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COVER STORY: Ted Turner’s Nature Reserves: A Carefully Curated ‘Heaven on Earth’ (Video)
As one of the largest landowners in America, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner has spent decades restoring endangered species like the American bison and restoring biodiversity on his two million acres of land. Now Turner is opening some of his land to visitors, creating something of a private national park system almost overnight. Correspondent Lee Cowan reports.

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ALMANAC: December 1st (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the historic events of that date.

BOOKS: Tom Colicchio on “Why I cook” | Watch video
In the chaos of a kitchen, chef, restaurateur and TV cooking judge Tom Colicchio learned to be himself. The author of the new cookbook memoir “Why I Cook” talks to “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil about his journey from middle-class New Jersey to elite restaurants in New York and Las Vegas, and from the depths of substance abuse to Gastronomy.

RECIPE: Possibly the best grilled cheese you’ll ever have, from Tom Colicchio

RECIPE: Tom Colicchio’s skirt steak

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HARTMAN: A Beloved Missouri School Administrator’s Unique Honor (Video)
When the residents of Swedeborg, Missouri decided to name their elementary school building, everyone knew it had to be named after a truly special person. Correspondent Steve Hartman speaks with the woman who was unanimously selected by the school board for the award.

BROADCASTING: Elvis Duran on the magic of radio and his special bond with listeners | Watch video
Since 1996, New York disc jockey Elvis Duran has hosted “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” the country’s most popular Top 40 morning show. He talks to correspondent Mo Rocca about growing up in Texas with a passion for radio and becoming friends with “that voice in the dark”; how radio has changed over the years; and how staying in Santa Fe, New Mexico changes him.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable people who left us this week, including Alice Brock, the Massachusetts restaurateur made famous by Arlo Guthrie’s song “Alice’s Restaurant.”

STORY: “The Barn” about the lynching of Emmett Till and an evil hiding in plain sight | Watch video
In his new book “The Barn,” author Wright Thompson, also a fifth-generation cotton farmer in the Mississippi Delta, examines the site of the infamous 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Correspondent Jim Axelrod speaks with Thompson about the investigation of injustice and a culture in the Mississippi Delta that, as Thompson says, has spent decades trying to eradicate a terrible crime; and visits the still existing barn where Till was beaten to death.

READ AN EXCERPT: “The Barn: The Secret History of a Mississippi Murder” by Wright Thompson
The author’s New York Times bestseller examines the culture of silence that surrounded the Mississippi Delta over the 1955 murder of Emmett Till.

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COMMENT: Jim Gaffigan on adjusting to the new reality: “How did this happen?!?” | Watch video
Comedian Jim Gaffigan says he’s working to adjust to recent events that have left him blind and wanting to curl up and mope. But he acknowledges that the world keeps turning, even if it’s not what he wanted.

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MOVIES: Selena Gomez: “What I do is a dream”
At 32, Selena Gomez is an accomplished actress (including in the new film “Emilia Pérez”), successful singer-songwriter, billionaire business owner and philanthropist. But her bravest move may have been to share herself. She talks to correspondent Tracy Smith about her mother’s inspiration; her relationship with Steve Martin and Martin Short, her co-stars in Only Murders in the Building; and why she went public about her health struggles and bipolar diagnosis in the documentary “My Mind and Me,” saying, “One of the most powerful things you can do is be vulnerable.”

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WORLD: Angela Merkel on Putin, Trump and a still divided world after the Cold War
After growing up in the communist-controlled police state of East Germany, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor for 16 years and became the most powerful woman in the world while also dealing with the most powerful men in the world. She talks to correspondent Mark Philips about her new book, Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021; her relationships with former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin; and about the state of the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

READ AN EXCERPT: “Freedom: Memories 1954-2021” by Angela Merkel
The former German chancellor writes about two lives: her early years as a child under a dictatorship in East Germany and her years as the leader of a nation reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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COMMENT: Jane Fonda with the secret to aging well
A Yale study showed that older people with more positive attitudes toward aging lived an average of 7.5 years longer than people who equated aging with illness and decline. Actress and activist Jane Fonda and anti-ageism advocate Ashton Applewhite offer Sunday Morning viewers the key to living longer by maintaining a better attitude.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Author Barbara Taylor Bradford (YouTube video)
Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, whose 40 best-selling novels included A Woman of Substance, The Ravenscar Dynasty and Love in Another Town, died on Sunday, November 24, 2024, at the age of 91. “Sunday Morning” profile show on October 11, 2009, correspondent Rita Braver spoke with Bradford (and with her husband, producer Robert Bradford, who adapted many of her stories for television) to discuss her literary success in writing about women of substance speak.

Marathon: Steve Hartman Stories to Be Thankful For (YouTube Video)
Enjoy over an hour of Sunday Morning stories from Steve Hartman that will make you laugh and cry.

MARATHON: Turkeys in the wild (YouTube video)
Enjoy Thanksgiving with wild turkeys captured on camera across the country over the years.

FROM THE ARCHIVES Cooking (YouTube video)
Enjoy these classic Sunday Morning features where the worlds of art and food collide spectacularly.

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