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.
Over a dozen states are under air quality alerts as smoke from the Canadian wildfires continues to make its way across the country.
Millions of Americans continue to be under a heat advisory as extreme temperatures are still affecting the southern U.S.
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As we reported on Friday, a suspect has been charged in connection with a series of murders that took place on Gilgo Beach, Long Island more than a decade ago. The victims' remains were found between 2010 and 2011 after the disappearance of one woman resulted in a search of the area. This morning, our sister network News 12 reported that police in Suffolk County are now executing a search warrant at a storage unit.
The suspect in a shooting that left four people dead in Hampton, Georgia on Saturday was killed by police.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake was reported in Alaska over the weekend, leading to a brief tsunami warning.
Over 11 million Americans are under a heat advisory, with the extreme weather hitting the southern U.S.
If someone's number is drawn Monday night, it will be the third-largest jackpot in Powerball's history — its largest was November 2022's $2.04 billion prize — and the seventh-largest of any U.S. lottery.
French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Birkin as a “complete artist,” noting that her soft voice went hand-in-hand with her “ardent” activism. Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak called Birkin “the most French British person" and “the emblem for a whole epoch who never went out of fashion."
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled that banning large capacity magazines and requiring a permit to purchase a gun falls in line with “the nation’s history and tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous features of weapons and firearms to protect public safety," Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
