35 h. ago White House plans to review all Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they meet Trump’s agenda for America’s 250th birthday

Trump accused the Smithsonian of falling under the sway of ‘a divisive, race-centered ideology’ in his March executive order

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4 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 wild Donald Trump moments as his purge of enemies gets even nastier

Trump is set to meet Putin in the flesh, some Native Americans might have scuppered Alligator Alcatraz - and Trump's purge of the enemy within got even nastier

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9 d. ago 'I met America's most inbred family and one thing still haunts me'

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Mark Laita made a documentary on the Whittaker family in Odd, West Virginia, known as 'America's most inbred family'

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9 d. ago 'I went to meet America's most inbred family and one thing from that day haunts me'

Mark Laita, a photographer and filmmaker, first met the Whittaker family in Odd, West Virginia, five years ago and has been back multiple times since to document their lives

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1 week ago Scots wrestler who lived in his car with his dog now a rising ring star in USA

Meet the former Motherwell carer, Luke Scouler, turned wrestling star taking America by storm.

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3 w. ago ‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest daysLaurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. A hug, a cuddle: that is all she needs to keep at bay the nightmarish visions that haunt her day and night, the grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist, words pressed through a clenched jaw, eyes bulging in panic. Yet on her ward at the Esquirol hospital centre in Paris, such simple gestures are impossible to come by. “When I asked for a hug,” Laurence laments, “they gave me a jar of yoghurt.”This scene, from Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary At Averroès & Rosa Parks, is as hard to watch as anything you are likely to see on a cinema screen this year. But it is especially remarkable coming from perhaps the world’s pre-eminent maker of humanist documentaries. The Frenchman Philibert is one of modern cinema’s great champions of kindness. Aged 74, he has built a career mak...

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