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Mom agonizes about how to reach her son, a man with a Buddha ... (CNN)

Her grown son told her he was going camping. Then he was arrested with accused Patriot Front extremists near an Idaho Pride event. It was a turning point ...

But they're not going to take him in and help him out and find a job," she added of the men in his group. "We are not dealing with the same set of facts," Pierre says. It's too tiring and too toxic to try to fix this part of a world that already feels overwhelming. Others tell me they no longer invite their grandfather to be around their children because he's turned into an "angry right-wing nut job from the cult of Trump" who is spewing "xenophobic nonsense." I just want him to realize where the love and support really is coming from," she said. And that pushed Amsden to the end of her rope. "For the true believer, it's not just the belief. He has chosen the Patriot Front over his family," Amsden said through tears. And she says she is also the mother of an extremist. Amsden was watching her grandsons that weekend, as Boyce said he wanted to go on a camping trip. He did have struggles, in particular, after his father left the family to live as an openly gay man, Amsden said. "We were really close," she said of her only child.

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'The Lost World': New book highlights Japan's abandoned rural ... (CNN)

But for Dutch photographer Maan Limburg, Japan is a series of rural landscapes punctuated by empty houses. Her photographs of these places -- from houses ...

Some of the smaller homes had the most emotional punch. Because she is a freelancer, she's able to spend long periods of time away, so her average Japan visit was three weeks. We can draw you a map if you want to.' It was just really nice to see this different side of Japan," she says. Limburg, who is based in Utrecht, found herself irresistibly pulled to the lesser-known regions of Japan where many of these houses exist. Japan has one of the oldest populations in the world, with an estimated one in every 1,500 people over the age of 100. As more young people move to the cities in search of jobs, rural areas have become more difficult to maintain.

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