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More tornadoes may strike across the U.S. this week, while residents in areas hit by last week's outbreak clean up and brace for more potential damage.

More tornadoes may strike across the U.S. this week, while residents in areas hit by last week's outbreak clean up and brace for more potential damage.

Some drugmakers are getting into the telehealth business in a move that might allow them to sell drugs directly to patients.

U.S. employers added 272,000 jobs in May -- more than forecasters had expected. The unemployment rate inched up to 4% from 3.9% in April.

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is looking for volunteers to help decipher and digitize them.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one of 19 universities, known as the 1890 land grant institutions.

The Henderson County Health Department says a bird found at Osceola Lake tested positive for H5N1, marking the second confirmed case of bird flu in Western North Carolina in less than a month. Officials urge the public to avoid contact with wild birds as migration season increases the risk of spread.

About one in five Americans is on Medicaid. In North Carolina, more than 3 million people are enrolled in some form of the program.

Host Scott Simon reads listener reaction to last week's program, including a report on what Title IX hasn't changed and a moose calling competition.

Republican Anna Ferguson is recommended to serve the rest of Rep. Mike Clampitt’s term of District 119 following his death last month. She is the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians chosen to serve in the North Carolina House.