“Price gouging needs to be stopped,” Pelosi said at a press conference. “This is a major exploitation of the consumer.”
The U.S. president would have the authority to declare an emergency that would make the sale of gasoline at “excessive” prices illegal under legislation House Democrats plan to bring to the floor next week.
The effort, announced May 12 by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, comes as Democrats seek to blame record high gaso...

Russia wants "unfriendly countries" to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles. That's a new directive from President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to leverage his country's in-demand resources to counter a barrage of Western sanctions.
"I have decided to implement ... a series of measures to switch payments — we'll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin said in ...