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8 Min Read (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. The first of 100 cases on his docket was that of Tonya Raynor, a 64-year-old who owed $2,790 in back rent and fees on an apartment on the city’s east side, a swath of vacant storefronts and boarded-up properties. Members of KC Tenants, an anti-eviction group, maintain a blockade at the Eastern Jackson County Courthouse in Independence, Missouri, U.S. January 5, 2021. Carly Rosin/Handout via REUTERS “Miss Raynor, are you there?” asked Grate, a bur...

By Syndicated Content By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - As freezing temperatures settled over Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 28, Judge Jack Grate opened his online courtroom. The first of 100 cases on his docket was that of Tonya Raynor, a 64-year-old who owed $2,790 in back rent and fees on an apartment on the city’s east side, a swath of vacant storefronts and boarded-up properties. “Miss Raynor, are you there?” asked Grate, a burly 71-year-old sporting a beard, a buzz cut and a rumpled, orange short-sleeve shirt. A booming voice responded: “This is not justice....

5 Min Read (Reuters) - James Villalobos, a communications consultant for an insurance company in New York, downloaded the Robinhood online brokerage app back in September. FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, New York, U.S., October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo/File Photo He was hesitant about getting involved in the stock market – “I never understood what it was, what it did” – but a few months later he created an account and bought shares in airlines and cruise lines, figuring the industries, slammed by COVID-1...