DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — Entry to the hottest ... Daylight Pass Road, with large chunks of asphalt torn away, looked like a layer cake, with pieces cut out and scattered across the desert ...

It may not sound like a lot, but on average, Furnace Creek — where the Aug. 20 rainfall record was measured — gets 2.15 inches in an entire year, said Death Valley park ranger Elyscia Letterman.

If a 16-ton CIA spy aircraft crashes into a mountainside amidst the pure-black inky darkness of night in Death Valley, does ...