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5 greyhounds rescued from Oklahoma begin long road to recovery

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MO: RESCUED GREYHOUNDS ON ROAD TO RECOVERY

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    LEAWOOD, Oklahoma (KMBC) — A Kansas City-based non-profit rescued five severely malnourished greyhounds from Oklahoma over the weekend, arriving Sunday in Leawood to begin rehabilitation.

Kansas City Retired Greyhounds as Pets (REGAP) received notice that several dozen greyhounds were living in deplorable conditions and drove five hours to help rescue the dogs.

President Julie Morrison said it was one of the worst situations she’s seen in her years of rescuing the dogs, as they were neglected for an unknown amount of time, after rescuers believe they were in a breeding operation.

“This time was one of the most difficult for sure. It’s incredibly heartbreaking. Especially the dogs that did not survive; that was even after we got them. We still lost five dogs after that. And that was really, really hard,” Morrison said.

Several rescue groups gave the dogs immediate medical care before five began the journey back to their new home in Kansas City.

Sunday, volunteers began the long process to help the dogs recover from ticks, fleas, malnourishment, anemia, skin infections, and several other minor injuries.

“We got to the ER, and their glucose would not stay stable,” Morrison said. “So, their blood sugar just was not able to be maintained. That was the biggest concern. And that’s what we needed to stabilize right at the beginning.”

Each dog received small portions of food to slowly introduce their diets and received baths. Despite their traumatic experiences in Oklahoma, the dogs were more than happy to receive love from the Kansas City volunteers.

“They’re walking and kissing us, and being a dog with severe anemia, it’s just remarkable,” Morrison said.

The dogs will stay at a Leawood boarding shelter while they prepare to find foster families for the five greyhounds. Each one has been given a name, based on the characters in Ted Lasso, a popular sitcom with a soccer team nicknamed ‘the greyhounds.’

Morrison said despite the extreme challenges they’ve been through, the dogs have been incredibly resilient.

“We’re going to be focusing on nutrition, focusing on human love and attention, getting into the vet to begin the process of getting to where we can do spay and neuter eventually. But it’s going to take some time,” Morrison said.

KC REGAP is now looking for more volunteers and donations to help support the greyhounds as they adjust to their forever homes.

“I don’t think there’s another breed that could go through what these dogs go through and come out on the other side like they do,” Morrison said.

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Abdul El-Sayed distances himself from left-wing influencer after comments about American Jews

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(CNN) — Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sought to distance himself Monday from Hasan Piker after the left-wing streamer and activist suggested to his Twitch viewers last week that American Jews’ support of Israel will make antisemitism worse and invite violence.El-Sayed, who is facing Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in a critical race in the battle for the Senate majority this November, has appeared with Piker several times on the campaign trail, telling reporters he wanted to court the streamer’s massive young audience even though he disagreed with some of Piker’s views. The two walked into an event in Detroit together on the eve of El-Sayed’s narrow primary win over Rep. Haley Stevens and were photographed the same day together at a pool party with progressive influencers and House candidates.But after months of campaigning alongside Piker, El-Sayed said in a Monday statement specifically addressing Piker’s comments that “nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”“I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past,” El-Sayed said.“My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters,” he added, repeating a sentiment he’s frequently espoused on the campaign trail. “Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk.”El-Sayed also sought to downplay the significance of the pro-Palestinian influencer to his campaign, as he accused “politicians and pundits” of trying “to make this race about a Twitch streamer.”Piker drew bipartisan backlash after he said last week, “If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action — not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”He defended his remarks on X on Sunday evening as criticism of the conflation of support for Israel with American Jews. “Falsely tying Israel to Jewish people IS increasing antisemitism,” he argued, adding, “this isn’t a call for violence.”While El-Sayed is an outspoken critic of the Israeli government himself, his effort to distance himself from Piker comes as he vies to broaden his support after a bruising Democratic primary and as Rogers seeks to pick up disappointed Stevens voters.Describing Piker as El-Sayed’s “running mate,” Rogers in a social media post cast the streamer’s comments as “more calls for violence coming out of the El-Sayed campaign.”“If Abdul El-Sayed had any courage at all, he would call this out and disavow Hasan Piker once and for all,” he said. “We’re waiting, Abdul…”Michigan Democratic Rep. Hillary Scholten, who supported Stevens in the primary and has not endorsed El-Sayed, also condemned Piker’s remarks.“Piker is a hack who thrives on hate, shock and awe because he lacks substance,” she said. “It’s dangerous for everyone. We should all be calling out this disgusting rhetoric so it loses its grip on our politics once and for all.”The left-wing influencer made the comments last week during a livestream, as he discussed the refusal of state Sen. Jeremy Moss, the Democratic nominee for Stevens’ seat, to endorse El-Sayed.Piker appeared to reference an audio clip that has circulated online in recent weeks that purportedly features Moss, who is Jewish, saying that making sure the US continues supporting Israel is the only purpose of his House campaign. The lawmaker has denied making the remarks, saying in a statement that the clip is “manipulated and unsourced audio with things I never did and never would say.”Piker said: “I don’t know how people don’t recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.”“You’re running around basically tying your entire identity to a country that inevitably will be seen as basically Jewish ISIS, and you’re saying, as Jews, this is all we care about,” he said. “You’re making antisemitism worse.”Moss said in a statement Monday that while he and El-Sayed have been having an ongoing conversation about Jewish and Arab safety in the US and abroad, there is still work to be done to unite the Democratic ticket in Michigan.“But provocateurs are exploiting this moment to create further divisions,” he warned. “I will not be lectured by a California podcaster about what Oakland County, Michigan’s Jewish community should and shouldn’t believe. And we certainly won’t be gaslit that we’re responsible for the antisemitic harm upon us.”Piker’s views reflect growing opposition to US support for Israel, particularly among progressives, in response to Israel’s war in Gaza and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave following Hamas’ October 2023 attack.But the streamer also has a long history of incendiary remarks — including saying in 2019 that the United States “deserved 9/11,” a comment from which he backtracked days later.Earlier this month on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” El-Sayed said Piker’s comment about 9/11 was “dumb,” but also cast highlighting it now as playing “gotcha politics.”“I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do, rather than this idea that we’re so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seem to want to bring back,” El-Sayed said in that interview.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. 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