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"Oceans Give, Oceans Take": Their role in climate change

As greenhouse gases warm the Earth, our oceans play a significant role in absorbing heat that helps regulate rising temperatures. But as writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains, there is a huge price to pay for heating the oceans. He explains why in this first of a series of "CBS Sunday Morning" video essays.

A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines?

As the fast-food chain's non-functioning ice-cream machines became a national punchline, tech startup Kytch developed a device that helped franchisees get their machines back online – and that's when the fight over soft-serve began to really heat up.

"A Strange Loop" playwright Michael R. Jackson on his emotional autobiography

The writer and composer of the musical nominated for 11 Tony Awards, about a young, queer Black man working as an usher in a Broadway theater, talks about mining his own life for a tale of change and self-acceptance.

Baseball that's gone bananas

There's no crying in baseball, but there are a lot of laughs, when the Savannah Bananas bring their circus antics to the ballpark. The Georgia-based Coastal Plain League team has attracted millions of fans with their TikTok videos, which show batters on stilts or players in kilts.

Beatles exhibit captures the magic behind the music

An exhibition at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland explores the creation of some of pop's most indelible songs, during the period leading up to the Fab Four's breakup.

Russia's invasion after 100 days: Ukraine goes on the offensive

The war has turned into a slugfest of dueling artillery, with heavy losses by both Russian and Ukrainian forces, and now a Ukrainian offensive to retake Russian-occupied territory.

January 6 hearings: Can our Union survive?

The Select Committee hearings into the violent attack on Congress by Trump supporters, and about the ongoing struggle between the will of the voters and election deniers, may determine whether forces of democracy or of chaos prevail.

An Afghan family reunion years in the making

Six years ago correspondent Steve Hartman first met Baset Azizi, a musician from Afghanistan, who fled to the U.S. as a teenager. Since then, Azizi has interned on Capitol Hill, and graduated from college with honors. All that time, his family was back in Afghanistan, until they fled following the fall of Kabul. Finally, just a few weeks ago, Azizi's family arrived in the U.S. for an emotional reunion.

Passage: In memoriam

"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including Ann Turner Cook, who in 1931 became world famous as the first "Gerber Baby."

Extended Nature Video: Loons in Massachusetts

"Sunday Morning" leaves us with the call of the loons on a lake in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. Videographer: Doug Jensen.

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Hosted by Jane Pauley.

Here Comes The Sun: "POTUS" and doughnuts

Rita Braver sits down with the cast of the Broadway play "POTUS." Also, Elaine Quijano explores the roughly 80% of doughnut shops in Southern California that are owned by Cambodian refugee families.