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Investors will be looking both at home and abroad this week for reassurance about the U.S.

economy, the war, and its impact on inflation.

NPR's Marie Aspin reports.

President Trump says Iran's response to the latest U.S.

plan to end the Middle East war is totally unacceptable.

Iran sent its answer to mediators in Pakistan, which is acting as an intermediary.

Iran said the U.S.

proposal essentially amounts to a surrender.

Meanwhile, the U.S.

ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Walsh, said on ABC's This Week, the U.S.

had to take military action against Iran to stop its nuclear program.

In response to Trump's plan, Iran says it must have control of the Strait of Hormuz and there must also be an end to economic sanctions.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett will visit Japan and South Korea this week before going on to China with President Trump.

NPR's Anthony Kuhn has more from Seoul.

Six people were found dead inside of a freight rail car in Laredo, Texas on Sunday.

The railroad worker found the bodies' temperatures in the area were in the mid-90 degree range.

This is NPR News from Washington.

In Canada, supporters of a provincial boycott of American liquor say it appears to be working.

As Dan Karpinchuk reports, an industry group in the United States says liquor exports to Canada are down 63 percent this year.