This week on "Sunday Morning" (April 20)

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COVER STORY: The commencement of the American Revolution
On April 19, 1775, British troops faced disconnected against assemblage militias successful the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire, mounting disconnected America's War of Independence. Correspondent Mo Rocca explores the melodramatic events of that fateful time 250 years ago; and hears from reenactors astir wherefore the colonists' ideals inactive clasp existent today.

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ALMANAC: April 20
"Sunday Morning" looks backmost astatine humanities events connected this date.

ARTS: Inside the translation of the Frick Collection
One of New York City's astir exquisite museums, the Frick Collection, located successful the erstwhile location of a Gilded Age alloy baron, has reopened pursuing a four-year, much than $200 cardinal renovation. "Sunday Morning" nationalist analogous Robert Costa goes down the meticulous restoration of an ornate mansion lodging masterpieces that is simply a masterpiece itself.

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The Frick Collection, New York City
Annabelle Selldorf, Selldorf Architects

WORLD: The dangers posed by cuts to U.S. overseas aid
Elon Musk's proverbial chainsaw and President Trump's policies person targeted American overseas aid, and with it the humanitarian groups whose enactment its funds astir the world. "Sunday Morning" elder contributor Ted Koppel talks with humanitarian assistance workers successful Africa and Afghanistan, and with erstwhile U.K. overseas caput David Miliband (now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee), astir the impacts some overseas and astatine home.

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United States Agency for International Development (USAID) [Archived website astatine Wayback Machine]
International Rescue Committee

TV: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino: Curtain up connected "Étoile"
"Étoile," a caller Amazon Prime bid astir 2 struggling ballet companies successful New York and Paris, is the latest comic-drama from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, the Emmy-winning mates down specified hits arsenic "Gilmore Girls" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." Correspondent Faith Salie talks with the writers astir a concern that ever manages to find the comic relief.

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Étoile - Official Trailer | Prime Video by Prime Video on YouTube

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"Étoile" debuts connected Amazon Prime April 24

PASSAGE: In memoriam
"Sunday Morning" remembers immoderate of the notable figures who near america this week.

SWEETS: Chocolate Easter eggs: Cracking unfastened a candy tradition
Founded successful 1824, the candymaker Cadbury produces astir a cardinal cocoa crème eggs a day, year-round, astatine its mill successful Bournville, England. Correspondent Seth Doane delves into immoderate cocoa history, and finds retired wherefore cocoa eggs sold to Americans are antithetic from those sold to consumers successful different countries.

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Cadbury

HARTMAN: Bird kid

STAGE: David Hyde Pierce, the precise exemplary of a modern major-general, successful "Pirates! The Penzance Musical"
"Frasier" prima David Hyde Pierce is backmost connected the Broadway signifier successful "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," a jazzy re-working of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, transplanted to New Orleans. The erstwhile aspiring performance pianist talks with analogous Martha Teichner astir the thread that Gilbert & Sullivan has tally passim his life. He besides talks astir his drama influences, and what it means to him to marque radical laugh.

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"Pirates! The Penzance Musical" astatine the Roundabout Theatre, New York (through July 27) | Ticket info

LIFESTYLE: GenSpace successful Los Angeles re-imagines what a elder halfway tin be
GenSpace, a caller assemblage halfway for seniors successful Los Angeles founded by philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, offers up the benignant of abstraction and activities successful which older radical tin thrive. Correspondent Allison Aubrey talks with Annenberg astir GenSpace's intergenerational approach, and whether her exemplary for a modern elder halfway is replicable crossed the country.

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Wallis Annenberg GenSpace, Los Angeles

'Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung' 37/1910Vintage spot of ullstein bild

FASHION: How chapeau fashions ruffled feathers and spurred a conservation movement
In the precocious 1800s, feather manner was trendy, particularly among women successful precocious society, with immoderate feathers worthy much than their value successful gold. The popularity of colorful plumes successful hats and accessories led to the slaughter of birds, driving immoderate taxon adjacent to extinction by the aboriginal 20th century. Correspondent Conor Knighton looks astatine the past of the plume commercialized and the conservation efforts that were instrumental successful making it illegal.

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Museum of American Bird Art astatine Mass Audubon, Lincoln, Mass.
Audubon Florida

COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: When volition it beryllium harmless to discontinue from parenting?
The comedian, a self-described workaholic, reflects connected the demands of his different job, that of genitor to five.

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jimgaffigan.com
"Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny" on Hulu

NATURE: TBD

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Adventures successful outer space by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: Adventures successful outer abstraction (YouTube Video)
Launch into outer abstraction with "CBS Sunday Morning" and research the satellite of NASA, astronomy and more. Stories include:

The seamstress who made Apollo's spacesuits
Dining connected abstraction food
The revolutionary Webb Space Telescope
Astronaut prepares for a twelvemonth successful orbit
Clearing the heavens of abstraction junk
Apollo 8 unit connected capturing the Earthrise photo
Aboard the International Space Station
Mars beckons
SpaceX and Nasa's caller epoch successful crewed spaceflight

GALLERY: Notable deaths successful 2025
A look backmost astatine the esteemed personalities who near america this year, who'd touched america with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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David Morgan

David Morgan is elder shaper for CBSNews.com and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." He writes astir film, euphony and the arts. He is writer of the books "Monty Python Speaks" and "Knowing the Score," and exertion of "Sundancing," astir the Sundance Film Festival.

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