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President Trump secures 300,000 tons of diesel from Russia to combat rising fuel prices, despite recently signing a law imposing 500% tariffs on Russian imports and sanctioning Vladimir Putin; the Treasury Department has temporarily paused sanctions on Russian diesel, and the federal d

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