LOS ANGELES—For anyone who doesn’t believe politics is a dirty business, check out the rats at city hall. Public servants arrive some mornings to find tiny paw prints, nibbled plants, even droppings and puddles on their desks. Los Angeles City Clerk Holly Wolcott was chased from her office by a rat the size of an opossum, and her staff found a dead rodent inside a copy machine. A deputy city attorney is on leave after contracting typhus.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 10, 2019 20:26 UTC