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AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - Trump copies Obama's playbook on counting deportations

The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year. Why it matters: Republicans fumed that former President Obama was "cooking the books" when he used the same playbook to tout record deportations during his administration. - White House Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Trump will count deportations by combining work from ICE in the country's interior with Customs and Border Protection's quicker returns of people crossing at the borders. - "Deportations are over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol too. We're trying to do the same thing we did…

The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year. Why it matters: Republicans fumed that former President Obama was "cooking the books" when he used the same playbook to tout record deportations during his administration. - White House Border Czar Tom Homan told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that Trump will count deportations by combining work from ICE in the country's interior with Customs and Border Protection's quicker returns of people crossing at the borders. - "Deportations are over 800,000, counting the Border Patrol too. We're trying to do the same thing we did…Open

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.”

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.