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Proof: 34 missing kids — including trafficked children — from Long Island, NYC rescued in three-day operation: officials

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T01:31:01Z","headline":"34 missing kids — including trafficked children — from Long Island, NYC rescued in three-day operation: officials","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nypost","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/02/us-news/34-missing-kids-from-long-island-nyc-rescued-in-three-day-operation/","v":1}

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badcde717645b4351d96aa5ed32818225b61c2b7ba1881493ae073bbeb8d0ad2

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969658, mined 2026-10-03 02:24 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:33 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:33 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-badcde717645.json prints badcde717645b4351d96aa5ed32818225b61c2b7ba1881493ae073bbeb8d0ad2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-badcde717645.json and headline-badcde717645.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-badcde717645.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.