Mobile Baykeeper and the Center for Biological Diversity announced Tuesday it has filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its alleged failure to protect endangered Gulf Sturgeon during its $366 million project to deepen and widen the shipping channel in Mobile Bay.

A Fort Bliss soldier was killed, and another injured during a shooting early Sunday morning at a bar in nearby El Paso, according to base officials and local law enforcement.

Vice President Kamala Harris does better than President Joe Biden in a matchup with former President Donald Trump. A nationwide poll released Tuesday shows 49% for Trump to 44% for Harris, compared to a 49% to 41% Trump-Biden matchup.

Florida’s population crossed the 23 million residents mark for the first time this year because of the influx of people moving from other states. The state Demographic Estimating Conference says Florida added almost 359,000 people last year. Florida is the third most populous state in the U.S.

Iowa’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant. The law was passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced.

U.S. airline regulators have opened an investigation into Delta Air Lines, which is still struggling to restore operations on Tuesday, more than four full days after a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide and disrupted global air travel.

When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest. That’s because to the Ojibwe, the drum is the heartbeat of their people, and singing with it is a crucial center point of social powwows and spiritual ceremonies.

An ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader is asking a Nevada judge to change her mind and release him from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur. Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ attorney asked for a hearing Tuesday to try to show that the money for Davis’ $750,000 bail was legally obtained.

Investigators have arrested a teenager in connection with a shooting at an Iowa mall that left the teen and another person wounded and sent people running for safety. Police said Tuesday that they had arrested a 16-year-old on several weapons charges.

A career Pentagon official who had a romantic relationship with a married four-star admiral could become a key government witness against him, according to his lawyer and court filings in a high-profile U.S. military corruption case that accuses the admiral of steering work to a New York company in exchange for post-retirement employment.