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Russell Wilson: Beyond the gridiron

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who has led his team to six playoffs, two Super Bowls and one championship victory, is the highest-paid player in the National Football League. But the impact he wants to have goes way beyond money or football. “NFL Today” host and CBS News special correspondent James Brown talks with the 30-year-old Wilson about his role as a mentor to students, and the Why Not You Foundation, which he founded to help empower today’s youth. Source

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Calendar: Week of September 9

From World Suicide Prevention Day to the anniversary of 9/11, “Sunday Morning” takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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How the #MeToo story broke

Erin Moriarty talks with journalists Meghan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who helped break the story of allegations of harassment and abuse by film producer Harvey Weinstein. Their 2017 New York Times report, which earned them a Pulitzer Prize, helped launch the #MeToo campaign to combat sexism, discrimination and abuse in the workplace, and is the basis of their new book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement.” Source

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Sunday Journal: The origin of Hong Kong protests

For months protesters in Hong Kong have demonstrated against a new law being debated that would curtail democratic principles, prompting clashes with police and calls for the resignation of the Chief Executive of this Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. Ramy Inocencio reports on where the divisions between Hong Kong’s citizens and their government now stands. Source

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Donny and Marie Osmond, going solo

After 11 years as a top draw in Las Vegas, the brother-and-sister duo are facing new challenges on their own, from Donny’s solo album to Marie taking a seat on “The Talk” Source

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Margaret Atwood on “The Testaments”

Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” about a United States taken over by Christian zealots who force women to serve as sex slaves and child bearers for a powerful elite, became a bestseller and an Emmy-winning TV series. It has also introduced the iconography of Gilead into today’s political discussions. Now, Atwood has penned a sequel, “The Testaments,” which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She tells correspondent Martha Teichner that while she wrote the books as a warning, she does not see herself as a prophet. Source

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