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What then-Vice President Mike Pence faced on Jan. 6

CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports on the most recent evidence revealed by the House committee investigating Jan. 6 about the pressure campaign put on then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election results. Source Read More »

Juneteenth: America’s second Independence Day

On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union Gen. Gordon Granger announced in Galveston that all enslaved people in Texas were now free. The day would become commemorated as Juneteenth, but for the now-free African Americans, the future was uncertain. CBS News’ Mark Whitaker takes a personal journey to Jewett, Texas, where ... Read More »

Nature: Stingrays

We travel this morning to the waters off the island of St. Croix. Videographer: National Geographic Explorer, ocean activist and longtime friend of “Sunday Morning” Ziggy Livnat, who passed away this week. Source Read More »

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: A tiny hero

When comedian-actor Jenny Slate and filmmaker Dean Fleischer-Camp created the voice of a tiny animated character – a seashell with a googly eye, shoes, and a winning personality – they could not predict that their quirky short films would become viral hits online, nor that the one-inch-tall shell would star in a feature-length movie, the heartwarming adventure "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On." Correspondent David Pogue talks with Slate and Fleischer-Camp about Marcel's sweet, funny quest to find his family; and with "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl, who plays herself in the film. Read More »

“Meet the Fossils”: Ancient life that powers our world

When we burn fossil fuels to power our homes and cars, we’re burning the remains of ancient life – plants and animals that were transformed over millions of years into coal or oil. And we are using up that resource at a rapid rate. Writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains how in this “CBS Sunday Morning” video essay, based on ... Read More »

Mikhail Baryshnikov on “The Orchard”

At the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City, dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in an adaptation of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," a story whose themes of loss and freedom echo with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about the production, and how the dancer, who has remained largely non-political since his 1974 defection from the Soviet Union, says he can no longer stay silent over what he calls Putin's war. Read More »

Mikhail Baryshnikov on “The Orchard” and Putin’s war

The dancer-actor who has been largely non-political since his 1974 defection from the Soviet Union says he can no longer stay silent, as he stars in an adaptation of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” whose themes of loss and freedom echo with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Source Read More »

Father and son: A.J. Croce performs Jim Croce’s music

The singer-songwriter lost his dad in a plane crash before he turned two, temporarily lost his sight when he was four, and lost his wife to a heart condition. Now 50, musician and songwriter A.J. Croce is turning to the music that his father, Jim Croce, had made famous, and in the process is embracing his father's legacy – and his own. Correspondent Jim Axelrod reports. Read More »

One graduate’s lofty goal

After 18-year-old Jake Thibeault was paralyzed in a hockey game, he made an extraordinary prediction to the head of school at Milton Academy outside Boston: that he would walk at graduation. Correspondent Steve Hartman reports on how a student schooled others on setting goals. Source Read More »