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Dollar Stores and food deserts

Dec. 8: In the latest struggle between Main Street and corporate America, grocers say the rapidly-expanding chains of Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have effectively forced them out of business, thereby reducing options for fresh food and produce for miles around

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  • Billie Eilish: "Nobody that knows me thinks I'm a dark person"

    Billie Eilish: "Nobody that knows me thinks I'm a dark person"

    At 17, the multiple Grammy-nominee says she is coming out of the "joyless" and "torturous" feeling that clinical depression and unwanted fame brought her

  • Web exclusive videos:

  • Billie Eilish on overcoming her "toxic" relationship with her body

    Billie Eilish on overcoming her "toxic" relationship with her body

    In this web extra singer-songwriter Billie Eilish talks with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King about the kind of comfort she feels from covering up.
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      Billie Eilish on creating a song
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      Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell on writing "Bad Guy"
  • Rob Gronkowski on his physical and mental recovery from football

    Rob Gronkowski on his physical and mental recovery from football

    The former New England Patriot with three Super Bowl rings says, since leaving the game, his lifestyle now involves a special nutrition program, physical therapy, and jigsaw puzzles
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      Web extra: Rob Gronkowski on slowing down
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      Web extra: Rob Gronkowski on the Patriots' prospects
  • Doris Duke's Shangri La

    Doris Duke's Shangri La

    The heiress built a home in Honolulu that was a testament to the cultures she discovered in her 'round-the-world travels, and now it's the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design
  • This week on "Sunday Morning" (December 8)

    This week on "Sunday Morning" (December 8)

    A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program

  • Take Five:

  • Arts & events around the U.S. (December 6)

    Arts & events around the U.S. (December 6)

    Check out the "Sunday Morning" listings of art openings and events this coming week

  • Audio Extra!

  • Listen to our "Two Popes" podcast!

    Listen to our "Two Popes" podcast!

    Download or stream Tracy Smith's extended interview with stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce

  • Moments in Nature:

  • Snow in New Hampshire

    Snow in New Hampshire

    "Sunday Morning" takes us to a late autumnal scene near the northern New Hampshire town of Pittsburg. Videographer: Scot Miller
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  • Headlines:

  • In prisoner swap, Iran and U.S. release detained student, scientist

    In prisoner swap, Iran and U.S. release detained student, scientist

    After three years in a Tehran prison, Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang is on his way home, in exchange for Iranian scientist Masoud Soleimani, who'd been arrested in the U.S. last year – part of a prisoner swap arranged between the United States and Iran

  • Nature up close:

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    Whooping cranes are finally making a comeback

    Despite habitat loss and low reproductive rates, the bird's population in North America has increased in recent years, thanks to captive breeding programs and the establishment of a second migratory flock

  • Nature up close: A living museum in the Sonora Desert

  • Nature up close: Salmon, a keystone species in the Pacific Northwest

  • Nature up close: The largest bat colony in the world

  • Nature up close: The unique migration of the Pronghorn

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    Alec's mission

    17-year-old Alec Cabacungan, the leading spokesperson for the Shriners Hospitals for Children, makes it all look so easy despite his rare genetic disorder

  • Tom Brokaw: Yesterday, "Today" and tomorrow

  • Nikki Haley: I was asked by Cabinet members to take sides against the president

  • Mitch Albom's mission

  • Time will tell: Historians on judging presidential leadership

  • Transgender youth: Navigating gender identity in adolescence

  • A spiraling walk above the trees

  • Corporations and guns: How companies are reshaping the gun control debate

  • Pete Hamill on Jimmy Breslin and the heralded world of beat reporters

  • How we have failed our teachers

  • Teaching anti-vax parents to trust science and the MMR vaccine

  • On art:

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    Rescuing art: The creativity and science of restoration

    The painstaking work of art restorers, who remove decades of dulling dirt and dust or repair damaged works, is meant to help art stand the test of time by keeping time at bay

  • "We, the People": Mary Whyte's portraits of 50 veterans from 50 states

  • Enter the immersive art world of Meow Wolf

  • Helen Frankenthaler: An artist lost in the moment

  • Gargoyles and grotesques get their closeup

  • NYC's Museum of Modern Art gets a makeover

  • Glass art, cast in sand

  • Black models in modern art

  • Graffiti beyond the streets

  • Surrealist art and war

  • The delicate craft of wood carver David Esterly

  • Rock relics at New York's Metropolitan Museum

  • Frida Kahlo: The unapologetic artist

  • Street art: Japanese manhole covers

  • Bill Traylor: The imaginative art of a freed slave

  • Potter and author Edmund de Waal on the poetry of objects

  • The restless perfectionism of Alberto Giacometti

  • On books:

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    Master of intrigue John le Carré on his latest villain: Brexit

    His new novel, "Angel Running in the Field," examines how the British public, he says, is being "bamboozled by people with private interests," and European allies are being turned into enemies

  • "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood: "I have never believed it can't happen here"

  • Colson Whitehead on "The Nickel Boys" and exhuming tales of the dead

  • Gen. Jim Mattis on war and Trump

  • Under the Tuscan sun with author Frances Mayes

  • George Will, a conservative rock, unmoved by chaos

  • "The Ballad of Huck & Miguel": Huck Finn revisited, in today's L.A.

  • Harper Lee, true crime writer

  • A visit to the Metropol, star of "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Books produced by hand

  • Louise Penny: How writing became her solace

  • On fashion:

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    Nail art: A hands-on introduction to fabulous style

    For some, getting a manicure these days is less maintenance and more masterpiece, as seen on fashion runways and the hit TV show "Claws"

  • The Japanese art of tie dyeing

  • Fashion designer Dapper Dan's rags to riches story

  • Brunello Cucinelli: Fashion and philosophy

  • The colorful history of pink

  • Ralph Lauren: "I feel cooler now than ever"

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

  • Stella McCartney: Fashion with a conscience

  • Betsey Johnson, fashion's free spirit

  • Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge

  • From the archives:

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    From 2008: Newspaper man Jimmy Breslin

    Used to be every big city newspaper had a guy who knew what was what, to whom both cops and crooks wanted to tell their stories. A guy like Jimmy Breslin, as New York as the A train. Harry Smith walks through some of the veteran newspaper reporter and author's biggest stories from the underworld, and visits what was John Gotti's favorite Queens social club, now a grooming salon for dogs, in this profile originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" March 9, 2008

  • 2013: "Star Trek"'s George Takei: A sci-fi icon

  • 2010: A rare look at author Philip Roth

  • 2010: Florence Henderson, America's Mom

  • 2008: Marni Nixon, singing voice of the stars

  • 2007: Anthony Bourdain, the culinary bad boy

  • 2007: Bill Geist keeps germs at bay

  • 2006: Neil Simon's storied career

  • 2006: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and voyeurism

  • 2005: The confidential Tab Hunter

  • 2005: The wilder side of Gene Wilder

  • 2005: Leonard Nimoy on "Star Trek"

  • 2004: The Museum of Modern Art's expansion

  • 2004: Roger Bannister on breaking the 4:00 mile

  • 2004: Carrie Fisher

  • 2003: Extreme ironing

  • 2001: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark

  • 2000: Mementos at the Wall

  • 1999: Goats as lawn mowers

  • 1996: A landmark Vermeer exhibition

  • 1996: School of Circus Arts

  • 1995: Celebrating the first ATM

  • 1995: Author Pat Conroy

  • 1994: A retirement home for horses

  • 1994: The "unsinkable" Debbie Reynolds

  • 1992: Ode to Secretariat

  • 1991: Route 66, the "Main Street of America"

  • 1990: Rescuing horses for adoption

  • 1988: Bill Geist and the art of curling

  • 1982: Artist Keith Haring

  • 1980: Peter O'Toole talks "Macbeth"

  • 1979: Architect I.M. Pei on the JFK Library

  • 1979: Oil refinery vs. bald eagle

  • Mel Brooks on the love of his life, Anne Bancroft, and comedy that's not PC

    Mel Brooks on the love of his life, Anne Bancroft, and comedy that's not PC

    The "Producers" director and the Oscar-winning actress were inseparable for 41 years, and had more in common than one might think
  • Eugenia Zukerman on keeping her sense of humor and dignity in the face of Alzheimer's

    Eugenia Zukerman on keeping her sense of humor and dignity in the face of Alzheimer's

    The acclaimed flutist, broadcast journalist and author opens up about her diagnosis, and how music, writing and finding joy in life are helping her cope with a fading memory
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      Book excerpt: Eugenia Zukerman's "Like Falling Through a Cloud"
  • Bill Flanagan on the "OK, Boomer" controversy

    Bill Flanagan on the "OK, Boomer" controversy

    Faith Salie's "Sunday Morning" commentary about the millennial generation's way of waving away the opinions, instructions and interference of older people gets a response from an older person
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      Faith Salie on the cheeky putdown "OK, Boomer"

  • From Steve Hartman:

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    Secret Santa's helpers

    'Tis the season for Steve Hartman to catch up with his old friend "Secret Santa," an anonymous, wealthy businessman who every year travels the country giving out as much as $300 to random strangers. This year he's recruited a few helpers, from the Milwaukee County Transit System, to spread some Yuletide cheer

  • Heaven sent

  • No deeper love

  • A friend in need

  • Almanac:

  • A vote against war

    A vote against war

    On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, members of Congress voted unanimously to authorize a declaration of war, with one exception: Rep. Jeannette Rankin, an avowed pacifist

  • Passage:

  • The merger of CBS and Viacom

    The merger of CBS and Viacom

    It happened this past week: the merger of CBS with fellow media company Viacom to form a new corporation, ViacomCBS

  • Web exclusive:

  • Calendar: Week of December 9

    Calendar: Week of December 9

    From Time Magazine's Person of the Year to the announcement of the Heisman Trophy winner, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead

  • Missed our broadcast?

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    Watch the full December 8 episode!

    Our full show is also available to watch on CBS All Access, as well as via Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon FireTV/FireTV stick and Xbox

  • Web exclusive:

  • "Indian Land Forever": The 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz Island takeover

    "Indian Land Forever": The 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz Island takeover

    Historian Douglas Brinkley on how Native Americans claimed possession of Alcatraz, and for 19 months occupied the former prison until they were forced off

  • From the archives:

  • From 1984: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

    From 1984: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas

    The music director of the San Francisco Symphony, a recipient of a 2019 Kennedy Center Honor, made his reputation young, stepping in for an ailing conductor mid-concert at age 25. It launched a career that included leading orchestras in Boston, Buffalo, Los Angeles, Vienna and London. In this profile originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on December 2, 1984, Thomas talked with correspondent Eugenia Zukerman about his enthusiasm both for the contemporary (like Steve Reich's "Desert Music") and the classics of Beethoven and Gershwin

  • "Mobituaries" Season 2!

  • "Mobituaries": When TV sitcoms died in the "rural purge"

    "Mobituaries": When TV sitcoms died in the "rural purge"

    In his podcast Mo Rocca explores how the quest for more urban viewers led to the untimely cancellation of hit shows featuring characters from the sticks
  • Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" inspires a Broadway musical

    Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" inspires a Broadway musical

    The landmark 1995 album became the unexpected soundtrack of a generation, and is now the basis of a show with an original story by Diablo Cody
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      Web extra: Alanis Morissette on "You Oughta Know"
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      Web extra: Diablo Cody on writing the musical "Jagged Little Pill"
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      Web extra: "Jagged Little Pill" director Diane Paulus

  • The 2019 Food Issue

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    The lesson from Jon Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Kitchens: "Find your good, and do it."

    The rocker and his wife have opened restaurants that help feed the homeless and needy, cooking up classic farm-to-table cuisine in a place that also dishes up hope

  • You are what you eat? How nutrition may affect brain health

  • Jacques Pépin, the chefs' chef

  • Food halls: Redesigning the dining experience

  • Breadfruit: Rediscovering the tropical fruit

  • A taste of India on the interstate

  • Aging well: The allure of vintage spirits

  • Tupperware: A blast from the past

  • Danny Trejo: A tough actor with a soft spot for food

  • Mukbang: Watch what they eat!

  • Snails, the original slow food

  • 2019 "Food Issue" recipe index

  • "Sunday Morning" rebroadcast on Pop TV!

    "Sunday Morning" rebroadcast on Pop TV!

    Our show is rebroadcast on the Pop TV cable channel Sundays at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT, and also will be available live at poptv.com and on the Pop Now mobile app. Check your cable or satellite system for more info

  • On music:

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    Jeff Lynne, the reluctant rock star, returns with Jeff Lynne's ELO

    After years off-stage, the co-founder of the '70s rock band Electric Light Orchestra is back, and he's playing all the instruments himself

  • Elton John: Addiction "nearly destroyed my soul"

  • Olivia Newton-John on finding joy in a life with cancer

  • John Williams on reworking the classics – his own

  • BTS, the kings of K-Pop

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    The life of Prince, revealed in "The Beautiful Ones"

    Begun just months before his death in 2016, a memoir by the legendary singer-songwriter is now being published – and a vault of his unreleased music is beginning to disclose its secrets

  • Lizzo: "I feel like a master"

  • Mark Knopfler: Music is "a bit of an obsession"

  • Linda Ronstadt: A voice from the past

  • Electric Lady Studios: The "House That Hendrix Built"

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    How Janis Joplin became America's first female rock star

    A new biography about the rock and blues singer, "Janis: Her Life and Music," presents a portrait of a gifted, complex and challenging artist who became an iconic trailblazer during her brief 27 years

  • Presenting Mitzi Gaynor

  • Taylor Swift on "Lover" and haters

  • Common: Love is "the best thing we got on this planet"

  • Florence Welch on her own "Hunger"

  • Cardi B on her determination: "I get up every single time, honey"

  • On movies:

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    Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce on playing "The Two Popes"

    A new film imagines conversations between Pope Benedict and his successor, Pope Francis – pontiffs who disagreed on most everything

  • Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on "The Irishman"

  • "Ford v. Ferrari": Matt Damon and Christian Bale on a story of competition and friendship

  • How two "Forrest Gump" actors served their country

  • How scary music makes movies scarier

  • Renée Zellweger on playing Judy Garland

  • On TV:

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    "The Crown" returns with a new queen

    Season 3 of the hit show about the British royal family now stars Oscar-winner Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II

  • Sports announcer Jason Benetti on being a voice for those with cerebral palsy

  • Mariska Hargitay, the avenging angel of "Law & Order: SVU"

  • The mysteries of "God Friended Me"

  • Hannah Gadsby: There is life after trauma

  • "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek on his cancer diagnosis

  • On stage:

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    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60

    Founded by the groundbreaking dancer-choreographer, one of the world's preeminent modern dance companies continues his legacy with a new generation

  • "Ain't Too Proud": The Temptations' story comes to Broadway

  • Stephen Lang tells stories of Medal of Honor recipients in "Beyond Glory"

  • Encore: Lin-Manuel Miranda brings "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico

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