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This week on “Sunday Morning” (April 28)
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COVER STORY: Take it easy – The importance of being lazy
Social pressures to be productive – not to mention a culture that prizes multitasking – make doing nothing hard to do, for fear of being accused of the dreaded sin of laziness. However, experts say there are rewards for not pushing yourself to the edge all the time. Correspondent Susan Spencer looks at how some of the most productive and innovative people in history allowed themselves to take time out, just to be.
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- “Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving” by Celeste Headlee (Harmony), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- Celeste Headlee (Official site)
- Lonnie Golden, Professor of Economics and Labor-Human Resources, Penn State Abington
- Earl K. Miller, Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
ALMANAC: April 28
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.
HEADLINES: Campus unrest
David Pogue reports.
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ARTS: Stanley Whitney
Alina Cho reports.
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MUSIC: Kate Hudson on her “Glorious” album
Kate Hudson made a name for herself as an Oscar-nominated actress in “Almost Famous.” But music has always been in her blood, and now Hudson is making a name for herself as a singer-songwriter. She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her debut album, “Glorious,” filled with her songs about life and love, and reveals the one song that truly rips her heart out.
PREVIEW: Kate Hudson says her relationship with her father, Bill Hudson, is “warming up” (with video)
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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.
BOOKS: “The Demon of Unrest”: Recounting the first shots of the Civil War
Beginning on April 12, 1861, over the course of two days, more than 3,300 shells and cannon balls rained across Charleston Harbor towards Fort Sumter, the first shots fired in the Civil War. Correspondent Anthony Mason visits the fort with bestselling author Erik Larson, whose latest book, “The Demon of Unrest,” explores the events leading up to the bombardment and what Larson calls “the single most consequential day in American history.”
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- “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War” by Erik Larson (Crown), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available April 30 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- eriklarsonbooks.com
- Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Charleston, S.C.
- Fort Sumter Tours
- South Carolina Historical Society
- Drone footage by Sumner Crawford of Above All Media
- The Mills House Hotel, Charleston, D.C.
HARTMAN: TBD
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SUNDAY PROFILE: Dan Rather at 92: “You’re either gonna be involved or you’re gonna be totally irrelevant.”
It’s been almost 20 years since Dan Rather signed off as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” at the network where he spent 44 years covering wars, politics, and the assassination of JFK – and where he mentored a young correspondent named Lee Cowan. Rather, now 92, talks with Cowan about his illustrious career; about the story that gave him (and CBS) a black eye; and his post-CBS years, writing books and finding a new, younger audience on social media.
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U.S.: A zoo for rescued animals, beneath a Key West jail
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Animal Farm, a small zoo on the grounds of a detention facility in Key West, was started by accident in the mid-1990s when word got out that the sheriff had rescued some ducks from a nearby road. Since then, many animals – abandoned, abused, confiscated or donated – have been brought to the farm, which is maintained by a small team of people incarcerated there. Correspondent Conor Knighton reports on a zoo that is making a difference in the lives of those incarcerated as well as the more than 100 animals currently residing there.
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SPORTS: The pageantry of the 150th Kentucky Derby
2024 marks the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, the longest continuously-held sporting event in America. Correspondent Jim Axelrod visits Churchill Downs to explore the history and spectacle of the “Run for the Roses.”
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ode to Secretariat (Video)
Charles Kuralt presents this remembrance of one of the truly great racehorses: Secretariat (1970-1989), whose monumental 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes in 1973 was a run for the ages. We also hear from Penny Chenery Tweedy, Secretariat’s owner; Heywood Hale Broun, who covered Secretariat’s Triple Crown win; and Arthur Boyd Hancock III, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse-breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, who looks over the very last foal of Secretariat, Risen Starlet. Originally broadcast on “Sunday Morning” May 3, 1992.
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NATURE: Wildflowers in Missouri
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THE BOOK REPORT: Reviews by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles
Recent picks from our book reviewer of new fiction and non-fiction titles.
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EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Jerry Seinfeld on comedy, directing, and Pop-Tarts (YouTube Video)
In this extended conversation with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca, comedian Jerry Seinfeld goes deep when talking about the precision of his approach to comedy, and how he made a fondly-remembered part of his youth – the breakfast staple Pop-Tarts – the subject of his directorial debut, the Netflix comedy “Unfrosted.”
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H&R Block and Intuit drop on a report that Elon Musk’s DOGE may develop a new tax-filing app
H&R Block and Intuit shares dropped on Tuesday after the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is looking at developing a free app for people to file their taxes.
The publication cited two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, in reporting that the leaders of the incoming administration’s DOGE discussed the idea of crafting a mobile app to file income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
H&R Block shares tumbled 8.2%, while Intuit shed 5.1% on Tuesday. As the dominant players in tax preparation, H&R Block and Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, generate billions in revenue annually by offering online and in-person services.
The Biden Administration in March rolled out a pilot Direct File program through the IRS in 12 states. It allows qualified taxpayers file directly through a federal portal. Additionally, the IRS provides services through its Free File program for those who made an adjusted gross income of $79,000 or less.
More than 100,000 taxpayers used the new Direct File program to file their taxes this year, which marked the first time the system was in operation, according to the Treasury Department.
The DOGE, which has been directed by Trump to slash government spending and cut federal regulations, criticized the complexity of the U.S tax code in a Nov. 16 post on X, the social media service owned by Musk.
“In 1955, there were less than 1.5 million words in the U.S. Tax Code. Today, there are more than 16 million words,” its X account wrote. “Because of this complexity, Americans collectively spend 6.5 billion hours preparing and filing their taxes each year.”
Intuit and H&R Block also have free filing options.
That said, the Federal Trade Commission earlier in the year barred Intuit from advertising its popular TurboTax product as free when most people have to pay to use it. The FTC in February filed an administrative complaint against H&R Block, alleging it marketed its tax-prep products as free yet deleted the data as a way to pressure them to pay for pricier services. Both companies said they’d appeal.
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Washington — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has selected Dr. Mehmet Oz — a celebrity heart surgeon who hosted a daytime television show — to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The agency falls under the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees Medicare, the federal portion of the Medicaid program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the federal health insurance marketplace. Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services. Both positions require Senate confirmation.
“America is facing a health care crisis, and there may be no physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to make America healthy again,” Trump said in a statement. “He is an eminent physician, heart surgeon, inventor, and world-class communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades.”
The president-elect said Oz will work with Kennedy, if he is confirmed, “to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.” He also indicated there may be cuts to CMS, writing that Oz “will also cut waste and fraud within our country’s most expensive government agency, which is a third of our nation’s healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire national budget.”
Oz was defeated by Democratic Sen. John Fetterman in the 2022 Senate race in Pennsylvania after receiving Trump’s endorsement.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
