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Proof: Maine Senate candidates debate in critical battleground race

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T23:52:34Z","headline":"Maine Senate candidates debate in critical battleground race","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nbcnews","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/gop-releases-deluge-ad-spending-midterm-final-stretch-rcna601818","v":1}

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SHA-256

352e52cd42c8a1f1357bc0ed346d66ebdfd835d74df36ac1cb077314498eb7e5

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970258, mined 2026-10-07 00:16 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:58 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:58 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-352e52cd42c8.json prints 352e52cd42c8a1f1357bc0ed346d66ebdfd835d74df36ac1cb077314498eb7e5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-352e52cd42c8.json and headline-352e52cd42c8.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-352e52cd42c8.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, 4 min after it was first seen.