NPR News: 05-01-2026 11AM EDT

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Iran has delivered its latest proposal for the U. S. It comes as President Trump was quoted this week telling the Axios News website he rejected a previous Iranian proposal. Previous Iranian proposal would have seen trapped oil and gas tankers moving again through the vital Strait of Harmuz, but it would have pushed talks on Iran's nuclear program to a later stage. That offer after meeting with his national security team on Monday. Iran state news agency IRNA says Iran has now delivered a new text for negotiation to mediator Pakistan with the aim of ending the war that the US and Israel launched two months ago. Iran's president, however, was quoted by ERNA saying Iran's ready for diplomacy if the U. S. ends its maximalist approach. The U. S. and Iran have only met once since the ceasefire came into effect. Those talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement. President Trump has now nominated his third choice for Surgeon General, Dr. Nicole Sapphire. She is a radiologist who works at one of the nation's top cancer centers. She's kind of an originator of the Make America Healthy Again movement before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took it on. It was actually the title of a book she published back in twenty twenty. Sapphire's views on vaccines are a little murky. She's not against all vaccines, doesn't think they cause au