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Proof: JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-04T13:50:31Z","headline":"JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/iran-strikes-wedding-jd-vance","v":1}

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172f9eb343510104d67267dc8a8ca51652a8cefaf6c686c9883573a3933ea096

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• The story pageNot sealed — no capture of the story page was requested.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-172f9eb34351.json prints 172f9eb343510104d67267dc8a8ca51652a8cefaf6c686c9883573a3933ea096. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
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.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.