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| Good morning. It’s Wednesday, April 22, and we were troubled to learn this morning that we’ve been washing pants wrong all our lives. Now let’s get to the news. | |
 | President Donald Trump indefinitely extended the U.S. ceasefire with Iran. | | |
 | Virginia passed a redistricting measure that could help Democrats retake the House. | | |
 |  | The Post revealed what’s in the fundraising contract for the White House ballroom. | | | Construction cranes loom over the area where the East Wing of the White House once stood. (Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post) | - Trump fought to keep it secret: The agreement governs hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations toward the most significant change to the White House in decades.
- What’s inside? Find the key details here. Taken together, the contract’s provisions allow wealthy people with business before the federal government to donate anonymously.
- Elsewhere in the nation’s capital: Anti-Trump protest art is having a moment.
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 | The CDC won’t publish a report showing the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccine. | - According to the report: The vaccine reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter.
- But its publication has been blocked: The move has alarmed some CDC officials.
- Today in Congress: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Oklahoma), his onetime political savior who has become an adversary.
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 | More than 150 million people in the U.S. live in areas affected by harmful levels of pollution. | - In a new report: Researchers graded air quality around the nation. It found nearly half of U.S. children are exposed to polluted air. See the cities and states most affected here.
- One major risk factor: Extended exposure to wildfire smoke could increase the risk of at least five types of cancer, according to a separate study presented yesterday.
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 | A massive marine heat wave threatens to make the summer hotter. | | | A marine heat wave grows and intensifies across the Pacific Ocean during March and April. (Ben Noll/The Washington Post/NOAA) | - In a 5,000-mile swath of the Pacific: Waters are as much as 6 to 8 degrees above average. The zone stretches from Micronesia to the coastal waters of California.
- In the months ahead: The ocean anomaly could boost temperatures, humidity and the threat of tropical storms in the western U.S., according to climate scientists.
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 | New treatments for one of the deadliest cancers are stirring hope. | | | Teacher-researcher Maryvonne Ardourel points toward a pancreatic cancer cell on a micrograph. (Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/Getty Images) | - Pancreatic cancer can be lethal: It’s the third-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths, with a five-year survival of just 13% of patients. Treatments have changed little in decades.
- But now: Experimental therapies are capturing attention, including a pill that inhibits a protein that drives tumor growth. That could be approved by the FDA as soon as this year.
Before you go … fuel shortages are wreaking havoc on summer air travel: Here’s what to know. Plus: Why having separate bank accounts could harm your marriage. One more good read: In dark times,
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