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Proof: Congressional candidate who says she was raped while fixing campaign signs believes attack was ‘crime of opportunity,’ not political

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b18d159d79e845be537df5670c9bbdcab331a0bd482456168639137a88523b1d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970577, mined 2026-10-09 03:34 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 02:55 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-09 02:54 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-b18d159d79e8.json prints b18d159d79e845be537df5670c9bbdcab331a0bd482456168639137a88523b1d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-b18d159d79e8.json and headline-b18d159d79e8.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-b18d159d79e8.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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