In a rare public address, former president said US is experiencing ‘dark days’ and urged Americans to vote

• Sign up for This week in Trumpland, a free newsletter on the latest from the Trump administration

Joe Biden has warned that his presidential successor, Donald Trump, will attempt to “steal” the midterm elections, in what for him is a rare public address.

Speaking in South Carolina, where he was being honored for his lifetime achievement in politics, Biden also asserted that the US is experiencing “dark days”, in a speech made hours before the Trump administration launched attacks on Iran.

As a result of New York’s most severe winter in years, the city may see a drop from it’s estimated 3 million rats

Since arriving from Europe in the 1600s, New York City’s rats have survived hurricanes, floods, terrorist attacks, riots, fires, a pandemic (they actually thrived during that), the Dutch and Crocodile Dundee II.

But as a result of New York’s most severe winter in years, when the city saw snow, then a historic deep freeze, then even more snow, the rat population might now be about to decline. For a bit.