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Pentagon Adds Restrictions Over 'Unflattering' Hegseth Pics Amid Luxury Spending Spree: WaPo
The Pentagon has blocked press photographers from recent briefings after aides complained about "unflattering" images of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to a report. The decision came after photographers captured images of the former Fox News host during a Pentagon briefing on Monday, March 2, The Washington Post reported. The news conference happened just days after a joint US-Israeli military strike killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday, Feb. 28. Photographers from major news agencies, including the Associated Press, Reuters, and Getty Images, attend…
Business
Amazon Cracks Down On Prime Sharing Perks: Here's What's Changing
Amazon is eliminating a program that let Prime members share free shipping benefits with people outside their household. The Prime Invitee Program will end on Wednesday, Oct. 1, according to notices sent to users and updates posted on Amazon's customer service site. Invitees will lose access to shared delivery perks unless they're added to the new Amazon Family feature. Amazon Family allows members to share benefits with one other adult living in their home, up to four teens added before Monday, April 7, and up to four child profiles. Benefits include free delivery, Prime Video with ads, Pr…
Business
CEO Leaves X/Twitter As Controversies, Fleeing Users Plague Elon Musk's Website
The CEO of the website called Twitter by most people is leaving her role after a tumultuous tenure that saw the social media platform's popularity plummet under billionaire Elon Musk's ownership. Linda Yaccarino announced she's "stepping down" as CEO of X, formerly known as Twitter, in a post on Wednesday, July 9. The Deer Park, New York, native left her position as global advertising chair at NBCUniversal in May 2023 to lead Twitter two months before Musk rebranded the site as X. Yaccarino's resignation came one day after X's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was accused of promoting an…
Business
Bed Bath & Beyond Closures Include Nine MD, VA Locations
Nine Bed Bath & Beyond stores across Maryland and Virginia are among 87 locations scheduled to close in 2023, the struggling retailer announced. That brings the total number of Bed Bath & Beyond locations scheduled to close to at least 162 announced since September 2022. A spokesperson told Axios that the latest round of closures will include all of the company's Harmon beauty shops, as well as five Buy Buy Baby locations. The following locations in Maryland and Virginia are set to close in 2023: Annapolis, 200 Harker Place Suite 200 Fairfax, 12100 Fairfax Towne Center&…
Police & Fire
Body Of Missing EU Delegate From Bethesda Found Two Months After Disappearance
The body of Sibylle Zitko, a missing EU delegate from Bethesda who was reported missing in January, has been found. Zitko, 54, went missing from the Lock 7 area of the C&O Canal around 6 a.m. on Jan. 6, the US Park Police originally reported. Her body was located after someone reported finding a woman’s body in the area of Lock 5 of the park on Friday, March 8, Bethesda Magazine reports. Park Police officially cancelled the search for Zitko on Friday, March 18 after the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner positively identified the body as Zitko's. pic.twitter.com/LYxW…
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Ex-Movie Lawyer From MD Sentenced For Raping Woman He Met On 'Sugar Daddy' Website
The former top lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America has been sentenced to about a year in prison for sexually abusing and blackmailing a woman he met through a "sugar daddy" dating website, according to Reuters. Steven Fabrizio, 58, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, pleaded guilty on July 30, 2021, to one count each of blackmail and third-degree sexual abuse, according to Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He was sentenced to a total of 30 months behind bars on Jan. 7 by a Washington DC Superior Court judge. H…
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Walmart Temporarily Closes Maryland Store Due To
Covid-
19
A sudden rise in COVID-19 cases forced the shutdown of a Walmart in Laurel, according to Reuters. The Laurel store was closed last week, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters, because several people at the store had reportedly contracted COVID-19. Walmart did not confirm the information It was one of almost 60 Walmart locations in the US that had to be shut down in December due to COVID-19. Many were forced to close for sanitation purposes as the Omicron variant spreads. For more information on the story visit Reuters.
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