{
  "id": 12354659,
  "title": "Jim Bakker, televangelist who built The PLT Club, dead at 86",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/jim-bakker-televangelist-who-built-the-plt-club-dead-at-86",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-06T10:18:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jim-bakker-obit-9.7370503"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}