Gilda" recalls the beloved comedian's all-too-brief life | Watch Video
A new documentary, "Love, Gilda," explores the life and humor of improv star, comic actress and original "Saturday Night Live" cast member Gilda Radner, using rare home movies and audio recordings. And as CBS News chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook reports, Radner's response to the ovarian cancer that would claim her life at age 42 mirrored her approach to comedy – honest, vulnerable and funny.

To watch a trailer for "Love, Gilda," click on the video player below. 

Love, Gilda - Official Trailer by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing on YouTube

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REMEMBERING 1968: When Miss America met women's liberation | Watch Video
As part of our continuing series looking back on one of the most pivotal years in American history, Rita Braver reports on the incredible turn of events at the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City, N.J., in September 1968, when feminists protested at Boardwalk Hall, sparking the stereotype of bra burnings and drawing the traditional beauty pageant – with its talent and swimsuit competitions – into the realm of politics.

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COMMENTARY: Rebecca Traister on the power of women's (and men's) anger | Watch Video
This past week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, featuring Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and the man she has accused of sexually assaulting her many years ago, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, offered an interesting contrast in how men and women are allowed by society to express themselves. New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister, author of the book "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger," talks about how, historically, anger wielded by men has been accepted as a positive, and by women as a negative.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Ted Turner: Never a quitter | Watch Video
You need a wide lens on your camera to capture the many sides of Ted Turner, especially out on his sprawling, 113,000-acre ranch near Bozeman, Montana. Owner of a TV station and sports franchises, creator of CNN, America's Cup yacht racer, rancher, environmental advocate, and politically incorrect mouthpiece, Turner sits down with Special Contributor Ted Koppel for a candid discussion about how he fulfilled more ambitions than many people could ever dream of.

VIDEO PREVIEW: How Ted Turner might run CNN today

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan on losing his appendix | Watch Video
The comedian left a part of himself in Alaska.

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WHAT HAPPENED: A nation is tasked: Whom to believe | Watch Video
The truth, as told by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford or Judge Brett Kavanaugh, is being judged by 100 senators - and all of us, reports Jan Crawford.        

   
NATURE: Mount Rainier (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with a view of late-blooming wildflowers at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

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CALENDAR: Week of October 1 | Watch Video
From the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Try to remember - making sense of memory | Watch Video
Memory plays an important role in guiding people through their lives. But experts say that as the years go by and we grow and develop, our recollections adjust with us, whether we know it or not. Russ Mitchell talks with NYU research psychologist Elizabeth Phelps about the elasticity of memory, and with veteran writers David Halberstam, Gay Talese and A.E. Hotchner, who have all navigated that murky area between history and memory. Originally broadcast January 7, 2007, and winner of a 2008 News Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.

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COVER STORY: Fighting the lies about Sandy Hook | Watch Video
In the nearly six years since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the community of Newtown, Connecticut – and all 26 families who lost a child or a loved one – have slowly tried to move forward. But some families feel they have no choice but to look back, to stare down something they never imagined they would face: an outlandish myth launched online and spread through social media that the shooting at Sandy Hook never actually happened, or that it was staged with the help of paid "actors," including the grieving parents themselves, and that the children who were killed had never lived in the first place.

Earlier this year, several families of victims filed lawsuits against Alex Jones, the online provocateur whom they feel is mainly responsible for spreading lies and conspiracy theories concerning their murdered children. Tony Dokoupil reports. 

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ALMANAC: Typhoid Mary | Watch Video
September 23, 1869 marked the birth of the woman who would become a "healthy carrier" of a communicable disease, who would end her life in quarantine. Jane Pauley reports. 

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES:  The Supreme Court: Every seat "a chess piece in the struggle for power" | Watch Video
Martha Teichner on the controversy surrounding decades-old allegations of sexual assault against a politically-charged figure: a nominee for a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.   

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HOLLYWOOD: Michael Ovitz: Closing old wounds | Watch Video
Once the most powerful agent in Hollywood and later the number-two man at Disney, Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), talks with Rita Braver about his new memoir, "Who Is Michael Ovitz," in which he looks back at his legacy in the entertainment industry with both pride and regret.

BOOK EXCERPT: How "Schindler's List" and "Jurassic Park" came to be
In his new memoir, "Who Is Michael Ovitz," the agent discusses how he was able to work deals involving Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Michael Crichton, and the germ of an idea about dinosaurs.

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COMMENTARY: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on how alcohol affects memory | Watch Video
Some answers to the question that hangs over the current Supreme Court confirmation battle of Brett Kavanaugh - and some wrong assumptions. 

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TELEVISION: RuPaul: All dressed up | Watch Video
The successful VH1 game show "RuPaul's Drag Race" features remarkably-named contestants (such as Sasha Velour, Kalorie Karbdashian Williams and Mayhem Miller) who compete for cash prizes and the title of America's Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul explains to Nancy Giles the power of a man performing in women's clothes, heels and makeup. (Originally broadcast March 11, 2018.)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Judge Judy hands down her opinion on RuPaul
RuPaul, star of "RuPaul's Drag Race," expresses his devotion to Judge Judy - and hears via Nancy Giles a special message for RuPaul from the lady in black robes herself. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: RuPaul on what he learned from his family
RuPaul, renowned as a celebrity drag queen, talks about his mother (a "rebel"), his father (the "life of the party"), his sisters (who were his universe growing up), and why he describes himself as "an introvert masquerading as an extrovert."

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HARTMAN: Answered prayers: What happens "when God shows up" (Video)
Although no one knew it at the time, Jerome Jones, a poor preacher at the Springfield Baptist Church in Monticello, Ga., recently went through a crisis of faith, until he received a message from the heavens – actually, a note attached to three balloons. Steve Hartman talks with Jones about how a cry for help renewed his faith.      

TELEVISION:  Murphy's back! | Watch Video
Lee Cowan visits the set of the reincarnation of "Murphy Brown," and talks with star Candice Bergen, who won five Emmys for her role in the original show; series creator Diane English; and other members of the cast, many returning to roles they left 20 years ago.  

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Candice Bergen and Diane English on expected backlash
From 1988 to 1998, the sitcom "Murphy Brown" tackled some hot political and social issues. With the series' return in the era of #MeToo and Donald Trump, star and executive producer Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English tell correspondent Lee Cowan that they expect they will once again hit some hot button topics - and face some backlash for doing so.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Impact of "Murphy Brown" on breast cancer screenings
Candice Bergen and Diane English talk with correspondent Lee Cowan about the impact their comedy "Murphy Brown" had when its lead character faced breast cancer.

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MUSIC: Leonard Bernstein at 100 | Watch Video  
It's hard to believe that Leonard Bernstein was just one person. He was the classical music world's first American-born superstar conductor; a composer of legendary Broadway shows like "West Side Story," and a pied piper for millions of future music lovers in his "Young People's Concerts" on television. Mo Rocca visits the Grammy Museum exhibit now touring the country in honor of Bernstein's 100th birthday, and talks with Bernstein's daughter, Jamie, and with New York Philharmonic musician Stanley Drucker. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How Leonard Bernstein mixed composing with teaching
In 1982, while working on his opera, "A Quiet Place," famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein spent several months at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. There he engaged students in an unconventional way to workshop the material while he composed it, as Dean Emeritus Charles Webb describes to correspondent Mo Rocca in this web exclusive.

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PASSAGE: Arthur Mitchell and Robert Venturi | Watch Video  
"Sunday Morning" remembers the co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem and a prize-winning architect. Jane Pauley reports. 

       
NATURE: Dolphins (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in waters of the Red Sea, where bottlenose dolphins play. 

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CALENDAR: Week of September 24 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.  

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GALLERY:  Scenes from Riot Fest
The three-day Chicago music festival featured such acts as Elvis Costello and Pussy Riot.
   

NATURE UP CLOSE: One huge crocodile
Today's animal fact, demonstrated in gruesome detail: While crocodiles have many sharp teeth, they can't chew, so they must tear off chunks of an animal to swallow them.

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HEADLINES: Latest on Hurricane Florence
CBS News correspondents track the developments of the storm striking the southeastern U.S. coast this weekend.

Florence's lethal one-two punch to the Carolinas (VIDEO)
With at least 14 deaths, Florence has wreaked havoc on North and South Carolina this weekend, bring nearly three feet of rainfall and leaving thousands homeless. Jef Glor reports the latest developments from Wilmington, North Carolina, and meteorologist Megan Glaros of CBS' Chicago station WBBM tells us what we may expect next. 

Florence: Desperate residents contend with flooding (VIDEO)
Epic rainfall and rising rivers are creating a nightmare for residents as Tropical Depression Florence continues to wreak havoc up and down the Carolina coast. Mark Strassmann reports

Rescuing Florence victims (VIDEO)
As the rain keeps falling and the water keeps rising, Florence continues to bring devastation to the Carolina coast, but not despair. Adriana Diaz reports on how first responders and volunteers are assisting those stranded by the storm.

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ALMANAC: Rabbit ears | Watch Video
On September 16, 1919, Marvin Middlemark, the inventor of a familiar TV antenna, was born. Jane Pauley reports.
       

ART: Decorating hallowed ground with street art | Watch Video
When the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey asked developer Larry Silverstein to liven up his construction zone at the site of the former World Trade Center, he responded by inviting 50 street artists to cover more than 20,000 square feet of corrugated metal with graffiti. Faith Salie talks with some of the artists who have made their mark on the site, with every painted surface telling a story of mystery, acceptance and love.

GALLERY: Graffiti rises at the World Trade Center site

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PASSAGE: End of the road for the VW Beetle | Watch Video
Volkswagen announced this week that it will cease production of its iconic automobile next year. Jane Pauley reports. 

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MUSIC: Carrie Underwood on getting beyond three miscarriages, to joy | Watch Video
For Carrie Underwood, who'd auditioned for "American Idol" hoping it would up her chances for getting a job in TV news, winning the competition was like launching a country music moon rocket, leading to several hit albums and world tours. She also married NHL hockey star Mike Fisher and had a son, Isaiah.

But just when it seemed that all was perfect, life threw her a curve. Tracy Smith sits down with Underwood for an intimate conversation about pain and recovery.

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ISLAND HOPPING: Purr-adise: Hawaii's cat sanctuary | Watch Video
Welcome to "Purr-adise." Cats on the small Hawaiian island of Lanai have got it made – amazing weather, meals served in their own "cat-fur-teria," and a steady influx of adoring fans ready to give them all the love and affection they could ever want. Conor Knighton joins them.

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan on beer | Watch Video
The comedian isn't afraid to demand a cold brew that doesn't taste like chocolate or avocado.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Robert Redford: "There's only the trying" | Watch Video
"You know, I can't do this forever," said Robert Redford. At 82 he's starring in a new film, "The Old Man & the Gun." It's based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, a lifelong outlaw who escaped from nearly every prison he was confined to, continuing to rob banks well into his late 70s. Lee Cowan continues his conversation with the Oscar-winning actor-director, who talks about his decision to retire from acting – but hardly retiring from life.

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RETROSPECTIVE:  Bill Geist on the trip of a lifetime | Watch Video
Beloved correspondent Bill Geist looks back on four decades of reporting for "Sunday Morning."      

       
CALENDAR: Week of September 17 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Canadian Rockies (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the Canadian Rockies. Videographer: Charles Schultz.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: A surprise leopard or two
Counterintuitive lessons to keep in mind when photographing wildlife – or avoiding a small plane crash.

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OUR PRIME TIME SPECIAL, CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF "SUNDAY MORNING"!

Featuring guests Ralph Lauren, Robert Redford, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, and Louise Brown. Airs Friday, September 14, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT on CBS. 

OPENER: Mo Rocca goes behind the scenes at "Sunday Morning" (Video)
What's it like in the hallways of CBS? "Sunday Morning"'s own Mo Rocca gives us a backstage tour, with stops along the way with our friends from "Blue Bloods" and "Murphy Brown." Also: Our musical show opening performed by Juilliard students Jonah Moss, Anthony Hervey, Noah Halpern and Giveton Gelin, led by Wynton Marsalis.

HISTORY: 40 years of "Sunday Morning" (Video)
Jane Pauley looks back at the very beginning of "Sunday Morning," and how it has stayed true to Charles Kuralt's vision – traveling the back roads, taking our audience places and showing them things they wouldn't see anywhere else on television, to make sure "gentler subjects" get their due. 

INNOVATION: Test tube baby Louise Brown and the birth of IVF | Watch Video
Forty years ago the arrival of Louise Brown proved the success of in vitro fertilization, giving hope to millions of parents trying to have a child. Tracy Smith sits down with Brown, and with a couple who gave birth (with an assist from IVF) to a baby boy almost 40 years to the day after Brown's birth. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Louise Brown on growing up the first test tube baby
In 1979, Louise Brown was the first child born through the use of in vitro fertilization, or IVF. In this web exclusive she talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about what it was like growing up as the world's first "test tube baby." In a word, "weird."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Hank Greely on "The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction"
Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with professor Hank Greely, director of Stanford University's Center for Law and the Biosciences and author of "The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction," about his theory that technology which could theoretically create eggs and sperm from skin cells will change the way most couples procreate.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: What CRISPR may mean for human reproduction
Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Marcy Darnovsky, head of the Center for Genetics and Society, about her fears involving the revolutionary gene editing tool known as CRISPR.

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FLASHBACK: The musicians (Video)
We take a moment to re-visit some of the countless musical stars that "Sunday Morning" has profiled over the years. 

HARMONY: All of Chrissy Teigen | Watch Video
Rita Braver talks with the supermodel who discusses life with her husband, award-winning singer-songwriter John Legend, and her relationship with her millions of social media fans.

RECIPE: Chrissy Teigen's Thai Soy-Garlic Fried Ribs
Hot, juicy ribs with a Thai twist, from the supermodel's new cookbook, "Cravings: Hungry for More."

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FLASHBACK: Museum of Pop Culture (Video)
Martha Teichner visits the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle to see what fascinated audiences 40 years ago, and explores how things have changed since "Sunday Morning" first went on the air in 1979, to our technologically-transformed pop culture universe today.

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FASHION: Ralph Lauren: "I feel cooler now than ever" | Watch Video
Jane Pauley has a rare interview with 78-year-old fashion legend Ralph Lauren, who gives her a tour of his 20,000-acre Colorado ranch, and talks about the purpose of fashion and his own longevity.

PREVIEW: Ralph Lauren: "You don't have to wear a label to be important"

Ralph Lauren's 50th anniversary show
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HARTMAN: Good neighbors | Watch Video
Charles Kuralt, "Sunday Morning"'s founding anchor, traveled America for years in his "On The Road" RV, reporting the stories everyone else missed. These days he has a worthy successor, our Steve Hartman, who tells us about an unusual ritual in one Utah community that has bound residents together, to come to the aid every evening of a neighbor with MS.

    
FLASHBACK: That's entertainment (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks back at some of the stars of stage and screen that have been on our program.

MOVIES: The not-quite retiring Robert Redford | Watch Video
"You know, I can't do this forever," said Robert Redford. At 82 he's starring in a new film, "The Old Man & the Gun." It's based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, a lifelong outlaw who escaped from nearly every prison he was confined to, continuing to rob banks well into his late 70s. Lee Cowan catches up with the Oscar-winning actor-director, who talks about his decision to retire from acting – but hardly retiring from life.

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POEM: A poem by Ted Koppel | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" is treated to an ode by our Special Contributor. 

       
NATURE: Sunset at Caddo Lake, Texas (Video)
We leave you this evening with a look at the setting sun over Caddo Lake in Texas. Videographer: Scot Miller.

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COVER STORY:  Why parents opt for unusual baby names | Watch Video
A correspondent by the name of Susan Spencer explores why more and more parents today are gifting their babies with less-traditional names, from North West to Moxie Crimefighter Jilette. She talks with Michael Ayer, whose son is named Billion Ayer. (Originally broadcast on September 24, 2017.)

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ALMANAC: When Japan attacked Oregon | Watch Video
On September 9, 1942, the U.S. mainland was firebombed by an enemy pilot. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: The restless perfectionism of Alberto Giacometti | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil reports on an exhibition of sculptor Alberto Giacometti's peerless work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. 

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ON BROADWAY: The musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein: Some of our favorite things | Watch Video
The songwriting team created such classic Broadway shows as "Oklahoma!," "South Pacific" and "The Sound of Music." Mo Rocca looks at the great songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and talks with actress Kelli O'Hara and author Todd Purum about their legacy. (Originally broadcast on June 10, 2018.)

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MILEPOST: National Museum of Brazil destroyed by fire | Watch Video
A Rio de Janiero treasure trove of history was reduced to ashes this past week, when fire tore through the National Museum of Brazil, destroying approximately 90 percent of its 20 million artifacts. Jane Pauley reports. 

     
HARTMAN: Tearing down a wall (Video)
A predominately black neighborhood in Summerville, South Carolina, was torn apart when a white resident, Annie Caddell, put up a Confederate flag. It stirred a public fight, including the erection of a wall around her property to block views of the flag. But after Caddell suffered a heart attack, she also had a change of heart, and took the flag down, as Steve Hartman reported a few months ago. Hartman has now returned to Summerville to follow up on new developments in the story about restoring a community.

WASHINGTON: Bob Woodward's "Fear: Trump in the White House" | Watch Video
Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has covered nine White Houses going back to President Richard Nixon and Watergate. His latest book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," is revelatory in its look at chaos and discord within the current administration as witnessed by those inside the West Wing.

In an interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Woodward talks about the behavior of President Donald Trump and the actions of those on his staff who, they claim, are trying to protect the country and its institutions from the president's own inclinations.

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PASSAGE: Burt Reynolds | Watch Video
The easy-going star of "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Deliverance," who died this week at 82, was one of Hollywood's most popular and enduring actors. Jane Pauley reports. 

9/11:  9/11 heroes honored with wind chime memorial | Watch Video
Chip Reid reports on an affecting memorial opening in Shanksville, Pa., at the site of the crash of Flight 93. Wind chimes remember the 40 passengers and crew who brought down the plane hijacked by terrorists and directed towards Washington, D.C.

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CALENDAR: Week of September 10 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: Black bears (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the black bears at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in East Lake, North Carolina. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: The overlooked species
Kruger National Park in South Africa is a biologist's and photographer's paradise, if you look beyond the big cats. 

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Guest Host: Lee Cowan

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IN MEMORIAM: Remembering a political friend, foe, and father | Watch Video
At the National Cathedral in Washington Saturday, mourners from across the political spectrum gathered to pay tribute to Arizona Senator John McCain.
      

COVER STORY: Companies open doors to talent with autism | Watch Video
Nearly three years ago, after tech giant Microsoft announced that it was starting a pilot program to hire autistic workers, they received more than 700 resumes within a few weeks. German software maker SAP has instituted a program to bring people with autism into its workforce, and other companies are following suit, and by all accounts, giving those on the spectrum an opportunity to use their talents productively has been a tremendous success. Lee Cowan looks at the changing face of workplace diversity. (Originally broadcast on February 11, 2018.)

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ALMANAC: An ATM revolution | Watch Video
On September 2, 1969, a bank in Rockville Centre, N.Y. introduced the new face of banking: the first ATM operated by PIN codes and cards with magnetic stripes. Lee Cowan reports. 

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Celebrating the first ATM (Video)
Back in 1969, Don Wetzel was experiencing a common frustration - a long wait online for a bank teller - when he thought there must be a better way. The solution: the first automated teller machine to use PIN codes and personalized card to dispense cash to customers. Correspondent Bill Geist talked with Wetzel, whose invention was being celebrated by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, in this "CBS Evening News" report originally broadcast on September 20, 1995.

         
PASSAGE: Three icons of movement, mirth and media | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" marks the passing of modern dance giant Paul Taylor, award-winning playwright Neil Simon, and a storied alternative paper.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Paul Taylor and the economy of gesture | Watch Video
A giant of modern dance, Paul Taylor (who died on August 29, 2018) created invigorating explosions of athleticism in a career spanning more than six decades. In this report originally broadcast on CBS' "Sunday Morning" on March 12, 1995, correspondent Eugenia Zuckerman visited with Taylor at his Long Island home, and during rehearsals of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, to discuss the inspirations for, and joys derived from, his iconic choreography  

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Neil Simon's storied career | Watch Video
Known for his prolific and memorable comedic moments, playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (who died on Sunday, August 26, 2018) often used his own experiences for comic material, from "Biloxi Blues" to "Brighton Beach Memoirs." Writing gags for TV, especially Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," would also inspire his play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." He talked with correspondent Rita Braver about some of his many Broadway hits, including "Barefoot in the Park," "The Odd Couple" and "Sweet Charity," which were adapted for films and TV.  She also talked with "Barefoot in the Park" star Robert Redford, and with Richard Dreyfuss, who would win an Oscar for starring in Simon's "The Goodbye Girl." (Originally broadcast on October 29, 2006.)  

ART: Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms," then and now | Watch Video
In January 1941, as war raged in Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt gave his "Four Freedoms" speech, meant to rouse the nation to fight to protect freedoms that we might take for granted:  Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. But it was only after artist Norman Rockwell took those words and translated them into iconic images published in the Saturday Evening Post that the impact was truly felt. The paintings went on tour, helping raise $133 million for the war effort. A traveling exhibition now celebrates their 75th anniversary, and a companion exhibit explores how Rockwell's work has inspired other artists to reimagine the notion of freedom today. Anna Werner reports.

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  • "Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms," at the New York Historical Society, New York City (through September 2, 2018). The exhibition will travel to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. (Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 13, 2019), the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. (Feb. 9-May 6, 2019), Mémorial de Caen in Caen, France (June 4-Oct. 27, 2019), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Dec. 16, 2019-March 22, 2020).
  • "Re-imagining the Four Freedoms," at Hunter College, New York City (through August 31, 2018), before traveling to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. (Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 13, 2019); the George Washington University Museum and The  Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. (Feb. 9-May 6, 2019); Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas (Dec. 15, 2019-March 22, 2020); and to the Norman Rockwell Museum in fall 2020. 
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MUSIC: Leon Bridges raises his voice | Watch Video
His retro soul groove has gotten him compared to the great Sam Cooke. It's evident that Leon Bridges' smooth sound has gone down easy with audiences: His debut album, 2015's "Coming Home," earned him a gold record, a Grammy nomination, and an invitation to the Obama White House. His followup album, "Good Thing," climbed even higher on the Billboard charts. Anthony Mason talks with Bridges about the singer's shyness, how he had to beg for his first shot, and how he's eager to challenge audience expectations.  

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MUSIC: Washboards: The laundry tool that is music to the ears | Watch Video
Logan, Ohio, is home to America's last washboard manufacturer - and to the annual Washboard Music Festival, where instruments of laundry day drudgery become instruments of good clean fun. Conor Knighton reports.

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HARTMAN: A house painting job for the starry-eyed (Video)
Lubek Jastrzebski and Nancy Nemhauser, of Mount Dora, Fla., noticed their autistic son, Chip, kept opening the same art book and turning to the same page: Van Gogh's "The Starry Night." They were inspired to paint a mural on their house based on the masterpiece. But could a city housing ordinance against graffiti defeat such ambitious artistic expression? Steve Hartman reports. 

SUNDAY PROFILE: Twiggy, still in fashion | Watch Video
She didn't look like any supermodel who had come before her, yet she became the "Face of 1966" - and Twiggy has remained in the eye as a singer, award-winning actress and fashion designer. Martha Teichner reports. (Originally broadcast on May 13, 2018.)

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IN MEMORIAM: A music-filled tribute to the "Queen of Soul" | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at Friday's celebration of the life of musical giant Aretha Franklin.
      

POLITICS: John Kerry on midterms and moving America in "a better direction" | Watch Video
"Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan interviews the former Senator and Secretary of State, who has penned a new memoir, "Every Day Is Extra."

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NATURE: Valley of the Gods, Utah (EXTENDED VIDEO)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the vastness of the Valley of the Gods, in southeastern Utah. Videographer: Scot Miller.  
      

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CALENDAR: Week of September 3 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Paul Taylor and the economy of gesture | Watch Video
A giant of modern dance, Paul Taylor (who died on August 29, 2018) created invigorating explosions of athleticism in a career spanning more than six decades. In this report originally broadcast on CBS' "Sunday Morning" on March 12, 1995, correspondent Eugenia Zuckerman visited with Taylor at his Long Island home, and during rehearsals of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, to discuss the inspirations for, and joys derived from, his iconic choreography

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Neil Simon's storied career | Watch Video
Known for his prolific and memorable comedic moments, playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (who died on Sunday, August 26, 2018) often used his own experiences for comic material, from "Biloxi Blues" to "Brighton Beach Memoirs." Writing gags for TV, especially Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," would also inspire his play "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." He talked with correspondent Rita Braver about some of his many Broadway hits, including "Barefoot in the Park," "The Odd Couple" and "Sweet Charity," which were adapted for films and TV.  She also talked with "Barefoot in the Park" star Robert Redford, and with Richard Dreyfuss, who would win an Oscar for starring in Simon's "The Goodbye Girl." (Originally broadcast on October 29, 2006.)

NATURE UP CLOSE: Decisions, decisions … lions or elephants?
In Africa being on the lookout for wildlife means having to choose from a cornucopia of fascinating sights.

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HEADLINES: Remembering John McCain (Video)
Senator John McCain has died after a 13-month battle with brain cancer. This morning he's being remembered for his service to the nation and his straight talk. Nancy Cordes reports.

COVER STORY: One of a kind: The remarkable life and times of Senator John McCain | Watch Video
Military man and statesman, war hero and maverick - the Arizona Republican, who died of cancer at age 81, lived a life of courage and zealously guarded ideals. Chip Reid has a remembrance. 

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ALMANAC: Don LaFontaine, the voice of movie trailers | Watch Video
He was dubbed the "Voice of God" for his thunderous narration heard in thousands of movie trailers. "Sunday Morning" looks back at voice actor Don LaFontaine, who was born on August 26, 1940.

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ART:  A portrait of America | Watch Video
A new exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles shows us a cultural history of the United States, as told in photographs culled from the 14 million that have been preserved by the Library of Congress. Tracy Smith reports.

GALLERY: An American photo album, from the Library of Congress

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REMEMBERING 1968: Chicago's bloody Democratic Convention | Watch Video
NPR's Scott Simon looks back at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where violence on the streets reflected the division within the party during their nominating convention for president. Simon talks with Bill Daley, son of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley; Bill Jaconetti, who was a rookie police officer on the front lines during those tense days; and Marilyn Katz, who was head of security for the protesting Students for a Democratic Society.

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PASSAGE: Robin Leach and Ed King | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" remembers the host of TV's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," and the guitarist of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jane Pauley reports. 

LANDSCAPE: Reclaiming the American prairie | Watch Video
Correspondent Barry Petersen reports on efforts to preserve an iconic but rapidly-disappearing resource of the American West – grasslands – and talks with cattle ranchers who say such land reclamation endangers their way of life.

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HARTMAN: Conquering fear on the diving board (Video)
Four-year-old Dylan Stich was wary about jumping off the diving board, until 95-year-old Daniel Biss, an Air Force veteran from World War II and Korea, taught him a thing or two about bravery by making an example of himself. Steve Hartman reports.

MUSIC: Art Garfunkel: Life is a surprise | Watch Video
A grade-school friendship between two Queens, N.Y., teenagers would lead to one of the most popular duos in American musical history, and one of the most complicated. Singer Art Garfunkel talks with Rita Braver about stepping out of the shadow of Paul Simon, and his memoir, "What Is It All but Luminous." (This story was originally broadcast on November 5, 2017.)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Art Garfunkel on his teaming with Paul Simon
Singer Art Garfunkel reads a passage from his new memoir, "What Is It All but Luminous," in which he frames his historic partnership with singer-songwriter Paul Simon.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Art Garfunkel on his voice
Art Garfunkel talks with correspondent Rita Braver about how he lost his Queens accent, and about the high standards to which he sets himself when performing.

WEB EXTRA: Read an excerpt from "What It Is All but Luminous"  

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MILEPOST: Animal crackers
Coming to a store near you, Nabisco Animal Crackers "freed" from their cage. The decision is a victory for animal rights activists who argued the old package was a vestige of a bygone era. On the new package, animals roam free.

      
BUSINESS: Ken Chenault on leadership and success at American Express | Watch Video
Stepping down after 37 years at American Express, CEO Ken Chenault was one of just four African-Americans running a Fortune 500 company. A rock star to the green card faithful, Chenault was a preternaturally calm leader during turbulent times for the financial services firm, from the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan to the 2008 recession. He talked with James Brown about his tenure, and his future.

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CALENDAR: Week of August 27 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: Big Sur (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning on the shores of the Pacific, at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, Calif. Videographer: Lance Milbrand.

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Lions meet up with buffalo at the Sabie River in South Africa: Who's attacking whom?

NATURE UP CLOSE: Buffalo 1, Lions 0
Animals don't always do what's expected of them, Judy Lehmberg finds during her trip to Africa.

RECAP: AUGUST 19

"MIND MATTERS": Jane Pauley hosts a special broadcast devoted to the mysteries of the brain. (Originally broadcast March 18, 2018.)

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HEADLINES: Aretha Franklin's passing

IN MEMORIAM: Aretha Franklin: An appreciation by Bill Flanagan | Watch Video
The greatest popular singer of the rock era, who died Thursday at age 76, sang songs of both faith and passion, and was a living manifestation of pride.  

        
COVER STORY: What defines a genius? | Watch Video
"Genius" is a word that gets tossed around a lot these days. Author Walter Isaacson, who has written bestselling biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says smart people are a dime a dozen, but being a genius means you must be creative, imaginative, and possess uncontainable curiosity. Mo Rocca reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Is curiosity a mark of true genius?
Mo Rocca talks with bestselling author Walter Isaacson, whose biographies of such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs have given him particular insight into what makes a genius.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Vint Cerf on the prospect of a "digital dark age"
Engineer Vint Cerf, who helped pioneer the internet, talks with Mo Rocca about the frailty and impermanence of digitally-stored information and how, in coming decades, the pictures and other digital content that has been preserved on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other media will be unusable.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jennifer Doudna on the curiosity of a child
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks with Mo Rocca about how her childhood curiosity was nourished, by books and by the natural world around her growing up in Hawaii, and how it inspired her career choice.

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GENIUS: Remembering the genius of Stephen Hawking | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the life of the acclaimed theoretical physicist and author of "A Brief History of Time." 

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ART: Brush with madness | Watch Video
Vincent Van Gogh is just one of scores of artists, writers, musicians and other creative people who are known or believed to have suffered from mental illness. What goes on in the brain that might create a relationship between mania and creativity? Rita Braver reports.

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TRIPTYCH: Savants
In a series of three vignettes, Susan Spencer introduces us to three remarkable people.

SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #1: An acquired artistry | Watch Video
A childhood injury left Alonzo Clemons with severe brain damage. He can't read or write or do math. And yet, as naturally as the rest of us breathe, Clemons can sculpt, all with his bare hands.

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PHENOMENA: Psychic spies - inside the government's secret ESP program | Watch Video
Is extra-sensory perception real? Can our minds see thing beyond the physical? Erin Moriarty reports.

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THE BRAIN: The connection between busy hands and brain chemistry | Watch Video
Researchers think activities that occupy our hands -- folding laundry, yardwork -- are actually making our brains happier. Tony Dokoupil tests out the theory.

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SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #2: A talent for calendars | Watch Video
Artist George Widener is a calendar savant. Give him a year and a date, and he'll produce the day of the week with astonishing accuracy. Susan Spencer reports.

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ANIMALS: Are we smart enough to measure animal intelligence? | Watch Video
What goes on in an animal's mind? A neuroscientist at Emory University believed he might find out by placing animals in an MRI scanner, and analyzing how their brains respond to different stimulations. Martha Teichner checked out his findings, and the research of other scientists studying the complexities of animal brains.

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HEALTH: Glenn Close's personal battle to destigmatize mental illness | Watch Video
Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction" is one of her most memorable roles – and is considered one of the great villains of the 20th century. But she told Tracy Smith she might play the character differently today, knowing what she knows now about mental illness. 

That's because today, Close knows something she didn't back then -- that mental illness runs in her own family.  Her nephew, Calen has schizophrenia; and Glenn's sister Jessie, after a lifetime of struggles, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 

Glenn and Jessie have since started a foundation. Bring Change to Mind creates multimedia campaigns and holds events to encourage communication around mental health, and to de-stigmatize mental illness. 

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DRUGS: Can LSD help solve mental health issues? | Watch Video
Faith Salie reports on how LSD and "magic mushrooms" are being studied for their ability to help some patients conquer anxiety and depression without the psychedelia long associated with mind-altering drugs.

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SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #3: A sudden talent for painting | Watch Video
For the last six years Ione Kuhner has gradually lost her grasp on much of daily life due to early-onset Alzheimer's. But amazingly she's also started painting … something the former dental assistant had never thought about doing before her illness. Susan Spencer reports. 

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COMMENTARY: Adam Grant: Mind your meditation! | Watch Video
The psychologist and New York Times bestselling author says people who criticize others for not meditating should, like, chill. 

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NATURE: Bears in Alaska (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, where bears are thinking about landing the catch of the day. Videographer: Mark Emery.

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CALENDAR: Week of August 20 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. 

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HEADLINES: Why did man steal plane at SeaTac? (Video)
Investigators, friends and family are trying to understand why 29-year-old Richard "Beebo" Russell stole a 76-seat plane from SeaTac International Airport in Seattle for a final, fatal flight. Correspondent Jamie Yuccas reports.

      
COVER STORY: Robotic exoskeletons - Helping paraplegics walk again | Watch Video
The FDA and VA have approved the life-changing devices, but many paraplegics who could benefit from robotic exoskeletons – devices that enable them to stand and walk – are finding huge hurdles to actually access them. Lee Cowan reports.

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ALMANAC: Guinness Book of Records | Watch Video
August 12, 1925 marked the birth of twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter, who would create the fact-filled world record book aimed at settling arguments in pubs. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: How Georg Baselitz turned the art world upside-down | Watch Video
The upside-down paintings are the long-time trademark of German-born artist Georg Baselitz, who at 80 is the subject of a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Serena Altschul reports.

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SPORTS: Ice Cube: At the top of his game | Watch Video
Rapper-actor-producer Ice Cube has become one of the most bankable stars in the movie business. And now he's entered a whole new ballgame, as co-founder of the Big 3 Basketball League. The game, featuring three-on-three matches played on a half-court, seems to be catching on, and will be an Olympic sport in 2020. Tracy Smith talks with Ice Cube about how he's been defying expectations all his life.

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LUKE BURBANK: What's yoga without goats? | Watch Video
What's cuter than a baby farm animal? How about a baby farm animal joining in a yoga class? Luke Burbank ventures to a class where a new element has been added to a yoga routine: tiny goats. (This story was originally broadcast on January 21, 2018.)

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HARTMAN: A very special lobbyist (Video)
Thirty-one-year-old Kayla McKeon may be Washington's most unlikely powerbroker. As a lobbyist – the only registered lobbyist with Down Syndrome – Kayla roams the Capitol, advocating for the National Down Syndrome Society. Steve Hartman reports.

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MUSIC: Petula Clark: Still "Living for Today" | Watch Video
Michelle Miller visits with the British pop singer, who hit it big in the '60s with "Downtown" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway," during her first U.S. tour in decades, tied to her latest album release, "Living for Today." (This story was originally broadcast on December 24, 2017.)

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OPINION: Ben Stein says Trump needs sleep | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" commentator suggests one reason for the president's recent behavior (Helsinki, anyone?) is a basic one facing any traveler who crosses time zones and suffers jet lag: A lack of rest.

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POLITICS: GOP Sen. Tim Scott on politics, race and Trump | Watch Video
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is the only African-American elected to the U.S. Senate from the Deep South in more than a century, and at 52, the only African-American Senator who is a Republican. Martha Teichner reports.

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CALENDAR: Week of August 13 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE: Birds in Nova Scotia (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with migrating sandpipers in a hurry, on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, near Wolfville, Nova Scotia in Canada. Videographer: Jerry Lockett.

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REVIEW: Spike Lee's provocative "BlacKkKlansman" | Watch Video
What if a black undercover detective infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan? Don't laugh! (Okay, laugh.) Spike Lee's latest film is the largely-true story of 1970s Colorado Springs cops who put one over on dimwitted racists. "Sunday Morning" critic David Edelstein has his take.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Kruger National Park feeding frenzy
Follow along as "Sunday Morning" contributing videographer Judy Lehmberg reports on Week 1 of her two-month trip to Kruger National Park in South Africa and to Kenya's Maasai Mara.

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COVER STORY: Piling up: Drowning in a sea of plastic | Watch Video
In the 1950s, scientists invented a new material that would change the world forever: plastic. Cheap, durable, sanitary, strong, and light – and, as we have seen in the years since, very, very difficult to get rid of once we are done with it. About 70 percent of our discarded plastic winds up in open dumps or landfills, but much winds up in an even worse place: the ocean. David Pogue reports on why, even with recycling, it is so hard to get rid of plastic.

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ALMANAC: "American Bandstand" | Watch Video
On August 5, 1957, Dick Clark's music series of pop stars and dancing teens went national. Jane Pauley reports. 

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MUSIC: The Billboard Hot 100's All-Time Top Songs | Watch Video
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of its music chart this week, Billboard released its list of the all-time top songs.

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ART: The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash | Watch Video
Artist Dox Thrash (1893–1965), who attended night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago while working as an elevator operator, revolutionized printmaking in the 1930s by pioneering a completely new process called carborundum mezzotint – scraping away dark layers to reveal lighter grays and whites underneath. Faith Salie looks at the unique work of the African American artist.

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AMUSEMENTS: Sandboarding: Hitting slopes of sand | Watch Video
It's an unlikely spot for one of the world's most unusual sports … because in a national park, far from a beach or desert, people are encouraged to slide down sand dunes as if they were on a snow-packed mountain. Barry Petersen tries his hand at sandboarding at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in Colorado.

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DELICACIES: On the hunt with truffle-sniffing dogs | Watch Video
Only the best noses advance at the North American Truffle Dog Championship, in Oregon, where contestants work to catch the carefully-buried scent of the pungent, and pricey, delicacies. John Blackstone reports.

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PASSAGE: A museum of comedy | Watch Video
The new National Comedy Center, in the hometown of TV legend Lucille Ball, celebrates comedy as an art form. Jane Pauley reports. 

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HARTMAN: A class in digging up history (Video)
If you had to think of a good site for an archaeological dig, you probably wouldn't think of a coat closet in the Children's Workshop School in Manhattan. But a couple of years ago, student Bobby Scotto starting digging into a crack in the floor, sparking a string of valuable finds. Steve Hartman reports.

TELEVISION: Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel speaks his mind | Watch Video
He might be walking in the footsteps of giants, but late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has found a way to stand out. He was always the lovable frat boy at 11:30, often more playful than political. But Kimmel put comedy on hold when his on-air story about his son's fight for life became a call to action on healthcare; and following the Las Vegas massacre, his monologue turned into an emotional call for sanity … and gun control. Kimmel talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about his road to late-night, and why he's not so bothered if viewers are upset by his heartfelt monologues: "I don't say, 'I don't mind.' I'd love for everyone -- I want everyone with a television to watch the show. But if they're so turned off by my opinion on healthcare and gun violence, then I don't know. I probably won't wanna have a conversation with them anyway." (This story originally aired on October 15, 2017.)

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HEALTH: Maternal mortality: An American crisis | Watch Video
The United States is the only industrialized country where the rates of maternal deaths have increased, rather than decreased. And "near deaths" are on the rise: 60,000 a year across the country. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" talks to young woman who have a higher risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth than their mothers did, and meets a midwife from England who saw expectant mothers being turned away from doctors offices in Florida, and in response opened up a health clinic that welcomes everyone.

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan on the need for a good nap | Watch Video
According to the comedian, staying awake is overrated.

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CALENDAR: Week of August 6 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       

NATURE: Wild horses (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the wild horses of Assateague Island in Maryland. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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IN THE LIFE OF: "We Are Here": A plunge into the world of disco with director Steven Hoggett | Watch Video
A new Off-Off-Broadway musical recreates the nightclub scene in 1970s New York City with music by Nile Rodgers.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Goats as lawn mowers | Watch Video
For years Denver faced a troubling force of nature: Thousands of acres of noxious weeds spreading through the city. In an effort to deal with the botanical nightmare, the city turned to an unlikely ally: goats. Correspondent Bill Geist talked with naturalist Gail Weinstein of Denver Parks and Recreation, and with shepherd Lani Lamming, whose goat herd makes quick work of the city's suffocating flora. (This story was originally broadcast October 10, 1999.)

NATURE UP CLOSE: Back to Africa
Judy Lehmberg begins a two-month sojourn at Kruger National Park in South Africa, and Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.

RECAP: JULY 29

"THE MONEY ISSUE"
Guest host: Kai Ryssdal, host of "Marketplace" from American Public Media. (Some of the stories on this special broadcast were previously aired on April 15, 2018.)

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COVER STORY: Universal basic income: Will it work? | Watch Video
Stockton, Calif., is launching a pilot program to test the benefits of a Basic Universal Income (BUI) -- giving $500 a month of free money (paid for with philanthropic funding) to residents to fight economic hardship. Lee Cowan reports.

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CURRENCY: How the Mutilated Currency Division rescues destroyed cash | Watch Video
Do you have money that has been damaged by fire, water, termites, or has literally been chewed up by Fido? There is an office at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing that will replace your damaged bills. Rita Braver shares some of the wild stories of currency that has gone through the wringer (or much, much worse).

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WORK:  Co-working: Revamping the way we work | Watch Video
Freelancers, consultants and entrepreneurs no longer need to work out of their homes or garages. Instead, they can rent space at "co-working" firms, like WeWork, that provide a place to plug in as well as all the perks of a shared office space - like a gym membership, but for work. Tony Dokoupil examines the co-working industry, which has grown from as few as 70 people in 2007 to 1.5 million worldwide.

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ISLAND-HOPPING: Tourism in the Galápagos | Watch Video
Expedition cruising is a rapidly-growing sector of the tourism industry that brings visitors to ecologically pristine – and vulnerable – destinations. Conor Knighton reports. 

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ART: "The Sweat of Their Face": An exhibition of workers | Watch Video
Portraits of Americans that one might see in a museum typically have been of the nation's elite, where a wealthy subject was able to hire an artist to paint a portrait. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Galley in Washington, "The Sweat of Their Face," reveals the faces of laborers in portraits of workers, immigrant labor, child laborers and custodians whose efforts continuing build our country. Michelle Miller reports.

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ART: Computer creativity: When AI turns its gaze to art | Watch Video
Artificial intelligence (or AI) is now creating paintings and music through the use of "machine learning." Can we humans tell the difference between artwork created by people and artwork created by machines mimicking human creativity? David Pogue is put to the test. 

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SUCCESS STORY: The story of the My Pillow king | Watch Video
You've seen the infomercials for "My Pillow"; Mike Lindell has sold 41 million of the pillows he invented, and he did so against some pretty stiff odds, including overcoming a crack cocaine habit that became so bad, his dealers staged an intervention. Martha Teichner talks with Lindell about his unique success story, and how his business has helped other recovering addicts.

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INSTAGRAM:  Animal influencers: How pets earn big bucks as Instagram stars | Watch Video
Richard Schlesinger finds out how pets that have become stars on Instagram have also won their owners some lucrative sponsorships.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Salma Hayek Pinault on charity and activism | Watch Video
The actress-producer has helped propel humanitarian efforts with her philanthropic work, and helped propel the #MeToo movement with her personal stories. John Blackstone reports.

WEB EXTRA: Extended interview transcript with Selma Hayek Pinault

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on activism
Salma Hayek Pinault, an Oscar-nominated actress and producer, has also made a name for herself as an activist and fundraiser for social causes, from aiding child welfare and humanitarian relief for earthquake victims, to helping women who suffer from domestic violence. In this web exclusive, she offers John Blackstone an example of how she advocated for social causes, and why she sees herself as a "dreamer."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on making "Frida"
The Oscar-nominated actress and producer of "Frida" talks with John Blackstone about the optimism she summoned to push through the 2002 Oscar-winning film about the Mexican painter, and how actress Ashley Judd responded to her request to appear in the film.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on the success of the #MeToo movement
Oscar-nominated actress-producer Salma Hayek Pinault talks with John Blackstone about the changes she can already see in Hollywood manifesting from the #MeToo movement.

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THE GREAT BEYOND: Real estate to die for (Video)
As with most real estate, the key to cemetery plots is "Location! Location! Location!" Luke Burbank talks with Baron Chu, a broker of burial plots, and visits the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Calif., where pricey plots are sold to starry-eyed customers seeking status and a view, from six feet under.

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ART:  Documenting poverty: Photographing the forgotten | Watch Video
For the last four years photographer Matt Black has traveled the country, driving more than 100,000 miles, to photograph communities living in poverty -- people of all races, cultures and geographies whose lived experiences contradict the idea of America as a "Land of Milk and Honey." Michelle Miller reports.

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FORTUNE:  Can money buy happiness? | Watch Video
A fancy car, a new wardrobe, an iPhone X - just a few of the things that money can buy.  But can cash bring contentment?  Susan Spencer talks with a man who chucked his six-figure salary as a globe-trotting investment banker to take a job as a Dallas fireman. 

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NATURE: Bucks (Extended Video)
We leave you this morning with bucks - white-tailed deer near Ocala, Florida. Videographer: Mark Emery.
           

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LENS: A gallery en route: Photographs of commuters | Watch Video
Day after day, Danish photographer Peter Funch could be found on the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City, documenting the daily migration of commuters around Grand Central Station, capturing the poetry and elegance of daily rituals. Michelle Miller reports.

        
NATURE UP CLOSE: Anthropomorphism or evolution?
Humans may share more with animals than we think, including how we feel.

RECAP: JULY 22

COVER STORY: Will politics be the death of civility? | Watch Full Video
Does it sometimes feel as if our politics has us all backed into ideological corners? Does it seem as if insults and name-calling have taken the place of civil dialogue – that incivility has gone viral? It may not just be manners that seem threatened these days; it may be our very notion of democracy. Martha Teichner reports.

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ALMANAC:  Aviator Wiley Post | Watch Video
On July 22, 1933, the pilot completed the first solo round-the-world flight, circling the globe in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: Chicago's Lighthouses: Shedding light on artists with disabilities | Watch Video
This summer in Chicago, beacons of hope are sprouting on the sidewalk. Dotting Michigan Avenue are 51 lighthouses – works of art created by those whom fate has severely tested. Dean Reynolds reports on a public art project that illuminates and celebrates the potential of people with disabilities.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Artist Pooja Pittie on her lighthouse, "Boundless"
Pooja Pittie, a painter with muscular dystrophy, discusses the artwork she contributed to the public exhibition "Lighthouses on the Mag Mile" in Chicago, and explains to correspondent Dean Reynolds how it reflects her life.

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KEEP 'EM LAUGHING: Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco on family | Watch Video
At age 44, comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has turned his personal gripes with everyday life into a career, as one of standup comedy's breakthrough performers. His style is a unique blend of two of his early influences: the observational approach of Jerry Seinfeld, and the physicality of John Ritter. Mark Strassmann talks with Maniscalco, author of the bestselling "Stay Hungry," about what is at the heart of his humor: his very colorful family.

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PASSAGE: Golden Retrievers | Watch Video
A conclave of 361 canines in Scotland marked the 150th anniversary this week of one of the world's most popular breeds of dog. Jane Pauley reports.

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REMEMBERING 1968: Intel at 50 | Watch Video
1968 is famous for tragedy – assassination, war, riots and civil unrest. But 1968 also gave birth to the era of fast, cheap, ubiquitous electronics, because fifty years ago this week, two middle-aged engineers quit their jobs to start a new company called Intel. David Pogue explores how Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce (co-inventor of the integrated circuit) established a Silicon Valley giant that is still breaking new ground.

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HARTMAN: An umpire's biggest fan (Video)
At the Carolina Mudcats stadium near Raleigh, most young fans want nothing more than to meet a real player. Ten-year-old Vincent Stio is different – he idolizes umpires. Steve Hartman pays a call to a rare baseball fan studying the action behind home plate.

MUSIC: The Go-Go's on their staying power | Watch Full Video
Tracy Smith sits down with The Go-Go's, arguably the most successful all-female band in rock 'n' roll history. Four of the five members – Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin – talk about their hit songs like "Vacation," "We Got the Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed"; their rollercoaster relationships with each other; and the new Broadway musical, "Head Over Heels," which opens July 26 and features 17 of the group's songs.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How the Go-Go's got their name
Correspondent Tracy Smith asked one of the most successful all-female rock 'n' roll bands in history how they came up with their distinctive name. (And don't even start with the punctuation!)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Go-Go's perform "Our Lips Are Sealed"
One of the most successful all-female bands in rock 'n' roll history, the Go-Go's have added another credit to their long resume: Their songs are featured in a new Broadway musical, "Head Over Heels." Recently four of the band's members – Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin – surprised a preview audience at the Hudson Theatre in New York by taking to the stage and bringing the curtain down with a rousing rendition of "Our Lips Are Sealed." 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Go-Go's perform "Head Over Heels"
One of the most successful all-female bands in rock 'n' roll history, the Go-Go's have added another credit to their long resume: Their songs are featured in a new Broadway musical, "Head Over Heels." Recently four of the band's members – Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin – surprised a preview audience at the Hudson Theatre in New York by taking to the stage and performing "Head Over Heels" with the musical's house band.

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COMMENTARY: The shadow cats | Watch Video
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore on the difficulty of capturing images of these elusive creatures. 

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MUSIC: "Piano Man" Billy Joel on hitting the 100 mark at Madison Square Garden | Watch Full Video
This week the singer-songwriter marked the 100th sold-out show of his lifetime at New York's Madison Square Garden. Anthony Mason reports.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 23 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

NATURE: Sanibel Island (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the birds at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island off Florida. Videographer: Charles Schultz. 

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NATURE UP CLOSE: The Painted Hills
There is a lot of geology out there!

     
NATURE UP CLOSE: What's in a number?
Whether animals are assigned numbers or names by the scientists studying them, their attraction remains the same.  
         

RECAP: JULY 15

GUEST HOST: Steve Hartman

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COVER STORY: Social media, the scourge of adolescence | Watch Video
The new dramedy "Eighth Grade," about a painfully shy 13-year old stumbling through her last week of middle school, is the first film for writer-director Bo Burnham and for its young star, Elsie Fisher. But there's more to the movie than the usual teen angst and acne. There's the loneliness that, research tells us, is becoming more pervasive for young people with the rise in social media's influence. Tracy Smith talks with Burnham, and with San Diego State professor Jean Twenge, author of "iGen," about how the internet is making adolescence even tougher.

To watch a trailer for "Eighth Grade" click on the video player below.

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ALMANAC: The Gianni Versace murder | Watch Video
On July 15, 1997, the fashion designer was killed on the front steps of his Miami Beach mansion. Steve Hartman reports. 

CRAFT: The art of making globes | Watch Video
In the era of Google Maps, who makes a living out of creating globes - by hand? Peter Bellerby, of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, for one. Headquartered in London, he talks with Martha Teichner about how a desire to purchase a globe led to him becoming one of the masters of the craft. (This story was originally broadcast October 8, 2017.)

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MILEPOST: Reopening the Emmett Till murder case (Video)
The Justice Department confirmed this week that, based on unspecified "new information," it is re-opening the case of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African-American youth from Chicago who was kidnapped and killed in the town of Money, Mississippi back in 1955. Steve Hartman reports.

MUSIC: The Killers' Brandon Flowers: Swagger and faith | Watch Video
The Killers' song "Mr. Brightside" skyrocketed up the charts in 2003, and the group's most recent album, "Wonderful Wonderful," debuted at number one. Correspondent Kristine Johnson talks with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers about his deep Las Vegas roots, and why his Mormon faith might make him an unlikely ambassador for Sin City.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Killers frontman Brandon Flowers on pop music today: "We need to class it up a little bit"
The lead singer of The Killers, Brandon Flowers, talks with correspondent Kristine Johnson about the state of popular music today.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Killers return to their roots
Ronnie Vannucci and Brandon Flowers, of the Las Vegas rock 'n' roll group The Killers, revisit with correspondent Kristine Johnson the house where the band practiced in its early days.

To hear The Killers perform the title track of "Wonderful Wonderful" click on the video player below.

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A TASTE OF SUMMER: Shanghai's soup dumplings | Watch Video
Ben Tracy takes a tour of Shanghai, which is home to the best xialongbao (soup dumplings, or pork dumplings injected with soup).

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PASSAGE: Tab Hunter and Nancy Sinatra | Watch Video
Hollywood star and gay icon Tab Hunter died on Sunday, July 8, 2018 at age 86. Steve Hartman looks back at the life and career of the teen heartthrob and cult movie actor who would write a revealing autobiography about living as a homosexual in Hollywood. Also, we remember the life of entertainer Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy Sinatra, who died this week at age 101. 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The confidential Tab Hunter (2005) (Video)
In this "Sunday Morning" profile originally broadcast on October 23, 2005, correspondent Susan Spencer talked with Hunter about his struggle with fame, battling homophobia in the 1950s and '60s, and the resurgence of his career working with outré filmmaker John Waters ("Polyester").

SUNDAY PROFILE: Jennifer Garner on the farm, and away from paparazzi | Watch Video
Conor Knighton talks with the actress and fellow Charleston, West Virginia native who became a star on the series "Alias," and became tabloid fodder with her marriage to (and separation from) Ben Affleck. Today, Jennifer Garner is back on screen, and has recently co-founded Once Upon a Farm, an organic fresh baby food company.

PREVIEW: Jennifer Garner opens up about tabloid scrutiny of marriage and separation

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HARTMAN: Students sing praises of music teacher (Video)
For 30 years high school music teacher Robert Moore directed one of the greatest high school choral groups in the country, the Ponca City Chorale, of Ponca City, Okla. Now retired, Moore would love nothing more than a repeat performance. Unknown to Moore, that is precisely what his former students arranged to surprise their mentor. Steve Hartman reports. 

SPORTS: Soccer finally scores in the U.S. | Watch Video
Jim Axelrod meets with the "Men in Blazers" – soccer aficionados Michael Davies and Roger Bennett – who talk about the rise in popularity of soccer (sorry, football!) in the United States, and attribute it to the rise of a new medium: the Internet.

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COMMENTARY:  Jim Gaffigan on M&M's World | Watch Video
The comedian on a global chain of stores devoted to a single candy.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 16 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead.

NATURE: Elephants (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning among the elephants of the Ngorongoro Crater in the highlands of Tanzania. Videographer: Lee McEachern.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: What's in a number?
Whether animals are assigned numbers or names by the scientists studying them, their attraction remains the same.

RECAP: JULY 8

     

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SUNDAY JOURNAL: First boys rescued from Thai cave (Video)
A dangerous diving operation is under way right now in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded maze of caves where they've been trapped for two weeks. The head of the rescue operation says today is "D-Day." Ben Tracy has the latest on the team of 18 expert divers now guiding the boys and their coach to safety.

COVER STORY: Introverts and the making of a "Quiet Revolution" | Watch Full Video
Susan Cain, author of the bestseller "QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking," is leading a "Quiet Revolution," debunking myths about those who are quiet, compared to outgoing extroverts who appear to have all the advantages in today's "culture of personality." Faith Salie talks with Cain, and with a couple – one an introvert, one very much an extrovert, opposites who were definitely attracted.

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ALMANAC: Gen. Douglas MacArthur | Watch Video
On July 8, 1950, President Truman named General Douglas MacArthur the commander of U.S. and other forces in Korea.

      
BOOKS: New York Times Bestsellers - Non-Fiction

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CIVIL WAR: Rooted in history: Gettysburg's "Witness Trees" | Watch Video
For three days in July, 1863, two great armies collided on the fields at Gettysburg. It remains the bloodiest battle in U.S. history. And improbably, 155 years later, there are still living witnesses to that moment in time: The trees.  Across 6,000 acres of Gettysburg National Military Park, rangers have documented at least a dozen "witness trees" that were alive during the battle – some scarred by bullets and cannonballs – that uniquely bring America's bloody past into the present. Mark Strassmann reports.

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BOOKS: New York Times Bestsellers - Fiction

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TELEVISION: Louie Anderson: Playing a woman is a tribute to my mom | Watch Full Video
The comedian and Emmy-winning actor talks about the influence his late mother has had on his comedy act and the role he plays (a mother) on "Baskets." Lee Cowan reports.

READ A BOOK EXCERPT: "Hey Mom" by Louie Anderson

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A TASTE OF SUMMER: Cultivating the perfect park experience | Watch Video
Long before the land became a national park, Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley was home to hundreds of family farms. Today, farms are thriving here again. The park developed a plan to lease its farm properties to entrepreneurs. Today, locals come to fill up on baskets of produce, and restaurants like Cleveland's Spice Kitchen use the park's land as a source for its farm-to-table menu. Conor Knighton reports.

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HARTMAN: Going the extra length (Video)
The swim coach of Seguin High School in Arlington, Texas, says you can't overstate the underachievement of his school's swim team; he measures success by his athletes not getting disqualified. So when Gerald Hodges – a pretty-good athlete who couldn't swim – joined up, it was because he couldn't bear not being good at something. Steve Hartman talked with Hodges about how he was able to measure success in the final lap.

SUNDAY PROFILE: Michael J. Fox: Working towards cure for Parkinson's cure "one of the great gifts of my life" | Watch Full Video
Actor Michael J. Fox is known to millions for the "Back to the Future" films and the TV series "Family Ties" and "Spin City." But for the past two decades it's been his battle with Parkinson's disease, and his search for a cure, that may have generated the most attention. Looking back, he tells anchor Jane Pauley that sharing his battle publicly and joining with others to raise money has been "one of the great gifts of my life." He has launched an online study to help researchers develop new therapies for the disease. (This story was originally broadcast on October 29, 2017.)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Michael J. Fox on helping those with Parkinson's
Jane Pauley talks with actor Michael J. Fox about how he used his celebrity and his public stance about his diagnosis of Parkinson's to help others with the condition.

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COMMENTARY: Reclining airline seats – brace for impact! | Watch Video
Contributor Luke Burbank reports on a travel headache (or knee-ache, if you will).  

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MUSIC:  Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters: "I love music, and I love life" | Watch Full Video
Forty-nine-year-old Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will go to any extreme, and won't let a little thing like a broken leg and dislocated ankle - suffered during a stage fall in Sweden - get in the way. The former drummer of the grunge band Nirvana talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about reentering music following the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Mason also talks with Grohl's Foo Fighters bandmates (including Pat Smear, a touring guitarist for NIrvana) about keeping rock's flame burning. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Dave Grohl on family first
Dave Grohl, founder of Foo Fighters, talks with Anthony Mason about what takes precedence over performing.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Dave Grohl on music and healing
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl talks with Anthony Mason about how he returned to music following the death of friend and bandmate Kurt Cobain, to record what would be the first Foo Fighters album. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Dave Grohl on his singing voice
The frontman of Foo Fighters regrets that he doesn't have the singing voice of a John Lennon or an Adele, but as Dave Grohl tells Anthony Mason, he's fine with being able to exude the raw passion of "dissident, noisy, crazy punk rock."

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HEADLINES: Update on Thai cave rescue

NATURE: Oregon's Painted Hills (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the vast and colorful Painted Hills not far from Mitchell, Oregon. Videographer: Mike Griffith.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 9 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.  

NATURE UP CLOSE: Reproductive freeloaders
Brown-headed cowbirds, which follow migrating bison herds, have evolved a tricky way to raise their young: fool other species of birds into doing it for them.

RECAP: JULY 1

      
COVER STORY: Mapping the genome of redwoods | Watch Video
They are among the oldest living things on the planet: old growth redwoods, only a few of which remain. Now, scientists are trying to bring these majestic trees back. Correspondent Lee Cowan visits California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park to report on a movement to map the genome of the coast redwood tree and its relative, the giant sequoia, in order to restore old-growth forests.

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ALMANAC: The launch of Zip Codes (Video)
July 1, 1963 was a red-letter day for the U.S. Post Office, for it marked the introduction of its Zoning Improvement Plan - ZIP for short. Jane Pauley reports. 

       
THIS WEEK: The Billboard Hot 100
"Sunday Morning" looks at this week's top hits. 

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ART: How the first Americans became iconic symbols (Video)
Ever since the United States was founded, the names and images of Native Americans – the first Americans – have served as the iconic symbols, brand names and mascots found on consumer goods and throughout popular culture and sports. Rita Braver visits an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., that looks at the history of appropriating Native American culture for advertising and marketing purposes.

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  • "Americans" at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
  • Catalogue: "Americans" by Cécile R. Ganteaume (University of Minnesota Press)

SUNDAY PROFILE: Cynthia Nixon on running for office: "People can have a lot of careers in their life" | Watch Video
You remember her from "Sex and the City." Now, Cynthia Nixon is running for Governor of New York. Erin Moriarty catches up with the actress-turned-politician.

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PASSAGE: The Capital Gazette (Video)
It's been a weekend of mourning in Annapolis, Md., where five staffers of The Capital Gazette newspaper were slain. Jane Pauley reports.
       

A TASTE OF SUMMER: Ketchup, a sweet and sour love story | Watch Video
There's a lot you don't know about ketchup. Luke Burbank fills you in on the perfect 4th of July condiment. (Originally broadcast November 19, 2017.)

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HARTMAN: Second chance at love (Video)
Jeff and Angela are in that getting-to-know-you stage of their relationship. But unlike most couples going through this discovery period, Jeff and Angela Hartung are married – and have been for the past 18 years. Steve Hartman reports on how a traumatic brain injury has erased much of a shared memory and led to a revived courtship.
      

SUNDAY PROFILE: John Mellencamp: Life goes on | Watch Video
Jane Pauley profiles rocker and fellow Hoosier John Mellencamp, who explains why he is driven to make music and paint portraits. (This story was originally broadcast on July 2, 2017.)

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Read an extended transcript of Jane Pauley's interview with John Mellencamp

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: John Mellencamp on panic attacks and creativity
The singer-songwriter talks to Jane Pauley about how he has suffered throughout his life, to varying degrees, from panic attacks. He also discusses creativity, from his painting, to how his gift for songwriting has evolved over time.

To watch the music video of John Mellencamp's "Grandview" (featuring Martina McBride), from his most recent album, "Sad Clowns & Hillbillies," click on the video player below. 

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan on that other Jim Gaffigan | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" contributor investigates a case of identity theft. 

      
BY THE NUMBERS: The July Fourth holiday (Video)
As we head into Independence Day celebrations, Jane Pauley looks at some data on the holiday. 

       
MOVIES: David Edelstein's movie picks for July 4th week | Watch Video
Grab a bucket of popcorn – our movie critic has some advice for the holiday week.

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CALENDAR: Week of July 2 (Video)
From World UFO Day to Independence Day, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.       

         
NATURE: Eagles (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning before the Fourth of July in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where our national bird, the eagle, flies free. 

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PASSAGE: Joe Jackson | Watch Video

Through determination and stern discipline, the music promoter shaped his own children into the hit pop group "The Jackson 5" with his very young son Michael as the star. Jane Pauley reports.RECAP: JUNE 24

     
HEADLINES:  In Saudi Arabia women drivers hit the road (Video)
Some Saudi women got behind the wheel this weekend the second it became legal for them to drive. But as Holly Williams reports, there is still a long road to equality, as under this country's male guardianship system, Saudi women still need a man's permission to travel overseas or get married.

        
COVER STORY: Taking Fridays off: Why it's good for business | Watch Video
A few years ago, about 20 percent of companies offered their staff Summer Fridays, where employees would work a little later on Monday through Thursday before taking a three-day weekend. Now, more than 40 percent of companies offer this summer perk. And it's not just out of the goodness of their hearts - companies find that the gift of time and an improved work/life balance builds loyalty and makes employees more committed to their organization. Conor Knighton reports on how some workers are spending their Summer Fridays far from work. (Originally broadcast July 30, 2017.)

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HISTORY: "Under One Roof," at NYC's Tenement Museum | Watch Video
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free  …" stated the poem by Emma Lazarus about America's promise. Martha Teichner visits New York's Tenement Museum, which has recreated apartments representing several decades of the immigrant experience as lived by the millions who came from the Old World looking for a new life.

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MUSIC: David Bowie and his ever-evolving self-portrait | Watch Video
Music pioneer, fashion icon, gender-bending rebel … David Bowie was all of those things. And what he was is the subject of a record breaking exhibit now at the Brooklyn Museum, entitled "David Bowie Is." Serena Altschul pays a visit, and also talks with Bowie's longtime producer Tony Visconti.

GALLERY: A David Bowie discography

GALLERY: David Bowie 1947-2016

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HARTMAN: Deliveries of kindness (Video)
No matter what you order from San Diego school cafeteria worker Debra Davis, "Auntie Debra" doles out a heaping helping of hospitality every lunch hour. And she's just starting; after serving food all day, she drives her beat-up, '76 Chevy Malibu looking for hungry homeless people to feed, all at her own expense. Steve Hartman reports. 

MOVIES: Todd Fisher on life with Carrie & Debbie | Watch Video
It was a painful loss for movie fans when actress and screenwriter Carrie Fisher and her mother, Oscar-nominated actress Debbie Reynolds, passed away within hours of one another in December 2016.  But no one would have felt the pain more acutely than Todd Fisher, who writes about his sister Carrie and mother Debbie in his new memoir, "My Girls." Tracy Smith sits down with Fisher to discuss a lifetime in the orbit of two irrepressible Hollywood stars.

READ A BOOK EXCERPT: "My Girls"

GALLERY: Debbie Reynolds 1932-2016

GALLERY: Carrie Fisher 1956-2016

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INCARCERATION: Voices from "The Q" | Watch Video
In this special two-part report, "Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel goes inside San Quentin State Prison, to which inmates are now applying to get in, due to its innovative programs aimed at helping convicts upon their release. From college courses to a prison newspaper and the wildly popular podcast, "Ear Hustle," produced by the inmates themselves, "The Q," as its known, is now providing hope – even to those sentenced 50 years to life – that there will be life beyond prison.

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OPINION: Roger Rosenblatt on why the family separation crisis touches us all | Watch Video
The essayist and novelist says distress caused by the Trump administration's policy to remove children from migrant parents has raised the nation's temperature more steeply than other issues.

       
CALENDAR: Week of June 25 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: Bison (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning where the buffalo roam ... at Custer State Park in South Dakota. Videographer: Brad Markel.

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ALMANAC: The founder of chemical giant DuPont | Watch Video
On June 24, 1771, E.I. du Pont, an emigrant whose gunpowder factory was forerunner of the innovative chemical company, was born in Paris. Jane Pauley reports. 

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Thousands of concerts and interactive events will be held around the world on Make Music Day, June 21, inviting musicians and music lovers to play together. Make Music Day

MUSIC: Make Music Day celebrates the musician in everyone | Watch Video
More than 4,500 concerts and interactive events will be held across the country on June 21, inviting musicians and music lovers to play together.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Komodo Island National Park
The Indonesian island where these giant lizards reside is also home to diverse and unusual sea life.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Mementos at the Wall (Video)
It is among America's most visited and most poignant sites: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. From the day it was dedicated in 1982, "The Wall" has touched people so profoundly that a remarkable tradition began: Visitors would leave behind intensely personal messages and mementos, which are carefully collected each day by a National Park Service ranger. Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. (Originally broadcast May 28, 2000.)
        

RECAP: JUNE 17

      
COVER STORY: The Flint water crisis | Watch Video
Martha Teichner talks with the whistleblower who exposed the dangers posed to residents of Flint, Michigan, by the very water they drank. 

BOOK EXCERPT: "What the Eyes Don't See"
Writing on the public health crisis affecting Michigan residents, pediatrician Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha says that resilience "isn't a trait that you have or don't have. It's learned."

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FATHER'S DAY: How to dress like a dad | Watch Video
Father really does knows best when it comes to fashion sense, as "dad style" takes hold. Mo Rocca reports. 

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MUSIC: Rory Feek and family | Watch Video
Anthony Mason catches up with country musician Rory Feek, now planning a return to the stage after the 2016 death of his wife and musical partner, Joey Feek.

"It's been two-and-a-half years since Joey passed away," he told Mason. "I feel just as married and just as in love. And I feel like she's just as much a part of our life as she was."

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Rory Feek on mourning and life without Joey (08/04/16)

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Rory Feek performs "A Little More Country Than That"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Rory Feek performs "Hard to Be Cool (In a Minivan)"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Rory Feek and Firekid perform "If I Needed You"

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Rory Feek sings "Someone You Used to Know"

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ART: M.C. Escher: A mind-bending exhibition | Watch Video
An exhibition at Brooklyn's Industry City shows more than 200 works from the Dutch artist's topsy-turvy perspective. Jane Pauley reports.

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BIG TOP: Meet the man who ran away and built a circus | Watch Video
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is no more, having given its last performance in May 2017. So, how can young people now dream of running away to a life under the big top? Kevin Venardos tells NPR's Scott Simon why he created his own one-ring circus that he takes around the country in a 28-foot long truck. He also remembers his father, Lane Venardos, a CBS News executive who died in 2011, and their shared love of trains.

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HARTMAN: A history lesson (Video)
Ten-year-old Sarah Haycox says she was just walking through a park in Shoreline, Wash., about a year ago when she came across a plaque paying tribute to Edwin T. Pratt, who died in 1969 at age 39. She assigned herself the task of finding out who Pratt was, and her investigation led to a pretty impressive history lesson for her community. Steve Hartman reports. 

    
MOVIES: The superpowers of Paul Rudd | Watch Video
Tracy Smith spends time with actor Paul Rudd, star of the upcoming Marvel adventure, "Ant-Man and the Wasp."

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Marvel Studios' Ant-Man and the Wasp - Official Trailer #1 by Marvel Entertainment on YouTube

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BOOKS: Seymour Hersh on the life of a "Reporter" | Watch Video
David Martin sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh, author of a new memoir.

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OPINION: Carl Hiaasen's pep talk for grads: Assume the worst | Watch Video
Author Carl Hiaasen has thoughts to share with his son – and us – timed perfectly for Father's Day and commencement season.

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CALENDAR: Week of June 18 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Komodo dragons (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Komodo National Park in Indonesia, home to the legendary Komodo dragon, and a vast array of sea life. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: The carnivorous Butterwort plant (with video)
Plants that don't rely on photosynthesis for nutrients can employ some tricky tactics to catch a meal.

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HEADLINES: Trump arrives in Singapore for summit with N. Korean leader (Video)
President Donald Trump arrived in Singapore this morning for an unprecedented nuclear summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, following a G-7 meeting in Canada which he left in a defiant mood. Ben Tracy reports from Singapore.

       
COVER STORY:  A life cut short: Trying to understand suicide | Watch Video
The recent suicides of celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain only hint at the dimensions of this public health crisis on the rise. Tony Dokoupil visits the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and talks with a woman who attempted suicide at age 19 about her empathy for the victims of the suicide. He also discusses the public health ramifications of suicide with Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chair of Columbia University's psychiatry department, and with Mike Shinoda, of the band Linkin Park, who last year lost his friend and bandmate Chester Bennington to suicide.

For immediate help if you are in a crisis, call the toll-free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All calls are confidential.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: From 2007: Anthony Bourdain, the culinary bad boy (Video)
In a story which originally aired on "Sunday Morning" on September 30, 2007, correspondent Lesley Stahl profiles the celebrity chef and host of "No Reservations" Anthony Bourdain, whose adventurous spirit has led him to far-flung lands to sample some of the world's most exotic foods. Stahl also talked with Bourdain's mother, Gladys, whose cooking – and an oyster her son sampled in France at age 10 - inspired young Anthony to pursue a life in the kitchen.   

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ALMANAC:  Forest fire lookout towers | Watch Video
On June 10, 1905, America's first forest fire lookout tower went into operation on top of Squaw Mountain in Maine. Jane Pauley reports.

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MUSIC: Musicians on call: Just what the doctor ordered | Watch Video
Like doctors making rounds, the non-profit group Musicians on Call has been bringing musicians to hospitals all over the country for almost 20 years, playing for more than 600,000 patients.  It's a person-to-person experience that can be more rewarding than the arenas and clubs where he started his career. Nancy Giles tagged along with Kenli Mattus and Luke Bryan as they brought their music to patients, becoming part of the healing process.

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MOVIES:  Jim Parsons on his latest role: Film producer | Watch Video
The star of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," has a new role in Hollywood – producer of the film, "A Kid Like Jake," in which he stars with Claire Danes and Octavia Spencer. It's the story of a New York couple who are trying to get their four-year-old son in a competitive elementary school. They face a challenging question: should they reveal their son prefers Cinderella to G.I. Joe? Richard Schlesinger of "48 Hours" speaks with Parsons and Danes(who are both presenters at Sunday night's Tony Awards) and with the film's director, Silas Howard.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: "A Kid Like Jake" director Silas Howard talks growing up transgender
The new movie "A Kid Like Jake" tells the story of parents whose four-year-old son likes to dress as a princess. Director Silas Howard talks with correspondent Richard Schlesinger about how his personal story informed the film. Schlesinger also talks with star and producer Jim Parsons about what Howard brought to the project.

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GAMES: An epic game of tag | Watch Video
Ten childhood friends, now middle-aged, are still competing in a game of tag they first played while students as a prep school in Spokane, Wash. Correspondent Lee Cowan revisits the "Tag Brothers," whom he first met in 2013, and who still turn February into a month of sneaky, whimsical play. (This story was originally broadcast on October 27, 2013.) 

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HARTMAN: Above and beyond (Video)
A lot of police officers go above and beyond, but few have gone further than Denver Police Officers Monique Sedberry and Alicia Martinez, who got a call last year to check on the welfare of a bullied 15 year-old boy who had threatened to take his own life. Their response to Victor Jiron's plight has made all the difference in his life - and theirs. Steve Hartman reports. 

        
MUSIC: The musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein: Some of our favorite things | Watch Video
Mo Rocca looks back at one of Broadway's greatest songwriting teams.

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OPINION: Miss America covers up | Watch Video
Contributor Faith Salie on the latest news that the annual beauty pageant will no longer feature a swimsuit competition.

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ON BROADWAY:  Tony nominee Lauren Ridloff, star of the best story on Broadway | Watch Video
At the age of 40, with no professional acting experience, Lauren Ridloff was offered a starring role on Broadway. All the more remarkable for this deaf actress: She received a Tony nomination for her performance. Jamie Wax talked with Ridloff, star of the recent revival of "Children of a Lesser God."

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CALENDAR: Week of June 11 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE: Alewives (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in Damariscotta, Maine, where the small fish known as Alewives are swimming against the tide. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Sexual encounters of the bluebonnet kind
Because all of Earth's inhabitants are dependent on plants to survive, plant sex is essential.        

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COVER STORY: Remembering Robert F. Kennedy, and a generation's loss | Watch Video
Fifty years ago, on June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated following his win in the California Democratic Primary. Journalist Pete Hamill says America lost something vital in the gunshots fired that night at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Hamill, and with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest daughter of RFK; children's activist Marian Wright Edelman; and aide Peter Edelman about Kennedy's fight to address divisions in America, and about the future that might have been.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Pete Hamill's letter to RFK
In the early days of 1968 Robert F. Kennedy announced he would not run for the Democratic nomination for president, inspiring writer Pete Hamill to pen a letter pleading with the New York Senator to reconsider: "You should run because if you won, the country might be saved … I don't think we can afford five summers of blood." In this web exclusive, Hamill reads his letter to correspondent Jim Axelrod, and also recalls witnessing the assassination of RFK a few months later.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on her father RFK
Fifty years after his assassination, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is remembered by his oldest daughter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who talks with correspondent Jim Axelrod about his visit to poverty-stricken Mississippi in 1967; his Irish-Catholic upbringing; and his Shakespeare contest with actor Richard Burton.

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ALMANAC: The attempted murder of Andy Warhol | Watch Video
On June 3, 1968, radical feminist Valerie Solanas claimed her 15 minutes of fame by trying to kill the pop artist. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: Jean Dubuffet: Art of the outsider | Watch Video
Post-war artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was considered the enfant terrible of the Paris art world, always fighting the status quo, creating works that were deemed the product of a madman. Correspondent Serna Altschul tours an exhibition of his collages at New York's Pace Gallery which reflect a time of deep philosophical exploration towards the end of the artist's life.

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MUSIC: Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, playing beautiful music together | Watch Video
Anthony Mason interviews the musicians whose breakup years ago hasn't precluded them from now going on tour together, singing the songs of romance and heartbreak they'd inspired in each other.

To hear Judy Collins sing "Houses," from the album "Everybody Knows," click on the video player below.

Stills & Collins - Houses (Lyric Video) by Judy Collins on YouTube

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MUSIC: Music of the streets: New York City's public pianos | Watch Video
Spring is in full bloom, and in New York that means pianos are popping up like wildflowers. They're the work of a group called Sing For Hope, which has placed hundreds of pianos in parks, terminals, on boardwalks and street-corners all over the city. Michelle Miller reports.

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HARTMAN: Best friends, always (Video)
A year and a half ago, Steve Hartman introduced us to a pair of unlikely best friends: widower Dan Peterson and Norah Wood, a little girl who encountered him in a grocery store and demanded a hug. He gave her one, and they've been inseparable every since, including at Norah's recent pre-school graduation in Augusta, Georgia. 

      
BOOKS: Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-author a political beach read | Watch Video
The prolific mystery writer and the former POTUS (and thriller fan) have collaborated on a new novel, "The President Is Missing." Mo Rocca talks with President Bill Clinton and bestselling author James Patterson.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bill Clinton on fighting impeachment
Former President Bill Clinton tells Mo Rocca that despite what he calls the voters' referendum against Republicans in the 1998 midterms, the GOP and House Speaker Newt Gingrich pushed to impeach Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair as an exercise of power, and that he fought impeachment efforts to protect the office of the President.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bill Clinton on attempts to politicize the justice system
Former President Bill Clinton talks about recent criticism, inspired by the #MeToo movement, that he should have resigned from office in the 1990s following the Monica Lewinsky affair, and about how Special Counsel Robert Mueller is working against efforts by some on the right to promote criminal investigations based on politics rather than law.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bill Clinton on his political opponents
Former President Bill Clinton talks with Mo Rocca about his relationship with those on the other side of the political aisle.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bill Clinton looks ahead to 2020
Former President Bill Clinton reads some political tea leaves with Mo Rocca, and offers a warning about states that have refused to accept help to safeguard their elections from hacking.

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OPINION:  Jim Gaffigan on why he doesn't care about the Triple Crown | Watch Video
The comedian and "Sunday Morning" contributor shares his thoughts on the pageantry and hoopla surrounding horse racing's Triple Crown.

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A SUNDAY DRIVE: Roadside America: A tiny slice of Americana | Watch Video
Just outside Shartlesville, Pa., is a tiny slice of Americana. Roadside America, a miniature town featuring O-gauge trains and handmade buildings, transports visitors to a simpler time. Lawrence Gieringer's tiny town, which opened in 1953, continues to offer surprises around every corner. Lee Cowan pays a visit.

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CALENDAR: Week of June 4 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Badgers (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park near Ulm, Montana, where a mother badger is keeping a close eye on her kit. Videographer: Judith Lehmberg.

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RECAP: MAY 27

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HEADLINES: Gulf Coast readies for Alberto (Video)
Preparations are under way along the Gulf Coast ahead of the first named storm of the season,  Alberto. Chief meteorologist at CBS Miami station WFOR Craig Setzer has the latest. 

        
COVER STORY: Seeing green: Celebrities selling marijuana | Watch Video
From fashion to fragrance, celebrity sells. And with marijuana sales expected to reach $8-10 billion by the end of this year – and projected to double to $20 billion by 2022 – more celebs are investing money and lending their names to get a foothold in this growing market. Ben Tracy talks with Tommy Chong, who helped invent the stoner comedy genre, who's put his name to Chong's Choice marijuana, on sale in six states; and with Melissa Etheridge, whose experience with marijuana to relieve the effects of cancer chemotherapy has inspired her to build a farm for medical marijuana products.

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1968: When "Hair" took root in pop culture | Watch Video
Broadway had never seen anything like it: An anti-war rock musical featuring nudity, profanity and drugs. "Hair," premiering on stage in 1968, was a reflection of the turbulent times. Diane Paulus, who fell in love with the show's music at age eight, and would grow up to direct a Tony-winning Broadway revival of "Hair" in 2009, talks with correspondent Susan Spencer about the importance of the show in musical theater history.

To watch the original Broadway cast of "Hair" perform on the 1969 Tony Awards broadcast click on the video player below.

HAIR 1969 Tony Awards by MrPoochsmooch on YouTube

      
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At the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, it's not just about the music ... it's about the food! CBS News

FESTIVAL: Music and food share top billing at Outside Lands Festival | Watch Video
John Blackstone takes us to the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. With equal parts music and food, it is a treat for your ears and your palate.

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PASSAGE: Philip Roth and Robert Indiana | Watch Video
This week we saw the passing of two American originals: the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and the pop artist renowned for "Love." Lee Cowan reports.

      
TELEVISION: Back to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" | Watch Video
It's been 50 years since "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" first went on the air – a television program for young children that treated them with respect, and helped them understand a complicated, often challenging world. A new documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor," examines the life of the exceptional Fred Rogers, the man who created the neighborhood, wrote the song, the scripts, and did the voices for all the puppets in the Land of Make Believe.  Faith Salie reports on a cherished part of broadcasting history.

To watch a trailer for "Won't You Be My Neighbor" click on the video player below.

WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - In Select Theaters June 8 by Focus Features on YouTube

       
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1968: "Laugh-In," comedy that defined the times | Watch Video
Fifty years ago saw the debut of a raucous TV comedy show with a frenetic pace, wild cast, and punchlines that pulled no punches. "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" was a cultural phenomenon, and a silly one at that. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with comedian Lily Tomlin, who was launched to stardom for her memorable characters like Ernestine the telephone operator; and with producer George Schlatter, who says the show was a perfect fit for its time – and for today.

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COMMENTARY: Arne Duncan: It's time to change the game on gun violence | Watch Video
The former Education Secretary backs a school boycott to protest Congressional inaction in the face of mass shootings.

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HARTMAN: Prom friends (Video)
At Mountain Heritage High School in Burnsville, N.C., Rachel Newberry caught Ben Robinson completely off-guard when she invited Ben, who has Down Syndrome, to the senior prom. But Rachel was caught off-guard, too, by the reaction to her invitation, which was the most natural expression of friendship. Steve Hartman reports.

    
COMEDY: Steve Martin and Martin Short: Two amigos on tour | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil catches up with Steve Martin and Martin Short – two amigos on tour together.

To watch a trailer for "An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life" click on the video player below.

Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life | Netflix by Netflix on YouTube

      
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1968: The future as depicted in "2001: A Space Odyssey" | Watch Video
Fifty years ago Stanley's Kubrick's masterwork, "2001: A Space Odyssey," debuted, expanding the horizons of science fiction in cinema, and inspiring generations of moviemakers and moviegoers. Susan Spencer talks with Michael Benson, author of a new book about the making of the film, "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece."

READ AN EXCERPT: "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece"

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INTELLIGENCE: James Clapper on North Korea, Trump, and Russia's attack on U.S. | Watch Video
The former Director of National Intelligence – a man not given to publicity – sits down with national security correspondent David Martin to discuss his new book, "Facts and Fears," in which he defends the men and women of America's intelligence community from assaults on their mission, including from President Donald Trump.

READ AN EXCERPT: "Facts and Fears" by James Clapper

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NATURE: Fiddler crabs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in Osterville, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where an army of fiddler crabs is on maneuvers. Videographer: Scot Miller.
       

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CALENDAR: Week of May 28 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.  

        
COMMENTARY: Philip Roth: An appreciation by Bill Flanagan | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" contributor says the fury that animated much of the novelist's best writing was not apparent in the writer.

       
NATURE UP CLOSE: Yellowstone black bears
Yosemite National Park rangers helps protect bears from inquisitive visitors, and vice versa.

Memorial Day 2018: America honors the fallen
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COVER STORY: Not your grandfather's royal wedding (Video)
Amid the tradition-bound rituals of Britain's monarchy, no one has ever quite seen Saturday's welcoming into the family of American Meghan Markle, who married Prince Harry, the last of Princess Diana's children. Mark Phillips recaps a day of pomp and circumstance, spirituals and love. 

         
ALMANAC: Gilda Radner | Watch Video
On May 20, 1989, the comic actress died of cancer, but her name lives on in Gilda's Club, a network of supportive gathering places for cancer patients. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ISLAND-HOPPING: St. Helena | Watch Video
Conor Knighton travels to the isolated speck of land off the coast of Africa, where residents of the British-controlled island maintain ties to the homeland 4,500 miles away.

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MUSIC: The Kanneh-Masons: The family that plays together (Video)
They're rock stars in the classical world: Seven British brothers and sisters, ages 8 to 21, whose musical talents shine from TV competitions to a royal wedding. Lee Cowan interviews the Kanneh-Masons: Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata, and Mariatu.

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PASSAGE: Tom Wolfe | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the life of the writer who died this week at age 88.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and voyeurism (Video)
An acclaimed practitioner of "new journalism" and author of such bestsellers as "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities," writer Tom Wolfe died on Monday, May 14, 2018. In this interview with CBS News' Harry Smith originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" January 15, 2006, Wolfe talks about his journey from newspaper reporter to novelist; the difference between journalism and voyeurism; and his iconic white suits (which he admits he began wearing "by accident").

    
FASHION: Maye Musk, the silver cover girl | Watch Video
Maye Musk has been modeling since the age of 15, but today – at age 70 – she is more in-demand than ever. Contributor Alina Cho asks Musk about her love affair with the camera, and about how she raised three remarkable children, including billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Model Maye Musk on fighting temptation
Maye Musk has been modeling for half a century, and has a master's degree in dietetics, but even she needs to watch her diet, as she explains to correspondent Alian Cho.

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COMMENTARY: Faith Salie on the great Laurel vs. Yanny debate | Watch Video
The aural war that has divided a nation allowed us, refreshingly, to wholeheartedly disagree with one another with passion and humor.

    
ON BROADWAY: Diana Rigg on life before and after "The Avengers" | Watch Video
The '60s British spy series "The Avengers" made Diana Rigg an international sensation. But after two years she left the show – returning to the stage and Shakespeare, and making a turn as a Bond girl. Now, Rigg remains a dame in demand, starring in the HBO series "Game of Thrones," and back on Broadway in a revival of "My Fair Lady." Anthony Mason talked with Dame Diana about her career, including her immortal Emma Peel.

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MONARCHY: Just how British are Britain's royals? | Watch Video
Mo Rocca delves into the family tree of the House of Windsor.

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     BOOKS: "The Restless Wave": Parting words from John McCain | Watch Video
Co-writer Mark Salter talks with correspondent Chip Reid about the themes of the latest memoir by the 81-year-old Arizona Senator, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

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CALENDAR: Week of May 21 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE: Bear cubs (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in Yellowstone National Park, home to a black bear and her cubs. Videographer: Judy Lehmberg.

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HARRY & MEGHAN: "Fairy tale" wedding? Bah, humbug! | Watch Video
Sunday Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel says, despite the insanity surrounding the royal nuptials, the classic love story has never felt further away for more people.

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Jane Pauley hosts "A Sunday Morning in London," a special edition anchored from London that explores British history, people, places and culture in advance of the upcoming wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and American Meghan Markle.

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Jane Pauley hosts a special broadcast of "Sunday Morning" from London, in advance of next week's wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. CBS News

COVER STORY: The changing face of Britain today | Watch Video
Our understanding of Great Britain has been shaped by our views of royals and big houses with drama upstairs and downstairs. And it's all more or less wrong. Mark Phillips looks at how Britain is becoming more and more like America – a multicultural melting pot. He also asks, can you make a living as a Duke nowadays?

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ROYALS: Britain's queen of royal memorabilia | Watch Video
Lee Cowan meets a royal superfan who has one of the world's most extensive collections of royal memorabilia.

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FASHION: Fashion royalty: The legacy of Diana (Video)
Jane Pauley takes a look at fashion royalty: gowns worn by Princess Diana, now on display at Kensington Palace.

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CULTURE: The British TV invasion | Watch Video
Tracy Smith looks into why British TV shows are so beloved by Americans - and so prone to imitation.

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PUBS:  Last call? Fighting to save Britain's endangered pubs | Watch Video
Roxana Saberi reports on the decline of a British institution: the neighborhood pub.

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AUTOMOTIVES: The Aston Martin, a piece of automotive art | Watch Video
Charlie D'Agata gets behind the wheel of the British automobile icon, a favorite of James Bond.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Twiggy, still in fashion | Watch Video
Martha Teichner interviews the model, actress, singer, designer and '60s icon.

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MUSIC: Bagpipes and kilts: Scottish traditions that never go out of style | Watch Video
The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.

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AFTERNOON TEA: The history and etiquette of afternoon tea | Watch Video
Take a break with Seth Doane. 

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MOVIES:  Rachel Weisz on "Disobedience" - the film, and her own | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil profiles the actress, now starring in the London-based drama "Disobedience."

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ENGLISH SPOKEN HERE: America and England, separated by a common language | Watch Video
Faith Salie on British English vs. American English.

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NATURE: England's New Forest National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning at New Forest National Park, England's oldest royal hunting ground, established in 1079. Videographer: Henry Bautista.

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RULE BRITANNIA: London: A history lesson | Watch Video
Jane Pauley explores the history of London, what was once the center of the vast British Empire, and which today stands as a capital of commerce and culture, and one of the most cosmopolitan cities under the sun.

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WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The Beefeaters' private club
The exclusive Yeoman Warders Club at the Tower of London is a private pub open only to those residing within the Tower's walls. Yeoman Sergeant Bob Loughlin, a "Beefeater," gives "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley a peek, and a taste of their traditions.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The tour of the Tower of London
Jane Pauley is given a tour of the Tower of London by Yeoman Sergeant Bob Loughlin, who explains the history, traditions and superstitions of the landmark, where the crown jewels are kept under guard, and where ravens keep their own watch.

HISTORY: A visit to England's Hampton Court Palace (Video)
Once the home to King Henry VIII, the palace just outside London today is known for its treasure trove of royal history. Jane Pauley takes a tour of it its peerless collection of royal and ceremonial garments.

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RECAP: MAY 6

COVER STORY: Small town America in renewal | Watch Video
Contrary to the narrative held in some quarters that America is in decline, many towns and cities are experiencing a rebirth. James Fallows, of The Atlantic magazine, and his wife, Deborah, traveled the country, stopping in one small town after another, to witness the forces of entrepreneurship and creativity that are driving an American renewal. They've written a new book, "Our Towns," and they talked with correspondent Lee Cowan about the creativity, compassion and generosity of small town America that are the driving forces behind a nation remaking itself.

Cowan also talks with small business owners (like Duluth, Minn., craft brewers Laura Mullen and Bryon Tonnis) and Greenville, S.C., Mayor Knox White on what helped turn around their communities.

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ALMANAC:  Yale locks | Watch Video
Following in the footsteps of his lock-inventing father, Linus Yale Jr. received the first of his 20 patents for lock devices on May 6, 1851. Jane Pauley reports.

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TRANSPORTATION: Lowrider bikes: Latino street life on wheels | Watch Video
In Compton, California, there's an art form that grew from the streets, one with a decidedly Latino flavor. For 44 years Manny Silva has been creating by hand a very distinctive style of lowrider bicycle, an off-spring of lowrider cars. His brilliantly elaborate chrome and metal creations – many worth thousands of dollars – are a moving feast for the eyes. Mireya Villareal reports.

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ON BROADWAY: Playwright Mart Crowley on the revolutionary "The Boys in the Band" | Watch Video
Erin Moriarty interviews playwright Mart Crowley, whose groundbreaking 1968 play "The Boys in the Band," about a group of gay men attending a birthday party, is now playing on Broadway in a revival starring Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto.

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PASSAGE: Judith and Gerson Leiber | Watch Video
The husband-and-wife artist and handbag designer died within hours of one another after 72 years of marriage. Jane Pauley reports.

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SOCIAL MEDIA:  The rise of social media influencers | Watch Video
Alina Cho profiles several internet celebrities whose fashion sense – with their millions of social media followers - are proving to be valuable selling tools for fashion, accessory and makeup companies.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Simon Huck on social media influencers
Correspondent Alina Cho talks with Simon Huck, of the public relations firm Command PR, about the importance of internet celebrities in marketing and building brand awareness. Stars on platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook have become, in the eyes of their millions of followers, arbiters of taste with more impact than a prime time TV commercial.

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HARTMAN: A four-year-old superhero (Video)
By day, Austin Perine is a mild-mannered four-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama. But once a week, he turns into this alter ego: a superhero set on feeding as many homeless people as possible. Steve Hartman reports. 

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WORLD: Nikki Haley on Trump, "confusion," and speaking her mind | Watch Video
Rita Braver profiles America's Ambassador to the United Nations.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Nikki Haley: Trump never surprises me with his tweets
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells Rita Braver that, while President Trump's pronouncements via Twitter may catch some people off-guard, she has never been surprised about anything that he's tweeted.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Trump and Putin
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talks to correspondent Rita Braver about the public pronouncements of President Donald Trump regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and how it comports with U.S. foreign policy interests.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Nikki Haley on growing up as "the other" in S.C.
The daughter of Indiana immigrants, Nikki Haley says that, growing up in South Carolina, she and her Sikh family were often faced with suspicion. But, she explained to correspondent Rita Braver, she saw an evolution and a welcoming spirit in her home state.

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OPINION: Daryn Kagan's Mother's Day card to her daughter's first mother | Watch Video
The broadcast journalist, who married a widower with a young girl, talks about raising the daughter of a woman who did not live to see her grow up.

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SUNDAY PROFILE:  Kesha: "I feel like I took my life back" | Watch Video
Anthony Mason sits down with the singer-songwriter to talk about music and #MeToo. 

PREVIEW VIDEO: Kesha on preparing for her world tour
The singer talks with Anthony Mason about the accelerated therapy she is undergoing following a knee injury so she can embark as planned on her tour in June.  

PREVIEW VIDEO: Kesha on being named to Time's 100 Most Influential People list
The singer Kesha, who has spoken out against sexual assault and supported victims since before the #MeToo movement took hold, has been named to Time Magazine's 2018 list of the 100 Most Influential People. She told CBS News' Anthony Mason what the recognition, and the essay penned by singer Cyndi Lauper (with whom she performed at this year's Grammy Awards), means to her. 

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CALENDAR: Week of May 7 | Watch Video
From Melanoma Monday to National Teacher Day, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Yosemite National Park (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning with a look at springtime in Yosemite National Park. Videographer: Lance Milbrand.

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MUSIC: A road trip with Rosanne Cash | Watch Video
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program announced on Friday that singer Johnny Cash's boyhood home in Dyess, Arkansas, where he lived from age 3 through high school, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2014 Rosanne Cash gave Anthony Mason a tour of the home which has been restored by Arkansas State University.

EXTENDED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: Rosanne Cash

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GUEST HOST: Lee Cowan

COVER STORY: A children's puffin rescue squad | Watch Video
The island of Heimaey, just off the coast of Iceland, is a breeding ground to Atlantic Puffins. But the colorful birds are not as plentiful here as they once were. Scientists say their numbers have been down by a third or more just since 2002. And one threat to the puffins is the local fishing village's bright lights, which can confuse young pufflings and draw them away from their nocturnal feeding ground.

Enter the Puffling Patrol -- young children who volunteer to rescue lost birds. Lee Cowan pays a visit.

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ALMANAC: The designer of Radio City Music Hall | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the career of Donald Deskey, an advertising man behind New York City's Art Deco showcase, who died on April 29, 1989 at the age of 94.

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ART: Grant Wood: An American artist | Watch Video
He is inarguably Iowa's most famous artistic son. Grant Wood (1891-1942) is best-known for his painting "American Gothic," one of the most recognizable portraits in history. Now, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City has organized the largest exhibition ever of Wood's art. Anna Werner reports.

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FOR THE RECORD: Janelle Monáe | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil profiles the singer and actress, whose new album is 'Dirty Computer."

GALLERY: Janelle Monáe in black and white

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PASSAGE: Charles Neville and Bob Dorough | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the musical accomplishments of two gifted jazz artists. Lee Cowan reports. 

       
CONNECTIONS: The stories behind Craigslist Confessional | Watch Video
Washington, D.C. lawyer Helena Bala experienced an unusual sense of connection and fulfillment five years ago when she saw a homeless man, with whom she stopped and shared a sandwich and a conversation. After listening to his story, she posted an ad on Craigslist offering to listen to anyone who just needed to talk. She was immediately flooded with requests. And so began "Craigslist Confessional." Bala talked to Jim Axelrod about how what she offers to the hundreds of people desperate to talk is very different from typical therapy.

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ON STAGE: Denzel Washington on when the work pays off | Watch Video
Michelle Miller interviews the actor, now starring on Broadway in the Eugene O'Neill classic, "The Iceman Cometh."

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HARTMAN: From NASA designer to school custodian (Video)
Maury Forrester, 77, works as a custodian at Coulter Grove Intermediate School near Knoxville, Tennessee. You wouldn't realize that, in an earlier life, Forrester was an electromechanical designer, part of the team that put a man on the moon. Steve Hartman reports on finding the key to a successful career.

     
MUSIC: Barbershop: A harmonious passion (Video)
In Las Vegas, at the annual convention of the Barbershop Harmony Society, the boys of four-part harmony packed them in. Barry Petersen checks out the acts large and small, and asks, in these polarized times, who couldn't use a little more harmony?

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OPINION: On the end of Bill Cosby | Watch Video
Nancy Giles on witnessing the death of an image, of the Bill Cosby she thought she knew, following his conviction on sexual assault charges.

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CALENDAR: Week of April 30 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at come notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

       
NATURE: Redbuds (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the pink ... Pink, Oklahoma, that is, where the Redbuds - Oklahoma's state tree - are in bloom. Videographer: Roy Neher.  

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Hummingbirds
Arizona's Sonoran Desert plays host to a high diversity of some of the world's tiniest birds.

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HEADLINES: First lady Barbara Bush laid to rest (Video)
On Saturday some 1,500 invited mourners packed St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, where Barbara Bush and former president George H.W. Bush attended services for over five decades, to honor the former first lady who passed away this week at age 92. Bianna Golodryga reports.

     
|COVER STORY: Making a clean sweep: Decluttering your life | Watch Video
There are entire industries dedicated to helping Americans get rid of their stuff -- as well as where to put stuff we no longer have room for in our homes but can't bear to actually throw away. Barry Petersen reports.

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ALMANAC: The first Earth Day | Watch Video
On April 22, 1970, Americans took part in a day aimed at protecting the only planet we call home. Jane Pauley reports.

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REMEMBRANCES: Grave gardening: Tending more than just flowers | Watch Video
At The Woodlands, a mid-19th century cemetery that is a 54-acre oasis in Philadelphia, graves were designed to be planters. Today, volunteers cultivate a sense of history by tending to Victorian Era-style flowers at tombs erected "in the French style." Tony Dokoupil reports.

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ON BROADWAY: Justin Peck: Dance man | Watch Video
Rodgers and Hammerstein's glorious musical of a star-crossed romance of a carnival barker and the woman he marries, "Carousel," dates back to the mid-20th century. But the dancing in the new Broadway revival was created by a young choreographer who has become a 21st century sensation: 30-year old Justin Peck. Rita Braver reports.

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PASSAGE: "Sunday Morning" remembers (Video)
We pause to look back at some of the notable personalities who left us this past week, including broadcaster Carl Kasell and DJ-music producer Avicii.

     
CARS: The return of Steve McQueen's "Bullitt" Mustang | Watch Video
Mark Strassmann reports on the journey of the car that starred in the Steve McQueen classic, "Bullitt," and the owner who jealously protected his prize, even refusing to sell the car to McQueen himself. Strassmann also talks with McQueen's costar Jacqueline Bisset about the very special appeal that the Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback had (and continues to have) on movie audiences.

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HARTMAN: A Facebook message that sparked hope (Video)
Steve Hartman visited Africa to investigate the story of how a suspicious Facebook message actually led to a friendship, and a publishing business that is investing in an impoverished community in Liberia.

GALLERY: "On the Road" in Liberia

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Life in Liberia
While in Liberia to report for CBS News, Steve Hartman also filed a special report for a special audience: his three children. He shows them how different life can be for kids just like them, on the other side of the world.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Delivering the news in Liberia via chalk
A chalkboard in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is the site of "Daily Talk," a free news outlet that aims to keep poor members of the community informed. For Liberians who can't read, the creator and managing editor will even read the news of the day out loud. Steve Hartman explains.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Pauley Perrette on life beyond "NCIS" | Watch Video
Actress Pauley Perrette's character from the series "NCIS," Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto, is one of the best-loved crimefighters on TV. But now, Pauley's decided to leave the show, and after 15 years, she's having a hard time letting go.

Tracy Smith talked with Perrette about life beyond Abby -- from her long fascination with criminal science to the more than two dozen charities which she supports, including her pet charity, the Amanda Foundation, a non-profit animal rescue in Beverly Hills. 

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A SUNDAY DRIVE: Crowning the Big Cheese at the Cheesemonger Invitational | Watch Video
During the Cheesemonger Invitational, in San Francisco, cheesemongers from around the country compete to cut, wrap and pair cheeses. What makes someone a champion cheesemonger? Luke Burbank hopes to find out. 

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COMMENTARY: Douglas Brinkley on Barbara Bush | Watch Video
Presidential history Douglas Brinkley looks back on the life of the former first lady who passed away this week at age 92.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Watch Barbara Bush's 1990 commencement speech at Wellesley
In Barbara Bush's invigorating address to the graduating class at Wellesley College on June 1, 1990, the first lady spoke of gender stereotypes and the many roles open to women; quoted "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; and foretold a female president. Watch her complete speech here.

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CALENDAR: Week of April 23
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Texas

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Ice crystals form slowly as they move around a soap bubble, refracting the light in an amazing display. Becca Wood

NATURE UP CLOSE: Freezing soap bubbles
Stunning time-lapse video shows ice crystals form on a delicate sphere.

     

HONORS: Kesha on being named to Time's 100 Most Influential People list (Video)
The singer Kesha, who has spoken out against sexual assault and supported victims since before the #MeToo movement took hold, has been named to Time Magazine's 2018 list of the 100 Most Influential People. She told CBS News' Anthony Mason what the recognition, and the essay penned by singer Cyndi Lauper (with whom she performed at this year's Grammy Awards), means to her. Mason will profile Kesha on CBS' "Sunday Morning" May 6.

RECAP: APRIL 15

"THE MONEY ISSUE"
Guest host: Kai Ryssdal, host of "Marketplace" from American Public Media

     
HEADLINES: Aftermath of missile strike on Syria (Video)
The Pentagon says the Assad regime's chemical weapons program was all but destroyed, after President Trump and British and French allies ordered missile strikes this weekend. The operation came after a purported chemical weapons attack in Douma last weekend, which the Syrian government maintains never happened. Seth Doane talked with a scientist who worked at a facility that was bombed.

    
COVER STORY: Testing a universal basic income | Watch Video
Stockton, Calif., is launching a pilot program to test the benefits of a Basic Universal Income (BUI) -- giving $500 a month of free money (paid for with philanthropic funding) to residents to fight economic hardship. Lee Cowan reports.

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CURRENCY: Dirty money | Watch Video
Do you have money that has been damaged by fire, water, termites, or has literally been chewed up by Fido? There is an office at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing that will replace your damaged bills. Rita Braver shares some of the wild stories of currency that has gone through the wringer (or much, much worse).

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WEALTH: All the money in the world | Watch Video
A couple whose child was diagnosed with a brain tumor is hoping an influx of funding will help find a cure. Tracy Smith reports. 

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WORK: Co-working: The new way to work | Watch Video
Freelancers, consultants and entrepreneurs no longer need to work out of their homes or garages. Instead, they can rent space at "co-working" firms, like WeWork, that provide a place to plug in as well as all the perks of a shared office space - like a gym membership, but for work. Tony Dokoupil examines the co-working industry, which has grown from as few as 70 people in 2007 to 1.5 million worldwide.

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ART: "The Sweat of Their Face": Portraits of workers | Watch Video
Portraits of Americans that one might see in a museum typically have been of the nation's elite, where a wealthy subject was able to hire an artist to paint a portrait. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Galley in Washington, "The Sweat of Their Face," reveals the faces of laborers in portraits of workers, immigrant labor, child laborers and custodians whose efforts continuing build our country. Michelle Miller reports.

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SUCCESS STORY: The story of My Pillow (Video)  
You've seen the infomercials for "My Pillow"; Mike Lindell has sold 41 million of the pillows he invented, and he did so against some pretty stiff odds, including overcoming a crack cocaine habit that became so bad, his dealers staged an intervention. Martha Teichner talks with Lindell about his unique success story, and how his business has helped other recovering addicts.

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INSTAGRAM: Animal influencers: How popular pets on Instagram launch careers | Watch Video
Richard Schlesinger finds out how pets that have become stars on Instagram have also won their owners some lucrative sponsorships.

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Salma Hayek Pinault on the art of charity | Watch Video
The actress-producer has helped propel humanitarian efforts with her philanthropic work, and helped propel the #MeToo movement with her personal stories. John Blackstone reports.

WEB EXTRA: Extended interview transcript with Selma Hayek Pinault

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on activism
Salma Hayek Pinault, an Oscar-nominated actress and producer, has also made a name for herself as an activist and fundraiser for social causes, from aiding child welfare and humanitarian relief for earthquake victims, to helping women who suffer from domestic violence. In this web exclusive, she offers John Blackstone an example of how she advocated for social causes, and why she sees herself as a "dreamer."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on making "Frida"
The Oscar-nominated actress and producer of "Frida" talks with John Blackstone about the optimism she summoned to push through the 2002 Oscar-winning film about the Mexican painter, and how actress Ashley Judd responded to her request to appear in the film.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Salma Hayek Pinault on the success of the #MeToo movement
Oscar-nominated actress-producer Salma Hayek Pinault talks with John Blackstone about the changes she can already see in Hollywood manifesting from the #MeToo movement.

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THE GREAT BEYOND: Real estate to die for (Video)
As with most real estate, the key to cemetery plots is "Location! Location! Location!" Luke Burbank talks with Baron Chu, a broker of burial plots, and visits the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Calif., where pricey plots are sold to starry-eyed customers seeking status and a view, from six feet under.

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ART:  Photographing poverty | Watch Video
For the last four years photographer Matt Black has traveled the country, driving more than 100,000 miles, to photograph communities living in poverty -- people of all races, cultures and geographies whose lived experiences contradict the idea of America as a "Land of Milk and Honey." Michelle Miller reports.

GALLERY: Matt Back's "The Geography of Poverty"

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FORTUNE: Can money buy happiness? | Watch Video
A fancy car, a new wardrobe, an iPhone X - just a few of the things that money can buy.  But can cash bring contentment?  Susan Spencer talks with a man who chucked his six-figure salary as a globe-trotting investment banker to take a job as a Dallas fireman. 

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NATURE: Bucks (Extended Video)
We leave you this morning with bucks - white-tailed deer near Ocala, Florida. Videographer: Mark Emery.

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     LENS: A gallery en route: Photographs of commuters | Watch Video
Day after day, Danish photographer Peter Funch could be found on the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in New York City, documenting the daily migration of commuters around Grand Central Station, capturing the poetry and elegance of daily rituals. Michelle Miller reports.

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GUEST HOST: LEE COWAN

     
COVER STORY: Taxes: Is there a better way? | Watch Video
Chip Reid investigates a proposal that claims it could make doing taxes easier -- and why there are some who don't like the idea.

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ALMANAC: A multitude of sunspots | Watch Video
On April 8, 1947 astronomers observed the largest array of sunspots ever recorded. Lee Cowan reports.

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ART: Photos of love and loss | Watch Video
After photographer Anjali Pinto lost her husband, Jacob Johnson (also a photographer) just 16 months after getting married, she turned to Instagram, posting images of him, and of them - each an insight into her daily grief.  Her Instagram following grew to more than 51,000, and many were inspired to write their own stories of love and loss. Correspondent Michelle Miller talked with Pinto at an exhibition of photographs by her and her husband, and talked about the power of images and true stories to bring strangers together.

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MUSIC: Bernie Taupin: A man of lyrics, and now art | Watch Video
Lee Cowan talks with the poet and lyricist, the longtime songwriting partner of Elton John. Taupin looks back on 50 years of writing some of the world's biggest hit songs with John. We also visit Taupin's California ranch and see the studio where he creates the artwork he's most passionate about. And with two new albums of his music coming out, featuring performances by many of today's leading singers, Taupin says he has gained a new appreciation for the music the rest of the world has long loved.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bernie Taupin on Elton John's "suicide" song
Lyricist Bernie Taupin talks with Lee Cowan about writing the words for the 1975 Elton John song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," and how it was inspired by John's "very feeble" attempt at suicide.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Bernie Taupin on using the American flag as art
Celebrated songwriter Bernie Taupin has had a second career as a visual artist, and one of his favorite objects to use in his works is the American flag. Taupin talked with Lee Cowan about the Stars and Stripes' hallowed place in his art.

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ISLAND-HOPPING: The Faroe Islands, a new foodie destination | Watch Video
The Faroe Islands - a country of 18 tiny islands in-between Iceland and Norway, and officially part of the kingdom of Denmark - bill themselves as Europe's best-kept secret. So secret, in fact, that many people don't know they're in Europe. But it may not be a secret much longer, after a local restaurant, Koks, in the village of Leynavatn, earned the islands' first Michelin star. Conor Knighton visits the dining destination far removed from the rest of the world.

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MOVIES: Antonio Banderas on playing Pablo Picasso | Watch Video
"A man without roots is a nobody," says actor Antonio Banderas, who showed correspondent Seth Doane around his hometown of Málaga, Spain, and around its museum honoring fellow local boy-done-good Pablo Picasso, the artist whom Banderas plays in the National Geographic series, "Genius."

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HARTMAN: Lost and found (Video)
Bar owner Jimmy Gilleece in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., went to great lengths to help a woman back the wedding ring that had been pilfered by a thief - and then went to even greater lengths to help the young man who'd taken it. Steve Hartman reports.

      
SUNDAY PROFILE: Tina Fey brings her "Mean Girls" to Broadway | Watch Video
The musical "Mean Girls" opens April 8 on Broadway, and it's a big deal for Tina Fey, the actress-author-comedian who wrote the script for the show based upon her now-classic 2004 movie. "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley speaks with Fey, her husband Jeff Richmond (who composed the show's music), and "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels, who produced both the movie and the stage show.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tina Fey on the creative team behind "Mean Girls"
Tina Fey, who wrote the 2004 film "Mean Girls," talks with Jane Pauley about her collaborators who helped turn the teen comedy into a Broadway musical.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Tina Fey on cliques and the inspiration behind "Mean Girls"
Writer-comedian Tina Fey, whose 2004 film "Mean Girls" has been transferred to the Broadway stage as a musical, talks with Jane Pauley about the inspiration behind the film and play, Rosalind Wiseman's book about how to navigate cliques, "Queen Bees and Wannabes."

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Oh, snap! Tina Fey on self-deprecating humor
Tina Fey, the writer behind the new Broadway musical "Mean Girls," explains to "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley how her East Coast roots are the basis of her humor.

Saving Seats | Mean Girls on Broadway by Mean Girls on Broadway on YouTube

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OPINION: Should you clone your dog? | Watch Video
Luke Burbank has some thoughts on whether to clone his beloved yellow Lab, Rudy.

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POLITICS: Joe Kennedy III on his legacy and future | Watch Video
Massachusetts Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, is stepping into the national spotlight. "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King reports.

PREVIEW: Rep. Joe Kennedy III: Arming teachers to make schools safer is "absurd"

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CALENDAR: Week of April 9 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Lee Cowan reports.

       
NATURE: Hummingbirds (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, where hummingbirds keep things humming. Videographer: Judith Lehmberg.

      

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Snowy owls down south
Fort Worth, Texas, played host to a rare event: An irruption featuring a bird normally found in the Arctic tundra.

NATURE UP CLOSE: Bunnies
There are about 15 rabbit and hare species in North America, each varying from the others depending upon the environmental stressors that affected their evolution.

RECAP: APRIL 1

COVER STORY: Overload: How technology is bringing us too much information | Watch Video
The internet, and the ever-present smartphones from which we cannot detach ourselves, are changing the ways we relate to technology -- and, at the same time, changing the way we use our brains.

Senior Contributor Ted Koppel talks with technology critic Nicholas Carr, software developer Justin Rosenstein, "media psychologist" Byron Reeves, and Sen. Mark Warner about how the internet has become weaponized, and how it is our attention spans that are being targeted. 

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ALMANAC: April Fool's Day | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks at why April 1st is a day for hoaxes and pranks. Jane Pauley reports.

     
ART: Breaking the boundaries of stained glass | Watch Video
Judson Studios, which has been creating remarkable stained glass windows for 120 years, keeps coming up with something new, their cutting-edge techniques attracting designers for all sorts of projects. Stained glass isn't just for churches anymore. Anna Werner reports. 

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ON BROADWAY: "Frozen" songwriters Bobby and Kristen Lopez: Collaborators for life | Watch Video
The husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez are among the most celebrated in film and musical theater. He's won Tonys for "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon"; she was nominated for Drama Desk Awards for "In Transit." Together they've received Oscars for Disney's "Frozen" and the Pixar film "Coco." Mo Rocca reports as Anderson-Lopez & Lopez now bring "Frozen" to the Broadway stage.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The origin story behind "Let It Go"
"Frozen" songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez take correspondent Mo Rocca to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and introduce him to the picnic table that holds a special place in the birth of the Oscar-winning song, "Let It Go."

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HISTORY: The man in the glass booth | Watch Video
"Operation Finale: The Capture & Trial of Adolf Eichmann" is a travelling exhibition that tells the story of the pursuit of the Nazi war criminal who made his way to Argentina after World War II. At his trial, Eichmann insisted that he was "just following orders" when he arranged for millions of European Jews to be transported to death camps.

Jim Axelrod examines the actual glass booth that Eichmann sat in during his trial in Israel, and spoke with former Mossad agent Avner Abraham, who curated the exhibit, now at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg.

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MOVIES: How "Ready Player One" author Ernie Cline finally won | Watch Video
Brook Silva-Braga profiles author Ernest Cline, whose meta-pop culture adventure story "Ready Player One" is now a blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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HARTMAN: Playing basketball, and not playing victim (Video)
Fourteen-year-old Jamarion Styles, of Boca Raton, Florida, lost his hands, and most of his arms, as an infant due to a rare bacterial infection. But that didn't stop him from dreaming of playing on his middle school basketball team. Since Steve Hartman first reported his story in April 2017, Jamarion has gone on to play freshman basketball, and he has every intention of making varsity one day.

     
MOVIES: John Krasinski & Emily Blunt find "A Quiet Place" together | Watch Video
Actor John Krasinski, who made his name making us laugh in "The Office," has just directed his first horror film, "A Quiet Place." The scary part: it costars his wife, actress Emily Blunt. "Honestly, we had so many people telling us, 'You're gonna be divorced by the end,'" she told Anthony Mason.

A Quiet Place (2018) - Official Teaser Trailer - Paramount Pictures by Paramount Pictures on YouTube

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MILEPOST: A new organ
       

REMEMBERING 1968: The Martin Luther King Jr. we knew | Watch Video
Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, reports on the symbolism The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had for the civil rights movement, the personal connection he had for his parents, and how the nation is still coming to terms with Dr. King's assassination on April 4, 1968.

Morial also talks with singer and activist Harry Belafonte about his reminiscences of the civil rights icon.

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CALENDAR: Week of April 2 | Watch Video
From the 50th anniversary of a science fiction landmark, to National Alcohol Screening Day, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Bunnies! (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning on Easter Bunny watch at Pymatuning State Park in eastern Ohio. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

      

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NATURE UP CLOSE: A brush country wildlife oasis
Santa Clara Ranch is a paradise for bird watchers and photographers, and more importantly is protected habitat for wildlife seeking refuge or rest.  

     
MOVIES: "2001: A Space Odyssey" turns 50 (Video)
On April 2, 1968, Stanley Kubrick's masterful science fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey" had its world premiere in Washington, D.C. The movie, whose audacious narrative and stunning imagery continues to influence filmmakers, will be re-released in theatres in May. CBSNews.com's David Morgan reports.

     

RECAP: MARCH 25

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COVER STORY: The March for Our Lives: Taking their message to the streets | Watch Video
Chip Reid reports on the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, which grew out of students' own response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 students and educators were killed. Reid also examines past attempts to turn tragic incidents of gun violence into political action to rewrite gun laws.

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ALMANAC:  John and Yoko's "Bed-In For Peace" | Watch Video
On March 25, 1969, the Beatle and his bride began an anti-war protest in an Amsterdam hotel bed. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART:  Takashi Murakami, Japan's Andy Warhol | Watch Video
Most artists struggle to break into mainstream culture. Takashi Murakami is not one of them. His work has been featured on Louis Vuitton bags, in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and on the cover of a Kanye West album, and are prime examples of Superflat -- a modern art movement pioneered by Murakami that merges pop art and anime with fine art techniques.

Serena Altschul talked with Murakami at a Boston exhibition that pairs Murakami's creations with traditional Japanese art.

GALLERY: The art of Takashi Murakami

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Don Imus: The sun sets on his morning radio show | Watch Video
The sun is setting on "Imus in the Morning." Anthony Mason interviews the talk radio personality who is retiring after five decades as a nationally-syndicated humorist and shock jock.

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SPECIES: Last of its kind | Watch Video
Jonathan Vigliotti reports on Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, who spent his final days at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan on that topic he can't talk about | Watch Video
You know that topic -- the one you watch "Sunday Morning" to avoid, but which we can't always entirely escape? (You Facebook commenters know what we're [not] talking about!) Comedian Jim Gaffigan has something to say about the thing he won't mention.

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AEROBATICS: Go fly a kite! | Watch Video
Iowans aren't one to waste a winter. So what better use for a frozen lake than as a launch pad for colorful, kaleidoscopic kites? Lee Cowan pays a visit to the Color the Wind Kite Festival at Clear Lake, Iowa, for some frigid fun.

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BOOKS: Sean Penn: The actor turns a page | Watch Video
After nearly 40 years in the entertainment business, and earning some of the industry's top honors, actor-director-writer Sean Penn tells Tracy Smith the thrill is gone - he doesn't enjoy acting these days, he says, in a wide-ranging interview tied to the release of his first novel, "Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff," about a part-time assassin.

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COMMENTARY: A women's history month lesson (Video)
March is Women's History Month, which prompts this history lesson from "Sunday Morning" contributor Faith Salie.

      
BOOKS: Jimmy Carter on his journey of "Faith" | Watch Video
Jane Pauley talks with former President Jimmy Carter.

WEB EXTRA: Jimmy Carter on Mueller, Trump and impeachment

BOOK EXCERPT: Jimmy Carter's "Faith: A Journey for All"

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PASSAGE: Julie Yip-Williams | Watch Video
The young mother recently profiled by Tracy Smith on "Sunday Morning," who blogged about living with stage IV colon cancer. has died at age 42.  

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CALENDAR: Week of March 26 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Birds in Texas (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at the Santa Clara Ranch in Starr County, Texas, a wildlife sanctuary with a watering hole that's a favorite of migratory birds. Videographer: Earl Nottingham.

      

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RALLY: David Hogg's March For Our Lives video diary
David Hogg, a student journalist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and a survivor of last month's school shooting, describes the experience of appearing at the March For Our Lives event in Washington, D.C. We also hear from Alex Wind, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Mya Middleton, a 16-year-old from Chicago, who was a victim of an armed robbery.

        
NATURE UP CLOSE: Honduras trip report
Judith Lehmberg on the wildlife encountered during her visit to Central America.

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Singer Tony Bennett (left), and cover art from the Fleetwood Mac album, "Rumours." AP/Warner Bros.

AUDIO: Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" among additions to National Recording Registry
Songs by Gloria Estefan, Kenny Rogers, The Temptations, Run-DMC and "The Sound of Music" are among the landmark recordings to be preserved by the Library of Congress. Listen to audio samples of this year's additions!

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RECAP: MARCH 18, "MIND MATTERS"

Jane Pauley hosts a special broadcast devoted to features about the mysteries of the brain.

     
COVER STORY: In search of genius | Watch Video
"Genius" is a word that gets tossed around a lot these days. Author Walter Isaacson, who has written bestselling biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says smart people are a dime a dozen, but being a genius means you must be creative, imaginative, and possess uncontainable curiosity. Mo Rocca reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Is curiosity a mark of true genius?
Mo Rocca talks with bestselling author Walter Isaacson, whose biographies of such figures as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs have given him particular insight into what makes a genius.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Vint Cerf on the prospect of a "digital dark age"
Engineer Vint Cerf, who helped pioneer the internet, talks with Mo Rocca about the frailty and impermanence of digitally-stored information and how, in coming decades, the pictures and other digital content that has been preserved on floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and other media will be unusable.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jennifer Doudna on the curiosity of a child
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks with Mo Rocca about how her childhood curiosity was nourished, by books and by the natural world around her growing up in Hawaii, and how it inspired her career choice.

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PASSAGE: Stephen Hawking | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" looks back at the life of the acclaimed theoretical physicist and author of "A Brief History of Time," who died this week at 76. 

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ART: A brush with madness | Watch Video
Vincent Van Gogh is just one of scores of artists, writers, musicians and other creative people who are known or believed to have suffered from mental illness. What goes on in the brain that might create a relationship between mania and creativity? Rita Braver reports.

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TRIPTYCH: Savants
In a series of three vignettes, Susan Spencer introduces us to three remarkable people.

SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #1: Meet an acquired savant | Watch Video
A childhood injury left Alonzo Clemons with severe brain damage. He can't read or write or do math. And yet, as naturally as the rest of us breathe, Clemons can sculpt, all with his bare hands.

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ESP: ESP: Inside the government's secret program of psychic spies | Watch Video
Is extra-sensory perception real? Can our minds see thing beyond the physical? Erin Moriarty reports.

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THE BRAIN: How busy hands can alter our brain chemistry | Watch Video
Researchers think activities that occupy our hands -- folding laundry, yardwork -- are actually making our brains happier. Tony Dokoupil tests out the theory.

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SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #2: Meet a calendar savant | Watch Video
Artist George Widener is a calendar savant. Give him a year and a date, and he'll produce the day of the week with astonishing accuracy. Susan Spencer reports.

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ANIMALS: Measuring animal intelligence | Watch Video
What goes on in an animal's mind? A neuroscientist at Emory University believed he might find out by placing animals in an MRI scanner, and analyzing how their brains respond to different stimulations. Martha Teichner checked out his findings, and the research of other scientists studying the complexities of animal brains.

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HEALTH: Changing minds: Glenn Close's personal battle to destigmatize mental illness | Watch Video
Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction" is one of her most memorable roles – and is considered one of the great villains of the 20th century. But she told Tracy Smith she might play the character differently today, knowing what she knows now about mental illness. 

That's because today, Close knows something she didn't back then -- that mental illness runs in her own family.  Her nephew, Calen has schizophrenia; and Glenn's sister Jessie, after a lifetime of struggles, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 

Glenn and Jessie have since started a foundation. Bring Change to Mind creates multimedia campaigns and holds events to encourage communication around mental health, and to de-stigmatize mental illness. 

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DRUGS: LSD: A wonder drug once again? | Watch Video
Faith Salie reports on how LSD and "magic mushrooms" are being studied for their ability to help some patients conquer anxiety and depression without the psychedelia long associated with mind-altering drugs.

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SAVANTS TRIPTYCH #3: Meet a painting savant | Watch Video
For the last six years Ione Kuhner has gradually lost her grasp on much of daily life due to early-onset Alzheimer's. 

But amazingly she's also started painting … something the former dental assistant had never thought about doing before her illness. Susan Spencer reports. 

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COMMENTARY: Adam Grant: Mind your meditation! | Watch Video
The psychologist and New York Times bestselling author says people who criticize others for not meditating should, like, chill. 

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NATURE: Snowy owl (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in Genesee County in western New York, home to a snowy - and presumably - wise old owl. Videographer: Carl Mrozek

      

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CALENDAR: Week of March 19 | Watch Video
From a "Star Trek" star's birthday to the March For Our Lives, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

William "Bill" Brady, director of "Sunday Morning" (1998-2011)
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RECAP: MARCH 11

    
COVER STORY: Borrowed time: Reflecting on a life with cancer | Watch Video
Julie Yip-Williams had already experienced a difficult life when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer; now she prepares to leave her young daughters behind, passing on lessons of resilience. Tracy Smith reports.

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ALMANAC: The Luddites | Watch Video
An anti-technological innovation movement was born on March 11, 1811, when textile workers in Nottingham, England, destroyed machines they believed threatened their livelihoods. Jane Pauley reports. 

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Tarsila and the birth of Brazilian Modern Art
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ART: Tarsila, the "Picasso of Brazil" | Watch Video
In her native country, all you need to say is her first name – Tarsila -- for people to recognize the woman known as "the Picasso of Brazil." But Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) is little-known in North America, despite her revolutionary art.  

Faith Salie visits New York City's Museum of Modern Art, which is staging a retrospective of Tarsila's "cannibalist" paintings, which took the tropes of Western European art and turned them into something extremely Brazilian.

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REMEMBERING 1968: How an upstart primary challenge ended a presidency | Watch Video
John Dickerson reports on the contest that changed the way we elect presidents, with a Democratic primary that allowed a political upstart, the anti-war candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy, to take on a sitting president and drive Lyndon B. Johnson to decide to forgo running for a second term.

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TELEVISION: Peter Lassally: A late-night life | Watch Video
Mo Rocca talks with TV legend Peter Lasally, the fabled TV exec for some of our biggest late-night shows (including "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and "The Late Show with David Letterman") and mentor of rising comedians, who was affectionately dubbed "The Host Whisperer." 

         
HARTMAN: The fate of a Confederate flag (Video)
Several years ago, in Summerville, South Carolina, Annie Caddell stirred heated emotions from across her predominantly black neighborhood when she raised a Confederate flag outside her home. Protests led to counter-protests, which made international news. But now Caddell has done an about-face, and taken down the flag, helping move her divided community a little closer together. She explained to Stave Hartman why she believes her new position is the more honorable one.     

      
MUSIC: Joan Baez: On record, and on canvas | Watch Video
At 77, the reigning queen of folk music, Joan Baez, has just released a new album, "Whistle Down the Wind," and is preparing to embark on what she's calling her "farewell tour." John Blackstone sits down with the music legend, who talks about her career, her singing voice, and her other talent: painting.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Joan Baez on her paintings of "Mischief Makers"
The singer's artistic talent was on display in an exhibition of her portraits of noted activists, civil rights leaders, and others who have fought oppression and injustice

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A SUNDAY DRIVE: The 30,000 keys to Baldpate | Watch Video
It's time to take a Sunday drive with Conor Knighton, who this week visits the Baldpate Inn in Estes Park, Colorado.

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TELEVISION: RuPaul: All dressed up | Watch Video
"RuPaul's Drag Race" begins its 10th season on television this month. The successful VH1 game show features remarkably-named contestants (such as Sasha Velour, Kalorie Karbdashian Williams and Mayhem Miller) who compete for cash prizes and the title of America's Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul explains to Nancy Giles the power of a man performing in women's clothes, heels and makeup.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Judge Judy hands down her opinion on RuPaul
RuPaul, star of "RuPaul's Drag Race," expresses his devotion to Judge Judy - and hears via Nancy Giles a special message for RuPaul from the lady in black robes herself. 

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: RuPaul on what he learned from his family
RuPaul, renowned as a celebrity drag queen, talks about his mother (a "rebel"), his father (the "life of the party"), his sisters (who were his universe growing up), and why he describes himself as "an introvert masquerading as an extrovert."

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CALENDAR: Week of March 12 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE: Maine (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in a snowfall in Maine. Videographer: Mauricio Handler

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Roger Bannister on breaking the 4:00 mile (Video)
British runner Roger Bannister, the first person to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, died Saturday at age 88. In this "Sunday Morning" report that originally aired May 2, 2004, Mark Phillips talks with Bannister about his monumental feat fifty years earlier, as well as with American runner Wes Santee and Australian John Landy (who were also chasing the 4:00 mile at the time) and with Neal Bascomb, author of "The Perfect Mile." Phillips also recounts the subsequent matchup between Bannister and Landy at the 1954 British Empire Games, an epic race that was called "the Mile of the Century."  

     
NATURE UP CLOSE: Who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
The conservationist and author of "The Everglades, River of Grass" promoted and fought to preserve the Florida ecosystem.

       
MOVIES: Cinematographer Roger Deakins, finally an Oscar-winner for "Blade Runner 2049"
After 14 nominations, the master cameraman has won an Academy Award; view clips from some of his peerless work.

RECAP: MARCH 4

        
COVER STORY: It's complicated: When filmmakers' legacies intertwine with #MeToo | Watch Video
Some filmmakers and actors who have produced a highly-esteemed body of work are now facing a critical re-appraisal, due to recent allegations of harassment and sexual assault. Is the behavior of an artist inseparable from his or her art? Tracy Smith talks with Tippi Hedren, who says she was harassed by director Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "The Birds," and with actresses Uzo Aduba and Amber Tamblyn, who are founding members of Time's Up.

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RETROSPECTIVE: Elizabeth the Great: The life of a true Hollywood star | Watch Video
Rita Braver visits the archives of actress Elizabeth Taylor who, 25 years ago, received her third Academy Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for her advocacy in the fight against AIDS.

GALLERY: The films of Elizabeth Taylor

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PERFORMER: Jared Leto: On the continuously unexpected | Watch Video
The Oscar-winning actor has transformed himself for roles in films such as "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Blade Runner 2049." But Jared Leto tells Anthony Mason he feels the most himself when performing on stage with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jared Leto previews unreleased song
Jared Leto, of Thirty Seconds to Mars, gives Anthony Mason a preview of an unreleased song, "Great Wide Open," from his band's forthcoming album.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Jared Leto on his other career: Investor
Actor and singer Jared Leto talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about his other sideline: investing in start-up companies. He talks about some of his biggest successes, including Uber, Airbnb and Slack, and what fascinates him about the process.

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MUSIC: The Newmans, a movie music dynasty | Watch Video
Lee Cowan visits with leading composers of movie and TV music who are part of the same illustrious family -- Randy, Thomas, David and Joey Newman -- as well as composer Maria Newman, who's taken a different path. 

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COVER STORY: Rotten Tomatoes: Where movie reviews are fresh or rotten | Watch Video
It's the go-to website for film fans, and a bane for filmmakers and movie distributors. Since debuting in 1998, Rotten Tomatoes, which collates and gauges critical and popular reaction to movies, has been a leading source of collective opinion. Jim Axelrod looks at what goes into its "Tomatometer."

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Glenda Jackson returns to Broadway in "Three Tall Women" | Watch Video
After a second career as a Member of Britain's Parliament, Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson ("Women in Love," "A Touch of Class") has returned to acting, appearing on Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women." Mark Phillips reports.

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TECHNOLOGY:  Smooth operator: Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown | Watch Video
Garrett Brown described the act of invention as "looking at something annoying and imagining it didn't have to be." What Brown solved was the shakiness of a handheld motion picture camera, allowing the camera frame to float like a butterfly alongside Sylvester Stallone up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in an iconic shot from "Rocky." Brown's creation would free filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese from the restrictions of dolly tracks, and change the vocabulary of cinema. Michelle Miller talks with Brown, and with Steadicam operator Michael Craven about the revolutionary device.

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AWARDS: David Edelstein's Oscar predictions | Watch Video
Who will win this year's Academy Awards? Better yet, who SHOULD win? Our film critic looks into his crystal ball.       

        
CALENDAR: Week of March 5 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: Elephant seals (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning along the California coast at San Simeon, where elephant seals are the stars. Videographer: Lance Milbrand. 

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Roger Bannister on breaking the 4:00 mile (Video)
British runner Roger Bannister, the first person to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, died Saturday at age 88. In this "Sunday Morning" report that originally aired May 2, 2004, Mark Phillips talks with Bannister about his monumental feat fifty years earlier, as well as with American runner Wes Santee and Australian John Landy (who were also chasing the 4:00 mile at the time) and with Neal Bascomb, author of "The Perfect Mile." Phillips also recounts the subsequent matchup between Bannister and Landy at the 1954 British Empire Games, an epic race that was called "the Mile of the Century."

OSCARS 2018: Best Visual Effects nominees
Watch behind-the-scenes footage revealing FX secrets from the five Academy Award-nominated films.

OSCARS 2018: Best Actress nominees
Watch clips of this year's nominated performances.

OSCARS 2018: Best Actor nominees
Watch clips from this year's nominated performances. 

OSCARS 2018: Best Supporting Actor nominees
Watch clips from this year's nominated performances.  

OSCARS 2018: Best Supporting Actress nominees
Watch clips of the nominated performances. 

OSCARS 2018: Best Original Score nominees
Listen to excerpts from this year's nominated music scores.

OSCARS 2018: Best Original Song nominees
Listen to the five songs up for this year's Academy Award.

Iconic movie posters by designer Bill Gold
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ART OF THE SELL: Iconic movie posters by a master | Watch Video
Jane Pauley visits a living legend of Hollywood: 97-year-old Bill Gold, who was responsible for designing some of the most innovative movie posters in film history, created during a career that spanned more than six decades - from his very first assignment ("Casablanca") to "The Exorcist" and the films of Clint Eastwood.

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It's a sport - pushing a 42-pound block of granite across the ice and sweeping a broom in front of it. CBS News

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bill Geist and the art of curling (Video)
Missing the Winter Olympics? In this report originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on January 11, 1988, correspondent Bill Geist travels to the Iron Range of Northern Minnesota, where the sport of curling is a way of life.

   
NATURE UP CLOSE: The new math of travel
Selecting a cost-effective travel destination can be down to a science – calculating how many species you get to see up-close.

     
NATURE UP CLOSE: Who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
The conservationist and author of "The Everglades, River of Grass" promoted and fought to preserve the Florida ecosystem.

RECAP: FEBRUARY 25

     
COVER STORY: The war on opioids moves to the courtroom | Watch Video
To address the rising epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, advocates are taking a page from the war on "Big Tobacco" by taking "Big Pharma" to court.

Lee Cowan talks with Mississippi lawyer Mike Moore (the state's former Attorney General) and with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who both seek to make drug manufacturers legally liable for the increase in opioid addiction that has had deadly consequences.

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ALMANAC: Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" | Watch Video
On February 25, 1950, the live variety show that was a landmark in TV comedy debuted. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: The whimsy of decoupage artist John Derian | Watch Video
Erin Moriarty shows us the work of decoupage artist John Derian.

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"THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…": The strength of Mary J. Blige | Watch Video
Michelle Miller profiles the singer whose career has now turned to acting, with no less than an Oscar nomination for her acclaimed performance in the drama "Mudbound," in addition to an Oscar nom for Best Original Song.

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PASSAGE: The Rev.Billy Graham | Watch Video
Blessed with a commanding stage presence and a powerful voice, the evangelist preached to more than 200 million people in 185 countries. Jane Pauley reports on his life, and his passing this past week at age 99.

     
FOOD: Re-creating Eleven Madison Park, the world's best restaurant | Watch Video
Mo Rocca has a table at the recently re-imagined Eleven Madison Park, ranked No. 1 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants.

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HARTMAN: Honoring World War II vets before it's too late (Video)
Starting in high school, Rishi Sharma made it his mission to meet as many World War II combat veterans as possible, driving all over California to interview them about their experiences. Steve Hartman catches up with the young man he first met in December 2016, and finds out what Sharma's GoFundMe page has now afforded him.

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REMEMBERING 1968: The revolutionary "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band" | Watch Video
In February 1968 The Beatles' landmark album became the first rock record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mark Phillips reports on a cultural touchstone -- innovative musically and technically -- that continues to resonate today.

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OPINION: Jim Gaffigan: Skiing is insane | Watch Video
After a family ski outing, the comedian and "Sunday Morning" contributor has some observations about winter sports. 

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SUNDAY PROFILES: For Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, business is personal | Watch Video
David Pogue meets with the third Chief Executive Officer in Microsoft history. Since Satya Nadella became CEO, the company's stock is at an all-time high, and for the first time in a long time, people are calling Microsoft innovative.

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CALENDAR: Week of February 26 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

        
NATURE: Idaho (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in the depths of winter at Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.
        

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OSCARS 2018: Best Visual Effects nominees
Watch behind-the-scenes footage revealing FX secrets from the five Academy Award-nominated films.

       
OSCARS 2018: Best Original Song nominees
Listen to the five songs up for this year's Academy Award.

 
NATURE UP CLOSE: Filming on coral reefs
Videographer Ziggy Livnat dives into the Luis Peña Channel Nature Reserve off Culebra, the first designated "no-take" marine protected area in Puerto Rico.

RECAP: FEBRUARY 18

   

COVER STORY: Infidelity: Why the oldest taboo continues to be broken
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe infidelity is morally wrong - more than believe it of cloning, or suicide. Yet, why do so many people cheat?

Tony Dokoupil talks with licensed couples therapist Esther Perel, Kinsey Institute researcher Helen Fisher, and the president of the company behind Ashley Madison, as well as two women who strayed outside their marriages for very different reasons.

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ALMANAC: Vanna White | Watch Video
On February 18, 1957, the irreplaceable letter-turner on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" was born. Jane Pauley reports.

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THE WHITE HOUSE: Andrew Johnson: The unfortunate president | Watch Video
Raised in poverty, uneducated, a working class figure whose political ethos was "my way or the highway," Andrew Johnson's surprising rise to the Oval Office upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination was followed by a torturous relationship with Congress and the first impeachment of a U.S. president. Mo Rocca looks back at the life of the Southern Democrat who was one of America's most unfortunate chief executives.

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"THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE…": Willem Dafoe: The actor's quest for challenges | Watch Video
Martha Teichner profiles the stage and screen actor, star of "Platoon" and "The Last Temptation of Christ," who is nominated for his third Oscar, for "The Florida Project."

GALLERY: Willem Dafoe

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POSTCARD FROM SPAIN: A moveable feast: Taking a tapas bar crawl through Madrid | Watch Video
Correspondent Seth Doane does a tapas bar crawl through Madrid. The strolling meal, partaking of many small plates and drinks, is a Spanish tradition. 

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HARTMAN: "Wish You Were Here" (Video)
David Lasseter misses his four kids, so practically every day they're not home in Valdosta, Georgia, he sends them a postcard - creative correspondence that really only conveys one, important message. Steve Hartman reports.        

      
ON STAGE: Jimmy Buffett and "Margaritaville" come to Broadway | Watch Video
Tracy Smith profiles the singer-songwriter whose music is now the focus of a Broadway musical, "Escape to Margaritaville."

To view a trailer for "Escape to Margaritaville," click on the player below:

Escape to Margaritaville - Sailing Onto Broadway! by Escape to Margaritaville The Musical on YouTube

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Jimmy Buffett and the "Parrotheads" (Video)
Correspondent Bill Geist visits with singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, famous for his 1977 hit "Margaritaville," and for his music's beach-bum flavor that draws thousands of "parrotheads" to his concerts - even in Cincinnati, far from the sub-tropical splendor of the Florida Keys. Originally broadcast August 30, 1991.

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ART: A portrait of artist Amy Sherald | Watch Video
Alex Wagner profiles the artist whose painting of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled this week at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Portraitist Amy Sherald
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OPINION: Fla. school shooting survivor David Hogg says: Speak out | Watch Video
The 17-year-old head of the student TV station at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., talks about Wednesday's mass shooting that killed seventeen classmates and teachers.

  
OPINION: Faith Salie on threat of mass shootings: Do something | Watch Video
The "Sunday Morning" Contributor says America's founding fathers who crafted our Constitution would want us to prevent America's children from being massacred.

    
CALENDAR: Week of February 19 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE: Everglades National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Everglades National Park in Florida, championed in the last century by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas, for whom the high school targeted in Wednesday's attack was named.

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HEADLINES: U.S. wins first gold medal at Pyeongchang Olympics (Video)
Seventeen-year-old snowboarder Red Gerard captured America's first gold medal as the Olympic Games continue in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Ben Tracy reports the latest action heating up the slopes - and the thaw between dignitaries from North and South Korea.

    COVER STORY: The growing acceptance of autism at the workplace | Watch Video
Nearly three years ago, when tech giant Microsoft announced that it was starting a pilot program to hire autistic workers, they received more than 700 resumes within a few weeks. German software maker SAP has instituted a program to bring people with autism into its workforce worldwide, and other companies are following suit. By all accounts, giving those on the spectrum an opportunity to use their talents productively has been a tremendous success.

Lee Cowan looks at the changing face of workplace diversity.

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ALMANAC: The inventor of crash test dummies | Watch Video
On February 11, 2005, physicist and engineer Samuel Alderson, who developed the very first anthropomorphic test device for auto safety testing, died at age 90. Jane Pauley reports.

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ISLAND HOPPING: Tokens of love: The Welsh tradition of lovespoons | Watch Video
Conor Knighton visits Llanddwyn Island off the coast of Wales, where if you want to woo someone, you don't give your sweetheart chocolates, flowers or jewelry; you give them a "lovespoon."

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MUSIC: The O'Jays and their enduring message of love | Watch Video
All aboard the Love Train! Jim Axelrod catches up with the O'Jays.

To watch the O'Jays' appearance on "Soul Train" back in 1972, click on the video player below, and dance along!

The O'Jays Love Train by Regina Côrtes on YouTube

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CORRESPONDENCE: Letters from viewers (Video)
Jane Pauley digs into the mailbag for some correspondence from our viewers.

    
VALENTINE'S DAY:  Office romance: Love is still in the air | Watch Video
In the era of Time's Up, #MeToo, and an increased awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, is dating or marrying your office mates still a thing? As correspondent Tony Dokoupil finds out, some companies boast of it. Take Southwest Airlines (stock ticker acronym: LUV), where the expression "Love is in the air" takes on new meaning for staffers and flight attendants who are couples.

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ON THE ROAD: A stand-up teacher (Video)
At a Varnett charter school in Houston, Eddie Brown is teaching sixth graders about different forms of energy. The kids love him in the classroom - and so do audiences across the country, who flock to his "Teacher's Only" comedy tour. Steve Hartman reports. 

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MOVIES: The love story behind the basically true "The Big Sick" | Watch Video
Actor Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon, had never written a movie before, when they decided to try and tell the basically true story of their lives, how they met, and how their budding romance was thrown for a loop when she became comatose. Their film, "The Big Sick," proved to be a critical success, and has now earned them an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" meets with Nanjiani and Gordon to find out how telling the story of their lives has turned their lives upside-down.

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VALENTINE'S DAY: Dylan Lauren's sweet success | Watch Video
As a child the daughter of fashion design Ralph Lauren loved "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," and wanted to live in a candy land. Today, Dylan Lauren is the founder and CEO of Dylan's Candy Bar, which just celebrated its sweet 16th birthday. Correspondent Alina Cho toured Lauren's New York City flagship store - the largest candy shop in the world - and talked with Dylan about how she found sweet success.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Dylan Lauren: You, too, can keep fit while enjoying candy
The founder and CEO of Dylan's Candy Bar talks to Alina Cho about how this self-professed "fitness nut" manages to keep her figure while indulging in her company's delicious stock-in-trade, and explains why she described herself in her college essay as an "everlasting gobstopper."

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HISTORY: Did Abraham Lincoln sleep here? | Watch Video
In Kentucky you can visit the cabins where Honest Abe was born, and later grew up … or are they? Contributor Brook Silva-Braga reports.

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CALENDAR: Week of February 12 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE: Culebra (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning far from winter's cold -- in waters off the small island of Culebra, part of Puerto Rico. Videographer: Ziggy Livnat. 

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The most endearing animal you've probably never heard of, pikas survive without hibernating at alpine altitudes, storing hay for the winter.  Verne Lehmberg

NATURE UP CLOSE: Pikas
The most endearing animal you've probably never heard of survives without hibernating at alpine altitudes.

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COVER STORY: The changing face of the Boy Scouts | Watch Video
Members of Troop 1262 out of Salt Lake City are learning the skills the Boy Scouts of America have trained in for more than a hundred years. But many of these scouts are new to America - refugees from countries like Burma. And the Boy Scouts organization - after courting controversy for excluding, then welcoming gay scouts and leaders - is now accepting girls.

While participation has steadily declined over the past four decades, scouting still has power, and perhaps more relevance than ever.  Tony Dokoupil reports.

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ALMANAC: Rosa Parks | Watch Video
On February 4, 1913, the "mother of the freedom movement" was born. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: De-constructing the art of Anselm Kiefer | Watch Video
Correspondent Liz Palmer gets a glimpse into the workings of German painter-sculptor Anselm Kiefer, considered one of the world's most important living artists. At his studio outside Paris, we watch Kiefer laboring on some of his latest projects -- working with molten lead.

Kiefer also talks about the themes in his art, which are both complex and confrontational. As the artist has said: "Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand … A part of it should always include having to scratch your head."

GALLERY: German Post-War master Anselm Kiefer

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SUNDAY PROFILE: Janet Yellen: The exit interview | Watch Video
Rita Braver sits down with the outgoing chair of the Federal Reserve, who talks economic recovery, being a trailblazer, and leaving a job she loves too soon.

    
PASSAGE: "Sunday Morning" remembers (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers famous figures who we lost this past week, including journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, and R&B singer Dennis Edwards, long the lead singer of The Temptations. 

    
SPORTS: Behind the scenes of "Puppy Bowl" | Watch Video
The Super Bowl has some four-legged competition, with the 14th Annual Puppy Bowl, the perennially highest-rated show on the cable channel Animal Planet. Ninety puppies from shelters and rescue organizations across the country and from Mexico "compete" in a game that scores high in cuteness. Richard Schlesinger reports.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The penalties of "Puppy Bowl"
Dan Schachner, the referee on the Animal Planet special "Puppy Bowl" - now in its 14th year - explains to correspondent Richard Schlesinger some of the rules of the game, and some of the penalties he may be calling against the rambunctious players, from "unsportsdog-like conduct" to "soiling the end zone."

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HARTMAN: A washing machine museum (Video)
In the shadow of the Colorado Rockies, Steve Hartman found a man with a mountainous dilemma: what to do with his collection of nearly 1,500 antique washing machines. 

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MYSTERY: Behind the headlines - Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood | Watch Video
Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" reports on new developments in the case of the death of actress Natalie Wood, in 1981. 

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MOVIES: Rex Reed: A bold-face-name life | Watch Video
In the late 1960s and '70s, Rex Reed's clever and barbed opinions about movies and movie stars made him a fixture on television. Now 79, the film critic offers to Mo Rocca his opinions on some of this year's Best Picture Oscar-nominees ("Hated it!"), and how he came to live the life of an A-Lister.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Rex Reed on the Best Picture Oscar-nominees 

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SPORTS: A wheelchair doesn't keep this athlete from the football field | Watch Video
Mark Strassman has the tale of a very special football player. 

       
OPINION: Katie Roiphe on the @MeToo thought police | Watch Video
The author and journalist discusses how some feminists have targeted others over reactions to the burgeoning movement to call out perpetrators of sexual harassment.

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CALENDAR: Week of February 5 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Rocky Mountain National Park (Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning in a snowstorm at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Videographer: Scot Mi

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NATURE UP CLOSE: How waterfalls form
These spectacular sights can be formed by a geologic fault, differential erosion, or a combination of the two.
      

NATURE UP CLOSE: How islands form
Take a walk on archipelagoes created by red hot magma from the Earth's interior.

RECAP: JANUARY 28

         

        
CBS NEWS POLL: What is America's favorite music genre?

       
COVER STORY: Bringing musical stars back via hologram | Watch Video
Many opera fans consider Maria Callas one of the greatest sopranos who ever lived. When she died in 1977, they were heartbroken. So they might be shocked to learn that Maria Callas - or rather a projected representation of her - is going on tour this spring with a 60-piece orchestra. Her return is brought to you by what's being called a hologram.

Callas and other iconic performers, like Roy Orbison, aren't the only ones being presented in this remarkable new technology; political figures are also hitting the campaign trail via live hologram.

David Pogue reports on how holograms are reshaping not just pop culture but history itself.

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ALMANAC: "We Are the World" | Watch Video
On January 28, 1985, more than 40 of the music world's greatest stars gathered in an L.A. studio to help raise funds for humanitarian relief. Jane Pauley reports. 

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POSTCARD FROM ITALY: Making violins | Watch Video
For hundreds of years instrument makers have been turning to the forests of Northern Italy for the fine woods that make violins, pianos and other instruments sing. Seth Doane reports.

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FOR THE RECORD: Ed Sheeran: The method to his success | Watch Video
The English singer-songwriter is one of the most successful artists of his time, and an idol to millions around the world. His most recent album, "Divide (÷)," is up for two Grammys, including Best Pop Vocal Album.

Sheeran talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about his career and the music business; his early days producing and distributing his own music; and why he stayed out of the limelight for a year.

Phillips also goes with Sheeran to the singer's favorite fish and chips shop and some of the places in his hometown that have made their way into his songs (like "Castle on the Hill"). (This report was originally broadcast March 5, 2017.)

WEB EXCLUSIVE: To watch Ed Sheeran perform "Castle on the Hill," click on the player below.

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PASSAGE: "Sunday Morning" remembers (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers famous figures who we lost this past week, including musician and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela, "Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Mort Walker, and science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin.

     
SCIENCE: The beauty and science of bubbles | Watch Video
There is something magical about soap bubbles - floating, fleeting, iridescent orbs that defy gravity, and whose beauty masks their complexity. Faith Salie meets renowned bubble artist Tom Noddy, and also talks with scientists at Boston University and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to discuss the role bubbles play in nature, medicine, technology - and joy.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bubble magic (Video)
Tom Noddy is a bubble artist, producing all manner of bubbles - from geometric bubbles to smoking volcano bubbles. His beautiful, ephemeral creations delighted "Sunday Morning" host Charles Kuralt in this "On the Road" report that originally aired July 5, 1983.

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HARTMAN: The D.C. whistler (Video)
Chris Ullman is a four-time international whistling champion - an unusual distinction for a partner in a Washington, D.C. investment firm. But he's burnished his reputation as one of the capital's most popular whistleblowers, by using his talents in a most non-partisan way. Steve Hartman reports.

  
GIANTS: Legends say goodbye: Neil Diamond, Sir Elton John to retire from touring | Watch Video
Anthony Mason reports on the news this past week that two legends of popular music -- Neil Diamond and Elton John -- will stop touring, due to issues of health or work-life balance. 

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MUSIC: Marilyn Maye, proudly "old school" | Watch Video
For more than seven decades cabaret singer Marilyn Maye has crisscrossed the country, playing hundreds of clubs. Once a Grammy nominee for Best New Artist (at the age of 37), she holds the record for appearances by a singer on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." And as Mo Rocca finds out, she remains proudly "old school" on stage.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Marilyn Maye and Mo Rocca sing "My Best Girl"
For six decades Marilyn Maye has returned to The Inn at Okoboji, at Lake Okoboji in Iowa, where the old-school cabaret singer has entertained generations of fans. Recently, she was joined there by "Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca, and together they performed a duet of "My Best Girl."

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1968: A YEAR TO REMEMBER
"Sunday Morning" begins a year-long series of reports looking back on what was a landmark year in our recent history.

     
WAR: The Tet Offensive | Watch Video
The 26-day battle for Hue was fought street by street, house by house, room by room. Two-hundred-and-sixteen American troops were killed and another 1,300 wounded. David Martin visits an exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and talks to a combat photographer who captured the bloody battle, and a former Marine who miraculously survived.

CBS NEWS POLL: U.S. involvement in Vietnam

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CALENDAR: Week of January 29 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

   
NATURE: Niagara Falls (Extended Video)
We leave you this last Sunday Morning of January at the partly frozen Niagara Falls. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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GRAMMYS: Watch the Best Music Video nominees
Check out the contenders for this year's award - and be sure to watch the 60th annual Grammy Awards, presented Sunday, January 28, and broadcast live on CBS. 

     
NATURE UP CLOSE: How islands form
Take a walk on archipelagoes created by red hot magma from the Earth's interior.

RECAP: JANUARY 21

      

HEADLINES: Day 2 of government shutdown (Video)
There's still no sign of compromise on Day Two of the impasse over the shutdown of the federal government. A group of about 20 moderate Democrats and Republicans met for hours yesterday trying to brainstorm ways out of this impasse, while the president kept a low profile. Nancy Cordes is at the Capitol with the latest.

       
COVER STORY: A war of words on college campuses | Watch Video
Rita Braver reports on the war over words on college campuses, where protests of deliberately provocative figures, like white supremacists, have extended to lecturers reporting on academic research; and on the backlash over requirements to provide "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" to protect students from "microaggressions." University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer, who has advocated against such measures, says, "Discomfort is an intrinsic part of an education."

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ALMANAC:  The DeLorean car | Watch Video
On January 21, 1981, the first DeLorean DMC-12, with its striking gull-wing doors, rolled off the production line. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: Art from behind the walls of Guantanamo | Watch Video
"Ode to the Sea," an exhibition at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, might look like an ordinary art show, except for the fact that the artists are men who have been detained at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Tony Dokoupil talks with the show's co-curator, and with the parents of people who lost their lives on 9/11, about art that speaks to freedom beyond prison walls.

GALLERY: Art by Guantánamo detainees

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TELEVISION: Sir David Attenborough, the voice of nature | Watch Video
Mark Phillips interviews the naturalist and narrator of acclaimed nature documentaries, who returns with the new series "Blue Planet II" on BBC America.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Sir David Attenborough on nature films vs. zoos
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about the value of wildlife documentaries over traditional zoos, and the benefits of each.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Sir David Attenborough on nature films
Legendary naturalist Sir David Attenborough, narrator of the new BBC America series "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II," talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about the editorial demands of wildlife documentaries.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Sir David Attenborough on how filming wildlife has changed
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough, of the BBC America series "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II," talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about advances in the production of nature documentaries, and about competition among wildlife cameramen to get a shot never filmed before.

"Planet Earth: Blue Planet II" premieres on Saturday, January 20 at 9 p.m. ET, as a simulcast event on BBC America, AMC, IFC, WE tv and SundanceTV. The rest of the eight-episode series will be shown on successive Saturday nights on BBC America. 

Watch a trailer for "Planet Earth: Blue Planet II":

Blue Planet II Official Trailer 2 - BBC Earth by BBC Earth on YouTube

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LUKE BURBANK: Welcome to Goat Yoga | Watch Video
What's cuter than a baby farm animal? How about a baby farm animal joining in a yoga class? Luke Burbank ventures to a class where a new element has been added to a yoga routine: tiny goats.

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HARTMAN: Eternal lunch date (Video)
For years, retired mechanic Clarence Purvis had lunch with his wife six days a week at a restaurant in Reidsville, Ga. She remains his ever-present lunch date even though she died four years ago. Steve Hartman reports on the deepest of loves. 

    
MOVIES:  Jordan Peele on "Get Out," Trump, race and art | Watch Video
One-half of the duo Key & Peele, Jordan Peele has burst beyond the sketch comedy universe with one of 2017's most critically-acclaimed films: "Get Out," a satirical horror film in which a black man uncovers the terrifying secret beneath the surface of his white girlfriend's hometown. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Peele, a Directors Guild of America nominee and a front-runner for an Oscar nomination.

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MUSIC: Jane Birkin: Life (and music) goes on | Watch Video
Anthony Mason profiles the iconic English-born actress and singer, ahead of her Carnegie Hall concert.

To hear Jane Birkin perform "La Javanaise," from the album "Birkin/Gainsbourg: Le symphonique," click on the video player below: 

BIRKIN / GAINSBOURG - Le Symphonique : La Javanaise (Audio officiel) by Jane Birkin on YouTube

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: What's inside Jane Birkin's Birkin bag?
The British-born French icon Jane Birkin reveals to CBS News what is inside an equally iconic fashion accessory: her Hermès Birkin bag.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: The origin of the Birkin bag
Singer and actress Jane Birkin talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about how a serendipitous meeting on an airplane led to the creation of an iconic fashion accessory: The Hermès Birkin bag.

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COMMENTARY: Dawn Turner on how disquieting noise can be | Watch Video
Twenty years ago, Dawn Turner moved to a house in the country. Now she's back in the city, and has discovered how disquieting noise can be. Is it misophonia (a brain anomaly that explains why some people have an incredibly heightened sensitivity to certain sounds)? Or are city sounds just too darn much? 

       
CALENDAR: Week of January 22 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

      
NATURE:  Alligators (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning at Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, Florida. Watch out for 'gators! Videographer: David Bhagat. 

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GRAMMYS: Watch the Best Music Video nominees
Check out the contenders for this year's award - and be sure to watch the 60th annual Grammy Awards, presented Sunday, January 28, and broadcast live on CBS. 

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NATURE UP CLOSE: Feathers
They're some of the most amazing structures in the natural world.
         

RECAP: JANUARY 14, 2018

        

HEADLINES: False missile warning panics Hawaiians (Video)
For 38 agonizing minutes, people in Hawaii believed the unthinkable was happening Saturday morning, when an alert about an incoming ballistic missile was broadcast across the state. It was an error, but one that caused widespread panic and confusion. David Begnaud reports.

        
COVER STORY: Drawing the lines on gerrymandering | Watch Video
Mo Rocca reports on the history and controversy surrounding the re-drawing of political boundaries for partisan gain.

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ALMANAC: "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite" | Watch Video
On January 14, 1973, the world's first live satellite concert by a solo artist, featuring The King, was broadcast from Honolulu. Jane Pauley reports.

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ART: Dollhouse crime scenes | Watch Video
Determining the cause of death is never child's play - even with these dollhouse-like training tools. Erin Moriarty reports on the intricate dioramas of death created by Frances Glessner Lee, a woman intrigued by unsolved murders, who assembled tiny laboratories of forensic investigation, now on display at the Smithsonian in Washington.

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TELEVISION: Sharon Stone's second chance | Watch Video
Lee Cowan profiles the actress, who has bounced back from a near-fatal brain hemorrhage to star in a new HBO mini-series, "Mosaic."

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BOOKS: This week's non-fiction bestsellers

      
ISLAND-HOPPING: Wake Island | Watch Video
The dawn's earliest light -- the first rays of sun on U.S. soil -- shine upon Wake Island. Conor Knighton reports from the Pacific atoll where America's day REALLY begins.

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HARTMAN: A second honeymoon (Video)
Sixty years ago, Reverend Gilbert Caldwell and his wife, Grace, were confronted with an ugly example of racism on their honeymoon, when they were prevented from staying at a resort in the Poconos. Today Rev. Caldwell speaks about the civil rights movement, and his personal story touched a group of New Jersey schoolchildren, who set about making things right. Steve Hartman reports. 

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#METOO:  Oprah Winfrey on the Time's Up movement | Watch Video
Earlier this week Oprah Winfrey, a special contributing correspondent for CBS' "Sunday Morning," moderated a panel of Hollywood luminaries to discuss the Time's Up movement. She hosted a discussion featuring actresses Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Tracee Ellis Ross and American Ferrera; Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy; "Scandal" producer Shonda Rhimes; and entertainment attorney Nina Shaw.

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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS: Nancy Giles on exercise gizmos (Video)
It's that time of year when many of us resolve to get in better shape. "Sunday Morning" contributor Nancy Giles is one such hopeful, and she has a closet full of exercise and weight-loss gizmos hawked on TV to try to get her there. How helpful are they? Well, they're all packed in the closet…

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COMMENTARY: Faith Salie on when POTUS uses "$#!?hole" language | Watch Video
Faith Salie on what happens when the President of the United States uses language best scrawled on a bathroom stall.

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CALENDAR: Week of January 15 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

    
NATURE: Volcanoes National Park (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday Morning far from the winter cold, at Volcanoes National Park on the big island of Hawaii. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.  

 

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Birders in Vermont take part in the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count. Toby Talbot/AP

NATURE UP CLOSE: The Christmas Bird Count
Begun in 1900 by the National Audubon Society, the longest-running community science project in the U.S. conducts an annual census of bird species.

RECAP: JANUARY 7, 2018

        

        
COVER STORY: Measuring Colorado's "great experiment" with marijuana | Watch Video
In 2012, when Colorado voters passed Amendment 64, legalizing pot for recreational use was called "The Great Experiment." Five years later, recreational pot is now legal in eight states plus the District of Columbia, while 22 other states now allow sales of marijuana for medical use. But anti-marijuana advocates -- including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- are pushing back against more permissive state laws. Barry Petersen looks at how that "Great Experiment" is working out.  

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ALMANAC: Fannie Farmer | Watch Video
On January 7, 1896, her "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" was published, inspiring generations of cooks. Jane Pauley reports. 

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ART: Vermeer and the Dutch Masters who influenced him | Watch Video
Rita Braver tours an exhibition at Washington's National Gallery of Art featuring works by Vermeer and other Dutch Masters.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: From 1996: A landmark Vermeer exhibition (Video)
"Sunday Morning" visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to view a rare showing of paintings by Johannes Vermeer - approximately two-thirds of the 17th century artist's surviving works. Curator Arthur Wheelock explained his long fascination with Vermeer and the Dutch Master's stylistic innovations. Host Charles Osgood reports. (Originally broadcast on January 10, 1996.)

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MOVIES: Greta Gerwig on directing: "It's the best feeling in the world" | Watch Video
Tony Dokoupil profiles the actress, whose new film as writer-director, "Lady Bird," is one of the most critically-acclaimed of the year.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Greta Gerwig on facing rejection, and realizing films
Writer-director Greta Gerwig ("Lady Bird") talks with correspondent Tony Dokoupil about the rejections she faced when she applied to school and universities, and how she maintains a sense of purpose in her filmmaking.

WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Greta Gerwig on why she fell in love with Barnard College
Writer-director Greta Gerwig ("Lady Bird") describes to correspondent Tony Dokoupil how she found the school she wanted to attend, Barnard College in New York City.

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PASSAGE: The freezing "bomb cyclone" (Video)
The meteorological term for the East's misery this past week -- "Bombogenesis" -- brought ice-cold weather, fiercely-blowing snow and misery to air travelers from Georgia to Maine. (Happy New Year!) Jane Pauley reports. 

     
FASHION: Coat tales: A tradition of Barbour outerwear | Watch Video
They're a British tradition, as common as soggy weather -- raincoats fit for a Queen, or for 007. Martha Teichner visits the Barbour factory in Northern England and their "museum" of classic rainwear.

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HARTMAN: Teacher's life-saving gift to a student (Video)
A good teacher will do almost anything for a student, but few have gone so far as Donna Hoagland, a teacher at Marsh Pointe Elementary in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., who helped one student's family by giving of herself in the most unselfish way. Steve Hartman reports. 

     
STAGE: John Lithgow on the love that was basis for "Stories By Heart" | Watch Video
Lee Cowan interviews the Emmy-, Tony- and Golden Globe-winning actor, now on Broadway in "John Lithgow: Stories By Heart."

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NEWS: The Golden Gate Bridge to get a suicide net | Watch Video
The Golden Gate Bridge, a beautiful landmark in San Francisco Bay, has an ugly side. Nearly 1,700 have committed suicide from the bridge since its opening in 1938. Last year, 39 people jumped.  But that toll may be coming to an end.  Families and loved ones of those who took their own lives -- as well as those who tried to commit suicide but survived -- have won their fight to have a safety net erected on the bridge. John Blackstone reports.

(If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please call a trained counselor at National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK [8255].)  

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OPINION: Vivian Howard on the goodness of broths | Watch Video
Vivian Howard, star of PBS' "A Chef's Life," says every culture has a recipe with curative powers.

RECIPE: Vivian Howard's Black Silkie Chicken Soup
The host of PBS' "A Chef's Life" offers her take on a traditional curative broth.

RECIPE: Stewed Collards with Ham Hock in Potlikker
Chef Vivian Howard offers a family favorite that nourishes and satisfies, slurp for slurp.

RECIPE: Benny's Matzo Ball Soup
A favorite recipe for a traditional dish, courtesy of chef and restaurateur Vivian Howard, star of PBS' "A Chef's Life."

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CALENDAR: Week of January 8 | Watch Video
"Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports.

       
NATURE: Birds in Pennsylvania (Video)

We leave you this Sunday Morning outside Erie, Pennsylvania, where birds of a feather are riding out the storm. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

RECAP: DECEMBER 31, 2017

      
COVER STORY: A look ahead at 2018
CBS News correspondents around the world look at what we can expect in 2018, and how the events of 2017 have shaped what is to come.

What's next in Washington? | Watch Video
CBS News National Correspondent Chip Reid on the challenges President Trump and Republicans face in the coming year.

What's next for Russia and the U.K.? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer on Putin's upcoming election, and Britain's troublesome "Brexit."

What's next for the Middle East and Europe? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Seth Doane on the prospects for diplomacy, and the rise of populist, far-right and separatist movements.

What's next for Asia? | Watch Video
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy on the North Korean nuclear crisis that looms on the horizon.

      
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Top news stories of 2017, month-by-month | Watch Video
Jane Pauley has a recap of some of the year's biggest news stories.

    
SPIRITS: Distilling vodka from San Francisco's fog | Watch Video
Just in time for a New Year's toast, Lee Cowan tells us about vodka made from fog. Here's to you, San Francisco!

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top books of 2017 | Watch Video

     
SUNDAY PROFILE: "Disaster Artist" star James Franco on finding a work-life balance | Watch Video
Correspondent Tony Dokoupil catches up with the actor, currently starring in the film "The Disaster Artist."

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top music of 2017 | Watch Video

      
HEALTH: The rise of "gaming disorder" (Video)
The World Health Organization is poised to list "gaming disorder" - the point at which playing video games takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities - as an official human malady. Jane Pauley reports.     

        
THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top online stats of 2017 | Watch Video

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: Hail and farewell to those we lost in 2017 | Watch VideoJane Pauley looks back at the lives and accomplishments of the people we lost in the year gone by.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top movies of 2017 | Watch Video

      
OPINION: Faith Salie on how art can help shape our New Year's resolutions | Watch Video
At the end of another breathless year, the "Sunday Morning" contributor takes stock in the meaning of mistakes and repairing one's self.

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: The top TV of 2017 | Watch Video

      
NATURE: Sequoias (Video)
We leave you this last Sunday Morning of 2017 in King's Canyon National Park in California ... among towering sequoias many hundreds of years old. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.

    

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NATURE UP CLOSE: A Piney Woods Christmas
In southeast Texas, species diversity makes up for lack of a snow at the holidays.  

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First published on January 4, 2018 / 12:04 PM EST

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