The White House designation will assist Syracuse and Upstate NY in building a pipeline of workers to support Micron's $100 billion investment.

The Micron project comes after the White House has announced massive investments for Intel, TSMC and Samsung in recent weeks using funds from the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.

Calling it a "big deal day," President Joe Biden visited Syracuse, New York Thursday to celebrate tech company Micron’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with $6 billion of government support.

President Joe Biden visited Syracuse on Thursday to promote a federal cash infusion for Micron chip manufacturing plants in New York and Idaho. He announced a deal to provide $6.1 billion in federal grants for the company’s planned $100 billion complex of computer chip plants in the town of Clay,

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has granted clemency to 16 people who were convicted of non-violent drug crimes, issuing pardons to 11 men and women and commuting the sentences of five other people in the latest use of his clemency power to address racial disparities in the justice system.

President Joe Biden used his authority under the Constitution to “advance equal justice under law” by granting clemency to “deserving individuals” who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses, according to the announcement.

President Biden on Wednesday granted clemency to 16 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. The pardon recipients include a woman who has since earned her doctorate,