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Researchers at the University of Reading are speculating that today's languages share a common root dating as far back as the last Ice Age. Words like "mother," "man" and "ashes" are categorized as "ultraconserved," meaning they are survivors of a lost language from which many modern tongues are descended.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Phil Feller of Durham, North Carolina, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Tarrant County Commissioners voted Tuesday to extend the county’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.The program, known as 287(g),…

The Texas attorney general’s office has asked a federal court for permission to intervene in a case about whether a county jail can hold undocumented…

One of the primary tools that U.S. transportation departments count on to keep roads safe is road salt. But that has meant rising levels of chloride in many northern streams.

Update, 5 p.m. Sunday: The cancelations have begun. DFW International Airport reports that it canceled 160 flights today, mostly evening flights that…

By BJ Austin, KERA News & Wire Serviceshttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kera/local-kera-936445.mp3Dallas, TX – In an effort to cut down…

The crater is estimated at 262 feet wide and is in the northern Siberian area of Yamal, a name The Siberian Times says roughly translates as "the end of the world."

From Michigan to Maine and parts in between, power outages that began before Christmas continue. Storms brought down power lines. More winter weather is forecast for coming days in many of the affected areas.

A massive post-Christmas package of precipitation is headed up the East Coast today.