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The U.N. Wants You To Take A Selfie, Spin Around, Listen To A Llama

It's all part of the crazy, creative campaign to get people to pay attention to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations will endorse this coming week.

Cuyahoga County Council To Consider $5 Million More For Pandemic Response

Cuyahoga County plans to inject another $5 million into its coronavirus response as it competes with other local government bidders for personal protective equipment. County council has scheduled a vote on the spending proposal Tuesday afternoon in a livestreamed remote meeting. The county has already spent $1.75 million, much of it to buy protective equipment including gloves, face shields and N95 respirator masks, according to a spending breakdown posted online.

Exploring Bipartisanship: Conversations with Western Governors | Part 5 Former Nevada Governors Sandoval & Miller

Former Nevada Governors Sandoval (R) and Miller (D) talk on fostering the next generation of leaders

Large swaths of forest have been cut down in Brazil in recent decades to make room for farming. Deforestation contributes to global warming, and reversing it will be necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.

To Slow Global Warming, U.N. Warns Agriculture Must Change

The way we produce food and manage land must change radically if humans hope to avoid catastrophic global temperature rise, according to a new report by the United Nations panel on climate change.

Overflow from the surge of the Cape Fear River along with rain floods downtown Wilmington, N.C. on Friday. Florence's winds have dropped, reducing the hurricane to a tropical storm.

Tropical Storm Florence, 'An Uninvited Brute,' Brings Floods, And At Least 5 Deaths

Hundreds of thousands of customers in North Carolina and South Carolina are without power. One N.C. official warned that part of the state will see "between a 500-year and 1,000-year flood event."