{
  "id": 6796867,
  "title": "Company hired for Trump’s reflecting pool makeover reportedly admits flaws in plan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/company-hired-for-trumps-reflecting-pool-makeover-reportedly-admits",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-11T20:30:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/reflecting-pool-repair-company-plan-flaws"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Atlantic Industrial Coatings was given $14.7m no-bid contract and its findings contradict president’s claims of vandalism The company hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has acknowledged that “human oversight” and flaws in the repair plan caused the newly installed blue liner to peel and tear, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times that challenge Donald Trump’s…",
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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."
}