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Proof: Hegseth greets USS Abraham Lincoln near the end of record long deployment

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T00:32:52Z","headline":"Hegseth greets USS Abraham Lincoln near the end of record long deployment","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-greets-uss-abraham-lincoln-end-record-long/story?id=137067054","v":1}

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SHA-256

2ae3f87e3eda3c78ffdc6046f9c619862ce6bdde8ede0f7f686cd962d46a5a11

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970415, mined 2026-10-08 01:04 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:39 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:39 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2ae3f87e3eda.json prints 2ae3f87e3eda3c78ffdc6046f9c619862ce6bdde8ede0f7f686cd962d46a5a11. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2ae3f87e3eda.json and headline-2ae3f87e3eda.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-2ae3f87e3eda.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.