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.

Brown-Forman Corp., the company that makes the iconic Jack Daniels whiskey, has reportedly decided to terminate Jack Daniels’ diversity, equity and inclusion program after a boycott was threatened. On Wednesday, the Jack Daniels company issued a letter from its Executive Leadership Team. They announced, “[W]e launched our diversity and inclusion strategy in 2019. Since then, the world has evolved, our business has changed, and the legal and external landscape has shifted dramatically, particularly within the United States. With these new dynamics at play, we must adjust our work to ensure it continues to drive business results while appropriately recognizing the current environment in which we find ourselves.” The letter added that the company would be “removing our quantitative workforce and supplier diversity ambitions; ending participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index survey; and reviewing training programs for consistency with an evolved strategy,” as conservative activist Robby Starbuck, who had planned to launch a boycott, reported. Starbuck revealed that the letter came from a “screenshot of one of the multiple folders we have on them. Overall we had well over 15GB of files, photos and videos.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. Big news: The next company we were set to expose was @JackDaniels_US. They must have been tipped off by us going through employee LinkedIn pages. They just preemptively announced that they’ll be making these changes: • Ending participation in the @HRC’s Corporate Equality… pic.twitter.com/0O1DkkIKrO — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 22, 2024   On Monday, motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson announced that it was backing away from diversity, equity, and inclusion policies after facing criticism from conservative customers in the last few months. In an open letter to the public, Harley-Davidson said it was no longer implementing DEI policies and would enact strict protocols for future corporate sponsorships and affiliations. The announcement comes as other companies like Tractor Supply have moved away from DEI after conservative customers spoke out. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI “We are saddened by the negativity on social media over the last few weeks, designed to divide the Harley-Davidson community. As a Company, we take this issue very seriously, and it is our responsibility to respond with clarity, action, and facts,” the company said. The company said it no longer had a DEI office and would no longer be participating in the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) scoring program going forward. The changes at the company took place after the company received sharp criticism from conservatives back in July when Starbuck highlighted many of the company’s LGBT-focused initiatives, including training employees to be “allies” and promoting the work of Critical Race Theory proponents. Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this article. RELATED: Harley-Davidson Becomes Latest Company To Back Away From DEI Policies