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The New Yorker Cartoons: Signs of the times

For some 95 years, cartoons in The New Yorker magazine have captured the spirit of their times. “Sunday Morning” presents a recent sampling from cartoonists Victoria Roberts, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Jeremy Nguyen, and David Sipress. Source

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Remembering Regis Philbin

Talk show host Regis Philbin, who held the Guinness World Record for most hours on TV, died Friday, July 24 at the age of 88. “Sunday Morning” takes a look back at a perennially winning television personality. Source

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A summer song: Jimmy Buffett

The “Margaritaville” singer who’s provided a summer soundtrack for decades, and who has a new album out (“Life on the Flip Side”), has canceled his annual summer tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But despite the dour news and shuttered concert scene, Jimmy Buffett is one to turn lemons into lemonade, by performing online concerts for first responders. Correspondent Tracy Smith catches up with the singer about making music that meets the challenge of the times. Source

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The state of our Union

With our nation being tested over issues of race and the pandemic, noted political figures and writers discuss government dysfunction, the dangers of the Twitterverse, and the leadership needed to unite these United States Source

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Is the United States “hitting bottom”?

1968 was a year that saw America tested over issues of race and war. In 2020, the country is being tested over issues of race and the pandemic. “Sunday Morning” senior contributor Ted Koppel talks with noted political figures and writers – former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Senator Tom Daschle, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Kathleen Parker and Anna Quindlen – about government dysfunction; the dangers of the Twitterverse; and the leadership needed to unite these United States. Source

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Invasion! Asian giant hornets have arrived

They can grow as large as two-and-a-half inches and can slaughter a colony of thousands of honeybees in a matter of hours. And their sting? It’s one of the most painful known to humankind. Vespa mandarinia, dubbed by The New York Times as “murder hornets,” are the nation’s latest invasive species, and correspondent Luke Burbank talks with entomologists and a beekeeper about the threats these insects pose and what’s being done to keep them from establishing themselves in the United States. Source

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