WASHINGTON—The United States has infiltrated Russia’s power grid and could unleash a cyberattack, The New York Times reported Saturday. According to current and former Trump administration officials interviewed by the Times, the administration has deployed computer code into Russian utility systems that could be activated if Russian hackers attack the U.S. power grid.

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—The controversy over a decision to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census has dominated the news coming out of the nation’s capital this week. Critics say the change was designed to provide an electoral advantage to white Republicans, while the Trump administration claims it is just trying to enforce voting laws.

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.

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

WASHINGTON—The Democratic-majority U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to authorize a resolution allowing House committees to take legal action against officials who resist subpoenas. The vote was 229-191 strictly along party lines, with 13 abstentions. The resolution specifically mentions Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn.

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.