President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are both claiming credit for Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire deal in Gaza after the White House brought Trump's Middle East envoy into negotiations that have dragged on for months.

President Joe Biden, in his final foreign policy address on Jan. 13, said he continues to press for a Gaza ceasefire deal and that he believe it is close.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage deal that will end the fighting in Gaza and surge humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians. "I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas,

But hobbled by inflation, illegal immigration and his own advancing age, Mr. Biden leaves office as an unpopular one-term president, turning over the Oval Office to a man he considers a fascist and a danger to democracy. He hopes that history will remember him more fondly than his contemporaries do and, as with other presidents, it just well might.

U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions from the media at a briefing on the federal response to the wildfires across Los Angeles, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 10,

President Biden will deliver his farewell address as President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House next week.

The Justice Department special counsel whose six-year case into Hunter Biden was short-circuited last month by the unconditional pardon President Joe Biden granted to his son, criticized the outgoing president in his final report Monday.

The report of the special counsel behind the prosecutions against Hunter Biden, David Weiss, was released Monday.

The U.S. special counsel who prosecuted Democratic President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden called the president's criticisms of the cases "gratuitous and wrong" in a final report on his probe published on Monday.