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Trash Overflows in Philadelphia as City Workers’ Strike Enters Second Week

Pungent odors permeate the City of Brotherly Love as a contract impasse between the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees continues.

© Matt Slocum/Associated Press

A man dropped off trash at a garbage collection site last week in Philadelphia.

Chicago Suburb Will Buy Pope Leo XIV’s Boyhood Home

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, grappling with a deficit and potholes, could afford it.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up voted on Tuesday to buy his boyhood home.
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