{
  "id": 18567478,
  "title": "How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/how-elon-musk-frittered-away-nearly-500-million-on-the-midterm",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-06T21:05:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/musk-trump-midterm-election-spending.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.",
  "key_points": [],
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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."
}