A Yale study showed that older people with more positive beliefs about aging lived an average of 7.5 longer than people who equated aging with disease and decline. Actress and activist Jane Fonda and anti-ageism advocate Ashton Applewhite present “Sunday Morning” viewers with a key to living a longer life, by maintaining a better outlook. Source

In this web exclusive, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, author of “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021,” talks with correspondent Mark Phillips about her childhood in East Germany, where she received care packages from family members in West Germany that, she said, “smelled like the West”; being warned about surveillance by the secret police, and avoiding political indoctrination; and her emotions when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Source

After growing up in the Communist-controlled police state of East Germany, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful men. She talks with correspondent Mark Philips about her new book, “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021”; her relationships with former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin; and about the state of the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Source

At 32, she’s an accomplished actor, successful singer-songwriter, billionaire business owner, and philanthropist. But Selena Gomez’s gutsiest move may have been sharing her real self. Source

At 32, Selena Gomez is an accomplished actor (including in the new movie “Emilia Pérez”), successful singer-songwriter, billionaire business owner, and philanthropist. But her gutsiest move may have been sharing herself. She talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about her mother’s inspiration; her relationship with Steve Martin and Martin Short, her co-stars in “Only Murders in the Building”; and why she went public with her health struggles and bipolar diagnosis in the documentary “My Mind and Me,” saying, “One of the strongest things you can do is be vulnerable.” Source

In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a Mississippi Delta culture that, he says, has spent decades trying to erase a horrible crime. Source

In his new book “The Barn,” author Wright Thompson, also a fifth-generation Mississippi Delta cotton farmer, examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with Thompson about illuminating injustice and a Mississippi Delta culture that, Thompson says, has spent decades trying to erase a horrible crime; and visits the barn, which still stands, where Till was beaten to death. Source

Since 1996, the New York City and Santa Fe-based disc jockey has hosted “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” the country’s most popular Top-40 morning program. Source

Since 1996, New York City disc jockey Elvis Duran has hosted “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” the country’s most popular Top-40 morning program. He talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about growing up in Texas enamored with radio, becoming friends with “this voice in the dark”; how radio has changed over the years; and how being in Santa Fe, New Mexico, changes him. Source

When the people of Swedeborg, Missouri, decided to name their elementary school building, everyone knew it had to be named after someone truly special. Correspondent Steve Hartman talks with the woman who was the school board’s unanimous choice for the honor. Source