2 h. ago No 1 Happy Family USA to Sloborn: the seven best shows to stream this week

Ramy Youssef’s warm, witty animated comedy follows the travails of a Muslim-American family who are determined to prove their loyalties to the US during a dark time for their communityAs the co-creator of the brilliant comedies Ramy and Mo, Ramy Youssef has been exploring the Muslim American experience with wit and precision for several years. His latest series is an adult animation about the Hussein family. It begins in 2001, which patriarch Rumi is confident will be a good year for the family – this optimism is misplaced. The series is a study in privilege and diasporic desperation, with a dark subtext: despite his best intentions, Rumi’s desire to fit in and prove himself and his family’s loyalty to the US is almost never rewarded. But, as ever, Youssef renders the Husseins’ travails with warmth, comedy and humanity. Prime Video, from Thursday 17 April Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Chilling but true story behind Disney's Good American Family

Disney's Good American Family portrays the chilling story of orphan Natalia Grace, adopted by Kristine and Michael Barnett who later claimed she was an adult posing as a child

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41 h. ago Natalia Grace's boyfriend who helped her escape from 'terrifying' adoptive family

Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian orphan whose story inspired new Hulu drama Good American Family, has shared how she fell in love with a man over Facebook, who helped her plot to escape her adoptive parents

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44 h. ago We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be inventedLike many scientists, I came to the US as a young adult, driven by idealism and ambition. I arrived with all my belongings contained in two suitcases, and just enough cash to cover the first month’s rent on a small apartment. But I also had something of greater value: an offer to work and train in one of America’s top biomedical research laboratories, a chance to participate in the revolution that is modern biological science.In the years that followed, I became an American scientist and raised an American family. Now, I lead a laboratory in one of the US’s great universities. I am a member of America’s National Academy of Sciences. From a scientist’s perspective, I have lived the American dream.Paul Darren Bieniasz is a British-American virologist whose main area of research is HIV/Aids. He is currently a professor of retrovirology at the Rockefeller University Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Good American Family gets UK release date and it's good news for Grey's Anatomy fans

The stranger-than-fiction drama is now streaming in the UK

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56 h. ago British actress, 27, playing Ukrainian dwarf Natalia Grace in new Disney+ drama reaveals the 'truth' she learned while portraying 6

The mysterious case of Natalia Grace - a Ukrainian orphan with dwarfism accused of lying about her age and 'tormenting' her adoptive parents - has baffled true crime fans for years. 

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60 h. ago American academic faces 15 years in jail for insulting royal family

Paul Chambers, a 58-year-old lecturer at Thailand's Naresuan University, was arrested last week following a complaint filed by the army.

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3 d. ago The dark true story behind Disney+ series Good American Family: Couple adopted a Ukrainian orphan

Natalia's unique story has now inspired Disney+ series Good American Family, which airs in the UK from Monday.

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8 d. ago US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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2 w. ago Ellen Pompeo Joins Mark Duplass & Imogen Faith Reid at ‘Good American Family’ Screening in London

Ellen Pompeo Joins Mark Duplass & Imogen Faith Reid at ‘Good American Family’ Screening in London  Just Jared

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2 w. ago 'Addictively good' US drama receives rave reviews ahead of Disney premiere

Hulu drama Good American Family has received rave reviews from fans and critics alike, ahead of its UK premiere in May

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2 w. ago Unsettling true story behind Good American Family as Natalia Grace causes divide

Good American Family is set to premiere in the UK on May 7, but social media sleuths have already got their hands on clips from the new hit drama that retells the horrifying story of Natalia Grace

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2 w. ago Inside Natalia Grace's life now as new Ellen Pompeo series Good American Family airs 

Viewers are keen to know about the real-life case

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2 w. ago Why Good American Family will grip you: Ellen Pompeo’s shocking true drama you need to watch

From Grey’s Anatomy to a harrowing true-life tale, Pompeo stars in this epic series exploring the controversial adoption of a girl with dwarfism. Here’s everything you need to know

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2 w. ago Ellen Pompeo reunites with Grey's Anatomy star in Hulu drama Good American Family

Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has taken on a new role

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2 w. ago Ellen DeGeneres sells one of her last homes in the US after moving to England

The former TV host moved to the UK in November

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3 w. ago Kim Kardashian reveals she's a fan of HUGE British reality show

The American reality star, 44, whose family's show on Hulu is a front runner in the industry, exposed herself as a fan of the dating show.

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3 w. ago Inside Grey's Anatomy actress Ellen Pompeo's life from husband who's never watched the show to children

Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has a new role

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3 w. ago Good American Family review – the strange case of Natalia Grace

Ellen Pompeo plays a mother disturbed by her adopted daughter in a mostly entertaining limited series based on the tabloid sagaThere remains unending interest in the bizarre story of Natalia Grace, the Ukrainian girl adopted by an American family who then claimed she was actually an adult. The saga starts in 2010 but a similar tale had already been told in 2009’s Orphan, a horror film hinged on a similar twist, itself inspired by the real case of the Estonian impostor Barbora Skrlová. It’s the ghoulish stuff of nightmare, shocking enough to turn Orphan into an unlikely franchise (the second was released in 2022, the third now in the works) and Grace into a tabloid sensation and, easily vilified, hate figure.But the lurid People.com headlines only told half of the story or barely a third as it turns out, an unfolding series of revelations soon starting to show that things were not what they appeared to be. After a popular, and even more revelatory, docuseries, we now have the inevita...

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