📹: “Be brave. Come here”.

Bill Maher challenges AOC to appear on his HBO show, scolding her for rejecting critics of “wokeness”.

The Real Time host says he would “love” to have AOC on the show, but doesn’t think it would happen – “because Democrats don't go anywhere these days where they're not being adored”.

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😳 A tech billionaire allegedly kept a spreadsheet of 5,000 women he has had sex with, one of them a teenager he paid off to keep quiet, despite losing his high-profile job over a sexual misconduct allegation in 2016.

Michael Goguen, 57, a former partner at Sequoia Capital who now heads his own firm, has been sued by four former employees who say they helped manage his 'harem' of women.

The explosive lawsuit claims the investor met with the women at various safe houses or at a 'boom boom' room in the basement of his bar in Whitefish, a small town in Montana where he now lives.

🚀 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning.

The agency said the mission will help determine if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change the asteroid's course.

The accidental discharge of a weapon near the main screening area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend.

The discharge occurred around 1:30 p.m. at the airport's security screening area, airport officials said on Twitter.

"There is no danger to passengers or employees," the statement said, adding the investigation remains ongoing.

❗️ More than 150 migrants illegally crossed the border into America on Saturday morning.

The group, which included multiple minors, entered a spot in La Joya, Texas, after making the journey across the Rio Grande.

The majority of the migrants who entered the US illegally were from South America.

🤔 In response to a request for a federal probe into Facebook over its policies regarding the potential use of the platform by human smugglers and sex traffickers, the Department of Justice declined to comment, citing longstanding department policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of investigations.

Earlier, the tech giant confirmed that it allows its users to share information related to human smuggling and entering a country illegally.

😮 👮‍♀️ More than half of New York Police Department cops wish they had never joined the force in the first place given the current relations between the force and the public, The New York Post reported, citing an internal department study of 6,000 uniformed officers.

According to the leaked survey, 56% of officers say they would not put on the badge if they had to do it all over again, and they also believe the public disrespects and distrusts them (46% agree, 42% disagree).

Moreover, 80% of the officers, detectives, sergeants, lieutenants, and captains polled said they are afraid of criminal liability, being sued, or being wrongfully reprimanded if they go after criminals aggressively.

Officers complain their daily work has been disrupted by Black Lives Matter riots, the Defund the Police movement, bail-reform laws that keep violent offenders out of jail, and legislative measures that put the burden of liability on officers while emboldening criminals.

📱 Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer, told that he has changed his cell phone due to death threats so numerous he "can't count," but it didn’t help a lot. He said that he currently uses his wife’s phone, but intimidators have reached it too.

"I would love for things to change, for people to talk to one another without fighting, but, unfortunately, I don't see it changing any time soon," the defence attorney noted.

Joe Biden 'ready to run for re-election in 2024' as president's approval rating hits new low

A counterpunch: a US professor who was fired for allegedly masturbating during a lecture via Zoom has sued the university. He says his civil rights were violated and he wants Fordham University in New York City to reinstate him.

69-year-old Howard Robinson claims he is incapable of masturbating because he suffers from erectile dysfunction, while he alleges that the student who captured the incident on video and reported it made a mistake: he says he was trying not to urinate.

Andrea Morin, who captured the alleged incident on video, has also sued the university. She claims she failed the class and lost her scholarship because of the matter and retaliation for lodging a complaint against the professor: "This event has caused enormous problems for me in my life. I have fallen behind in school and emotionally suffer from this incident".

About 80 looters in ski masks looted a Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek, near San Francisco.

According to witnesses, the scene was like something "out of a movie": "We probably saw 50 to 80 people in ski masks crowbars a bunch of weapons... The police were flying in. It was like a scene out of a movie. It was insane".

The US-based health organisation EcoHealth Alliance sent virus samples found in Laotian bats between June 2017 and May 2019 for studying at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the White Coat Waste Project non-profit discovered.

Evidence of the COVID-19 lab leak theory?

🔫 The tables turned: An Uber driver shot and killed one man and badly injured another during an attempted robbery overnight in Mayfair, Philadelphia.

The driver, who police say is licensed to carry a firearm, shot at least two of the alleged robbers several times and may have injured a third. The asuspected robbers, in their 20s, were taken to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital where one died.

🇨🇳"Kick their commie a*ses"; Ted Cruz says fully boycotting the Beijing Olympics is a mistake, instead offers a diplomatic boycott.

He thinks the US must do two things:

🔸 "We actually show the courage the Women's Tennis Association is showing to call out the murder, the genocide, the torture, the lies, the complicity in COVID-19 of the Chinese Communist government, to speak the truth,” Cruz said during a “Face the Nation” appearance on CBS.

🔸 “I really hope our young men and women - that they go over there and kick their commie asses - we need to win in the Olympics,” Cruz added.

The Texas senator suggested that corporations 'show a tiny bit of courage' and cut off ads for the Beijing Olympics.

All about Texas: Beto O’Rourke, running for governor of Texas, said that his campaign is “not going to be about Joe Biden” while blasting the POTUS for a lack of “urgency” on immigration.

🗣 “This campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden. It’s not going to be about Donald Trump. It’s not going to be about anyone from outside of our state,” O’Rourke said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“This is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want. And I have told you, they want the big things, like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone can see a doctor. But they also want to see some competence in their government.” he added.

🧐As for Joe Biden, the former Democratic Representative said he doesn't see the urgency when it comes to rewriting US immigration laws to match need and the reality.

🇭🇹 Two of the 17 US and Canadian citizens, members of the religious organization Christian Aid Ministries, abducted in Haiti in October, have been released, the charity says.

⚡️ Multiple injuries reported in Wisconsin after car plows through Christmas parade