Biden grants $6 billion to Micron to boost chip production
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Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology gives U.S. President Joe Biden a wafer during Biden's visit to the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology, in Syracuse, New York, April 25, 2024.
U.S. President Joe Biden was in Syracuse, New York, Thursday to tout a deal to provide memory chip maker Micron Technology with $6.1 billion in federal grants to support the firm in building factories in the states of New York and Idaho.
People gather on a bridge where a woman's body was retrieved after floodwater washed away houses and people in Kamuchiri village, Nakuru county, Kenya, on April 30, 2024. At least 48 people were killed in the incident. A man sits on a tree trunk in flooded Kamuchiri village, Kenya, on April 30, 2024. Kenya has been overwhelmed by flooding that killed 66 people on Monday alone and in recent days has blocked a national highway, swamped the main airport and swept a bus off a bridge.