This week on “Sunday Morning” (March 1)

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HEADLINES: Iran retaliates for U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Video)
Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against an array of targets in Iran on Saturday resulted in the death of that nation’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. As Iran’s military forces launched retaliatory strikes, President Donald Trump vowed to continue the attacks with the objective of regime change. Charlie D’Agata reports from Tel Aviv.

HEADLINES: Trump says strikes on Iran will continue “as long as necessary” (Video)
On Saturday the Trump Administration launched military strikes on Iran, in the midst of negotiations with Iranian leaders over their nuclear program. President Trump (who campaigned on avoiding foreign conflicts) said the bombing will continue “as long as necessary” to achieve peace. Democrats say the strikes aren’t worth the risk to American lives, and could cause chaos in the region. Nancy Cordes reports.

COVER STORY: Honoring Operation Desert Storm: Waging a battle to build a war memorial | Watch Video
In 1991 more than half a million Americans served in Operation Desert Storm, an allied campaign that freed Kuwait from the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Today, that campaign is all but forgotten. Marine veteran Scott Stump set out to build a memorial to Desert Storm, and the 148 Americans killed in action, on the National Mall, now scheduled to open in October. He talks with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin about his obsession to memorialize a moment in time, and the opposition he had to overcome before succeeding in his quest.

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ARTS: Art and data converge in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert (Video)
“Desert Pulse,” an art installation at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, is a multi-sensory immersion featuring time-lapse imagery of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert – a landscape pulsing with life. Lee Cowan talks with U.K. architects Matt Shaw and Will Trossell, who brought a 3-D LIDAR scanner (a tool used in surveying) to the desert to capture tens of millions of data points, which ScanLAB Projects converted into vibrant digital evocations of an ecosystem breathing, growing, and retreating.

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POLITICS: Democrat Jack Schlossberg talks taking the gloves off | Watch Video
For Jack Schlossberg, politics is personal. The 33-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy, he is out to make a name for himself, having announced a run for Congress in New York’s 12th District. He talks with Mo Rocca about his pride in the Kennedy legacy name, and his refusal to refrain from mocking his opponents, saying, “The time is not now to hold back.” Schlossberg also opens up about his closeness with his parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, as well as his sister, Rose, and shares memories of his late sister, Tatiana.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – Jack Schlossberg at home (Video)
Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy, is running for Congress in New York’s 12th District. In this extended interview, he talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about his family’s support for his campaign; addressing the Trump administration’s attacks on his grandfather’s legacy; and about his recovery from a serious back injury.

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PASSAGE: Neil Sedaka: An appreciation | Watch Video
David Pogue looks back at the career of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, whose Top 10 hits included such classics as “Oh, Carol,” “Calendar Girl,” “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do,” and “Laughter in the Rain.” Sedaka died on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 at age 86.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Neil Sedaka on writing a hit song (Video)
Neil Sedaka, the singer and songwriter behind such hits as “Breaking Up is Hard to Do,” “Calendar Girl,” and “Love Will Keep Us Together,” died on Friday, Feb. 27, at age 86. In this 2020 “Sunday Morning” story, David Pogue talked with Sedaka – as well as Valerie Simpson (of Ashford & Simpson), author John Seabrook, and producer Oak Felder – about the elements that go into writing a hit song.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Neil Sedaka, hit man (Video)
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, whose hundreds of songs included such hits as “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Calendar Girl,” and “Love Will Keep Us Together,” died on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 at age 86. In this 2007 “Sunday Morning” story, Sedaka talked with Russ Mitchell about selling tens of millions of records beginning in the late 1950s; the shift in his career brought about by the British Invasion; and how he experienced a resurgence in the 1970s thanks to Elton John.

      
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including journalist and peace advocate Colman McCarthy.

SPORTS: UFC’s Dana White on taking MMA to the next level | Watch Video
As CEO and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, Dana White has done more than anyone to grow the hard-hitting sport of mixed martial arts, taking his league from obscurity to what will be its highest-profile moment this summer: a UFC match on the South Lawn of the White House. Luke Burbank talks with White about his UFC empire — and how his relationship with Donald Trump, begun in 2001 at Trump’s Atlantic City casino, helped advance both their careers.

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BOOKS: Broadway and Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman on his new memoir, and being a “sore winner” | Watch Video
A Tony Award-winner for “Hairspray,” and a seven-time Oscar nominee, Marc Shaiman has written about his nearly 50 years in show business in a new memoir, “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner.” Shaiman talks with Tracy Smith about collaborating with Billy Crystal on parody songs for the Oscars; composing scores for Rob Reiner’s films; and why he says, beginning as a piano prodigy at age 16, “there was no stopping me.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “Never Mind the Happy” by Marc Shaiman

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – Marc Shaiman (Video)
Composer Marc Shaiman, a Tony Award-winner for “Hairspray,” and a seven-time Oscar nominee, talks with Tracy Smith about his career; his new memoir, “Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner”; and his collaboration and friendship with Rob Reiner.

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TECH: AI executive Dario Amodei on the red lines Anthropic would not cross | Watch Video
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow its AI product, Claude, to be used by the Trump Administration without certain guidelines (such as not using its AI to power fully-autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce Friday that he is banning Anthropic’s technology from all federal use, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth labeled the company “a supply chain risk to national security.” Amodei talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about why he calls the administration’s actions “retaliatory and punitive.”

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Golden Era of Hollywood (YouTube Video)
“They had faces then” – Enjoy these “Sunday Morning” stories about stars and film luminaries from the height of the Hollywood studio era. Featured:

• Old-time Hollywood photographer George Hurrell
• The spectacle films of Cecil B. DeMille
• Leo, the MGM lion, roars for the first time
• A look back on John Wayne
• Rescuing scenic backdrops from Hollywood’s Golden Age
• The career of actress Hedy Lamarr
• Joan Crawford and “Mommie Dearest”
• “Mank” and the writer behind “Citizen Kane”
• The artistry of Alfred Hitchcock
• Here’s looking at you, “Casablanca”
• Monument Valley: Mother Nature’s scene-stealing movie star
• Bill Geist on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Preserving artifacts of historic movie theaters

MARATHON: UFOs and aliens (YouTube Video)
“The truth is out there” – maybe! Watch these “Sunday Morning” stories about the public fascination with UFO sightings and alleged alien visitations; theories about secrets hidden in Roswell, N.M.; and the search for extraterrestrial life.

• Almanac: The first official UFO sighting in the U.S. in 1947
• From 1995: Bill Geist visits Rachel, Nevada, the undisputed UFO Capital of the World
• Almanac: The 1969 closing of Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force’s probe into UFO sightings
• From 2007: The nation’s fascination with UFOs and aliens
• From 2021: David Pogue probes for answers to the age old-question, “Are we alone in the universe?”

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2026
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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