Tax lien investing allows hedge funds and private equity firms to exploit mostly poor, elderly Black and Latino homeowners, leveraging the machinery of local tax enforcement.
At least five gunmen killed over 15 police officers and a priest and injured several others in coordinated attacks on a synagogue and two churches and a police post in Russia. Later, they were neutralised in counter-operations by the Russian security forces.
Distressed borrowers in parts of Maine, Nebraska and West Virginia are the latest to get short-term leniency on government loan payments due to disasters.
Some unidentified armed men attacked an Orthodox church and a synagogue in the mostly Muslim republic of Dagestan, state media reported Sunday, resulting…