Cryptocurrency hackers made the claim to fame after they broke into fast-food chain McDonald’s official Instagram account. They took advantage of the hack to promote a fake digital currency, running off with $700,000 in stolen money. 

Anchor of "PBS NewsHour," Judy Woodruff, apologized on Wednesday after reporting a particular story about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump, a report that both men have vehemently denied.

Kamala Harris appears to be winning over a large population of Americans, whereas she couldn’t get past 4% when she ran for president in 2020. The reason is her great many strengths, which you thought were complete failures. That’s right. She didn’t fail. She’s a great success. If you thought she failed as border czar […] The post Harris Is a Smokin’ Hot Candidate Because of Her Many Failures appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday evening and told the crowd that “there is no American Dream” without abortion. The Democrats’ platform indicates that they support abortion through all nine months of pregnancy without any restrictions — a far more radical position than most Americans hold. “If you do not have autonomy over this — ” Winfrey told the DNC while gesturing toward her body, “if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world, and how they are raised and supported, there is no American Dream.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Winfrey went on to praise abortion advocates as the “new freedom fighters.” “The women and men who are battling to keep us from going back to a time of desperation and shame and stone-cold fear, they are the new freedom fighters,” she said. “And make no mistake: They are the best of America.” WATCH: NEW: Billionaire Oprah Winfrey says the American Dream is to have abortions. This is news to me. “If you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there… pic.twitter.com/6IktMXU4Y8 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 22, 2024 The DNC has had a running theme of abortion. As highlighted by The Daily Wire, a Planned Parenthood bus provided free abortions and vasectomies about a half mile down the street from the convention on Monday and Tuesday. The mobile abortion clinic reportedly provided eight abortions and nine vasectomies over the first two days of the DNC. ? All free vasectomy and medication abortions are filled for our mobile health clinic in Chicago. Check back soon — we will share the interest form link again if we have cancellations. pic.twitter.com/o1biAPezZh — Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (@ppgreatrivers) August 18, 2024 The theme of Winfrey’s speech, generally, was “freedom,” which she argued is an important right to Democrats, while Republicans want to restrict Americans’ freedom, she claimed. Giving one example, Winfrey cited so-called book bans, referring to Republicans working to remove sexually explicit books from the classroom of young children. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “I am so honored to have been asked to speak on tonight’s theme about what matters most to me, to you, and all of us Americans: freedom,” she said. “There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of us against them. People who want to scare you, who want to rule you. People who’d have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles are safe, that there’s a right way to worship and a wrong way to love. People who seek first to divide and then to conquer. But here’s the thing: when we stand together, it is impossible to conquer us.” Related: Planned Parenthood Bus Offering Free Abortions, Vasectomies Outside DNC

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission may be violating Americans’ due process rights by using a “fringe, left-wing” legal theory to sue companies for alleged racial discrimination, according to a letter exclusively shared with The Daily Wire.  In the letter, Cruz asks FTC Chair Lina Khan to provide information on whether the commission was filing multimillion-dollar lawsuits against corporations based on the theory that disparities must equal discrimination. Cruz, the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said that the FTC’s reliance on “disparate impact theory” and a controversial statistical model that uses a person’s name to guess their race may be unconstitutional. “I am concerned that instead of relying on sound evidence and acting within the law, the FTC is suing — and threatening to sue — companies for racial discrimination under the fringe, left-wing disparate impact legal theory,” Cruz wrote. “Perhaps even more troublingly, the FTC is basing such discrimination claims on a discredited and congressionally rejected model that guesses a person’s race based on their name.” Cruz said that the FTC was “searching for statistical disparities to justify enforcement actions” and that Congress had never granted the commission the authority to bring lawsuits based on that data. He noted that in 2018 Congress blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from utilizing disparate impact theory.  The letter comes days after FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak released a statement saying that the commission should consider the “propriety” of bringing discrimination claims “based on a disparate impact theory, as well as use of such theory against an individual defendant.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. In his letter, Cruz said that the FTC was using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) model to bring lawsuits, a technique the senator said was “flawed” and riddled with “known faults.”  “Stereotyping a person’s race by their name is not just unseemly, but prone to significant inaccuracy,” he wrote. “Moreover, the FTC’s use of race-guessing to bring lawsuits may be unconstitutional.” Cruz said that the FTC had not disclosed to companies it had sued that it had based some of its analysis on using the BISG model.  “It is understandable why the FTC has not disclosed this practice to companies subjected to enforcement actions: BISG has been rightly criticized for its high error rates for racial minorities,” Cruz wrote.  Cruz said Khan should provide details on each statistical proxy model the FTC has used to generate information to bring enforcement actions over the past five years. He also asked her to provide information on the commission’s use of disparate impact theory.