EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman with three rats on her shoulder at the SPCA of Anne Arundel County’s store Paws at the Mall inside the Westfield Annapolis Mall in Annapolis, Md., on April 22, 2023. (Matt Roth/The New York Times)
EditorialShawn Woods, a YouTube host who blurs rats’ dying moments in videos and often demonstrates the traps with stuffed animals, at his home’s makeshift studio near Monmouth, Ore., Feb. 1, 2023. (Michael Hanson/The New York Times)
EditorialMayor Eric Adams makes the State of the City address at the Queens Theatre in Queens borough of New York, on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialBethany Brookshire, the author of “Pests,” searches for rats behind a dumpster in Asheville, N.C. on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Fallen crypto giant Sam Bankman-Fried is being held in custody in the Bahamas in a prison that was described in 2019 as 'not being fit for humanity.'
Editorial Eric Adams, then the Brooklyn borough president, demonstrates a new technique for trapping and drowning rats during a news conference in Brooklyn, Sept. 5, 2019. (John Taggart/The New York Times)