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COVER STORY: What will Pope Leo XIV mean for the Church? | Watch Video
This week at the Vatican, mass was led for the first time by an American-born pope: Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing math major and White Sox fan from Chicago, who – as Pope Leo XIV – is now leader of the world’s nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, who predicted the outcome of last week’s conclave, about what made Prevost prevail among the College of Cardinals; and with Alexander Lam, an Augustinian priest who knew Prevost as the leader of his order in Peru.
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ALMANAC: May 11 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.
TECHNOLOGY: The road toward more driverless cars (Video)
Waymo operates self-driving taxis in four cities, and is soon expanding to a dozen more, as Tesla and Amazon have had delays with their robo-taxi services. But the Google-owned Waymo must still overcome resistance from the public over stepping into an autonomous vehicle. Correspondent David Pogue reports on how the company is trying to avoid bumps in the road.
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MOTHER’S DAY: A foster mother’s limitless love (Video)
Kari Cox, of Culloden, West Virginia, and her husband, Bill, head a large family of mostly adopted children, many with special needs. But when one of their adopted children, Maribeth, died following a car accident, Kari doubted she could ever open her home, and her heart, to another child. That was until she made a life-altering discovery. Steve Hartman reports.
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MOVIES: “Lilly”: Patricia Clarkson on equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter | Watch Video
Academy Award-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson stars in “Lilly,” the story of Lilly Ledbetter, whose 1990s lawsuit demanding equal pay with her male colleagues went all the way to the Supreme Court. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with Clarkson about playing the real-life activist, and how her own mother, Jackie Clarkson, a former Louisiana elected representative, inspired her performance.
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PASSAGE: Remembering Justice David Souter (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including Justice David Souter, who served for almost 20 years on the Supreme Court.
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ARTS: Creating art from trash (Video)
Environmental artist Tom Deininger’s works represent a menagerie of wildlife recreated in life-like detail. But each of his pieces is made of discarded objects – everything from trash to childhood toys – that are discernable when viewed from a certain angle. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti talks with Deininger about perspectives on his trash-centric art, and raising awareness about the human threats to endangered species.
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MOTHER’S DAY: Josh’s mom on making a move (Video)
Filmmaker Joshua Seftel’s mother, Pat, is joining a trend of seniors migrating from Florida up North to be closer to family. The move involves downsizing – and pouring over memories of a life shared with her late husband.
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BOOKS: Barry Diller on baring his soul in new memoir, “Who Knew” | Watch Video
In his new book, a combination business memoir and personal journey titled “Who Knew,” former television, movie and media executive Barry Diller opens up about topics he says he had vowed never to talk about in public, including his early relationships with men, as well as his decades-long relationship and 24-year-marriage to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Diller tells correspondent Tracy Smith he refused to open up about his private life previously because, “I think I was a coward.”
READ AN EXCERPT: “Who Knew” by Barry Diller
In his new memoir, the former TV, film and media executive explains the limitations of too much information – when instinct (for, like, what makes an intriguing Movie of the Week?) may be a better predictor of success.
EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Barry Diller (Video)
In his new book, “Who Knew,” former television, film and media executive Barry Diller writes of his remarkable business career, while also revealing the sexuality that he kept secret from an early age. In this web exclusive, Diller sits down with correspondent Tracy Smith to talk about why he thought revealing his sexuality would be “dangerous”; his early days at William Morris; his decades-long relationship with fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg; and the process of writing a memoir, in which he would “pull the stitches” of memory.
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BUSINESS: Small business owners on damage from Trump’s tariffs | Watch Video
President Trump’s sudden and unpredictable tariffs have caused tremendous concerns among small business owners, whose livelihoods are now in jeopardy. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent talks with Marissa Held-Nordling, who fears she will soon be unable to stock her children’s boutique in Minnesota; and Beth Benike, named Minnesota’s “Small Businessperson of the Year,” who says the costs imposed by tariffs may cause her to lose her house. Kent also talks with economic analyst Kyla Scanlon, who says the tariffs are an unnecessary burden.
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COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan on how best to celebrate Dads this Mother’s Day | Watch Video
The comedian has a brilliant idea on how to pay tribute to fathers in a way that is not at all self-serving (really!), even if it takes 35 days to do so.
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NATURE: Nesting birds in Florida (Extended Video)
We leave you this Mother’s Day with some moms and their chicks in St. Augustine, Florida. Videographer: Charles Schultz.
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MARATHON: Celebrating mom (YouTube Video)
Enjoy these classic “Sunday Morning” features that celebrate all the joys, hopes, heartaches, and hard work of motherhood.
- Heidi Murkoff, author of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” on becoming a grandmother (Tracy Smith, 2013)
- Pregnant teenagers at the Florence Crittenton agency in North Carolina talk about their problems (Diane Sawyer, 1979)
- Mothers Day reflections from Rita Braver (2011)
- The bond of mother and daughter, strengthened by a rummage through Mom’s closet as a child (Eugenia Zukerman, 2003)
- Mothers whose children were killed by drunk drivers fight grief through Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or M.A.D.D. (Jane Wallace, 1982)
- Anderson Cooper and mother Gloria Vanderbilt (Rita Braver, 2019)
- A Florida mother supports her young daughter’s beauty pageant dreams (Rita Flynn, 1982)
- Volunteers with Aid to Incarcerated Mothers (A.I.M.) help mothers in Massachusetts prisons keep in touch with their children (Marlene Sanders, 1985)
- The revolution in surrogate motherhood (Kelly Wallace, 2009)
- Patti Davis’ relationship with her mother, Nancy Reagan (Lesley Stahl, 2009)
- Brenda Gorman on adopting a 4-year-old orphan girl, Zia, who only had 33 days to live (Steve Hartman, 2013)
- Barbara Saltzman shared a children’s book written by her son, who died of cancer at 22 (Tracy Smith, 2015)
- Barbara Lippert’s tribute to horrible mothers in the movies (2007)
- A reporter “receives” an email message from his mother three days after she died (Steve Hartman, 2017)
- The challenges facing working mothers, magnified during the COVID pandemic (Rita Braver, 2020)
- Filmmaker Joshua Seftel shares his experience of giving his mother an iPad (2013)
- Journalist Daryn Kagan on being the second mother to her daughter (2018)
- Nature: A mother fox with her 13 kits in Paradise Valley, Montana (2022)
MARATHON: The power of keeping your promise and being kind (YouTube Video)
“CBS Sunday Morning” explores how keeping one’s promise and doing good deeds can impact others and the community.
- A Gold Star promise kept
- A coach’s promise
- A storybook mother
- A walk with a new friend
- Their longest battle
- Righting a wrong
- Paying it forward
- Visiting every town in Vermont
- The power of kindness
MARATHON: Dance Masters (YouTube Video)
Enjoy these classic “Sunday Morning” reports on the world of dance, including interviews with some of the world’s most renowned dancers and choreographers:
- The making of a ballet dancer’s pointe shoes (Faith Salie, 2017)
- A profile of dancer, choreographer and dance company founder Alvin Ailey (Heywood Hale Broun, 1984)
- At age 70, tap dancer Paul Draper still taps out a message to the world (Heywood Hale Broun, 1980)
- A history of tango, and a visit to the Tango World Cup in Buenos Aires (Elaine Quijano, 2013)
- A dance troupe comprised of Laotian refugees struggles to survive in Nashville (Martha Teichner, 1980)
- A conversation with legendary “Oklahoma!” choreographer Agnes de Mille (Heywood Hale Broun, 1980)
- A profile of Soviet émigré dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov (Eugenia Zukerman, 1997)
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