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Weekly political review flags Trump’s Russian diesel deal update
The review pairs an update on Trump’s Russian diesel deal with discussion of a Justice Department challenge to ballot counting in California.
By Nessa Dalric · 2 min read

An update on Trump’s Russian diesel deal was listed as a topic in a weekly political review that also addressed the Department of Justice’s effort to stop California from counting ballots from people the government describes as “likely noncitizens.”
The Justice Department is suing California to block those ballots from being counted. The government’s description signals uncertainty about the citizenship status of the people concerned; the supplied excerpt does not establish that they are noncitizens. It also provides no account of California’s response or any court decision.
The Russian diesel deal appears in the review’s heading, but the supplied material contains no substantive reporting on its terms, participants, financial value or implementation. It therefore does not establish what has changed in the arrangement or what the update entails.
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Editor’s note: The supplied excerpt supports only a limited account of the two topics. It contains no dates or numerical figures and no details of the diesel deal beyond its identification in the heading. Additional source material is needed to develop a fuller account without introducing unsupported claims.