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An Illinois mother who lost her 2-year-old son last year got to hear his heart beat once again in an emotional reunion with the toddler to whom the organ was donated. Brooke Eaton’s son Cazmirr “Cash” Landers drowned in a pool accident last summer, but his heart lives on in 16-month-old Lola Bond. Though Lola received Cash’s heart in a transplant in September, Eaton recently visited with the girl for the first time, prompting a tearful wave of emotion....

Monica Lewinskyis revealing some of the feedback she gave during the process of filming the upcoming series,Impeachment: American Crime Story. Lewinsky, 48, serves as a producer on the show and recently toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she fought to include a certain scene that writer Sarah Burgess said she left out of her script for fear of “retraumatizing Monica.” The infamous moment, in which Lewinsky flashes a sliver of her thong to Clinton, was featured in the Starr Report, the report from counsel Ken Starr that encompassed the findings of his investigation into the then-president....

Morgan Freeman, Joe Clark.Photo: Getty Images (2) Morgan Freemanis remembering Joe Clark, the high school principal who inspired the movieLean on Me. Clark died at 82 on Tuesday in his Gainesville, Florida, home after a “long battle with illness,” his family said in astatementWednesday. Freeman, 83, portrayed Clark in the 1989 movie, and on Wednesday remembered the New Jersey educator as the “best of the best.” “Joe was a father figure to school kids,” Freeman tells PEOPLE....

Photo: EPA/KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/POOL In the years after her daughter Kathie disappeared, Ann McCormack was terrified of the missing woman’s husband: New York real estate heirRobert Durst. McCormack’s daughter Ginny McKeon tells PEOPLE her mother would barricade her house because she feared the eccentric millionaire, who currently faces charges for another murder. “My mom would barricade her house every day. In the hottest summer days, all her windows locked, closed at night when she’d go to bed,” McKeon says....

Photo: Beis Equal parts duffel, travel organizer, personal item, and full-on closet, this travel bag is unlike anything else I’ve ever packed. It starts out looking like a small weekender duffel, but rather than unzipping straight down the middle, it unzips all the way around and opens frontwise. From there, you grab on to two hooks, and large built-in shelves accordion up and out in a magical display that feels like something straight out ofMary Poppins....

Miranda Springs.Photo: Facebook A body found in a wooded area of Charlotte, N.C., has been identified as that of a woman last seen nearly a month ago, according to the victim’s mother. “My heart cries out for you every hour, every minute, every second …… I feel like I’m going to die,” the mother, Robin Linker,posted on Facebookafter authorities located the body of her 30-year-old daughter, Miranda Springs, on Tuesday....

In a chilling, secretly videotaped confession played Thursday as part of his ongoing murder trial, a New Jersey man, standing trial forallegedly murdering a childhood friendfor the inheritance she’d received following her mother’s death, vividly and calmly recounted strangling her before dumping her body off a bridge — and even complained about the amount of money he walked away with. The father ofmurdered art student Sarah Sternsat with relatives, who slowly traced their hands across his back, consoling him as he listened to the accused, Liam McAtasney, 21, detailing his alleged crimes....

A student at SUNY Oneontahas diedafter being exposed to the extreme cold for several hours, according to officials. SUNY Oneonta said Lopresti-Castro ultimatelysuccumbed to his injuriesat the hospital, per News 10 ABC. Police said in Friday’s statement that Lopresti-Castro appeared to have been exposed to subzero temperatures for an “extended” period of time. According to News 10 ABC, officials say the victim was not properly dressed for the extreme cold....

A woman who accidentally dropped $800 in cash into a mail drop-off bin is breathing a sigh of relief after the money made its way back to her. Marcia Bukowski of Depew, New York, was mailing a bundle of Christmas greeting cards on the weekend of Dec. 13 when she mistakenly mailed an envelope containing $800 in $50 bills that was meant to be her mortgage payment, according toWKBW. Bukowski told the outlet that she eventually contacted a USPS representative who told her the envelope likely was picked up and put into a pile of undeliverable mail to be sorted later....

WMBFNews.com, Myrtle Beach/Florence SC, WeatherA South Carolina nail salon is making amends after they turned away a woman because she weighed over 250 lbs.Amanda Wolfenbarger went to Nail Spa in Conway, South Carolinafor a pedicure, and said a man took her over to a chair and had her soak her feet for ten minutes before returning and asking how much she weighed.“It was embarrassing,”Wolfenbarger told WMBF News. “You get that knot in your stomach and your heart drops a little bit....

“He’s such a moron,” she told reporters while entering an SUV outside the Capitol, according toCNN. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill would not confirm if the House Majority Leader had used the word “moron” but did confirm that she believes “saying a mask requirement is ‘not a decision based on science’ is moronic.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty “Look, the attending physician of the United States Capitol, the top doctor for Congress, asks us to put on masks when we come to a chamber with 435 people,“Ryan said....

Photo: Jared Frankle/NASA Solar Orbiter Social ParticipantNASA made a historic step this week towards gaining more knowledge of the sun.On Sunday, the agency announced that they had officially launched a spacecraft called the Solar Orbiter, which is expected to journey towards the sun and take the first-ever 3D photographs of its north and south poles, according to apress release on their website.Scientists said the launch is part of NASA’s “new collaborative mission” with the European Space Agency (ESA) to learn more about the “hidden force responsible for the Sun’s changing behavior and its influence on our home planet....

Brandon Brown.Photo: Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Race car driver Brandon Brown says he has “zero desire to be involved in politics” — which is tricky, because the 28-year-old NASCAR star’s name has become synonymous among conservatives with the anti-Joe Biden chant"let’s go Brandon." While some in the crowd at the race could be heard chanting “f— Joe Biden,” the reporter suggested instead that they might be cheering “let’s go Brandon,” in the driver’s honor....