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Proof: Cornell University police made drug arrest hours before alleged sexual assault

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T22:41:13Z","headline":"Cornell University police made drug arrest hours before alleged sexual assault","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cornell-university-police-made-drug-arrest-hours-alleged-sexual-assaul-rcna601309","v":1}

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SHA-256

f963c82717e093b79249cb0e8453801ec770a318ee4887276284e0e2fb8cffbe

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969774, mined 2026-10-03 23:13 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 22:43 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 22:44 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f963c82717e0.json prints f963c82717e093b79249cb0e8453801ec770a318ee4887276284e0e2fb8cffbe. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f963c82717e0.json and headline-f963c82717e0.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-f963c82717e0.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.