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🚨#BREAKING#: An Ohio construction crew heard tiny SCREAMS coming from INSIDE a massive excavator… They crawled underneath, started taking the machine apart, and found a tiny KITTEN trapped inside. They saved her life, then they ADOPTED HER AND GAVE HER A JOB. 😂❤️ Her name is Sue, she even has her own custom-made hard hat and safety vest. On July 14, a crew from River Reach Construction was working at a job site in Leavittsburg, Ohio, when operating supervisor Chase Guello heard something strange coming from one of their excavators. At first it sounded almost like a faint beep or screech. So Chase started looking. He climbed onto the machine and looked down into the engine bay… …and there was a TINY ORANGE KITTEN walking around inside the excavator. There was no easy way to reach her, so Chase crawled UNDERNEATH the machine and started removing the skid plate. Finally, out popped this absolutely tiny kitten. Their “rescue mission of the day” had gone from fixing construction equipment to saving a little life. 😂 The guys brought her straight into their air-conditioned office trailer and started taking care of her. They spent DAYS searching the area for her mother or any siblings because they didn’t want to separate her from a family that might still be nearby. They couldn’t find another cat. So the construction crew decided this little girl was their problem now, s they found an experienced foster family who could properly care for her while she was still tiny, and for the next two weeks she was nursed back to health. And obviously a kitten discovered inside an excavator needed an appropriate name. The machine was a Komatsu. So they named her… KOMATSU. Sue for short. 😂😂😂 It gets even better. Videos of Sue’s rescue started spreading online and eventually reached the people at KOMATSU THEMSELVES. So the company sent their smallest new employee some proper PPE: A TINY SAFETY VEST. AND A TINY HARD HAT. 😭😂❤️ After two weeks in foster care, Sue was healthy enough to return to the people who found her. River Reach’s shop mechanic, Jared, and his family are giving her a permanent home. And once Sue is old enough, Jared plans to bring her back and forth to work with him. Her official position??? SHOP CAT. Chase said something about the whole thing that I absolutely love. "We sometimes get stereotyped as rough around the edges and not having feelings, but we still care for such a little kitten.” Millions of people have now watched Sue’s story. All because a construction worker heard a tiny noise inside a gigantic machine… …and cared enough to stop what he was doing and find out what it was. Good work, boys. 🇺🇸

Disney is being sued over its use of facial recognition technology at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. The lawsuit is asking for at least $5 million in damages. The plaintiff claims many guests, including children, may not have known their biometric data was being collected. The system was added to speed up park entry and prevent ticket fraud. Disney says the system is optional and guests can choose other entry lines if they do not want facial scanning. The company also says it does not store regular face photos but converts scans into encrypted data typically deleted within 30 days.

Zohran Mamdani is being sued by a group representing immigrant-owned grocers in New York City over the mayor's plan to open 5 city-run grocery stores throughout NYC. The group says small businesses will be forced to compete against stores funded by their own tax dollars who aren't competing on a level playing field. One East Harlem grocer says a planned city-run store directly across the street could put his family's 25-year-old business under. @MadisonAlworth | @AmericaNewsroom @DanaPerino