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Elon Musk has put the brakes on his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, saying the site has too many fake accounts. But is the world's richest man just hoping to negotiate a better deal?

The community in Buffalo, New York, is holding vigils to honor the victims of Saturday's shooting. President Biden traveled there Tuesday to talk with the families of the victims.

Federal documents suggest that the Sago mine, where 12 men died after being trapped by an explosion Monday, has a record of committing serious safety violations.

Many people living along the northern Israeli border have fled to shelters. In one shelter, a group of older Russian émigrés live underground as Hezbollah rockets pepper their region.

A federal court jury in Houston convicts Enron founder Ken Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling of conspiracy and fraud. They will be sentenced on Sept. 11, and face lengthy prison terms. Both men intend to appeal the verdicts.

The late 1960s were the golden age of Soul music. In studios located in Muscle Shoals, Ala., and Memphis, Tenn., legends like Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge and Otis Redding were recording songs that proved timeless. And many of them were made with Dan Penn.

Mark Hanis is a young activist for the Darfur cause. He leads a group called the Genocide Intervention Network that has raised $250,000 for the African Union peacekeeping forces in Darfur.

Official election results give a center-left coalition led by Romano Prodi a thin majority in both houses of Italy's parliament. Prodi rejects calls by current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to form a broad-based government of national unity. Also in Italy, authorities nab a mafia boss sought for more than 40 years.

Perhaps nowhere is the standoff over Iran's nuclear enrichment program followed more closely than in Los Angeles' Iranian-American community. Known as Tehrangeles, it's the biggest community of Iranians outside Iran.

Women have made great strides in many professional fields, but few women lead major symphony orchestras in the United States. Celeste Headlee of Detroit Public Radio reports on why female conductors are so rare.