This week on "Sunday Morning" (July 4)

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Host: Jane Pauley

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COVER STORY: As American as apple pie | Watch Video"Sunday Morning" dishes up a slice of Americana: pie, as sweet and diverse as these 50 United States. Contributor Kelefa Sanneh talks with Stacey Mei Yan Fong (whose "50 Pies/50 States" project has created edible tributes to the nation), and with Sarah Sanneh (proprietor of the Brooklyn restaurant Pies 'n' Thighs) about the perfect pie for the Fourth of July.

RECIPE: Apple Pie from Pies 'n' Thighs

To watch an apple pie tutorial by Sarah Sanneh, click on the video player below:

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Stacey Mei Yan Fong's 50 Pies/50 States (Instagram)50 Pies/50 StatesPies 'n' Thighs, Brooklyn, N.Y.Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks Bookstore, New York City

HEADLINES: Lady Liberty's "little sister" | Watch VideoThe Statue of Liberty, which has stood astride New York Harbor since 1886, welcomed another gift from France this week: a nine-foot replica – cast from French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's original plaster model – as it travels to Washington D.C., to symbolize the continuing bond between our two countries. Jane Pauley reports.

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Statue of Liberty National MonumentFollow the route of "Lady Liberty's Little Sister"

U.S.: Training refugees in the culinary arts | Watch VideoThe Brooklyn restaurant Emma's Torch is a staunch advocate for empowering asylum-seekers through education, by training them for jobs in the food service industry. Correspondent Nancy Giles talks with Emma's Torch founder Kerry Brodie, and with graduates of her program who are finding their path to the American Dream.

RECIPE: Shakshuka by Emma's Torch

RECIPE: Vietnamese Pizza

RECIPE: Grape Leaves by Sahadi's

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Emma's Torch, Brooklyn, N.Y.Sahadi's, Brooklyn, N.Y.Olmsted, Brooklyn, N.Y.

SUNDAY BEST: Small wonders: What ants can teach us | Watch VideoCorrespondent Faith Salie traveled to the rain forest of Belize to explore the secret world of ants, and found out how learning from the intelligence of ant societies could help improve human behaviors. Originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" July 24, 2011.

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"Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions" by Mark Moffett (University of California Press), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon and IndieboundMark Moffatt (doctorbugs.com)Deborah Gordon, Stanford UniversityTravel Belize

PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

District of Columbia residents rally for statehood near the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2021. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
District of Columbia residents rally for statehood near the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2021. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

POLITICS: Statehood for D.C.: Washingtonians' cry for freedom to vote | Watch VideoFor the colonists who declared independence 245 years ago, "No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry. For residents of our nation's capital, it still is. Correspondent Mo Rocca looks at the issue of statehood for Washington, D.C., and of the political divide that exists about giving a vote in Congress to the taxpaying citizens living there.

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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Delegate, District of Columbia"Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital" by Chris Myers Asch & George Derek Musgrove (University of North Carolina Press), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon and IndieboundGeorge Derek Musgrove (Official site)Right Proper Brewing, Washington, D.C.51 for 51Roger Pilon, The Cato Institute

HARTMAN: An Alzheimer's wedding (Video)Three years ago, at age 53, Peter Marshall, of Andover, Conn., was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Eventually, he not only forgot his wedding day – he forgot his wife. Lisa Marshall became just another nameless caretaker, their entire history together permanently erased. Until, Lisa says, all of a sudden Peter began "courting" her – and proposed. Steve Hartman reports.

Correspondent Tracy Smith with Oscar-winning filmmaker (and now novelist) Quentin Tarantino.  / Credit: CBS News
Correspondent Tracy Smith with Oscar-winning filmmaker (and now novelist) Quentin Tarantino. / Credit: CBS News

BOOKS: Quentin Tarantino: From the screen to the page | Watch VideoOscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has fulfilled a new dream, by publishing his first novel – an adaptation of his acclaimed period epic, "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood." Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Tarantino about the pleasures of becoming a novelist and a father, and his plans for his 10th (and final) film.

BOOK EXCERPT: Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

PREVIEW: Quentin Tarantino on living the literary life

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"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel" by Quentin Tarantino (Harper Perennial), in Mass Market Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon and IndieboundNew Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles

WORLD: Afghanistan: A forgotten war in a "graveyard of empires" (Video)As U.S. servicemembers prepare to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting alongside local forces against militants and hunting al Qaeda terrorists, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on how America's mission there has evolved – and now ends.

WORLD: Afghanistan: Taking stock as U.S. withdraws (Video)Correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports from the Afghan capital of Kabul, a city that has changed profoundly in the past two decades since the invasion by American forces in 2001 – where a generation that has grown up enjoying simple freedoms fears the Taliban will sweep back into power once U.S. forces leave.

COMMENTARY: Sebastian Junger on the defense of freedom | Watch VideoThe bestselling author and journalist discusses attacks on American democracy, and the fight to protect a free country from enemies both foreign and domestic.

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"Freedom" by Sebastian Junger (Simon & Schuster), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon and Indieboundsebastianjunger.com

NATURE: Baby eaglets (Extended Video)"Sunday Morning" visits eaglets at Letchworth State Park, near the town of Castile in western New York State. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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Letchworth State Park, Castile, N.Y.

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