In the final weeks of his presidency, outgoing US President Joe Biden and his National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, discussed the possibility of launching airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Iran's air defense units practiced defending the nuclear facility using point-defense strategies to counter various aerial threats under simulated electronic warfare conditions.

The Treasury Department penalizes Russian and Iranian entities that created AI disinformation and tried to hack both parties’ campaigns, respectively

The greatest gift from Benjamin Netanyahu to Joe Biden was making the departing American president’s Middle East legacy seem much better than it is. And he did it by ignoring Mr. Biden’s advice.

Iran is likely to respond to any US crackdown on its oil exports during the presidency of Donald Trump with harassment and seizure of ships, according to security firm Ambrey.

Oil prices hit a near three-month high on Wednesday as concerns about supply disruptions and optimism over rising demand supported the market.

The spectre of runaway inflation that the US recently faced also harkens back to the Carter years. The double-digit spikes in consumer prices over the first two years of Biden's presidency, enflamed by the shock of the global Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, was a reminder of the darkest days of the late 1970s.

HANNITY: So Republicans now have the House. There was an 80% prediction that Republicans would lose the House. They have a slim majority. Mike Johnson will be Speaker. John Thune is Majority Leader. Are you confident that this agenda,

Starting now, Trump should warn everyone aiding Iran’s economy to end their business immediately or face painful penalties on day one of his presidency, and he can curtail the regime’s revenues by fully enforcing sanctions on anyone involved in producing or exporting Iranian energy.

Today in History for Jan. 20:

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in hospice care.