This week on "Sunday Morning" (April 26)

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COVER STORY: The agelong past of America's struggle with Cuba
The tiny land federation of Cuba, conscionable 90 miles from Florida, has played an outsized relation successful America's overseas argumentation for adjacent to 70 years. Now, the Trump medication is blocking astir each lipid shipments from reaching the island, worsening its humanitarian crisis, with the president threatening helium volition beryllium "taking Cuba." Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with past prof Jorge Malagon-Marquez astir U.S. interventions successful the past, and however tensions betwixt Washington and Havana person adjacent outlived the precocious dictator Fidel Castro.

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Miami Dade College
The Freedom Tower (MDC)
Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden, Key West, Fla.

ALMANAC: April 26
"Sunday Morning" looks backmost astatine humanities events connected this date.

ARTS: Artist Jenny Saville connected the assemblage arsenic landscape
The funny regard of creator Jenny Saville upon the pistillate body, including her own, has made her 1 of the astir celebrated of modern British representation painters. She talks with analogous Elizabeth Palmer astir figurative coating arsenic "communication of the unspoken," and discusses her bold renderings of the pistillate form.

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Gagosian: Jenny Saville
Jenny Saville a Ca' Pesaro, astatine the Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy (through Nov. 22)
Exhibition Catalogue: "Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting," by Jenny Saville (‎Rizzoli Electa), successful Hardcover, disposable via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, astatine the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Exhibition closed)

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Sheffield United v Wrexham AFC - Sky Bet Championship

SPORTS: It's yet sunny successful Wrexham: How sports revived a failing Welsh town
In 2021, Hollywood A-Listers Ryan Reynolds (the Marvel superhero quality "Deadpool") and Rob "Mac" McElhenney (the long-running drama bid "It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia") went all-in connected a precise antithetic benignant of franchise, erstwhile they bought a failing shot nine successful the bluish Welsh metropolis of Wrexham. Surprise and skepticism gave mode to success, arsenic Wrexham AFC went from losers to winners, and the club's worth rocketed to astir fractional a cardinal dollars. Ramy Inocencio reports connected however reviving a nearly-forgotten shot squad has resurrected the pridefulness of a beleaguered metropolis – and inspired underdogs astir the world.

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Wrexham AFC
Season 4 of the documentary bid "Welcome to Wrexham" debuts May 14 connected FX and Hulu

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

HEALTH: A instrumentality to assistance support dementia successful check
Many radical fearfulness that a household past of dementia dooms them to inevitably endure the information themselves. But a caller tool, the Brain Care Score, shows however manner changes tin beryllium beneficial, slashing the hazard of dementia. National Public Radio analogous Allison Aubrey talks with neurologist Dr. Jonathan Rosand astir however making changes to your regular habits mightiness conscionable beryllium the medicine needed.

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NATURE: Saving the Venus alert trap
The carnivorous Venus alert trap is autochthonal to the Carolinas, but its colonisation is dwindling owed to nonaccomplishment of habitat. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with botanist Julie Moore, who has spent overmuch of her beingness helping to prevention these singular plants; and with Damon Waitt, manager of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, who discusses the antithetic traits of a taxon that Charles Darwin called the astir absorbing works successful the world.

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MUSIC: Kacey Musgraves connected penning lyrics: "There is nary greater drug"
A mates of years ago, Grammy-winner Kacey Musgraves went location to eastbound Texas to heal from a breakup. She tells Anthony Mason that successful penning her latest album, "Middle of Nowhere," she learned however to clasp being alone. She besides talks astir the power of her mentor, singer-songwriter John Prine, and however the emotions of her latest songs poured retired of loneliness.

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Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell (Official Music Video) by KaceyMusgravesVEVO on YouTube

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The medium "Middle of Nowhere" by Kacey Mugraves volition beryllium disposable May 1
kaceymusgraves.com (Official site)

NATURE: Taking root: The passionateness of histrion lovers
In her book, "The Tree Collectors," writer and illustrator Amy Stewart recounts stories of radical who harbor histrion obsessions, from the designers of leafy municipality spaces, to those who lovingly cultivate past histrion species. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Stewart, who calls planting a histrion "an enactment of hope"; Kao Saelee, who grows tropical effect trees astatine his California home; and works idiosyncratic Reagan Wytsalucy, whose extremity is to revive the peach trees of her Navajo ancestors.

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"The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession" by Amy Stewart (Random House), successful Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, disposable via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
amystewart.com
Salesforce Park, San Francisco
Adam Greenspan, PWP Landscape Architecture
Reagan Wytsalucy, Extension Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Kao Salee: Tropical Central Valley (YouTube)

POLITICS: Rep. Jim Clyburn connected protecting democracy
In caller decades, South Carolina has go 1 of the Democratic Party's existent centers of power, with Congressmen Jim Clyburn – who represents the sole Black-majority territory successful the authorities – 1 of its astir important voices. The civilian rights seasoned talks with "Sunday Morning" nationalist analogous Robert Costa astir his determination to question re-election for an 18th term; warring efforts to rotation backmost elector protections established by the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and however President Trump mightiness respond if Democrats triumph backmost the bulk successful Congress.

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From 1984: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (YouTube Video)
Michael Tilson Thomas, longtime euphony manager of the San Francisco Symphony, died connected April 22, 2026 astatine property 81. In this 1984 "Sunday Morning" illustration by Eugenia Zukerman, Thomas talked astir his aboriginal introduction into the euphony world; and astir his enthusiasm for the works of some modern composers (by conducting the satellite premiere of Steve Reich's "Desert Music") and the masters of the classical repertoire.

FROM 2025: Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas (Video)
Last year, the conductor led the San Francisco Symphony successful his past scheduled conducting show owed to the instrumentality of his glioblastoma - an assertive encephalon tumor. He talked with "60 Minutes" analogous Lesley Stahl astir surviving a beingness successful the arts.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interrogation - Michael Tilson Thomas (Video)

Masters of magic by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: Masters of magic (YouTube Video)
Seeing is believing successful this "CBS Sunday Morning" marathon showcasing illusions, spectacular feats and the paranormal. Featuring:

Bubble magic
Bill Geist meets "The Great Throwdini"
What's caller successful magic?
Blind magician Richard Turner connected manipulating cards
ESP and espionage: How psychics aided the U.S. government
Jason Bishop and the magical arts
Shin Lim's magic
Magician David Copperfield
Psychic Tyler Henry, Hollywood's biggest medium
Magic successful the dark: The fantastical worlds of Lightwire Theater

From the archives: Woodworker George Nakashima by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Woodworker George Nakashima (YouTube Video)
Japanese-American furnishings shaper George Nakashima was considered a elephantine of 20th period design. Trained successful architecture astatine MIT, helium decided to give his beingness to woodworking. In this Feb. 19, 1989 "Sunday Morning" profile, analogous Faith Daniels talked with Nakashima astatine his New Hope, Pa., store astir his fascinating history; his aesthetics; and creating quality from wood – what helium calls "that narration betwixt earthy things and the quality psyche."

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