How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough – The New York Times

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How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough – The New York Times

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dire diagnoses in medicine. There are few available treatments, and they do little to help. For decades, experimental drugs flopped in trials. Many researchers believed the biological obstacles could not be surmounted.

In what seems the blink of an eye, all that has changed. A drug nearing regulatory approval, daraxonrasib, is the first to substantially extend the lives of patients with pancreatic cancer. It works by targeting a cellular protein that fuels not just nearly all pancreatic tumors, but also many lung and colon cancers. Those three are the leading causes of cancer deaths.

Trump Administration Is Considering Pausing the Federal Gas Tax to Lower Prices, Energy Secretary Says – The New York Times

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Trump Administration Is Considering Pausing the Federal Gas Tax to Lower Prices, Energy Secretary Says – The New York Times

Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said on Sunday that the Trump administration would be open to pausing the federal gas tax to give Americans some relief at the pump.

“All measures that can be taken to lower the price of at the pump and lower the prices for Americans, this administration is in support of,” Mr. Wright said on the NBC program “Meet the Press” in response to a question about temporarily suspending the federal gas tax.

As of Sunday, the average national gas price was $4.52 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. Americans pay a little over 18 cents a gallon for gasoline and about 24 cents a gallon for diesel in federal taxes. If the taxes were paused today, the average price for gasoline would be $4.34 a gallon, still well above the average price of $2.98 a gallon two days before President
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