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Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress about the Mueller Russia probe is a big short-term win for the president, but it doesn't "exonerate" him totally, and Democrats want to see more.

Órale, the Caló word of this episode is Praire. It means someone with a priest-like personality or otherwise very given to praying and moralizing. It’s a word made up of two other words, prayor (supplicant) and friar, which in Spanish is pronounced fraile. A praire does not necessarily have to be Christian or, for that matter, a follower of any particular religion. They’re not unique to any culture, class or geographic region. They’re people who simply see it necessary and obvious to invoke the spirits to resolve worldly problems. While some people see gravity and the laws of physics controlling reality, they see providential intervention in everything. So why not go ahead and ask the spirits to intervene when you can’t solve a problem or predict an outcome?

How many kinds of birds eat fish, and what different methods they use to catch their slippery prey? Like Kingfishers, Ospreys spot their prey from the air and plunge in to get it, but Ospreys plunge feet first, while kingfishers go in headfirst.

There are a thousand stories about mesquite. Some people hate it and poison it with chemicals. Some people love the wood for its rich, dark hardness and use it for gun butts, clocks, tables, or rolling pins, or for the flavor it adds to grilled foods.

The Chihuahuan Desert and the Llano Estacado have a wealth of wintering hawks. Several species nest in the region, too. Each family of hawks has its own hunting behavior. Can you use their behavioral cues to identify each hawk species on the wing?

In many of the supermarkets and drugstores of the southwest, many medicinal plants are sold in plastic bags with Spanish-name labels. Some of these plants are native, while others were brought to the New World by the settlers of the colonial period. In San Antonio, Laredo, and many other towns in Texas, a person can visit a botanica, a shop which specializes in herbal medicines as well as religious figurines, incense, “milagros,” and other necessities of the Hispanic “curanderismo” tradition.

At the buzz of a rattlesnake, the heart races, and the adrenalin flows. Our response is primal, physical. But rattlesnakes also exert a power over the…

It may be small, but the eastern screech owl is a formidable hunter. Its prey – whether rodent, bird or reptile – rarely survives the raptor's strike. But…

The bite of a kissing bug – also known as a cone-nose or assassin bug – is an unpleasant experience. The insect takes its blood meal at night, numbing the…

Rising a mile above desert plains, the Guadalupe Mountains are an icon in the West Texas landscape. They draw geologists, biologists, artists – and Texans…