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COVER STORY: Phobias – How to overcome your worst misguided fears | Watch Video
An estimated 33 million American adults will wrestle sooner or later with a phobia – an intense worry of one thing that poses little or no risk, from flying to cockroaches to a visit to the dentist. Susan Spencer talks with specialists concerning the lengths individuals will go to to be able to overcome their fears.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Conquering 100 fears in 100 days (Video)
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ALMANAC: October 26 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” appears to be like again at historic occasions on this date.
POLITICS: Gavin Newsom on opposing Donald Trump: “He’s a wrecking ball” (Video)
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has emerged as certainly one of President Trump’s fiercest antagonists – combating the president’s deployment of the army in his state, and main a redistricting drive in California to counteract comparable Republican efforts in different states, to be able to assist Democrats win again the Home subsequent yr. However is he additionally pondering forward to 2028? Newsom talks with Robert Costa about his use of satirical social media posts, podcasts, and his future on the nationwide stage.
POLITICS: Gavin Newsom says he will consider White House run after 2026 elections
HALLOWEEN: By the Numbers (Video)
“Sunday Morning” checks in on vacation knowledge, from pumpkins to sweet.
NATURE: Tarantulas: Why you shouldn’t be afraid (Video)
We all know little or no concerning the brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi), whose habitat stretches from Louisiana to Texas and Colorado. However the first query arachnid professional Cara Shillington asks is, why are we afraid of tarantulas? She talks with Jonathan Vigliotti, who additionally visits Colorado’s La Junta Tarantula Fest, an annual celebration of the eight-legged creature that attracts 1000’s to see 1000’s of brown tarantulas wandering the Comanche Nationwide Grassland in a haphazard, usually halting hunt for a mate.
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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers among the notable figures who left us this week, together with actress June Lockhart, who starred within the TV sequence “Lassie” and “Misplaced in House.”
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BUSINESS: CEO Jim Farley on steering Ford through Trump’s tariffs | Watch Video
Regardless of constructing greater than 80 p.c of its American-sold autos within the U.S. – the best share of any Detroit automaker – Ford Motor Firm nonetheless imports many components, which have been hit exhausting by tariffs. Ford CEO Jim Farley discusses with Kris Van Cleave why he says President Trump’s tariffs, which have value Ford $2 billion, are jeopardizing the corporate’s investments in America – and should give a bonus to their opponents. He additionally explains why he drives a Chinese language-made electrical automobile.
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THESE UNITED STATES: The White House, a cherished American landmark | Watch Video
Since our second president, John Adams, inhabited the White Home, it has been burned by British troops, reconstructed, expanded, and gut-renovated. Mo Rocca appears to be like on the historical past of a cherished American landmark, which this previous week was partly demolished by the White Home’s present occupant, President Trump, who’s constructing an enormous, privately-funded ballroom.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: When the British burned the White House (Video)
Mo Rocca goes again in time to one of the crucial devastating days in U.S. historical past.
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BOOKS: The true, authentic Kenny Chesney | Watch Video
He is certainly one of nation music’s most celebrated singers. However Kenny Chesney’s newest work is a e book, “Coronary heart Life Music,” wherein he describes his life’s journey, from East Tennessee, to No Footwear Nation and past. Chesney sits down with Lee Cowan within the Florida Keys, the place the nation celebrity is simply one other laid-back native, to speak about household, touring, and the way he recovered from a 2009 live performance which he describes as “hitting a wall.”
READ AN EXCERPT: “Heart Life Music” by Kenny Chesney with Holly Gleason
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MOVIES: Guillermo del Toro on “Frankenstein” and remaking a monster | Watch Video
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is including his spin to one of many most-filmed horror tales – the mythic story of a scientist creating a person from physique components – along with his newest, “Frankenstein.” He talks with Seth Doane about his lifelong fascination with horror, why Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was his first crush, and the way “in actuality we’re all bizarre ultimately.” Doane additionally talks with Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, who play Victor Frankenstein and his creature.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – Guillermo del Toro (Video)
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SPORTS: CEO Nicholas Thompson on how running helped him find his footing | Watch Video
Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, is called a tech journalist, public speaker, writer – and world-class long-distance runner. He talks with Tony Dokoupil about how his father impressed him to take up working, how he confronted a most cancers analysis, and why he is passing on his athletic ardour to his kids. He additionally discusses his new e book, “The Working Floor” – half memoir, half name to the runner in all of us.
READ AN EXCERPT: “The Running Ground” by Nicholas Thompson
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NATURE: Bats in Texas (Extended Video)
We go away you this Sunday with the bats of Bracken Cave preparing for Halloween close to San Antonio, Texas. Videographer: Nedra Gurry.
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SPORTS: Why a 13-year-old baseball fan cheers for more than one team | Watch Video
A number of sports activities followers get behind crew rivalries, however Augustus Salie-Semel means that embracing a couple of crew (for instance, the Yankees AND the Pink Sox!) provides priceless classes exterior of sports activities.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ballet star Misty Copeland (YouTube Video)
Ballerina Misty Copeland, who turned the primary Black feminine principal dancer within the historical past of the American Ballet Theatre in New York ten years in the past, carried out for the final time on the ballet stage on Wed., Oct. 22, 2025. On this Dec. 14, 2014 profile, Anthony Mason visited with the breakthrough star who’d joined ABT’s corps de ballet in 2001, and she or he described how change is coming slowly to the world of classical dance.
WEB EXTRA: Historian Jill Lepore on the metaphor of America as a family (YouTube Video)
Historian Jill Lepore, writer of “We the Individuals: A Historical past of the U.S. Structure,” talks with Tony Dokoupil about competing histories of America; polarization; and dissent as an act of patriotism.
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