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Proof: US presses Russia for answers after suspected fatal plague case surfaces

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T00:42:23Z","headline":"US presses Russia for answers after suspected fatal plague case surfaces","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"foxnews","url":"https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-monitoring-suspected-fatal-pneumonic-plague-case-russia-state-department-official-says","v":1}

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SHA-256

01917cdfe356bf1338052352234d59de6205e9cf32d29586735c668389be3187

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969930, mined 2026-10-05 00:51 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:47 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:25 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-01917cdfe356.json prints 01917cdfe356bf1338052352234d59de6205e9cf32d29586735c668389be3187. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-01917cdfe356.json and headline-01917cdfe356.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-01917cdfe356.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, 5 min after it was first seen.