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Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. Archer sold more than 300 million books in his five-decade writing career, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, and often set the novels in his home town of Wellington, Somerset. In a statement, Archer's publisher HarperCollins said the author died suddenly and peacefully at home on Monday between writing sessions. The former Conservative MP was jailed for perjury in 2001 after being found guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star. Archer was born in north London on 15 April 1940 but would quickly move to Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, where his family bought a house from John Cleese's mother.

Supreme Court justices debated whether climate lawsuits against oil companies like Suncor and ExxonMobil belong in federal court or state court. A decision is expected by next spring.

Image caption, George Fenton was one of the UK's most prolific and successful composers The composer George Fenton, whose work included music for films such as Gandhi, Groundhog Day, and The Fisher King, as well as TV shows like Planet Earth and Bergerac, has died at the age of 76. The prolific musician received five Oscar nominations for his film scores, including those for The Remains of the Day and Cry Freedom. His work on the BBC TV show Blue Planet also earned awards from the Baftas, Emmy Awards and Ivor Novellos; and he also composed theme music for BBC News programmes such as Newsnight and Breakfast Time. In a statement, Fenton's family said: We are very sad to announce that George Fenton passed away unexpectedly today. They continued: He is survived by his loving wife Amanda, ex-wife Jane, children Gemma, Grace and Bridget, and grandchildren Lola, Audrey, Alfred, George, Frank and Beatrice, and a life of music.

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Is Hollywood Finally Turning Against Tech Oligarchs? A new wave of films by directors like Aaron Sorkin and Luca Guadagnino takes on Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, and "shapeshifter" Sam Altman. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Big Tech is back on the big screen--but its bosses might not be thrilled. This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca Guadagnino's, on CEO Sam Altman's tumultuous time as the head of OpenAI; Aaron Sorkin's, on the investigation into Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissing its platforms' negative impacts on young users and inciting violence and hate speech; the all-encompassing, by documentarian Alex Gibney, on the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's family life, corporate controversies, and engagement in right-wing politics; and You Can See Everything, an unsettling documentary in which directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim follow Elizabeth Holmes, who invited them to film her in the weeks before she began serving her federal prison sentence for defrauding investors at the now-defunct health tech company Theranos.

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