This week on "Sunday Morning" (June 5)

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Host: Jane Pauley.

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    HEADLINES: Pomp and circumstance at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee | Watch VideoCorrespondent Mark Phillips reports on the weekend's festivities as Britain honors the beloved 96-year-old monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Her Majesty the Queen (royal.uk)"Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II" by Robert Hardman (Pegasus Books), in Hardcover, Large Print, eBook and Audio formats, available via AmazonBarnes & Noble and Indieboundrobertlacey.com"The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle, and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II (1956-1977)" by Robert Lacey (Crown), in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via AmazonBarnes & Noble, and IndieboundThe Queen's Platinum Jubilee Beacons

        EXHIBIT: Beatles exhibit captures the magic behind the music | Watch VideoA Beatles exhibition at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, featuring one-of-a-kind artifacts and instruments, explores the creation of some of pop's most indelible songs, during the period leading up to the band's breakup. "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley reports.

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"The Beatles: Get Back to Let It Be" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland"The Beatles: Get Back" on Disney+; also available on Blu-raythebeatles.comThe Beatles' "Let It Be" Special Edition Album"The Beatles: Get Back" companion book© Apple Corps Limited

       HEADLINES: Russia's invasion after 100 days: Ukraine continues to fight back | Watch VideoThe war for Ukraine has turned into a slugfest of dueling artillery, with heavy losses by both Russian and Ukrainian forces. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with retired Gen. David Petraeus, and with American veteran volunteer Mark Hayward, about control on the ground and the Ukrainian offensive to retake Russian-occupied territory.

The Savannah Bananas baseball team is, frankly, bananas.  / Credit: CBS News
The Savannah Bananas baseball team is, frankly, bananas. / Credit: CBS News

SPORTS: Baseball that's gone bananas (Video)There's no crying in baseball, but there are a lot of laughs, when the Savannah Bananas bring their circus antics to the ballpark. The Georgia-based Coastal Plain League team has attracted millions of fans with their TikTok videos, which show batters on stilts or players in kilts. Correspondent Kris Van Cleave checks out the playful play-by-play.

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Savannah Bananas

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the insurrectionists' January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.  / Credit: CBS News
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the House Select Committee investigating the insurrectionists' January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. / Credit: CBS News

NEWS: Rep. Liz Cheney describes Jan. 6 "conspiracy" as "extremely broad … well-organized" | Watch VideoWyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and its attempt to overturn Donald Trump's election loss, talks with CBS News' Robert Costa about what the upcoming hearings will reveal to the American people about the threat to democracy. She also says there is a GOP "cult of personality" around Trump, and that there are too many people in the Republican Party "who are not taking their responsibilities seriously."

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol

   PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including Ann Turner Cook, who in 1931 became world famous as the first "Gerber Baby."

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BROADWAY: Playwright Michael R. Jackson on "A Strange Loop" | Watch VideoThe musical nominated for 11 Tony Awards features an unlikely protagonist: A young, queer Black man working as an usher in a Broadway theater, writing a musical about a young, queer Black man working as an usher in a Broadway theater. The show's writer and composer, Michael R. Jackson, talks with correspondent Rita Braver about mining his own life for a tale of change and self-acceptance.

Don't miss the 75th annual Tony Awards, broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ live on June 12!

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"A Strange Loop" at the Lyceum Theatre, New York City | Ticket info"A Strange Loop" Original Broadway Cast Recording (Sh-K-Boom Records), available June 10

    HARTMAN: An Afghan family reunion years in the making (Video)Six years ago correspondent Steve Hartman first met Baset Azizi, a musician from Afghanistan, who fled to the U.S. as a teenager. Since then, Azizi has interned on Capitol Hill, and graduated from college with honors. All that time, his family was back in Afghanistan, until they fled following the fall of Kabul. Finally, just a few weeks ago, Azizi's family arrived in the U.S. for an emotional reunion.

Actor Jeff Bridges with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. / Credit: CBS News
Actor Jeff Bridges with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz. / Credit: CBS News

SUNDAY PROFILE: Jeff Bridges on surviving cancer and COVID | Watch VideoThe Oscar-winning actor, who'd led a seemingly charmed life as the star of such hits as "Crazy Heart" and "The Big Lebowski," talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his terrifying health crises – from his diagnosis for lymphoma, to spending five weeks in the hospital with COVID-19 contracted while undergoing chemo – and how he emerged with a greater feeling of connection.

To watch a trailer for the new series "The Old Man" click on the video player below:

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"The Old Man" premieres on FX and Hulu June 16jeffbridges.comFollow Jeff Bridges on Instagram

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Many McDonald's customers have heard the phrase,

FAST FOOD: A fix for McDonald's soft-serve machines? | Watch VideoAs broken McDonald's soft-serve ice-cream machines became a national punchline, tech startup Kytch developed a device that helped McDonald's franchisees get their machines back online. And that's when the fight over soft-serve began to really heat up. Correspondent David Pogue has the story of how McDonald's ice cream machines became the center of a multi-million-dollar lawsuit.

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McBroken.comMcDonaldsKytchTaylor Company

    SCIENCE: "Oceans Give, Oceans Take": Their role in climate change (Video)As greenhouse gases warm the Earth, our oceans play a significant role in absorbing heat that helps regulate rising temperatures. But as writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains, there is a huge price to pay for heating the oceans. He explains why in this first of a series of "CBS Sunday Morning" video essays, based on the work of Aatish Bhatia. Animation directed and designed by Nate Milton. Music by Buck St. Thomas.

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"Oceans Give, Oceans Take," supported by "This American Life"Written and narrated by Robert Krulwich, based on the work of Aatish BhatiaAnimation directed and designed by Nate MiltonMusic by Buck St. ThomasUnited Nations World Oceans Day (June 8)

A noose is seen on makeshift gallows as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempted coup, in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021.    / Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
A noose is seen on makeshift gallows as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempted coup, in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. / Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

COMMENTARY: January 6 hearings: Can our Union survive? | Watch VideoNever before had a U.S. president pushed to overturn an election. The Select Committee hearings into the violent attack on Congress by Trump supporters, and about the ongoing struggle between the will of the voters and election deniers, may determine whether forces of democracy or of chaos prevail. CBS News' John Dickerson reports.

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Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol     

    NATURE: Loons in Massachusetts (Extended Video)"Sunday Morning" leaves us with the call of the loons on a lake in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. Videographer: Doug Jensen.     

WEB EXCLUSIVES:

"HERE COMES THE SUN": "POTUS" on Broadway and doughnut shops (Video)Rita Braver sits down with the cast of the Broadway play "POTUS." Also, Elaine Quijano explores the roughly 80% of doughnut shops in Southern California that are owned by Cambodian refugee families.

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