PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - April 7

April 7 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- U.S. President Donald Trump said that a cease-fire proposal put forth by mediators between the United States and Iran was a "significant step," but he warned that it was "not good enough" as his deadline of Tuesday evening for a deal approached.

- Donald Trump spoke with the astronauts of the Artemis II mission hours after their spaceship swung around the far side of the moon and took them farther from Earth than any humans.

- Bank of New York Mellon BK.N and the brokerage Robinhood HOOD.O will work with the federal government to handle the so-called Trump accounts, a tax-sheltered savings system for children, the Treasury Department said.

- The Trump administration terminated multiple civil rights settlements aimed at ensuring transgender students' rights to equal opportunity to an education, forcing school officials to choose whether to comply with the government's interpretation of federal anti-discrimination laws or to abide by conflicting state statutes.