Seoul tech leads Asian stock gains as traders cheer US inflation
Seoul led gainers in Asian stocks Thursday as investors continued to push back into tech firms after a summer rout, with confidence boosted by easing US interest rate hike fears after data showed inflation slowing last month. The consumer price index (CPI) report for July, which was in line with forecasts, followed figures pointing to […]
Former SPLC Extremism Expert Indicted in Federal Fraud Case Over Informant Payments
A former senior official at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted in a widening federal criminal case examining the civil-rights organization’s use of donor money to pay confidential informants embedded in extremist groups. Heidi Beirich, 59, a longtime expert on far-right extremism who previously led the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, was named in an […]
