Hours before Treasury licensed Russian diesel, drones hit a Lukoil refinery. Overnight two more Russian oil sites burned. What the license actually allows.
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Trump’s Massive Russia Diesel Deal.
On Friday, October 9, 2026, President Trump announced that he reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to combat skyrocketing global energy prices. The multi-stage deal relies on a temporary U.S. Treasury Department suspension of energy sanctions against Moscow.
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The First Nuclear Clocks Tick on an Isotope Being Disposed Of
Vienna and Beijing teams built the first nuclear clocks. How they work, how they compare, what they can’t do yet, and the Oak Ridge stockpile behind them.
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SpaceX Buys the 800 MHz Block the FCC Drew for Nextel
SpaceX’s Grain deal buys the 14 MHz the FCC carved out for Nextel in 2004, plus a July 2026 FCC order’s deadlines and a satellite waiver still undecided.
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Running on Reserves: The Oil Crisis by the Numbers, Eight Months In
The U.S. oil reserve is at its lowest since 1982 and global stocks fell 507M barrels in six months. The oil crisis in government data, eight months in.
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State Department Settles FOIA Delay Suit With a Non-Binding Backlog Review
State settled a FOIA delay suit by agreeing to an outside review of its backlog. The signed deal calls it non-binding and promises a good faith effort.
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Fire Shuts Venezuela’s Cardón Refinery
A gas line fire shut Venezuela’s Cardón refinery Oct. 6. What PDVSA says, where accounts differ, and the plant’s record of fires, restarts and inquiries.
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Judge Orders DOJ to Name Everyone Who Has Seen the Boat-Strike Memo
A judge rejected two of three privileges shielding the OLC memo on the lethal boat strikes, ordering a sworn list of everyone who has seen it by Oct. 14.
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Germany Arrests Ex-Spy Chief Hanning Over 2,000 Leaked BND Files
Ex-BND chief August Hanning is accused of buying nearly 2,000 internal BND documents from his ex-office manager over 12 years, and of attempted treason.