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How do Hollywood studios make money? Journalist Edward Jay Epstein goes looking for answers in The Hollywood Economist, explaining the complicated relationship between distributors and studios — and revealing why the humble cup holder may be the greatest technological advancement in the history of Hollywood.

A bicameral budget panel, authorized to make spending decisions while the Legislature is not in session, voted to sweep $32 million from the program due to a drop in enrollment.

More than 36,000 people say their employers cheated them out of pay. The state agency tasked with probing their cases is backlogged and underfunded. (Story first aired on ATC on June 21, 2022.)

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Maud Newton about her book Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, a memoir that explores her family history of racist violence.

Search teams have worked day and night to clear the land of building parts and debris. Now a Miami-Dade County circuit judge is hearing arguments about what should happen to the oceanfront property.

One of the state’s tax exemptions that reduce the assessed value of houses to save homeowners money on their property taxes will now be adjusted for yearly inflation.

Investors are still hopeful that lawmakers will clinch a deal to raise or suspend the debt ceiling. That's because failure to do so could have devastating consequences in markets.

In 2008, Suze Rotolo reflected on being Dylan's girlfriend and muse. Folk singer Joan Baez spoke to Terry Gross in 1987. In 1998, Al Kooper looked back on his time as a session musician with Dylan.

Attempts to pass a sales tax for transportation in Hillsborough County failed in November.

Joe Biden forcefully pushes back against President Trump's campaign message that voters wouldn't be safe under a Biden administration.

One of the most controversial bills to come out of this year’s legislative session restricts the use of social media sites for teenagers.

Milton is again a Category 5 hurricane, and it has made a turn to the northeast. Milton´s forecast still calls for a powerful hurricane to reach the west coast of Florida late Wednesday or very early Thursday.

Medicaid expansion for 1 million low-income adults in Florida may technically be dead, after committees in both the House and Senate voted to kill it. And…

The Republican proposal passed Tuesday comes during the GOP-led Legislature’s second special session this year aimed at stabilizing the property insurance market. The bill would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, reduce litigation costs and compel some customers to leave a state-created insurer.

An NPR investigation helped lead to 15,000 veterans being saved from losing their homes, but some in Congress want to kill the rescue program.

Evening Masterworks: Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Evening Masterworks: Johannes Brahms' Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Evening Masterworks: Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 in e, Op. 98

Legos often cost twice as much as similar blocks from a rival toymaker. So why are Legos so much more popular than other brands?

United Teachers of Dade did not reach the 60% threshold of dues-paying members required by a contentious new state law. It could have a major impact on one of the largest unions in Florida, and the single largest employer in Miami-Dade County.

When Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie came to the U.S. for college, she found her roommates didn't know much about Africa. So she gave them a collection of beautiful, complex Ghanaian stories called No Sweetness Here.

Federal officials told 16 states that they've been underfunding their Historically Black Colleges and Universities by some $12 billion. Tennessee State University had the biggest loss.

Renee Montagne talks to theologian Phyllis Zagano, an advocate of a greater role for women in the Catholic Church, who was just named to Pope Francis' commission on women deacons.

The four Grammys awarded Sunday night to Sam Smith are good news not just for Sam Smith, but for Tom Petty, too. Petty and another songwriter will get a quarter of the royalties from the hit, "Stay With Me." It's not the first time a pair of songs have striking similarities to one another.