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Prince William is due to travel to New York next month to attend an Earthshot Prize summit - although is unlikely to meet up with his brother Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle

The 2022 Earthshot Prize awards will be held in Boston in the US in December.

Here we are, on the weedy old lots once occupied by long-gone Baltimoreans of the long-gone city, the Baltimore of the previous millennium that smelled “like a billion polecats” in summer (H.L. Mencken’s description) and teemed with more than 900,000 inhabitants, many of them crowded into row houses.

PHILADELPHIA — In response to the city's ongoing gun violence crisis and the shooting of two police officers at an Independence Day celebration, leaders in Philadelphia's City Council this week said it was time to reexamine the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk.