Election legal challenges were playing out Tuesday as voters cast ballots across the country in the midterm elections.

The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others were injured Monday during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas.

The areas in the bullseye on the northwestern Gulf coast appear to extend from Metro Houston to Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas, and into southwestern Louisiana. The entire Gulf coast is tremendously vulnerable to the Gulf water being swept up over the shoreline and piled deep over normally dry land. If Hurricane Laura misses Houston to the right, Beaumont and Port Arthur are in its path, plus the areas near Lake Charles, Louisiana. Hurricane Laura is forecast to come ashore late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. Hurricane Laura: 8:15 a.m. Tuesday advisory.

When Melissa Vick gave birth to her first child, a son, in May 2017, she and her husband Greg felt like they were able to share him with their friends and family, almost immediately.

So Daz allegedly turned to one of the oldest ways of moving vast sums of money anonymously: buying gold. She radically denies having had any gold ingots or any bank account in Liechtenstein, Oliver said. Wire transfers from Panamanian shell companies were routed through CBH to Greenhill and Amblia's accounts at the state-owned Liechtensteinische Landesbank in 2012, according to the Liechtenstein court. However, U.S. prosecutors in their exchanges with Swiss authorities in 2018 suggest the bank had itself been defrauded by Beaumont. The gold bars allegedly belonging to Daz represent just a small fraction of the total amount looted from Venezuela.

Drivers in Winnie, Texas, were trapped in I-10 between Houston and Beaumont after remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda moved through on Sept. 19, 2019. Hide Caption