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NYTIMES (Yola Mzizi and Seth Caplan) - Audible Opens a Bookless Bookstore

Booksellers are trying to figure out how to market audiobooks in person. At a new pop-up, the Amazon-owned company is betting on listening rooms, branded merch and “story tenders.”

NEWSNATIONNOW - 'El Viejo Lin,' founder of Barrio 18 gang, dies in El Salvador prison

Carlos Mojica, known as "El Viejo Lin," had been in maximum security for more than 20 years, but authorities say he continued to be a leader in the notorious gang.

BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - Scholars Believe John Was Known As 'The Baptist' To Differentiate Himself From 'John The Presbyterian'

CAMBRIDGE — Scholars at Cambridge University now believe the biblical John the Baptist only went by that name to distinguish himself from other prominent Johns of the period, particularly John the Presbyterian.

ABCNEWS - Telecom company execs hit with $20M fraud charges in first case of self-reporting

Senior personnel at Telekom Malaysia Berhad allegedly orchestrated a "calculated embezzlement scheme" to divert millions of dollars into their own pockets.

JUSTTHENEWS (Ben Whedon) - Ex-DNC Vice Chair Hogg demands Ken Martin resign after 2024 autopsy release

The DNC on Thursday released an unedited and incomplete, 192-page report that featured considerable red-letter comments.

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Tennessee delays prisoner's execution for one year after staff can't find his vein

The man expected to be executed is Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of three 1994 murders and sentenced to death in 1996.

NYTIMES (Ann E. Marimow) - Justices Decline to Rule in Death Penalty Case Over Intellectual Disabilities

An Alabama man challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.

THEFEDERALIST (Eddie Scarry) - Stephen Colbert Wasn’t Funny. Even Worse, He Wasn’t Interesting

Stephen Colbert’s character on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report was funny and interesting. The real-life Stephen Colbert, or whatever iteration of Colbert it is on CBS’s The Late Show, is neither. And more than anything, that’s why his show is now canceled. The very corny narrative that the dying news media like to tell is […]