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One month shy of completing three years in office, President Trump has fulfilled or is making significant progress on most of his 2016 campaign promises, which aides said give him a strong reelection argument to counter his impeachment by a bitterly partisan House last week.As the president and his team ready for the 2020 campaign at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, officials said it would be built on the administration's achievements list of 15 categories and 319 “results.”Vice President Mike Pence told Secrets that the message is simple: “Promises made, promises kept.” Pence, who has already hit the campaign trail...

Chief Bayo Kuku died on Thursday, March 5, after a protracted illness. He was 85-years-old.Prominent businessman and philanthropist, Bayo Kuku is dead. Chief Kuku died on Thursday, March 5, after a protracted illness. He was 85-years-old. Before his death he held the title of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebuland in Ogun State. He was also the Bobajiro of Ijebuland and the Chairman of the Ijebu Council of Chiefs. He was a lawyer by profession and also the Vice Chairman of Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited. He is survived by his children, one of whom is popular Lagos businessman, Abiodun Kuku, husband to...

WASHINGTON — What if we fail to prevent an attack?Assume every line of defense against nuclear terrorism is breached: the efforts to lock up nuclear material abroad, to spy out hidden weapons programs, to deter rogue states and capture terrorists, to detect smuggled bombs at the border or downtown — every preventive measure discussed in the previous five installments of this series. Assume someone, somehow, gets all the way through. It only has to happen once. Assume that this someone puts together a crude atomic bomb, of the “Little Boy” type dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, a heavy and awkward device...