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The flooded St. Mark's Square on Nov. 15, 2019, in Venice, two days after the city suffered a high tide. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Venice may be put on the endangered list, thanks to human-created climate change

The impacts of climate change including related disasters, such as wildfires and sea level rise, are increasingly raising a question about how best to save cultural heritage.

A swing sits empty on a playground outside in Providence, R.I. Experts say the end of the expanded child tax credit was a key factor in the big rise in child poverty. David Goldman/AP hide caption

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Child poverty more than doubles — a year after hitting record low, Census data shows

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Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme in the city of Taiz on September 11. Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The U.N.'s food program has a funding problem. Now millions are going hungry

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The flooded St. Mark's Square on Nov. 15, 2019, in Venice, two days after the city suffered a high tide. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Venice may be put on the endangered list, thanks to human-created climate change

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New COVID-19 vaccines received the backing of a panel of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday. The shots will be available across the country later this week. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption

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CDC advisers back broad rollout of new COVID boosters

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People check an area damaged by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on Monday. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Libya fears a spiraling death toll from powerful storm floods

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Jets fans think they are cursed. It's starting to feel like they're right

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