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Proof: Trump to speak to Putin on plague as US, WHO step up pressure on Moscow to be transparent

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20132bfc8acfd52697c5104b37d8f6ebaa7bfd31515825bbe1d990592782f562

OpenTimestamps

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

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:52 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-20132bfc8acf.json prints 20132bfc8acfd52697c5104b37d8f6ebaa7bfd31515825bbe1d990592782f562. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-20132bfc8acf.json and headline-20132bfc8acf.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-20132bfc8acf.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.