New York has appointed a 'rat czar' to guide town's never-ending struggle towards its perennial scourge: the hundreds of thousands of widespread brown rats which were the bane of each current administration.Mayor Eric Adams marketed in December 2022 for a "somewhat bloodthirsty" particular person who possessed a "killer instinct" and was not against "wholesale slaughter" to assist battle rats throughout town's streets, subway tunnels and different nooks and crannies. The official job title is director of rodent mitigation, and the function pays $120,000 to $170,000 (£97,700 to £138,430).On Wednesday, Mr Adams unveiled his rent, Kathleen Corradi, a former elementary college instructor who first confirmed her anti-rodent instincts as a 10-year-old when she gathered signatures f...

Embattled vaping firm Juul settled youth vaping fits with New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia on Wednesday for $462 million. Using flavors like mango, menthol and creme brûlée, Juul dominated the digital cigarette market in the U.S. Officials th...