{
  "id": 9123790,
  "title": "Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/brendan-carr-was-a-member-of-a-rogue-alcoholics-anonymous-group-some",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-22T10:00:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/22/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-midtown-aa-group"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), was for about a decade a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group when he was in his late teens and 20s that some former members compared to a “cult”, according to a Guardian…",
  "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."
}