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  "id": 16482886,
  "title": "How to build a police state | William Wheeler",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/how-to-build-a-police-state-william-wheeler",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-25T13:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/trump-bukele-el-salvador-police-state"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "To understand where Trump is trying to take the US, we should look to the authoritarian playbook of his favorite ally: El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele One afternoon last year, Donald Trump welcomed “a friend” to the White House – El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the world’s most popular authoritarian. “I knew him as a very young man,” the US president said before the cameras. “He’s done a fantastic job. Mr…",
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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."
}