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Separately, the state of Maryland has reached a settlement with the owners and operators of the ship that struck the bridge.

This is worth $2.25 billion.

The settlement avoids a trial scheduled to start next month.

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

ceasefire proposal.

He wrote online yesterday it was, quote, totally unacceptable.

Iran was calling for an end to the war and an end to the U.S.

blockade on Iranian ports, among other demands.

Iran continues to stall all commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, Trump is going to China this week for a major visit.

He was supposed to visit China in March to talk about trade, but NPR's Tamara Keith says the war forced Trump to reschedule.

NPR's Tamara Keith reporting.

The Lebanese health ministry says Israeli airstrikes over the weekend killed 87 people.

That's despite a ceasefire between the two countries aimed at disarming the militant group Hezbollah.

NPR's Jane Araf has more.

The Trump administration says it's moving forward on a promise to expand access to fertility treatments at lower cost.

And Pierre Chandelier-Duster has more on the latest proposal.

A Nobel Peace Prize laureate imprisoned in Iran has been transferred to a hospital in Tehran, according to her foundation.