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Ta-da! Explaining Florida's complex Low Income Pool for the uninsured using a simple magic trick.

The central Florida Vietnamese community commemorated the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon - the capture of the South Vietnam capital that signaled the end of the Vietnam War.

In 2013, three young women who had vanished years earlier escaped from a house where they had been held captive. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, along with writer Mary Jordan, discuss their new memoir.

My Struggle is about Karl Ove Knausgaard's wrangle with his father, with death, with his muse and so on. The 46-year-old Norwegian's pointedly unliterary book has become a literary sensation.

90.7 News is commemorating the fall of Saigon 40 years ago this week by focusing on the state's largest Vietnamese community, here in Central Florida. The community is growing even as its cultural heart Little Vietnam is evolving. 90.7 discovered where Central Florida's Vietnamese community is less affected by the challenges of time and distance, places of worship.

About 400 people showed up at last night’s Orange County Commission meeting about re-zoning some contentious East Orange County land for a proposed new “agrihood.” That’s what developer Dwight Saathoff is calling his part of a new neighborhood that would be built in the Lake Pickett area. Hear from Saathoff and a representative of the group that opposes his plan.

Kurt Vonnegut once famously described book critics as donning armor to battle a hot fudge sundae. Jillian Tamaki takes on Harry Potter in SuperMutant Magic Academy, but she's tossing marshmallows.

Nik Wallenda made a successful walk atop the Orlando Eye this morning. The 400-foot stroll on the moving wheel was an attempt to break a world's record.

Most Central Floridians know Little Vietnam in Orlando's Mills-50 district. But a new cultural center is emerging in a quiet corner of the Fashion Square Mall, passing down traditions from Vietnam and the other countries that make up the region's Asian-American community.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with author and illustrator Art Spiegelman about how his book Maus, the very antithesis of Nazi propaganda, was purged from Moscow stores because of a swastika on the cover.