Some advisers fear that the inquiry is a hunt for a scapegoat, people familiar with it said.
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German authorities to expand crackdown on right-wing extremists

Germany security officials want more authority to target and prevent far-right violence. Among the proposals on the table is more monitoring of the internet and gathering evidence to outlaw some far-right groups.
Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’
John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, ordered an aide to report the machinations by the president’s personal attorney to a White House lawyer, House investigators were told.
Iranian students barred from US: lost money, broken dreams, no answers

They had been accepted to prestigious postgraduate programs, many in California, but they got no further than the airport
On 9 September, Milad Aghajohari and much of his extended family piled into cars and drove six hours from Isfahan to Tehran’s international airport. The 22-year-old was on his way to California, set to start a PhD program at Stanford University.
After wishing everyone goodbye, Aghajohari rolled his suitcases into the terminal. He handed his passport to a Turkish Airlines officer and placed his luggage on a scale. A moment later, a senior airline official pulled Aghajohari aside and showed him an email, which said it was “strictly advised” Aghajohari not board the flight. The initials of US Customs and Border Protection were written beneath the message. “In a few seconds,” Aghajohari said, “I went from being a Stanford student to being seen as a potentially dangerous person.”
‘The smell will knock you off your feet’: mass mussel die-offs baffle scientists
Pandemic, ecological collapse?

Mussels, the backbone of the river ecosystem because they control silt levels and filter water, are facing a mysterious affliction
Each fall since 2016, wildlife biologist Jordan Richard has returned to the same portion of the Clinch River in Tennessee, braced for the worst – tens of thousands of newly dead mussel shells gleaming from the surface of the water.
The mass die-off isn’t recognizable at first. But once Richard sees the first freshwater mussel, which look quite different to their marine cousins of moules frite fame, he scans the river and finds another every five to 10 seconds.
This sham of a Queen’s speech could prove the end for Boris Johnson | Polly Toynbee
The prime minister wanted to shoot Labour’s fox but he has no plans, no vision – just focus-grouped pleasers
Folderol, hokum and flapdoodle – the usual absurdities of the Queen’s speech rigmarole were reduced to their ultimate fatuity on Monday. As she named those 26 never-to-be-enacted bills engraved laboriously on goatskin vellum, they might as well have been scribbled in ballpoint pen, these electioneering geegaws and giveaways, embellished with thumbscrews on crime and migration. But nothing matters here except the evanescent promise of an EU withdrawal deal, always just beyond reach. “My government will …” she intoned as if sucking lemons, but she has no government capable of doing anything at all.
What heavy lifting it would take to turn this country into Boris Johnson’s “greatest place on Earth”, in its present miserable state caused mainly by him. Leave aside Brexit devilment that hangs by a thread, look at the rest of his empty prospectus. If this was a hunting expedition designed to shoot Labour’s fox, it may have the opposite effect.
More scrutiny, but more H-1B visas approved
The US has approved a higher number of H-1B applications (both for initial visas and visa extensions for continued employment) this year, showing that the demand for these work visas continues unabated. This is a relief to Indians, who are the dominant holders of H-1B visas, especially after processing regulations got more stringent post-2015 .
Trumpism’s Infinite Vulgarities
Republicans have come to accept what they once professed to abhor.
France to ensure safety of military in Syria in ‘coming hours’: Elysee
Pullback Leaves Green Berets Feeling ‘Ashamed,’ and Kurdish Allies Describing ‘Betrayal’
As Turkish forces cross into Kurdish areas of northern Syria, the orders from Washington to U.S. troops are simple: Stand back. Let the Kurds fight for themselves.
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