Negotiations are down to the wire over a writers' strike in Hollywood, as studios – and the California economy - brace for the worst. How a fake ID let Hyundai suppliers use child labor in Alabama. JPMorgan just got bigger. The biggest U.S. lender acquires failed bank First Republic. And we go to a naked dinner party in Brooklyn, because why not.

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