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  "id": 9997431,
  "title": "‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for Congress",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/im-not-jd-vance-the-appalachia-memoir-author-running-for-congress",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-26T14:00:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/beth-macy-congress-run-virginia"
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  "summary": "Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican district Virginia’s sixth congressional district has been in Republican hands for over 33 years, but Beth Macy , a longtime reporter with the Roanoke Times and author of Dopesick, a powerful account of the opioid crisis that swept through Appalachia two decades ago, has a plan to…",
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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."
}