This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 5)

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COVER STORY: The conflict implicit Stars and Stripes
David Martin reports.

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Stars and Stripes

ALMANAC: July 5
"Sunday Morning" looks backmost astatine humanities events connected this date.

U.S.: Celebrating the Fourth
Lee Cowan reports.

COMMENTARY: Fire up the grill for a yearly ritual: Communing implicit BBQ skills (or deficiency thereof)
Do you person the "right stuff" erstwhile it comes to barbecuing? Lots of radical judge they do, and they're much than blessed to stock their contented with you, adjacent if unsolicited. Correspondent Luke Burbank is not 1 of those people.

FOOD: The quest for the champion burger
The Wagyu Brothers, a Tokyo hamburger shop, aims to nutrient the champion burger connected Earth, utilizing high-grade, hand-chopped Wagyu beef. Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi samples their Wagyu burger, and talks with hamburger adept George Motz astir how, successful a satellite of societal media, the proliferation of accusation astir burgers is making the contention for champion burger much heated than ever.

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Wagyu Brothers, Tokyo (Instagram)
Author and restaurateur George Motz
"Hamburger America: A State-by-State Guide to 220 of the Greatest Burger Joints Across the Country (Revised and Expanded Fourth Edition)" by George Motz (Running Press Adult), successful Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, disposable via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org

HEADLINES: The wedding of the century
Mo Rocca reports.

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

TV: Little House connected the Prairie
Faith Salie reports.

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Little House connected the Prairie | Official Trailer | Netflix by Netflix on YouTube

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"Little House connected the Prairie" premieres July 9 connected Netflix

THESE UNITED STATES: Thomas Paine
Holly Williams reports.

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"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (Project Gutenberg)
Paul Myles, Thomas Paine Historical Association
"The Rise of Thomas Paine and the Case of the Officers of Excise" by Paul Myles (Thomas Paine Society UK), successful Trade Paperback and eBook formats, disposable via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
Historic Bull House, Lewes, England
The White Hart, Lewes, England

HARTMAN: TBD

SUNDAY PROFILE: J.K. Simmons: A existent character
J.K. Simmons, the Oscar-winning prima of "Whiplash," relishes being a quality actor. He talks with analogous Tracy Smith astir his relation arsenic a mob person successful the caller MGM+ bid "The Westies," and recalls the hard aboriginal days of his vocation – and however an unexpected kindness from an histrion person helped him erstwhile helium needed it most.

To ticker a trailer for "The Westies" click connected the video subordinate below:

The Westies (MGM+ 2026 Series) Official Trailer by MGM+ on YouTube

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"The Westies" debuts July 12 connected MGM+
"Heart of the Beast" opens successful theaters Sept. 25
"The Brink of War" opens successful theaters Aug. 14
Thanks to Joe Allen Restaurant, New York City

MUSIC: Reclaiming the mislaid creation of listening to music
Digital euphony gave america the technology, and the freedom, to perceive to immoderate we want, whenever we want. But much and much radical are going backmost to older, analog ways of listening. Correspondent Conor Knighton checks retired the Shibuya HiFi barroom successful Seattle, wherever curated listening sessions regularly merchantability out. He besides meets creator and technologist Devon Turnbull, whose company, Ojas, designs high-end speakers and listening rooms for nationalist and backstage spaces.

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Shibuya HiFi, Seattle | HiFi Schedule
Tracks & Tales planetary usher to listening spaces
ESP HiFi, Denver
in betwixt days, St. Petersburg, Fla.
noma hi-fi, Edina, Minn.
XO HiFi, Kansas City, Mo. (Instagram)
Devon Turnbull (Ojas)
Exhibition: "HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3" by multi-disciplinary creator Devon Turnbull, astatine Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City (through July 19)
Exhibition: "Art of Noise," astatine Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City (through Aug. 16)

U.S.: What would George Washington deliberation of America today?
Mount Vernon, the location of our nation's archetypal president, is the most-visited historical location successful the U.S. But what bash Americans visiting Mount Vernon – connected the juncture of our country's 250th day – deliberation astir what George Washington represents? And today, would the Founding Father admit the federation helium helped create? "Sunday Morning" nationalist analogous Robert Costa reports.

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George Washington's Mount Vernon

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George Washington's last years ("Sunday Morning")
The information astir George Washington ("Sunday Morning")

NATURE: TBD

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Marathon: Happy 100th day Mel Brooks! by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: Happy 100th day Mel Brooks! (YouTube Video)
The writer-director down specified classics arsenic "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles" turns 100 years young connected Sunday, June 28. Celebrate Mel Brooks' comic genius with these "Sunday Morning" stories:

A illustration of Brooks and his emotion matter with woman Anne Bancroft (2019)
Judd Apatow connected creating a documentary astir his idol Mel Brooks (2026)
Gene Wilder, prima of Brooks' "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles" (2005)
Brooks' long-time consecutive antheral Carl Reiner (2015)
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks connected surviving COVID lockdowns (2020)

From the archives: Charles Kuralt connected the Fourth of July by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Charles Kuralt connected the Fourth of July (YouTube Video)
In 1990 the "Sunday Morning" big headlined a CBS peculiar primetime broadcast, "On the Fourth of July with Charles Kuralt," remembering the galore ways successful which our federation marks its birthday. Enjoy this excerpt (rebroadcast connected "Sunday Morning" July 1, 2007) marking Independence Day celebrations – parades and tubing down lazy rivers, axe throws and greased pig contests – from oversea to shining sea.

Marathon: These United States by CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube

MARATHON: These United States (YouTube Video)
As our federation marks its archetypal 250 years, "Sunday Morning" examines immoderate of the astir singular and unsocial historical, technological and taste elements of the American experience.

Lady Liberty
The Louisiana Purchase
Yellowstone National Park
Coney Island
Woody Guthrie's euphony of America
Tobacco, America's archetypal currency harvest
The emergence of national powerfulness
The Golden Gate Bridge
A past of the Constitution
Brown v. Board of Education
Bright Ideas: Thomas Edison
The White House
Ken Burns connected America's continuing gyration
Raising the emblem
Walter Issacson connected the top condemnation ever written
Thanksgiving
The New Year's Eve shot driblet
Voice of the civilian rights question
On the record: The gramophone
George Washington and clime alteration
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
An ode to shot
The Marshall Plan
Broadway's George M. Cohan

GALLERY: Summer euphony highlights of 2026
Summer is the clip to bask unrecorded music, indoors and out. Scroll done our assemblage of immoderate of 2026's starring philharmonic acts, featuring images by CBS News photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.

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