Jarrett Renshaw

The first cargo of Venezuelan crude under a deal between ‌the US and producer NABEP unloaded in Texas on Tuesday and will be sold by the US government to refineries run by Exxon Mobil and Venezuelan-owned Citgo Petroleum, a White House official said.

Analysts see little diesel price relief before the midterms.

President Donald Trump's deal with Russia to supply diesel to US and global markets is unlikely to meaningfully lower diesel prices, market watchers and analysts said, noting that the promised volumes are too small to ease a global supply squeeze.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he hoped that Pope Leo, who has been diagnosed with lung cancer, would "get better fast."

President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to supply ​diesel to global markets in an effort to lower fuel prices, and his administration temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues for its ‌war on Ukraine.

US diesel prices remain at near record highs, up 70% since ​the US-Israeli war on Iran began despite two high-profile recent moves by President Donald Trump to boost supplies of the fuel: pressuring allies ‌to release emergency reserves and expanding access to tax-exempt red-dyed diesel.

Trump signs order to expand access to tax-exempt diesel

The Environmental Protection Agency official who has overseen some of the Trump administration's ​most consequential efforts to roll back climate and ‌air pollution regulations resigned effective last week, the agency said on Tuesday.

Trump holds Nebraska rally in bid to keep deep-red state in Republican column

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska.