Play this video game to try your paw at surviving as Cheddar the D.C. rat They burrow in gardens and shelter in nests of shredded cardboard under stoops. In alleyways, they quench their thirst at ...

C-rations were the infamous canned meals that fueled many American troops during the Vietnam War. The proper name for the meals is ‘Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI),’ but C-rat’ is how most guys ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in the nation’s capital, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human actions. A ...

On Monday, nearly every news outlet in Washington — and others quite far from here — reported that the rat population at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square had, in the words of{}Mohammad N.

WASHINGTON — Beyond an invasion, people in Northwest D.C. say the rats have moved in and made themselves at home. "Rats in the alley, rats from the commercial (dumpsters) and even from the residential ...

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of dogs hunting rats that could upset some readers. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a stuffed ...

Where there is food, there will be rats. Much like it shook most everything else in the world, the COVID pandemic shifted where rats went to seek out their meals. As restaurants and businesses across ...

WASHINGTON — Cold weather is often a foe of cars, but there's another enemy waiting to crawl in: Rats. As they search for an escape from the cold, they sometimes migrate under a vehicle's hood toward ...