This week on “Sunday Morning” (February 14)

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Host: Jane Pauley

      
HEADLINES: Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial
CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett reports on the unfolding Senate trial of the former president for inciting a deadly insurrection.

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COVER STORY: Suleika Jaouad’s journey “Between Two Kingdoms”
Given a one-in-three chance of survival, Suleika Jaouad overcame leukemia in her 20s, documenting her nearly-four-year endurance of chemotherapy and her desire to live a normal life in a New York Times column, “Life, Interrupted.” She followed with a 15,000-mile road trip to meet 22 of the many strangers who had written to her with stories of their own, a journey which became her new book, “Between Two Kingdoms.” Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Jaouad, and with her partner, musician Jon Batiste, about life after cancer.

BOOK EXCERPT: “Between Two Kingdoms” by Suleika Jaouad

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VALENTINE’S DAY: How 21st-century diamonds are born
Have you ever wondered where a diamond comes from? The diamond industry has changed dramatically since conflict diamonds (or “blood diamonds”) made headlines at the start of the century. Correspondent David Pogue explores the life of a diamond, from mines in the Canadian subarctic, to the laboratories of the Pacific Northwest. 

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POLITICS: LGBTQ rights advocate Sarah McBride 
Newly-inaugurated Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride talks with correspondent Rita Braver about her road to becoming America’s highest-ranking transgender elected official.  

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PASSAGE: Three American originals
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the lives of singer Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes; innovative jazz keyboardist Chick Corea; and Larry Flynt, the publisher of pornography who became a free-speech champion.

       
HARTMAN: TBD

VALENTINE’S DAY: Martha Stewart’s Valentine’s Day brunch
The lifestyle entrepreneur and cookbook author demonstrates how to make French Toast with Grand Marnier, topped off with a blood orange Mimosa, for the perfect holiday brunch.

RECIPE: Martha’s French Toast with Grand Marnier (at marthastewart.com)

RECIPE: Blood Orange Champagne Cocktails (at marthastewart.com)

WINE: Georges Vigouroux Hommage Blanc de Blancs (at Martha Stewart Wine Co.)

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Actress Kate Winslet on a windswept English beach with correspondent Mark Phillips.  CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: Kate Winslet on “Ammonite” and life during COVID
Kate Winslet has some familiarity with the dangers of viral outbreaks, having starred in the 2011 thriller “Contagion.” Now, COVID-19 has affected how the Oscar-winning actress is promoting her latest film, “Ammonite” by eliminating travel. And that, she tells socially-distanced correspondent Mark Phillips, is not a bad thing.

To watch a trailer for “Ammonite,” click on the video player below:

Ammonite – Official Trailer by NEON on YouTube

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President Warren G. Harding, one of our most scandal-plagued presidents, nonetheless is honored by this grand tomb in Marion, Ohio.  CBS News

PRESIDENTS DAY: Lively thoughts about our deceased presidents
“Sunday Morning” presidential scholar-in-residence Mo Rocca visits the final resting places of our former chief executives. 

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COMMENTARY: Preserving childhood magic in a time of COVID
CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on how a child’s sense of wonder can be fostered even when a pandemic may get in the way of the Tooth Fairy.

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NATURE: Trumpeter swans
“Sunday Morning” takes us this Valentine’s Day to (where else?) Valentine, Nebraska, at the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge … a stopover for Trumpeter Swans.

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