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President Joe Biden is going into his third State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes

USD 200 billion this year and huge opportunities exist for the two countries to expand cooperation in defence, space besides critical emerging technologies like semiconductors and artificial intelligence, said American Ambassador Eric Garcetti on Thursday. The US is proud to be India's No. 1 trading partner with two-way trade reaching nearly USD 200 billion last year, Garcetti told reporters in Indore. «I think this year we will break the (previous) record of USD 200 billion in bilateral trade (between India and the US),» he said. The envoy asserted that US President Joe Biden in the past had emphasized that trade between India and America should rise to the level of USD 500 billion given the potential for expansion. Efforts are on achieve this goal, said the Ambassador who took charge of his new diplomatic assignment last year.

President Joe Biden will propose increasing the minimum tax rates paid by major US and multinational corporations to 21% and eliminating breaks for companies with high-paid executives in his election-year State of the Union address on Thursday night.

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2024 general election. “It is important, for the Good of our Country, that Joe Biden and I Debate Issues that are so vital to America, and the American People," Trump wrote Wednesday in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. “Therefore, I am calling for Debates, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE!" Trump’s desire to debate comes hours after his final Republican rival, Nikki Haley, dropped out of the race, marking the start of the longest general presidential election in recent history.

The stage is set for a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the US presidential election due in November after Trump swept 14 of the 15 primary elections in ‘Super Tuesday’ states, even as his Republican rival Nikki Haley reportedly decided to suspend her White House campaign. Though Haley did manage a win in Vermont, Trump becoming the party’s nominee seems just a formality.

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The New York Times, Donald Trump on Sunday met Musk and a number of wealthy Republican donors. It is said that Trump is hoping to have a "one-on-one discussion" with the SpaceX CEO. However, the owner-executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter), took to his microblogging platform to clear that he is not funding either the Republicans or the Democrats for the upcoming US Presidential elections.

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15 states and one US territory cast ballots on Tuesday. The states which were up for grabs on Tuesday, which include the giant battlegrounds of California and Texas, offered 70 per cent of the delegates a candidate needs to be named the presumptive nominee. They do not officially become the nominees until they are confirmed by their party conventions later in the summer.

Nikki Haley plans to end her presidential campaign on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, a decision that will ensure that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination and once again face Democratic President Joe Biden in November's election. Haley is expected to make an appearance to deliver brief remarks around 10 am ET and made her decision after Super Tuesday, the report said, citing people familiar with her plans.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that monitors online hate speech, used generative AI tools to create images of US president Joe Biden laying in a hospital bed and election workers smashing voting machines, raising worries about falsehoods ahead of the US presidential election in November.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures inch higher as markets gear up for Fed Chair Jerome Powell's much-anticipated testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Bitcoin pares back losses after the world's most popular cryptocurrency touches a new all-time high. A rematch of the 2020 U.S. presidential election seems ever more likely after President Joe Biden and Donald Trump secure major victories in Super Tuesday primary voting.

Joe Biden's near-perfect Super Tuesday had a notable blemish — his sweeping streak of wins was marred by an expected defeat to a little-known rival. Biden swept every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday everywhere — except in American Samoa. He was beaten there by a previously unknown Democrat candidate named Jason Palmer.

Joe Biden has warned that a second Donald Trump term would mean a return to «chaos, division and darkness,» CNN reported. He highlighted the progress his administration has made in its first term in office. In a statement, Biden wrote, «Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed to the America we all believe in.» He spoke about the US' progress under his administration on jobs, inflation, prescription drug prices, and gun control.

Elon Musk in a social media post on X criticized United States President Joe Biden referring to a news report which says «Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the US to reduce the number of crossing at the border has nation security vulnerability.» Elon Musk said «This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants. It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.» Musk reposted a X user post which said «This is insane. The Biden administration admits to transporting 320,000 illegal aliens on secret flights into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings. Lawyers for its immigration agencies claim revealing the locations could create national security “vulnerabilities.”

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the choice seems to be simple. Both political parties already have clarity over who their nominees will be, as Joe Biden (Democrat leader) and Donald Trump (Republican leader) have cruised through the early voting states. Super Tuesday is the primary election day the most states hold their primaries and caucuses and decide on the bulk of delegates for candidates in their respective parties.

Elon Musk's stark warnings, has thrust President Joe Biden's immigration policies into the spotlight. Musk alleges a perilous strategy, likening it to «importing voters» and raising concerns about national security that could surpass the impact of 9/11.