{
  "id": 4611359,
  "title": "NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/npr-spent-2-years-tracking-deaths-from-heat-we-found-a-staggering",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-31T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5724225/heat-wave-death-toll-tracker"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.",
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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."
}