This week on "Sunday Morning" (Feb. 15)

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COVER STORY: Gisèle Pelicot speaksIn 2024, Gisèle Pelicot became the public face of sexual abuse as the center of a notorious mass rape trial in France, during which her ex-husband was found guilty of drugging her unconscious and inviting dozens of men to abuse her. In her first U.S. interview, Pelicot opens up to Seth Doane about her horrifying story, recounted in her memoir, "A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides"; her brave decision to testify in public rather than anonymously; and about the inspiring turn her life has taken since.

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ALMANAC: February 15"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.

THESE UNITED STATES: How Washington's crossing of the Delaware presaged a changing worldOn the evening of Christmas 1776, Gen. George Washington surprised the King's forces by leading the Continental Army in an unanticipated crossing of a near-frozen Delaware River. Environmental correspondent David Schechter looks at how Washington's watershed military maneuver dramatized both a changing America, and a changing climate.

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HEADLINES: Latest on Nancy Guthrie disappearanceJonathan Vigliotti reports.

MOVIES: "Frankenstein," "Wuthering Heights" star Jacob Elordi: "My dream was to play in the movies"At 28, Australian actor Jacob Elordi has earned his first Academy Award nomination for his haunting portrayal of the Creature in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein." He talks with Tracy Smith about his love of acting; his latest film, a remake of the Gothic romance "Wuthering Heights"; and why he has no relationship with social media.

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Guillermo del Toro's"Frankenstein"is now playing in theaters and streaming on NetflixEmerald Fennell's"Wuthering Heights"opens in theaters and Imax February 13Thanks to theUnited Theater on Broadway, Los Angeles

PASSAGE: In memoriam"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week.

FOOD: Fettuccine Alfredo: A recipe for La Dolce VitaIn Rome, two restaurants vie for supremacy in preparing Fettuccine Alfredo – egg pasta with butter and parmesan cheese – a dish that has entranced Hollywood and Washington royalty since the earliest days of La Dolce Vita. Chris Livesay visits Alfredo alla Scrofa and Il Vero Alfredo, where rival families prepare one of the most popular Italian recipes.

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MUSIC: Paul Anka - Still doing it his waySinger and songwriter Paul Anka has remained on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart for seven decades, and has just released his latest album, "Inspirations of Life and Love." A youthful 84, he talks with Lee Cowan about his artistic longevity, leaping from teeny bopper to classic crooner, and how his music still crosses generations.

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"Inspirations of Life and Love"by Paul Anka (Green Hill Prod.), on CD, Vinyl and Digitalpaulanka.com (Official site)The documentary"Paul Anka: His Way"is streaming on HBO Max

SUNDAY PROFILE: Stephen A. Smith - Always up for a debateHigh-profile ESPN and SiriusXM commentator and bestselling author Stephen A. Smith is a combative and colorful voice on sports. But now, with a weekly political show, in which he interviews government leaders, he is gaining notice in Washington, too. Smith talks with "Sunday Morning" national correspondent Robert Costa about his journey and whether he might soon be on a debate stage.

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HARTMAN: Inside the bedrooms of school shooting victimsOver six years, the parents of school shooting victims opened their doors to CBS News' Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, inviting them to see what it's like to live alongside their children's bedrooms, just as they left them. [Originally broadcast Nov. 17, 2024.]

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MARATHON:Winter Olympics on "Sunday Morning" (YouTube Video)Cheer on these classic "Sunday Morning" stories about the history of the Winter Olympics and some of the Games' most notable star athletes. Featured:

Cross-country Skier Bill Koch prepares for the Lake Placid Games (1980)The post-Olympic career of hockey star Jim Craig, goalie for the "Miracle on Ice" Team USA (1982)Dr. Mike Woods – anesthesiologist and Olympic speed skater (1984)Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, a British ski jumper of little form and great daring (1988)A look back at the 1994 scandal involving figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy KerriganBill Geist on events seeking to become Olympic medal sports, from skeleton sledding to snow-shovel racing (1998)A history of the sport of curling (1998)How Salt Lake City prepared for the 2002 Winter Games (2002)Olympian Lindsey Vonn on skiing the comeback trail (2025)

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Independent Spirit Awards celebrate indie movies and TV in Los Angeles

Ethan Hawke,Rose ByrneandKeke Palmerare just a few of the actors up for prizes at theFilm Independent Spirit Awardson Sunday in Los Angeles. Comedian and "Saturday Night Live" veteranEgo Nwodimis hosting the celebration of independent film and television, which will be livestreamed on YouTube starting at 5 p.m. ET.

Top nominees going into the 41st edition of the show include Ira Sachs' "Peter Hujar's Day," which recreates an interview with the 1970s photographer, played byBen Whishaw; Clint Bentley's lyrical Denis Johnson adaptation"Train Dreams,"with Joel Edgerton; and Eva Victor's"Sorry, Baby,"about life after an assault.

The show, which serves as a fundraiser for Film Independent's year-round programs, is being held at the Hollywood Palladium for the first time, as its longtime beachside perch in Santa Monica undergoes renovations.

The awards sometimes overlap significantly with major Oscar contenders and winners, as it did with"Anora,"and"Everything Everywhere All At Once,"and sometimes not. Organizers limit eligibility to productions with budgets less than $30 million, meaning more expensive films like "One Battle After Another" are not in the running.

Byrne is one of the few actors nominated for both a Spirit Awardand an Oscar, for her performance as a mother on the edge in Mary Bronstein's"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."In the lead performance category, she's up against the likes of Edgerton ("Train Dreams"), Dylan O'Brien ("Twinless"), Palmer ("One of Them Days"), Tessa Thompson("Hedda")and Whishaw. The organization switched to gender-neutral acting categories in 2022.

Supporting performance nominees include Naomi Ackie ("Sorry, Baby"), Zoey Deutch("Nouvelle Vague"), Kirsten Dunst ("Roofman"), Nina Hoss ("Hedda") and Archie Madekwe("Lurker").

Films nominated in the international category include"Sirāt,""The Secret Agent"and "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.""Come See Me in the Good Light,""My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow" and "The Perfect Neighbor" are also up for the documentary prize.

Hawke, who is nominated for an Oscar for "Blue Moon," is up for a Spirit Award for his leading performance in the television series "The Lowdown," where other nominees include Seth Rogen for "The Studio," Stephen Graham for "Adolescence" and Noah Wyle for "The Pitt."

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Jennifer Lawrence has 1 regret about hosting “SNL” with walking pneumonia that has nothing to do with being sick

Jennifer Lawrencewants a re-do as host onSaturday Night Live,and it's not just because she had walking pneumonia during the show.

Lawrence, who hostedSNLon Jan. 19, 2013, was known for her quirky, relatable attitude during her ascent to the A-list. It was a lot of pressure to keep up with people's expectations, as she was working onThe Hunger Games: Catching Fireand doing press forSilver Linings Playbookat the time. She admitted toAmy Poehlerthat she was "very tired" from all of the activity.

"I would have to like fly, go to a party, shake hands, and then land and, you know, shoot. Like, poor me," she said sarcastically on theGood Hangpodcast.

When she finally got toSNL,she recalled being too nonchalant. At 22, Lawrence said she was a "bad age" for the hosting gig. Now, she's hoping for a second chance to redeem herself on the show.

"You get asked like, 'Can you do any impressions or anything?' And I was like, 'No,'" Lawrence said with an exaggerated affectation of apathy. "Like I don't want to be like, 'And I can do this and I can do that.' I just kind of made everything like everybody else's problem. I was like, 'I don't know how to do that. I can't do that.'

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While Poehler had already left the show by this time, focusing onParks and Recreation,she agreed that it was hard for young people to go onSNL. She asked Lawrence if she would be interested in doing more comedy work now.

TheDie My Loveactress revealed that she has written a screenplay for a comedy that she hopes to direct and star in. Lawrence recently starred in 2023's rom-comNo Hard Feelingsbut has otherwise had few comedic roles.

Check out the full episode ofGood Hangwith Jennifer Lawrence below.

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A Kurdish-majority neighborhood in Syria recovers from clashes with hope for the future

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — A month afterclashes rockeda Kurdish-majority neighborhood inSyria's second-largest city of Aleppo, most of the tens of thousands of residents who fled the fighting between government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have returned — an unusually quick turnaround in a country where conflict has left many displaced for years.

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"Ninety percent of the people have come back," Aaliya Jaafar, a Kurdish resident of the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood who runs a hair salon, said Saturday. "And they didn't take long. This was maybe the shortest displacement in Syria."

Her family only briefly left their house when government forces launched a drone strike on a lot next door where weapons were stored, setting off explosions.

The Associated Press visited the community that was briefly at the center of Syria's fragile transition from years of civil war as the new government tries to assert control over the country and gain the trust of minority groups anxious about their security.

Lessons learned

The clashes broke out Jan. 6 in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the SDF reached an impasse in talks on how to merge Syria's largest remaining armed group into the national army. Security forces captured the neighborhoods after several days of intense fighting during which at least 23 people were killed and more than 140,000 people displaced.

However, Syria's new government took measures to avoid civilians being harmed, unlike during previous outbreaks of violence between its forces and other groups on the coast and in the southern province ofSweida, during which hundreds of civilians from the Alawite and Druze religious minorities were killed in sectarian revenge attacks.

Before entering the contested Aleppo neighborhoods, the Syrian army opened corridors for civilians to flee.

Ali Sheikh Ahmad, a former member of the SDF-affiliated local police force who runs a secondhand clothing shop in Sheikh Maqsoud, was among those who left. He and his family returned a few days after the fighting stopped.

At first, he said, residents were afraid of revenge attacks after Kurdish forces withdrew and handed over the neighborhood to government forces. But that has not happened. A ceasefire agreement between Damascus and the SDF has been holding, and the two sides have made progress toward political and military integration.

"We didn't have any serious problems like what happened on the coast or in Sweida," Sheikh Ahmad said. The new security forces "treated us well," and residents' fears began to dissipate.

Jaafar agreed that residents had been afraid at first but that government forces "didn't harm anyone, to be honest, and they imposed security, so people were reassured."

The neighborhood's shops have since reopened and traffic moves normally, but the checkpoint at the neighborhood's entrance is now manned by government forces instead of Kurdish fighters.

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Residents, both Kurds and Arabs, chatted with neighbors along the street. An Arab man who said he was named Saddam after the late Iraqi dictator — known for oppressing the Kurds — smiled as his son and a group of Kurdish children played with a dirty but friendly orange kitten.

Other children played with surgical staplers from a neighborhood hospital that was targeted during the recent fighting, holding them like toy guns. The government accused the SDF of taking over the hospital and using it as a military site, while the SDF said it was sheltering civilians.

One boy, looking pleased with himself, emerged from an alleyway carrying the remnant of an artillery shell.

Economic woes remain

On Friday, SDF leader Mazloum Abdi said he had held a "very productive meeting" with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani on the sidelines of asecurity conference in Munichto discuss progress made on the integration agreement.

While the security situation is calm, residents said their economic plight has worsened. Many previously relied on jobs with the SDF-affiliated local authorities, who are no longer in charge. And small businesses suffered after the clashes drove away customers and interrupted electricity and other services.

"The economic situation has really deteriorated," Jaafar said. "For more than a month, we've barely worked at all."

Others are taking a longer view. Sheikh Ahmad said he hopes that if the ceasefire remains in place and the political situation stabilizes, he will be able to return to his original home in the town of Afrin near the border with Turkey, which his family fled during a 2018 Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces.

Like many Syrians. Sheikh Ahmad has been displaced multiple times since mass protests against the government of then-President Bashar Assad spiraled into a brutal 14-year civil war.

Assad was ousted in November 2024 in an insurgent offensive, but the country has continued to see sporadic outbreaks of violence, and the new government has struggled to win the trust of religious and ethnic minorities.

Hopes for reconciliation

Last month, interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa issued a decree strengthening the rights of Syria's Kurdish minority, including recognizing Kurdish as a national language along with Arabic and adopting Nowruz, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal marked by Kurds around the region, as an official holiday. Kurds make up about 10% of Syria's population.

The decree also restored the citizenship of tens of thousands of Kurds in northeastern al-Hasakeh province after they were stripped of it during the 1962 census

Sheikh Ahmad said he was encouraged by al-Sharaa's attempts to reassure the Kurds that they are equal citizens and hopes to see more than tolerance among Syria's different communities.

"We want something better than that. We want people to love each other. We've had enough of wars after 15 years. It's enough," he said.

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‘First feline’ Larry marks 15 years as Britain’s political top cat

LONDON (AP) — In turbulent political times, stability comes with four legs, whiskers and a fondness for napping.

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Larry the catcelebrates 15 years on Sunday as the British government's official rodent-catcher and unofficial first feline, a reassuring presence who hasserved under six prime ministers. Sometimes it seems like they have served under him.

"Larry the cat's approval ratings will be very high," said Philip Howell, a Cambridge University professor who has studied the history of human-animal relations. "And prime ministers tend not to hit those numbers.

"He represents stability, and that's at a premium."

The gray-and-white tabby's rags-to-riches story has taken him from stray on the streets to Britain's seat of power, 10 Downing St., where he bears the official title Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office.

Adopted from London's Battersea Dogs and Cats Home by then-Prime Minister David Cameron, Larry entered Downing Street on Feb. 15, 2011. According to a profile on the U.K. government website, his duties include "greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defenses and testing antique furniture for napping quality."

Larryroams freelyand has a knack for upstaging world leaders arriving at 10 Downing St.'s famous black door, to the delight of news photographers.

"He's great at photo-bombing," said Justin Ng, a freelance photographer who has come to know Larry well over the years. "If there's a foreign leader that's about to visit then we know he'll just come out at the exact moment that meet-and-greet is about to happen."

Larry has met many world leaders, who sometimes have to step around or over him. It has been observed that he is largely unfriendly to men, though he took a liking to former U.S. President Barack Obama, and he drew a smile from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on one of the Ukrainian leader's visits to London.

When U.S. President Donald Trump visited in 2019, Larry crashed the official doorstep photo and then took a nap under the Beast, the president's armored car.

Reports of Larry's rodent-catching skills vary, though he has been photographed snagging the occasional mouse — and, once, a pigeon, which escaped.

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"He's more of a lover than a fighter," Ng said. "He's very good at what he does: lounging around and basically showing people that he's very nonchalant."

Larry has cohabited, sometimes uneasily, with prime ministerial pets including Boris Johnson's Jack Russell cross Dilyn and Rishi Sunak's Labrador retriever Nova. He is kept well away from currentPrime Minister Keir Starmer'sfamily cats, JoJo and Prince, who inhabit the private family quarters while Larry rules the working areas of Downing Street.

He had a volatile relationship withPalmerston, diplomatic top cat at the Foreign Office across the street from No. 10. The pair were caught tussling several times before Palmerston retired in 2020. Palmerston died this month in Bermuda, where he was serving as"feline relations consultant"to the governor.

Meanwhile, Larry abides. He is 18 or 19, and has slowed down a bit, but continues to patrol his turf and to sleep on a window ledge above a radiator just inside the No. 10 door.

He is British soft power in feline form, and woe betide any prime minister who got rid of him.

"A cat-hating PM, that seems to me to be political suicide," said Howell.

He said Larry's status as nonpartisan "official pet" sets him apart from the Americanpresidential pets– most often dogs – that U.S. leaders have sometimes deployed to soften their image.

"The fact that cats are less tractable is part of the charm, too," Howell said. "He's sort of whimsically not partisan in a political sense, but he tends to take to some people and not to others and he won't necessarily sit where you want him to sit and pose where you want him to pose.

"There is a certain kind of unruliness about Larry which I think would endear him, certainly, to Brits."

Associated Press video journalist Kwiyeon Ha contributed to this story.

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Larry the cat, Britain's Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street for 15 years, in photos

LONDON (AP) — Photos look back at 15 years of Larry the cat as Britain's Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, where the former stray has become a familiar presence through years of political change. Adopted in 2011, Larry has served under six prime ministers, earning a reputation for greeting dignitaries, lounging in the spotlight and remaining a constant at the heart of British government.

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No. 6 UConn remains atop Big East despite late Georgetown surge

Solo Ball scored 20 points as sixth-ranked UConn stayed atop the Big East by holding on for a 79-75 victory over Georgetown Saturday night in Storrs, Conn.

The Huskies (24-2, 14-1 Big East) won their second straight game following an 81-72 loss to then-No. 22 St. John's on Feb. 6 to remain a half-game ahead of the Red Storm, who earned a 10-point win in Providence earlier in the day.

Ball scored 16 in the first half after tallying 24 Wednesday at Butler. The junior guard made 7 of 17 shots and hit five of UConn's 11 3s on 15 attempts.

Alex Karaban added 13 of his 18 points in the second half, when the Huskies fended off multiple comeback attempts by the Hoyas. Karaban earned his 116th win at UConn, becoming the all-time winningest player in school history.

Silas DeMary Jr. totaled 15 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists to nearly finish with his second triple-double of the season. Braylon Mullins and Eric Reibe contributed 10 apiece as the Huskies survived Tarris Reed Jr. being in foul trouble in the second half.

The Huskies shot 47.2% and won despite shooting 4-of-17 from three in the second half.

KJ Lewis led all scorers with 24 points, including a 4-point play with 24 seconds left to get the Hoyas (13-12, 5-9) within 77-74. Vince Iwuchukwu added 16 and Kayvaun Mulready contributed 15, but Georgetown lost its 12th straight game to UConn.

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The Hoyas shot 43.6% and made 12 of 28 3s, including 7 of 13 in the final 20 minutes.

Georgetown forged a 25-25 tie on two free throws by Iwuchukwu with 7:07 left in the first half, but Ball hit two 3-pointers, a layup and a dunk as the Huskies held a 41-33 advantage at halftime.

Karaban and Ball hit 3s for a 58-46 lead with 10:42 left before the Huskies struggled to finish the game from there.

The Hoyas led 72-68 following a contested three by Lewis with 2:34 to go. After a timeout and a pair of missed threes by teammates, DeMary hit two free throws with 1:56 left to extend the lead to six.

Following the 4-point play, Lewis stole Karaban's inbounds pass with 14 seconds left and Mulready split two free throws with 11 seconds left to make it 77-75.

Karaban clinched the win with two free throws with 10 seconds left followed by a missed 3-pointer by Mulready.

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