Politics

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday’ that President Trump was “right” in his decision to put Iran “on notice.” The Daily Caller reports: Host Chris Wallace first asked the California Democrat if “President Trump is right to say that enough is enough and to put the rulers in Iran on notice?” “I think that he is right in this,” Feinstein responded. “I think that Iran is wrong in this.

President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban citizens of seven Muslim-majority states from entering the US for 90 days, and temporarily freeze all refugee arrivals (including Syrians indefinitely), has been interpreted widely as an attempt to curtail the inward migration of Muslims, which Trump and his supporters argue pose a threat to national security. It has also been challenged legally, and today a showdown between the DOJ and a San Francisco Court of Appeals is scheduled for 6pm, at which point the Trump order may be formally rejected, forcing Trump to engage the Supreme Court.

Submitted by Damir Kaletovic via OilPrice.com,

An autopsy has reportedly shown that top Yemeni investigative journalist Mohammed al-Absi, who died under mysterious circumstances in December, was poisoned.

The journalist died in the Yemeni capital Sana’a after having dinner with a cousin. He was said to have been investigating oil companies and had recently published a series of reports on government corruption.

Following yesterday's shocking poll by INSA, which as we reported put the center-left SPD on 31 percent and Merkel's conservative CDU bloc on 30 percent, suggesting if the election were held today, Germany's new chancellor would be the SPD's new boss and Nigel Farrage's European Parliament nemesis, Martin Schulz...

... Germany's mass-selling tabloid Bild has openly questioned on its front page whether voters have had enough of Chancellor Angela Merkel.  "Is Germany tired of Merkel?" Bild asked in a headline, noting the result of the INSA survey. 

At noon on Tuesday, the Senate is expected to vote whether to confirm Trump's controversial nominee for education secretary, billionaire Betsy DeVos, following an unusually fiery debate including an all-night Senate session, that has left her at risk of becoming the first cabinet nominee in 28 years to be rejected. Although Senate Republicans and the White House have said they are confident they have the votes to confirm Mrs.