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VANCOUVER - For thousands of years, a breed of white, woolly dog played an important and cultural role for Coast Salish people in Western Canada but when colonists moved in the animal quickly became extinct, a new study says.

Oprah Winfrey was earlier this week honored with a portrait at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

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For Max's Julia Child series 'Julia,' the production designer and food stylist recreated the historically accurate White House kitchen.

Clayton Harris III, a former prosecutor and current lecturer at the University of Chicago running for Cook County State’s Attorney, wants to carry on the office’s work of progressive prosecution.

<p>Researchers from the <a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/">Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History</a> led a new analysis that sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of Indigenous Coast Salish communities in the Pacific Northwest for millennia. Anthropologist <a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/logan-kistler">Logan Kistler</a> and evolutionary molecu...

Montana is steeped in history, there is also a lesser-known piece of history still lighting the night sky across Montana—historic airway beacons.

The portrait, showing the influential media personality in a striking purple dress, was painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren

There might be more kitchens in Max’s series “Julia” than in every Nancy Meyers movie put together. The list starts with the kitchen at Julia Child’s home in…

Okay, I admit, some are more niche than others.