WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump rebuffed a federal watchdog agency’s recommendation that he fire White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act, which limits political activity by government workers. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel sent a letter to the president Thursday saying Conway violated the law on numerous occasions by disparaging Democratic candidates in her official capacity during media interviews and on social media.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if a foreign power offered “dirt” on his 2020 election opponent, he saw nothing wrong with accepting the information. ABC News Director George Stephanopoulos asked Trump whether he would accept information offered by Russia or China or report the offer to the FBI. “I think maybe you do both,” the president said. “I think you might want to listen.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over U.S. Department of Justice documents related to his administration’s inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 census. The House Oversight and Reform Committee had subpoenaed all pertinent internal documents as part of an investigation into how and why the Trump administration decided to include the citizenship question.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took aim at each other Tuesday while campaigning in Iowa.

WASHINGTON—John Dean, a former lawyer for the Nixon administration, testified during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Monday, calling the Mueller report a “road map” to investigate President Donald Trump. Democrats asked Dean, a key whistleblower in the 1970s Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, to provide historical context for investigating a president. He described similarities between special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 U.S.

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has recommended changes for handling claims of sexual abuse in its churches ahead of the denomination’s annual meeting this week in Birmingham, Ala. The SBC formed the Sexual Abuse Advisory Group in July 2018 and the group issued a report on Saturday containing first-person accounts from survivors and acknowledging a variety of failures in how the SBC has responded to abuse, including minimizing incidents and failing to report crimes.

After intense criticism from pro-abortion advocates, former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from directly funding abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is endangered.

Biden announced at a Democratic National Committee event in Atlanta on Thursday that he changed his position due to Republican lawmakers in some states passing “extreme laws in clear violation of constitutional rights.”