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  "id": 1686724,
  "title": "The Blackout That Could Devastate America",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/the-blackout-that-could-devastate-america",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-18T09:01:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.",
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}