Danielle Campoamor

Two-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a visceral reaction as a kid when his dad, the late Dale Earnhardt, would lose a NASCAR race. “As a little boy, I cried a few times when Dad had some bad runs,” Earnhardt Jr., 48, said while visiting Studio 1A and the 3rd Hour of TODAY on Thursday, Sept. 21. The NBC Sports NASCAR analyst recently shared that sweet childhood memory with his 5-year-old daughter, Isla Rose, who was equally upset when her father failed to win the Xfinity Series rac…

A video of twin girls selecting the same colored blocks over and over again without actually being able to see each other has gone viral, leading some to question: Is twin telepathy real? Adrea Garza, 39, says her now 6-year-old fraternal twin girls, Koti and Haven, have been uniquely in-sync ever since they were babies. “They would just wake up at the exact same moment from their cribs every single morning,” the Oklahoma mom tells TODAY.com. “I just thought it was a coincidence, because they…

In the wake of Bruce Willis’ dementia diagnosis, his wife Emma Heming Willis is opening up about what her husband’s condition is teaching their young daughters. “Honestly he is the gift that keeps on giving,” Emma Willis, 45, told TODAY co-anchor Hoda Kotb in studio, adding that as a result of her husband’s diagnosis her two young daughters are learning “love, patience, resilience... so much.” “And he is teaching me,” Emma continued. “You know, for me to be out here doing this... this is not my…

One Texas high school varsity football program has a truly unique team roster that, to the surprise of Head Coach Devon Dorris, includes four sets of twins. Dorris, who leads the varsity football team at Azle High School in Azle, Texas, says it’s “pretty safe to say” that he has never had so many sets of twins on his football squad in the 14 seasons he’s served as head coach. “We have three sets of twins in one class,” Dorris tells TODAY.com. “So when they were freshmen, I knew that we would…

Legal actions have been filed in three states with near-total abortion bans — Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma — on behalf of eight women who say they were denied abortions despite serious health conditions. Tennessee mom Allie Phillips is one of those women. At 18 weeks gestation, Phillips says she was told there was hardly any amniotic fluid surrounding her fetus — a baby girl. After additional testing, she learned her baby had several fetal complications. She says her baby’s bladder, stomach a…

Vincent Montoya-Armanios remembers skipping lunch in high school because he didn’t have money to pay, afraid of being publicly confronted over his school lunch debt. “Sometimes, they would take away the food and give you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which is supposed to be an inferior lunch,” Montoya-Armanios, now 26, tells TODAY.com. School lunch debt is a pervasive problem in the U.S.: More than 30 million students can’t afford their school meals, according to the Education Data Initia…

Maya Hawke’s parents, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, were a little hesitant about her pursuing acting, but now are her biggest cheerleaders. And Maya Hawke worked alongside her famous father to record a song together. The father-daughter duo released a cover of Willie Nelson’s “We Don’t Run,” which will be included in the country icon’s celebratory vinyl collection, “Light in the Attic & Friends.” “This song is off Willie Nelson’s brilliant album ‘Spirit,’ which has been a mainstay in our home sin…

Content warning: This article discusses thoughts of suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for additional resources. Mary Alice Hatch, 53, was desperate to find a doctor who could properly diagnosis and treat her daughter Emily’s chronic pain. “We were going to some of the best facilities in the world and no one was giving us answers,” Hatch tells TODAY.…

Priscilla Blossom, a Nicaraguan- and Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish but felt pressured to assimilate and would sometimes only communicate in English. Now as a mom, she worries that her son, who only speaks English, is missing out on his heritage. It’s common for Latino Americans to not be fluent in Spanish. According to the Pew Research Center, 24% of all Latino American adults say they can “only carry on a conversation in Spanish a little or not at all,” and 54% of non-Spanish-speak…

When Mimi Evans found out she was pregnant for a third time 10 years ago, one of her first thoughts was: “Something has got to change.” “I thought: ’I’m not going to have my baby here in Texas in a medical center anymore,” Evans, now 36, tells TODAY.com. “I’m tired of it.” She ended up driving 1,300 miles in an RV to another state to give birth. “I was given so much choice, so much freedom and it was just such a much more pleasant experience,” she says. “I definitely felt like I made the right…