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The Gaelic echo: Tracing the impact of Irish immigrants on the evolution of American accents. The Irish immigrants in the United States over the last 250 years has left a lasting legacy, that being how Americans speak.

Tim Brookes is fascinated by language and writing. So he invented a day to celebrate them.

The cult of Lenin abides. The reason is as clear as the next dictator’s rationale for wholesale slaughter.

Heres a roundup of some of the local stories Missoulian reporters put out this week.

NASA team members have been working for months to open a sealed capsule with space samples that landed in Utah in September 2023.

Amid growing controversy, museums are grappling with collections from the colonial era – and one issue in particular. What should they do with human remains?

It only takes a few minutes to drive through the small town of Greybull, Wyoming, but in that short drive you're passing through millions of years of history.

By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist “Murder is Her Hobby” was an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “Her” is Frances Glessner Lee, known as the “Mother of Forensic Scie

Some people are determined to venture outside in this week's brutally cold weather and have a little fun. Here are some of the most creative ways that we've found people making the best of the frigid temperatures.

State-of-the-art scanner will help digitize local history