If you're planning your next road trip, the website WalletHub wants to help you pick the most fun destination. The site ranked each state in the U.S. using 26 metrics including the cost of entertainment, restaurants per capita, nightlife options, and access to national parks in hopes of finding out which American state that is the most fun to visit. According to the rankings, the top state was California, followed by Florida, Nevada, New York, and Illinois.
Some residents along the swelling Upper Mississippi River evacuated their homes this week while others scrambled Wednesday to stack sandbags in preparation for what forecasters say could be near-record flooding caused by the rapid melting of a huge snowpack in northern Minnesota.
Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier continues his weeklong series, Shannon Shapes Up, exploring alternative ways to get fit. In today's episode, he learns about the benefits of surfing as exercise with Aaron Thouvenin, owner of Surf Set in midtown Manhattan.
U.N. officials said Tuesday that one side in the Sudan conflict has seized control of a national health lab in the capital of Khartoum that holds biological material, calling it an “extremely dangerous” development.
A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Jury selection has begun in the federal death penalty trial of a man accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
Cheddar News correspondent Shannon LaNier gets his hands dusty learning the finer points of indoor rock climbing, as part of a new series called Shannon Shapes Up.
