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Proof: Trump administration struggles to plan for potential plague fallout

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T00:00:25Z","headline":"Trump administration struggles to plan for 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

f354344b4436a24b099158f06b80a2ff8ef655c73c93fe43f59cd965fa8e980c

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970258, mined 2026-10-07 00:16 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 00:04 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f354344b4436.json prints f354344b4436a24b099158f06b80a2ff8ef655c73c93fe43f59cd965fa8e980c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f354344b4436.json and headline-f354344b4436.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-f354344b4436.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, 2 min after it was first seen.