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Rebranding China's conflicted Xinjiang region as a tourist destination

Western China's vast and beautiful Xinjiang region became notorious for the arbitrary detention and "re-education" of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghurs, whose language and cultural identity have been seen by China's Communist Party as a threat to its total control. But following global condemnation for its crackdown on the Uyghurs, China claimed its so-called re-education centers were shut down in 2019. CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer recently traveled to Xinjiang on a government tour to see how the region is now being re-branded by China as a fun-filled destination for international tourists.

• Jan 7, 2024
• 07:07

Rapper-turned-country singer Jelly Roll

The artist known as Jelly Roll is a 39-year-old former rapper whose songs tell of the troubled life he used to lead. He's now one of the biggest names in country music, with two Grammy nominations this year. With correspondent Kelefa Sanneh, we go with Jelly Roll to one of the many jail cells he lived in, where he wrote songs and hatched his plans to make it in music—eventually finding himself on the "holy ground" of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

• Jan 7, 2024
• 08:29

Juggling competition is a toss-up

Juggling is a lot more than keeping a few balls in the air. Correspondent Conor Knighton recently attended the International Jugglers' Association's annual festival in South Bend, Ind., where juggling competitions – using all kinds of objects – can get out of hand.

• Jan 7, 2024
• 04:52

Almanac: January 7

"Sunday Morning" looks at important historical events on this date.

• Jan 7, 2024
• 00:48

How artificial intelligence is revamping customer call centers

Everyone gets angry over customer service call centers – both the customers frustrated at having their complaints heard and resolved, and the employees who are on the receiving end of callers' ire. That's when an AI bot can step in to cut waiting time and help defuse the situation. Correspondent David Pogue talks with the founders of Gridspace, whose artificial intelligence customer service agent, named Grace, fills in for human agents at more than 100 airlines, banks, hospital chains and phone companies.

• Jan 7, 2024
• 08:43

Nature: Sunrise on Cape Cod

We leave you this Sunday with a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean, at Coast Guard Beach on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Videographer: Scot Miller.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 01:51

RIP Jim Gaffigan, by Jim Gaffigan

The comedian gets a jump on the obituary writers by composing a memorial for himself.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 02:34

Newton Minow, who saw television's "vast wasteland"

Jane Pauley looks back at Newton Minow, a one-time chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, whose many accomplishments were overshadowed by the withering criticism he laid at the feet of commercial television in 1961.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 01:34

The Endangered Species Act at 50

Historian Douglas Brinkley celebrates the success of the 1973 law that finally gave legal protection to America's iconic flora and fauna facing extinction. In the half-century since the law's introduction, an astonishing 99% of the threatened species originally listed have survived.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 02:32

Anderson Cooper on freeing yourself from the burden of grief

The "60 Minutes" and CNN journalist, and host of the podcast "All There Is with Anderson Cooper," talks about the propensity among many people to bury their grief over lost loved ones in silence, and how hiding one's grief can inflict an additional burden.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 02:41