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US senators say Trump's diesel deal with Russia is illegal

Rank
Running: 1h
Updated: 1h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 2
Regions: 1
Countries: 1
Languages: 1

LRT Lithuania · Lithuanian 12 Oct, 03:09 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Lithuanian, 2 reports

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: LRT, 12 Oct, 03:09 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 12 Oct, 03:09 UTC.
Now: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The one country whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 100%

First movers

LRT 12 Oct, 03:09 UTC
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The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: US senators from both parties say Trump's Russian diesel deal is illegal, 10 to 12 Oct 2026, 41 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 1 country. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 2 outlets, 1 public-service, 1 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 1: Lithuania. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Lithuanian.
Timeline: Earliest article LRT, 12 Oct 2026, 03:09 UTC. First seen 12 Oct 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 12 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 1.32, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues US senators from both parties say Trump's Russian diesel deal is illegal. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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Started 12 Oct, 03:50 UTC · Updated 04:00 UTC

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15min Lithuania 12 Oct, 04:00 UTC
JAV senatoriai: Donaldo Trumpo dyzelino susitarimas su Rusija yra neteisėtas
LRT Lithuania 12 Oct, 03:09 UTC
Karas Ukrainoje. JAV senatoriai: Trumpo susitarimas su Rusija dėl dyzelino yra neteisėtas