{
  "id": 1514147,
  "title": "Trump’s dumb border wall",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/trumps-dumb-border-wall",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-17T16:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/report/980933/trump-border-wall-big-bend-arizona-cottonwood-tree-sit"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Verge reports on the construction of President Donald Trump's border wall near Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas. The wall extends 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, and has already caused distress to a 200-year-old cottonwood tree, known locally as the grandmother tree, which has yellowing leaves and premature leaf fall. An activist climbed up the last remaining tree in the area just two days after three neighboring trees were felled by construction workers on July 27th to build the wall extension.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}