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Arizona's spectacular wildflower season has a downside. All of that showy vegetation is now drying out and creating a wildfire hazard.

The Alabama Preservation Alliance and the Alabama Historical Commission have just named historic gas stations across the state "places of peril." Architectural historian Melanie Betz tells Scott Simon what makes these gas stations worth preserving.

Merck Chairman and CEO Raymond Gilmartin will step down ahead of his planned retirement next year. He says the decision for an early departure from the pharmaceutical company is his own. Merck faces thousands of lawsuits from people who suffered heart attacks or strokes while taking the painkiller Vioxx.

The Portuguese folk music called fado is enjoying a surge in popularity, thanks to international stars like Mariza. But in the narrow alleys of Lisbon's Alfama district, locals like their fado stripped down to its soulful essentials.

The Novavax vaccine appears to be about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration scientists say in an analysis of the company's data.

Trump endorsed two challengers to incumbent members of Congress from South Carolina. Rep. Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Trump after the Capitol riot, was beaten, while Rep. Nancy Mace won.

A Peruvian historian and an American archaeologist say Hiram Bingham was given bad information when he arrived at the ancient Incan ruins — and we've all been going along with it.

Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan gives his take on the new Superman movie, Superman Returns. Turan likes the action, but he says the characters and plot are not made of steel.

A Good Woman is based on Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan. But unlike Wilde's play, which is based in Victorian England, the film is set in Italy decades later. Critic Kenneth Turan is worried the story can't survive such a drastic change of scene.

Scientists have been working to develop an airy pizza dough without yeast. Researchers in Naples, Italy say they have achieved it using a process like the one used to produce carbonation in soda.