P.M. Edition for Jan. 15. As President Trump weighs whether to strike Iran, he’s been advised that a large-scale strike against the country would be unlikely to make the regime fall, U.S. officials said. WSJ national security reporter Alex Ward says that doesn’t mean that military action is off the table. Plus, an Arizona mine that became the first new source of U.S. copper in decades has a new big customer: Amazon. Journal reporter Ryan Dezember discusses what’s going on in the U.S. copper industry. And there’s new charges in the basketball betting scandal that is now one of the most sprawling gambling cases in the history of American sports. Alex Ossola hosts.

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