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Proof: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-30T22:01:08Z","headline":"Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/30/supreme-court-immigration-third-country-deportations-donald-trump-jack-smith-us-politics-latest-news-updates","v":1}

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SHA-256

447fa213c57ed51b1d828cccc2774c84d731fd7ca20658ada248368af28a3b43

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Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 22:02 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 22:54 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-30 21:02 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-447fa213c57e.json prints 447fa213c57ed51b1d828cccc2774c84d731fd7ca20658ada248368af28a3b43. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-447fa213c57e.json and headline-447fa213c57e.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-447fa213c57e.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.

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