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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Merry Clayton, the veteran backup singer who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Feet From Stardom," is recovering after being seriously injured in an automobile accident.

Clayton's manager, Alan Abrahams, said in a statement Monday that the 65-year-old singer suffered "severe injuries to her lower body, including major trauma to her lower extremities," in the June 16 crash.

Clayton has "a long road to recovery," Abrahams said.

"It's a very serious situation," he said. "She's feisty, and she's with us. She's gonna make it."

Clayton began her career in the early 1960s and has recorded with Ray Charles, Carole King, Bobby Darin and the Rolling Stones. Her story was among those told in the film "20 Feet From Stardom," which won the best documentary film Oscar earlier this year.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slipped below record levels on Monday as investors assessed corporate news. Wisconsin Energy and General Electric both fell after the companies announced that they had made acquisitions.

KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell two points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,960 as of 3:41 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 21 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,925. The Nasdaq composite index edged down two points to 4,366.

DEAL NEWS: Micros Systems rose $2.20, or 3.3 percent, to $68.42 after Oracle said it was buying the company for about $5.3 billion. Wisconsin Energy fell $1.57, or 3.3 percent, to $45.32 after the company said that it was buying Integrys Energy for $5.8 billion. Intergrys jumped $8.01, or 13.1 percent, to $68.91. General Electric fell after agreeing to acquire most of the power generation business of Alstom. GE dropped 29 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $26.68.

FARM WOES: FMC fell $3.54, or 4.7 percent, to $71.99, making it the biggest decliner in the S&P 500 index. The chemicals company cut its earnings forecast for the second quarter due after its Agricultural Solutions unit performed worse than expected after farmers used less of its products due to an unusually harsh winter.

YOGA BATTLE: Lululemon rose $1.20, or 3 percent, to $41.42 after The Wall Street Journal reported that the company's founder was working with investment bank Goldman Sachs to shake up the yoga clothing company's board. Lululemon's stock is down 30 percent this year as the company works on improving its business since pulling one of its popular yoga pants from stores last spring because they were too sheer.

SUMMER LULL: The stock market may be heading toward a summer lull after a recent string of gains, said Scott Wren, a senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors. The S&P 500 has gained for four of the past five weeks and is up 6 percent for the year.

"We're starting to get some summer doldrums going," Wren said. "After the big run we've had over the past couple of months, a week or two of consolidation isn't anything out of the ordinary."

BONDS AND COMMODITIES: The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was unchanged from Friday at 2.61 percent. The price of oil dropped 66 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $106.17 a barrel.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have downgraded the tsunami warning that was issued for parts of Alaska's Aleutian Islands after a magnitude-8.0 earthquake.

Monday's quake generated small tsunamis, with waves of less than 7 inches, prompting the National Tsunami Warning Center to downgrade the warning to an advisory.

Small waves are still expected along parts of the Aleutian Islands stretching from Unimak Pass to Attu, and officials advised people to stay off the beaches.

The earthquake recorded at 12:53 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time was centered about 13 miles southeast of Little Sitkin Island or 25 miles north Amchitka Island, an area prone to earthquakes located about 1,300 miles southwest of Anchorage.

There were several strong aftershocks, but no immediate reports of damage.

The largest city near the epicenter is Adak, which has about 300 residents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop supporting pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine and the flow of arms across the border.

Obama and Putin spoke by telephone on Monday morning. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama urged Putin to use his personal influence with those separatists to promote peace and stability in Ukraine. He says a diplomatic solution is still possible but Russia will face additional costs if it doesn't take concrete action.

Earnest says the United States is very supportive of new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. He says Poroshenko is, quote, "willing to go the extra mile."

The calls comes as insurgents in eastern Ukraine are promising to honor a cease-fire declared by Poroshenko and engage in more talks to help resolve the deadly conflict.