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Proof: US issues formal request for information from Russia over potential plague fallout

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T04:42:35Z","headline":"US issues formal request for information from Russia over potential plague fallout","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cnn","url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/06/politics/russia-plague-death-trump","v":1}

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SHA-256

60b5e927d214c3d023dcd8cddd45dacc633a52c77a356415daa51c30ab04fbc2

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970292, mined 2026-10-07 04:57 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:48 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:49 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-60b5e927d214.json prints 60b5e927d214c3d023dcd8cddd45dacc633a52c77a356415daa51c30ab04fbc2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-60b5e927d214.json and headline-60b5e927d214.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-60b5e927d214.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.