He will step down. I'm Lisa Salisara. Fox News. FBI director Christopher Ray says he will resign at the end of President Biden's term.

His coming a week and a half after President-elect Trump announced plans to replace him.

Ray had two options to either stay on until January 20th, 21st, 22nd, be fired by President Trump once inaugurated or leave

on his own terms. He chose to leave on his own terms. Attorney General Merrick Garland,

praising Ray for the work he did. He served seven years out of a 10-year term. I want to read

part of the statement. After weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the

Bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down in terms of how we do the work we've got to maintain our independence and objectivity, staying above partisanship and politics.

Fox is David Sponted to the Justice Department.

Trump has nominated Koch Patel to leave the FBI.

He would need to be confirmed by the Senate.

The Pentagon says it doesn't

believe that drones spotted flying over parts of New Jersey are from a foreign adversary. Republican

Congressman Jeff Van Drew has suggested they're from Iran. There is no Iranian ship off the coast

of the United States and there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh, the drones have been spotted near President

President Trump's golf club and a military base.

New evidence linking the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson

to the scene of the crime.

Fox News Digital can now confirm that investigators in New York have been able

to match Luigi Mangione's fingerprints to the scene of the murder of Brian Thompson, the United

Healthcare CEO. More specifically, the New York Post is reporting that they were able to match

fingerprints that were found on a kind snack bar and a water bottle that was

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