News about Tom Clancy

Painkiller, Netflix's latest drama about the emergence of OxyContin in the United States in the 1990s, premiered on August 10. The story is a fictional retelling of Richard Sackler's Purdue Pharma company's rise during the country's opioid crisis, which continues to this day. Several lawsuits and fines have been filed in connection with Purdue Pharma's drug use, including paying $600 million in 2007 after pled guilty to misleading the public about OxyContin's danger of heroin use.

To compensate mature trees felled by roadworks, National Highways carried out nearly 40 big projects around England.

In the new trailer for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan's final season, John Krasinski's title character fights to rid his department of mismanagement. On Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video unveiled the new trailer, the first clip from the final season's first video, which is expected to debut on June 30. Two new episodes will premiere on June 30, with two more airing on July 7 with the show's two remaining episodes on July 14.

Armed officers in Kentucky responded to a 911 call from a 17-year-old - who admitted to killing two people - but to discover that the call was an accidental 'butt dial' while the teen was playing a video game. On Jan. 5, Elijah Sierocki had been playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, a common online first-person shooter game, when police swarmed his house after the wrong call. During a 4-minute call to ambulance services that had left the boy'shaking for four hours' as police searched his house, Sierocki was inadvertently admitted to a double murder, which he had not committed.

PETER HOSKIN: Suit up, soldier. It's not just time for another Call Of Duty exclusive; it's time for another Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Back in 2009, there was a game that went by the same name, but with a number 2 instead of a Roman numeral. This latest iteration isn't a remake nor even a retread. It's more a riff on the original's themes. Or perhaps, the word 'themes' is too grand a term. This one, in essence, will result in you getting rid of a lot of bad dudes. It's likely that it would lead to a tale made from paper scraps from Tom Clancy's binder. It will want you to believe that grown men will go by names like 'Ghost' once more.

Bert Fields, the well-known celebrity attorney, died at the age of 93. A Los Angeles based attorney died late Sunday night at his Malibu home with his wife Barbara Guggenheim by his side, according to a spokesperson for his law company Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger Llp. Fields was known for assisting numerous high-profile clients, including The Beatles, Madonna, and Warren Beatty. However, he was best known for his defence of Michael Jackson when he was accused of homosexuality and for serving with Tom Cruise, and another reported that the mega star had 'abandoned' the daughter he shared with Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise.