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Proof: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement and could hand Trump another nomination

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-02T22:21:37Z","headline":"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement and could hand Trump another nomination","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sam-alito-retirement-donald-trump-b3060691.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

f792ae5163be7466c096ccd9741d080dd4500d304b50374c88d3f21ee3d114a5

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969644, mined 2026-10-02 23:07 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 22:40 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 22:40 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f792ae5163be.json prints f792ae5163be7466c096ccd9741d080dd4500d304b50374c88d3f21ee3d114a5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f792ae5163be.json and headline-f792ae5163be.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-f792ae5163be.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, 1 min after it was first seen.