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Proof: ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old in car

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-09T01:30:36Z","headline":"ICE agent shoots man in New York City with five-year-old in car","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"guardian","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/nyc-shooting-federal-agent","v":1}

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450911a8d38f0d4fd925f383b00be8447acddd02e813fbc7c7502fa3c20b62d2

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970568, mined 2026-10-09 01:46 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-450911a8d38f.json prints 450911a8d38f0d4fd925f383b00be8447acddd02e813fbc7c7502fa3c20b62d2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-450911a8d38f.json and headline-450911a8d38f.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-450911a8d38f.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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