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  "id": 12344144,
  "title": "Jim Bakker, televangelist mired in scandals, dies at 86",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakker-televangelist-mired-in-scandals-dies-at-86",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T08:37:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
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    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/jim-bakker-televangelist-mired-in-scandals-dies-at-86-1.500700090"
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  "summary": "Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86. Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement. His cause of death was not immediately clear. “He was a pioneer of Christian television, but to me, he was my…",
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        "title": "Disgraced US televangelist Jim Bakker dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/disgraced-us-televangelist-jim-bakker-dies-at-86",
        "published": "2026-10-06T06:30:40.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Where is Jessica Hahn now? Jim Bakker's death puts spotlight on old sex scandal that brought down PTL televangelist - latest update",
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        "outlet": "Jerusalem Post",
        "title": "Jim Bakker, TV preacher felled by scandals, dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakker-tv-preacher-felled-by-scandals-dies-at-86",
        "published": "2026-10-06T06:38:39.000Z"
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        "outlet": "The Guardian US",
        "title": "US televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/us-televangelist-jim-bakker-ensnared-in-fraud-and-sex-scandal-dies-at",
        "published": "2026-10-06T08:55:03.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Jim Bakker, televangelist disgraced by sex scandal, dies at 86",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakker-televangelist-disgraced-by-sex-scandal-dies-at-86",
        "published": "2026-10-06T09:34:46.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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