Sofia Carsongot deep into her feelings for her debut self-titled album. The 28-year-old singer appeared on thelatest episodeofthe PEOPLE Every Day podcast, where she opened up about crafting her first-ever LP,Sofia Carson, which was released on Friday. Noting that the album is “deeply personal,” Carson told host Janine Rubenstein, “I fell in love with songwriting and storytelling when I wrote my first song when I was 10, and I have been working towards my debut album ever since I could remember....

Photo: Courtesy Luis Ocampo and Kailey Finch Army medic Luis Ocampo returned fromthe front lines of Hurricane Florencein September to find his house looted, and some of his family’s most cherished possessions stolen. Now, after generous well-wishers donated money to replace his losses, Ocampo is giving away most of the money that was raised for him. “We got more than we expected, and felt that it was our responsibility to show someone that same kindness that so many showed us,” Ocampo, 24, tells PEOPLE....

Jiovanni Herrera, 21, recently went viral for dressing up as his mother Monique Meza, 41, and attempting to see if he could pass as her while using her identification card, according toToday. Herrera donned a wig and some of his mom’s clothing — including a pair of skinny jeans, a maroon sweatshirt and some stylish accessories — before strutting his stuff in thepopular clip. To make the costume as realistic as possible, the young man even made it appear that he had breasts....

Photo: The White House via Getty Images Sonia Sotomayor doesn’t search for a favorite memory of her mother,Celina Báez Sotomayor, who she lost to cancer in July. It’s right there, top of mind, instantly bringing a smile: “She could barely walk and a friend came over and started a little song and said, ‘Celina, dance.’ And my mother stood in place and moved her hips and her legs and then got a smile on her face....

Sonja Morgan, Kelly Bensimon.Photo:Rich Polk/Bravo via Getty; Sara Jaye/Getty Images for 21Seeds Tequila Rich Polk/Bravo via Getty; Sara Jaye/Getty Images for 21Seeds Tequila Sonja Morganmay have just found her next real estate agent! During theThe Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacypanel at BravoCon on Sunday, Morgan, 59, and her fellow reality stars got candid about what they’ve been up to — when it was revealed that Morgan’s iconic townhouse is currently vacant....

Fans will have to wait just a little bit longer forJared Leto’s vampire movieMorbius. On Tuesday, Sony confirmed to PEOPLE the release of the Marvel movie has been bumped back from Jan. 28 to April 1. On the news,Reuterscited concerns “about whether audiences will feel comfortable heading to theaters” amid the current surge of theOmicron variant. The thriller was originally slated for aJuly 2020release, which was pushed due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Sony’s Access controller for the PlayStation 5.Photo:Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Sony has announced a breakthrough in gaming accessibility. On Thursday, the company revealed its latest customizable controller for the PlayStation 5, designed to make gaming more accessible for people with disabilities. “Introducing the Access controller, a versatile controller kit that can be customized to meet players’ diverse needs, designed in close collaboration with the accessibility community to help players with disabilities play more comfortably for longer,” PlayStationannounced....

The trailer forDark Phoenixis here — and it’s jam-packed with familiar faces.The preview for theX-Menflick, whichThe Late Late Show with James Cordendropped on Thursday, starts with a young Jean Grey (Summer Fontana) saying, “You think you can fix me.”Professor X (James McAvoy) replies, “Jean, you are not broken.”While Jean learns the extent of her own abilities — tapping her feet together to cause a car crash — Professor X explains, “I had to keep her stable....

Photo: Marcus Ingram/GettyA South Carolina pastor has responded to the backlash he’s faced after presenting his wife with a $200,000 Lamborghini as a gift for their eight-year wedding anniversary.John Gray, leader of Relentless Church in Greenville, caught the internet’s attention this week when a viral video showed him giving his wife, Aventer Gray, what he called a Lamborghini Urus — a recently unveiledSUV that starts at about $200,000, according toFortune.While many social media users applauded him for the gift, others criticized the pastor,calling him untrustworthyand implying that he paid for the car with money from “gullible followers....

Southwest Airlines.Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has blamed “management’s poor planning” after more than 1,800 flights were cancelled over the weekend. Some of the cities with the most cancelled flights included SWA’s hubs in Denver, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Chicago and Dallas, where the airline is based. No other airlines appeared to be affected on the same scale, with American Airlines being the second-most impacted domestic airline on Sunday, cancelling only 143 (4%) of their scheduled flights....

Southwest Airlines passenger Jennifer Schaper wrote about the entire saga in several tweets on April 15, dubbing the incident #RiceGate. “Theflight attendant screamed ‘who spilled rice?’ and is walking up and down the aisles. They are refusing to leave the gate until someone cleans the rice,” Schaper tweeted, along with a photo of the spilled yellow rice on the cabin floor about two seats ahead of her position. Schaper said in a follow-up tweet that the funny situation prompted her and other passengers in her row to havethe “giggles,“which made the flight attendant look at them “suspiciously....

Photo: Courtesy Matt Sherwood/Guide Dog FoundationMatt Sherwood works in Manhattan, so he knows the importance of “walking like a New Yorker” — which requires the quick, determined gait of someone who has somewhere to be.Every day Sherwood makes the 90-minute commute from Long Island to New York City, taking the Long Island Railroad into N.Y.C’s Pennsylvania Station and then riding multiple subways, to get to his investment industry job.For years, Sherwood, who became visually impaired in 2008 at the age of 24, made this trip with the assistance of a cane, opting not to research guide dogs out of worries that a service canine would slow him down....

Photo: Champale Anderson As a mom of six, Champale Anderson has long had her finger on the pulse of what’s going on among the kids in her St. Louis neighborhood. And when she realized that many of those kids were coming home from school hungry, she took it upon herself to develop a solution. “I’m always the one that kids come to whenever they’re in trouble, [when] they need somewhere to stay, I’m usually the one that they can come stay with,” Anderson, 48, tells PEOPLE....