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FORT WORTH, Texas A scared kitten is now safe, thanks to a few Texas police and animal control officers.

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According to KTVT, Fort Worth police took to Facebook on Friday to share a video of authorities saving a small, tabby-and-white cat from a grate next to Interstate 20.

This little kitten was rescued from the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 20, near the Trail Lake Drive exit, the department captioned the post. Officers and Animal Control brought the little kitten to safety, and he is now in good hands at the Chuck Silcox Animal Care & Control Center. What do you think we should name him?

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This little kitten was rescued from the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 20, near the Trail Lake Drive exit. Officers and Animal Control brought the little kitten to safety and he is now in good hands at the Chuck Silcox Animal Care & Control Center.What do you think we should name him?

The video quickly went viral, racking up more than 52,000 views and 1,500 reactions by Tuesday morning.

Its so heartwarming to see one of our animal control officers and FWPD working together to save this tiny kitten! Fort Worth Animal Care & Control wrote in its own Facebook post. So much kindness.

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ADDIS ABABA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government carried out a second air strike within hours on the Tigray region on Wednesday, significantly escalating a campaign to weaken rebellious Tigrayan forces in an almost one-year-old war.

The second strike was in Agbe in the Temben region some 80 km (50 miles) west of the regional capital Mekelle, targeting a military training centre and heavy artillery depot, government spokesperson Legesse Tulu said.

That came after a morning air strike in Mekelle, the third this week. Tigrai Television said the attack targeted the centre of the city whilethe Addis Ababa government said it targeted buildings where Tigrayan forces were repairing armaments.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has "been adept at hiding munitions and heavy artillery in places of worship and using ordinary Tigrayans as a human shield", Legesse said.

Two witnesses and a humanitarian source in Mekelle told Reuters that the morning strike appeared to have targeted Mesfin Industrial Engineering PLC, a factory complex which the government believes supports the TPLF.

TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael, referring to government forces, said: "They are desperate on the war front. My interpretation is they are bombing us because they are losing on the ground and its their reprisal. The fact that they are bombing shows they dont care about Tigrayan civilians."

Speaking to Reuters by satellite phone from an undisclosed location, Gebremichael said the strike did not hit the engineering complex, rather another private company compound, but he had no further details.

Nine civilians, including a five-year-old child, were being treated at Ayder Referral Hospital for injuries sustained in the strike, according to TPLF-run Tigrai Television.

The blast shattered the windows of Mekelle General Hospital, about one kilometre away from Mesfin Industrial, and damaged nearby homes, said a doctor at the hospital. It had received five wounded people, he said.

"Four of them were factory employees and the fifth one is a lady whose lives near the factory. Her house was destroyed by the air strike," the doctor said.

Tigrai Television posted photographs of what appeared to be plumes of billowing smoke. Reuters geolocated the images to Mekelle.

Captive Ethiopian army soldiers get their water ration in a prison in the outskirts of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Giulia Paravicini/File Photo

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The two sides have been fighting for almost a year in a conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than two million amid a power struggle between the TPLF, which controls the northern region, and the central government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.

The TPLF dominated the Horn of Africa country's ruling party for decades before Abiy, who is not a Tigrayan, took office in 2018.

CONTROL OF THE SKIES

Mesfin Industrial Engineering is an equipment manufacturer and car and truck assembly plant that was part of EFFORT, a TPLF-owned conglomerate.

After war broke out last November, the government froze the company's bank accounts, saying there was evidence that it was supporting the TPLF. The company could not be reached for comment. Most communications in Mekelle are down.

Mekelle was also hit by two air strikeson Monday. The TPLF accused the government of launching the attacks. A government official initially denied the accusation but state media later reported the air force had conducted a strike.

The attacks follow intensified fighting in two other northern regions where the military is trying to recover territory taken by the TPLF, which recaptured Mekelle and most of the rest of Tigray several months ago.

In July, the TPLF pushed into the two other regions, Amhara and Afar, and several hundred thousand more people fled their homes, according to the United Nations.

Last week, after the TPLF said the military had started an offensive in Amhara, the military said that the TPLF had "opened war on all fronts", and thatgovernment forces were inflicting heavy casualties.

"The federal air strikes on Mekelle appear to be part of efforts to weaken Tigrays armed resistance, which has recently made further gains in eastern Amhara region, with fighting ongoing in some areas," said Will Davison, a senior analyst on Ethiopia at the International Crisis Group think-tank.

"Along with superior manpower, control of the skies is one of the few remaining areas of military advantage for the federal government," Davison said.

Reporting by Addis Ababa newsroom with additional reporting by George Sargent in London and Nairobi newsroom; writing by Maggie Fick; editing by Nick Macfie, Angus MacSwan and Mark Heinrich

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Little Falls Herald

The Little Falls Herald was a weekly newspaper published every Friday in Little Falls, in Morrison County, Minnesota, beginning in 1889 and ceasing in 1950. Little Falls was also served by the Morrison County Democrat, the Little Falls Weekly Transcript, and the Little Falls Daily Transcript. The Herald covered local news in Little Falls and served as a news source for other nearby towns in the county, such as Fort Ripley, Cushing, Motley, Royalton, and Swanville. The paper also included state, national, and some international news within its eight-page, six-column format.

Located along the Mississippi River in central Minnesota, Little Falls is one of the oldest established settlements in Minnesota. The surrounding area was originally inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes and was home to the Ojibwe leader, Bagone-giizhig or Hole-in-the-Day the Younger, who from the 1840s until his death in 1868 was instrumental in fostering a relationship between the tribe and the U.S. government. However, tensions between the Ojibwe and the government continued. In 1904, the Herald began covering the removal of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to the White Earth Indian Reservation. One article in the January 15, 1904 issue reads Chief Dissatisfied Mille Lacs Indian Doesnt Like White Earth Land[Chief Wah-we-ye-comig] said that hes not pleased with the land offered his people, that one acre of Mille Lacs land was worth twenty acres of the White Earth land.

When the Herald began, it was edited and published by J. H. Seal and William H. Workman. In 1895, editing duties were taken over by J. H. Streets, and the paper was published by the Little Falls Printing Co., owned by the brothers Peter, Stephen, and Charles Vasaly. Two years later, the Vasaly family began managing the Herald as well, first with Charles E. Vasaly acting as editor until 1914. Vasaly was very involved in local politics, serving as the chairman of the Democratic Party in Morrison County and mayor of Little Falls. Following his role as editor, Vasaly was appointed superintendent of the St. Cloud state reformatory. His brother Peter Vasaly took over the role of editor thereafter and held the position until 1934.

The Herald regularly featured court notices, marriages, births, deaths, society news, financial transfers, and mortgage foreclosure sales. The region was home to many farmers, so farm advice and the market rates of various crops were routinely included. Local politics, including reports of the city council and Board of County Commissioners, were published. As a Democrat-affiliated paper, the Herald often butted heads with the Republican Weekly Transcript. The Heralds February 18, 1898 issue fumed, The Transcripts attempt to show that the Heraldhas attacked the present city administration is as absurd as its attempt to show that this paper has personally attacked Charles A. Lindbergh-- Little Falls being home to Charles August Lindbergh, noted lawyer and Republican congressman, and his son, the famous pilot Charles Augustus Lindbergh.

Peter Vasaly continued to own the Herald until 1949, when he sold the title to the Transcript Publishing Company, which published the Daily Transcript. The Herald ceased publication shortly after, leaving the Transcript as the only major newspaper in Little Falls.

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Democrats insist that unique factors will make the 2022 elections history defying. Mr. Trump, the Capitol attack of Jan. 6, the pandemic and the fate of democracy itself will share the ballot with the usual issues of economic growth and the performance of the president.

While voters see Democrats rebooting the economy and getting folks back on the job, Republicans are campaigning on junk science that is endangering peoples lives and false election claims that threaten our democracy, said Chris Taylor, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Redistricting will make the Democratic road steeper. David Wasserman, who tracks new district maps for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said so far, Democratic fears look somewhat overblown Republican state legislatures have already gerrymandered their maps so severely that they can only go so much further. Republicans appear more intent on shoring up their vulnerable incumbents than destroying Democratic seats, he said.

In contrast, Democratic legislatures, especially in New York and Illinois, may actually produce more partisan maps than their G.O.P. brethren. In all, Mr. Wasserman said, Republicans could net up to five seats from new district lines, possibly enough to win the majority but far fewer than the 10 to 15 seats some Democrats fear.

Nonetheless, the new maps are pushing Democrats toward retirement. Mr. Doyle said he expects his district, which was once dominated by the city of Pittsburgh, to expand into more Trump-friendly counties to allow some of his Democratic voters to shore up the swing district now held by Representative Conor Lamb, a Democrat who is running for the states open Senate seat.

He could still win, he said, but he would have a whole new set of constituents, staff to hire, offices to open and hands to shake. After 26 years in the House, retirement was logical.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The fundraising arms of the two major U.S. political parties poured money into Virginia last month ahead of a Nov. 2 election for governor that will signal whether Republicans have momentum in their bid to win control of the U.S. Congress next year.

Campaign finance disclosures filed on Wednesday showed that the Democratic National Committee (DNC), one of the main fundraising bodies for President Joe Biden's party, gave $1.1 million to the Democratic Party of Virginia.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) gave close to a half million dollars to the Republican state party in Virginia during the same period, a separate disclosure showed.

Biden won Virginia by 10 percentage points in the 2020 presidential election. But this year's race between Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is widely seen as a dead heat.

That has fueled Republican hopes - already bolstered by a recent drop in Biden's approval ratings - that the party could triumph in November 2022 congressional elections. Democrats currently control both congressional chambers by slim margins.

Virginia is also closely followed as a test of how Republicans will fare when former President Donald Trump - who lost to Biden last year but is still widely seen as the party's leader - is not on the ballot.

McAuliffe holds a marginal lead on Youngkin in opinion polls, according to a Real Clear Politics polling average. Current Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, cannot seek re-election because of a state rule barring governors from serving consecutive terms.

The DNC and RNC transferred smaller sums to their state parties last month in New Jersey, which also will hold a gubernatorial election on Nov. 2.

New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy has a large lead in opinion polls over Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator.

Wednesday's disclosures, filed with the Federal Election Commission, showed the RNC raised $12.7 million in September, higher than the DNC's haul of $11.4 million.

Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Peter Cooney

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