A group of Black employees at the U.S. Mint wrote a letter in June asking Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to intervene and address what they say is “rampant racism” at the bureau.

After more than three months of daily protests, and hit by budget cuts and a rise in retirements, police in Portland, Ore., are facing a rise in violent crime and say they are overstretched.

Declines in shares of technology companies weighed on the S&P 500, capping off another tumultuous week for the stock market.

Downloads of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app and U.S. use of China’s popular messaging-and-payment app face bans over national security and data privacy concerns.

Saudi Royal Family Divides Over Potential Embrace of Israel King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been at odds over whether to ease relations with the Jewish state. Israel’s deal with the U.A.E. stunned the 84-year-old monarch. Normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel before any deal for Palestinian statehood would be a seismic shift in the Middle East.