WASHINGTON—U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday accused New York City, Seattle, and Portland, Ore., of “permitting violence and destruction of property” while failing to support the police and protect their citizens.

WASHINGTON—TikTok will partner with Oracle and Walmart to form a U.S.-based company that serves the social media app’s roughly 100 million American users. President Donald Trump on Saturday said the deal had his “blessing” and his administration would delay a proposed ban on downloading or providing technical support for the app. TikTok and another China-based app, WeChat, raised concerns the Chinese government could collect user data about Americans from the platforms.

The government is investigating far-left antifa militants who pose a real threat to the public, FBI director Chris Wray said. In testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, he called antifa a movement, not an organization, saying, “We’re focused on the violence, not the ideology.” Lone wolf actors who can easily obtain weapons pose the biggest threat to U.S. security, he said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that because of a budget deficit the coronavirus outbreak brought on, he would lay off himself and every employee in his office for an unpaid week later this fiscal year.

The move will save approximately $860,000. But the city’s projected deficit for the year stands at a devastating $9 billion, and the hole did not come just from responding to the virus.

A panel of judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status (TPS) for some immigrants did not amount to racial discrimination. The Department of Homeland Security uses TPS for those fleeing disasters or humanitarian crises. In 2018, the agency ended the designation for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Sudan, saying it had become safe to return to those countries.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Friday announced the second U.S.-brokered peace deal between an Arab nation and Israel in less than a month. Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached the agreement after their countries went almost five decades without normal diplomatic ties. Bahrain is only the fourth Arab nation to establish full relations with the Jewish state.

WASHINGTON—Republicans in the Senate fell eight votes shy of the 60 needed to advance their COVID-19 economic relief legislation on Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., proposed a slimmed-down, $500 billion aid bill, but Democrats blasted it for not doing enough. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the bill “emaciated,” “filled with poison pills,” and “partisanly designed.”