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.
The planet's temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high, the latest in a series of climate-change extremes that alarm but don't surprise scientists.
Complete sexual assault case folios containing intimate details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records and discrimination complaints.
A 40-year-old accused of killing a man in a house and then gunning down four others in Philadelphia before surrendering to police officers was arraigned on murder and other charges on Wednesday.
The television actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult-like group NXIVM, has been released from a California prison, according to a government website.
