Extra, Extra

Parts of Speech: “His acceptance speech, which exceeded 90 minutes and stretched past midnight Eastern time into Friday, won him wide praise for its vivid recounting of last weekend’s assassination attempt yet switched gears into something resembling what most of his supporters see regularly on the campaign trail.” From a media perspective, it was a tale of two Trump speeches — and long enough for both. (Shocking everyone in the media, it turns out that Trump is still Trump.) Meanwhile, the story that may never end: Democratic calls mount for Biden to end campaign, but he vows to fight on.

+ Bangladesh Student Protests: “The protests began this month on university campuses as students demanded an end to a quota system that reserves 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.” And things are getting out of hand. National curfew imposed in Bangladesh after student protesters storm prison.

+ Hunter Blatherer: “Attorneys for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, citing the recent decision by a federal judge in Florida to dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump, filed a pair of motions in California and Delaware Thursday seeking to dismiss both federal criminal cases against him.” (If Biden steps aside, do the Hunter Biden headlines stop?)

+ Throwing Out the Towel: WaPo (Gift Article): Thin, small and scratchy: How hotel towels got so bad. “It’s all about what they’re made of.”

+ A Standup Guy: “Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy.” Bob Newhart Holds Up.