House Speaker John Boehner John BoehnerTrump brings his campaign tactics to the White House Lobbyists expect boom times under Trump Last Congress far from ‘do-nothing’ MORE (R-Ohio) asked President Obama to address a joint-session of Congress on Thursday, Sept. 8, when it wouldn't conflict with the Republican presidential debate.

 Wednesday night, the White House accepted the Speaker's offer.

 Citing logistical difficulties, Boehner John BoehnerTrump brings his campaign tactics to the White House Lobbyists expect boom times under Trump Last Congress far from ‘do-nothing’ MORE requested that Obama hold his jobs address, which Obama wants to deliver next Wednesday, one day later.

 The Speaker's letter made no mention of the more obvious conflict: between the president's speech, and a Republican presidential debate scheduled on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. EDT. That debate is the first of the post-Labor Day political season, and the first one in which Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is set to participate.

 The response by Boehner sets up an early showdown between Obama and the Congress just returning from its August recess.

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 Boehner, in a letter responding to Obama's request, said the House wouldn't have enough time to prepare for a speech that evening."As your spokesperson today said, there are considerations about the Congressional calendar that must be made prior to scheduling such an extraordinary event," the Speaker wrote.

 "With the significant amount of time — typically more than three hours — that is required to allow for a security sweep of the House Chamber before receiving a president, it is my recommendation that your address be held on the following evening, when we can ensure there will be no parliamentary or logistical impediments that might detract from your remarks."

 Boehner noted that the House isn't scheduled to reconvene until 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

 "As such, on behalf of the bipartisan leadership and membership of both the House and Senate, I respectfully invite you to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8, 2011 in the House Chamber, at a time that works best for your schedule," Boehner said.

 Press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement Wednesday night that Obama had agreed to speak on Thursday Sept. 8 instead of Sept. 7, the day which the president originally requested.

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 Boehner's move appeared to surprise the White House, which according to a senior administration official had cleared the Sept. 7 date and 8 p.m. time of the address with House Republicans before making the formal request. The official said Boehner's office was consulted about the letter before it was made public, and that "no objections/concerns were raised."

 Boehner’s office flatly denied the White House assertion that the Wednesday date was cleared with the Speaker. A Boehner spokesman, Brendan Buck, accused the White House of ignoring “decades, if not centuries” of protocol on such events.

 "No one in the Speaker's office — not the Speaker, not any staff — signed off on the date the White House announced today,” Buck said in a statement. “Unfortunately we weren’t even asked if that date worked for the House. Shortly before it arrived this morning, we were simply informed that a letter was coming. It’s unfortunate the White House ignored decades — if not centuries — of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public announcement.”

 Meanwhile, the White House downplayed the scheduling conflict with the GOP debate as just that, an innocent coincidence.

 Asked whether the speech was purposefully scheduled the same night as the Republican debate, White House press secretary Jay Carney said, “Of course not.”

 “It is coincidental,” said Carney, who explained that a number of considerations were taken into account when Obama settled on Sept. 7.

 “One debate of many that’s on one channel of many was not enough of a reason” to pick another date, Carney said.

 He added that Obama had chosen to speak directly to Congress in hopes that members had been chastened and softened after hearing from angry constituents over the August break.

 The Republican National Committee (RNC), however, accused the Obama administration of politicking by scheduling the speech simultaneously with the debate.

 RNC Chairman Reince Priebus slammed Obama's request as "a thinly-veiled political ploy" in a statement. "While the White House claims it’s simply a ‘coincidence,’ the American people can see right through that excuse," Priebus said of the timing of the president's request.

 "If the President were serious about putting ‘country before politics,’ as he said in his request to speak to Congress, he wouldn’t be caught in such a thinly-veiled political ploy. This is yet another reminder that the President is out of touch and out of ideas. The only job he seems to care about is his own.”

 A speech on Thursday would compete with the opening night of the NFL season, traditionally a ratings winner.

 This year's opener, televised on NBC, features the reigning Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers against the New Orleans Saints. More than 27 million viewers watched last year's NFL opener on NBC. By contrast, 32.1 million people -- on a total of 10 networks -- watched Obama's speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress shortly after Labor Day in 2009.

 In a letter to congressional leaders requesting the Sept. 7 slot, the president said he will urge Congress to put aside politics and focus on creating jobs during the speech.

 “As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consistent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our country and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs,” Obama wrote. “We must answer this call.”

 According to a Democratic leadership source, the House Democratic leadership was not consulted with respect to Speaker Boehner’s letter requesting a new date for the president’s address.

 This story was first posted at 4:22 p.m. and last updated at 7:50 p.m.

 -- Russell Berman and Sam Youngman contributed.

  ||||| There’s been some anger, particularly in Conservative circles, about President Obama delaying his big jobs speech. Well, today he set a date and now there’s been even more anger, especially in Conservative circles. Why? Because the White House is requesting a joint session of Congress to give it and the date they’ve found where that’s possible is the same as the next GOP presidential debate. Rush Limbaugh is one of those riled up, saying on his radio show today that Obama “is demonstrating exactly what he doesn’t have; class.”

 Limbaugh pointed out that John Boehner has the ability to decline the administration’s request and strongly urged the Speaker to do so.

 “Would he turn down Clinton or Bush? He’d never have to turn them down because they have enough class not to do this, if I may be so blunt. This is intended to disrupt the Republican debate. It’s intended to make Obama look bigger than the Republicans, to look bigger than politics. And this is part of the presidential campaign and the House Republicans are going to have to realize that they’re part of it.”

 However, Limbaugh admitted that it was easy for him to say no because he won’t have to deal with any of the political fall out that Boehner would. He predicted that Obama, his staff, and his followers were all laughing heartily at this.

 In the end of the segment, Limbaugh asked what network the debate was supposed to be on, which network Obama wanted to “screw.” When he was finally told that it was actually MSNBC, he laughed.

 “They won’t mind.”

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– This might not bode well for President Obama's chances of getting Republicans to go along with his jobs plan: The two sides can't even agree on when he should unveil it. In response to Obama's request to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, John Boehner has asked him to postpone the speech one night, reports the Hill. Boehner noted in his letter that the House isn't scheduled to reconvene until 6:30 on the 7th, which would raise "logistical impediments" in getting the chamber ready for a speech 90 minutes later. He did not mention what everyone else has noted: that Obama's speech would conflict with a GOP presidential debate—Rick Perry's first one—at the same time. White House spokesman Jay Carney called the timing a "coincidence," but that didn't stop critics such as Rush Limbaugh from piling on, notes Mediaite. "This is intended to disrupt the Republican debate," he said on his show today. "It’s intended to make Obama look bigger than the Republicans." Another thing Boehner didn't mention: Postponing the speech by one night would pit the president against the NFL's opening night, notes the National Journal.


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Video released by Rosemont police Friday depicts Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted hotel kitchen and disappearing around a corner — the last time she's seen alive.

 Though it doesn't capture her entering the walk-in freezer where her body was found, video taken by what appears to be a motion-activated camera shows that no one else came into that area until her body was found.

 Village officials released the video after days of speculation about the death of the 19-year-old Chicago woman and pressure by community activists dissatisfied with the investigation.

 Attorneys Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., who represent Jenkins' family, said at a news conference Friday afternoon that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy.

 The hotel "never checked. They never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," Adam said. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened."

 On Friday afternoon, the village released six video clips from the early morning of Sept. 9, when Jenkins went missing.

 The first two videos, from early Saturday, show Jenkins, her gait steady, walking with three others through a public part of the hotel. But in the next clip, about two hours later, she gets off an elevator alone, so unsteady she has to support herself on a wall.

 Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., attorneys for Kenneka Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said at a news conference Sept. 15, 2017, that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., attorneys for Kenneka Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said at a news conference Sept. 15, 2017, that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS

 Two minutes later, in another clip, she reels down a hallway. Then she wanders around another passage, clearly disoriented. Finally, she totters through an empty kitchen, around a corner and out of sight.

 The same surveillance camera, which appears to be motion-activated, next picks up activity at 8:34 p.m., when a person briefly enters the frame, looks around and leaves.

 No one else enters the picture until 12:23 a.m. on Sept. 10, when a man goes around the same corner where Jenkins was last seen. A few seconds later, he walks quickly out of the frame and returns with a police officer. More officers soon arrive, hustling toward the corner.

 Jenkins was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

 The video shows a body bag being removed at 4:53 a.m.

 Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was pronouced dead early Sept. 10, 2017, after she was found in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont. Since then, controversey has surrounded her death. (Tribune and Cook County medical examiner's office photos) (Tribune and Cook County medical examiner's office photos)

 Jenkins had attended a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza that stretched into the early hours of Sept. 9. Her sister said she last spoke to her around 1:30 a.m. Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said that about 4 a.m. she received a call that Jenkins had gone missing.

 In a 911 recording, Martin can be heard speaking to a police dispatcher a few hours later, relaying a version of events provided by Jenkins' friends:

 "They said they went upstairs to get (a) cellphone … and (Jenkins) was standing in the lobby," she said. "When they came downstairs, she wasn't there anymore."

 Martin asked if police could review surveillance footage from the hotel. She said she was worried because her daughter, who had a light tolerance for alcohol, had evidently been drinking — "One cup is too much for her" — and that the teen wasn't the type to disappear.

 The dispatcher, noting that Jenkins was an adult and had been missing only a few hours, advised patience, saying it would take a while for detectives to get hold of the video.

 "What I would recommend is just go home, relax a little bit, give it some time," he said. "(For) all we know she very well still could be in the room. She could just be passed out. You know how it is. You're drinking the night before, you get — you know what I mean."

 The family ended up filing a missing persons report later that morning, Rosemont spokesman Gary Mack said, and police notified the hotel about 1:15 p.m. The hotel looked in all public areas and the floor on which the party was held but didn't find Jenkins, Mack said.

 The family returned to the hotel about 6 p.m. and knocked on guest doors, trying to find witnesses. The hotel called police, and Martin said the officers who responded reviewed surveillance video and saw Jenkins "staggering" through the hotel about 3:20 a.m.

 A second search ensued. That's when she was found dead in the freezer.

 The medical examiner's office has yet to pronounce a cause or manner of death. A spokeswoman has said that determination might not come for weeks, pending further tests and investigation.

 The case has been the subject of intense speculation on social media, with amateur detectives combing through videos apparently shot in the room before Jenkins disappeared.

 Many have suggested online that she was murdered, but Rosemont police have consistently said they are conducting a death investigation, not a homicide probe.

 At the news conference, Rogers suggested that Jenkins' life could have been saved, or at least that she would have been found more quickly, had hotel staff listened to her friends and mother when they came seeking help.

 Jenkins' friends and family "were not given the assistance they needed. Assistance that probably, I suspect — I don't know — may have prevented us from being here today," Rogers said.

 Martin, sitting between her attorneys, thanked everyone for their love and support.

 "But I also want to know what happened," she said in a hushed voice. "I want to see it all. I want to see her actually walking into this freezer and closing herself within this freezer and freezing to death."

 Chicago Tribune's Bob McCoppin contributed.

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 Twitter @MidnoirCowboy ||||| Video released by Rosemont police Friday depicts Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted hotel kitchen and disappearing around a corner — the last time she's seen alive.

 Though it doesn't capture her entering the walk-in freezer where her body was found, video taken by what appears to be a motion-activated camera shows that no one else came into that area until her body was found.

 Village officials released the video after days of speculation about the death of the 19-year-old Chicago woman and pressure by community activists dissatisfied with the investigation.

 Attorneys Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., who represent Jenkins' family, said at a news conference Friday afternoon that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy.

 Activist misrepresented family of teen found dead in freezer: mom

 The hotel "never checked. They never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," Adam said. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened."

 On Friday afternoon, the village released six video clips from the early morning of Sept. 9, when Jenkins went missing.

 The first two videos, from early Saturday, show Jenkins, her gait steady, walking with three others through a public part of the hotel. But in the next clip, about 2 hours later, she gets off an elevator alone, so unsteady she has to support herself on a wall.

 Two minutes later, in another clip, she reels down a hallway. Then she wanders around another passage, clearly disoriented. Finally, she totters through an empty kitchen, around a corner and out of sight.

 Activist claims video shows Kenneka Jenkins enter freezer alone

 The same surveillance camera, which appears to be motion-activated, next picks up activity at 8:34 p.m., when a person briefly enters the frame, looks around and leaves.

 No one else enters the picture until 12:23 a.m. on Sept. 10, when a man goes around the same corner where Jenkins was last seen. A few seconds later, he walks quickly out of the frame and returns with a police officer. More officers soon arrive, hustling toward the corner.

 New video shows Kenneka Jenkins in her final moments caught on tape. (Facebook)

 Jenkins was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

 The video shows a body bag being removed at 4:53 a.m.

 Cops interview 12 people about puzzling death of Chicago teen

 Jenkins had attended a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza that stretched into the early hours of Sept. 9. Her sister said she last spoke to her around 1:30 a.m. Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said that about 4 a.m. she received a call that Jenkins had gone missing.

 In a 911 recording, Martin can be heard speaking to a police dispatcher a few hours later, relaying a version of events provided by Jenkins' friends:

 "They said they went upstairs to get (a) cellphone … and (Jenkins) was standing in the lobby," she said. "When they came downstairs, she wasn't there anymore."

 Martin asked if police could review surveillance footage from the hotel. She said she was worried because her daughter, who had a light tolerance for alcohol, had evidently been drinking — "One cup is too much for her" — and that the teen wasn't the type to disappear.

 Police trying to track down friends of teen found in freezer

 The dispatcher, noting that Jenkins was an adult and had been missing only a few hours, advised patience, saying it would take a while for detectives to get hold of the video.

 "What I would recommend is just go home, relax a little bit, give it some time," he said. "(For) all we know she very well still could be in the room. She could just be passed out. You know how it is. You're drinking the night before, you get — you know what I mean."

 Jenkins, 19, died after walking into a freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. (Facebook)

 The family ended up filing a missing persons report later that morning, Rosemont spokesman Gary Mack said, and police notified the hotel about 1:15 p.m. The hotel looked in all public areas and the floor on which the party was held but didn't find Jenkins, Mack said.

 The family returned to the hotel about 6 p.m. and knocked on guest doors, trying to find witnesses. The hotel called police, and Martin said the officers who responded reviewed surveillance video and saw Jenkins "staggering" through the hotel about 3:20 a.m.

 Cops reviewing Facebook Live video showing teen found in freezer

 A second search ensued. That's when she was found dead in the freezer.

 The medical examiner's office has yet to pronounce a cause or manner of death. A spokeswoman has said that determination might not come for weeks, pending further tests and investigation.

 The case has been the subject of intense speculation on social media, with amateur detectives combing through videos apparently shot in the room before Jenkins disappeared.

 Many have suggested online that she was murdered, but Rosemont police have consistently said they are conducting a death investigation, not a homicide probe.

 Teen found dead inside freezer after hotel party

 At the news conference, Rogers suggested that Jenkins' life could have been saved, or at least that she would have been found more quickly, had hotel staff listened to her friends and mother when they came seeking help.

 Jenkins' friends and family "were not given the assistance they needed. Assistance that probably, I suspect — I don't know — may have prevented us from being here today," Rogers said.

 Martin, sitting between her attorneys, thanked everyone for their love and support.

 "But I also want to know what happened," she said in a hushed voice. "I want to see it all. I want to see her actually walking into this freezer and closing herself within this freezer and freezing to death."

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 With Bob McCoppin ||||| Videos catch glimpses of Kenneka Jenkins’ final hours at Crowne Plaza

 She arrived at the hotel to party with her friends.

 She stumbled down a hallway.

 And she walked unsteadily through a hotel kitchen, disappearing around a corner.

 Those were among the images of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins captured on surveillance video at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where she was found dead in a walk-in freezer last weekend. Rosemont police released nine video files Friday afternoon.

 One video shows her walking alone in the hotel kitchen around 3:30 a.m. Saturday but does not directly show her walking into the freezer where she was found dead.

 Among the clips, Jenkins can be seen arriving at the hotel with three other people shortly after midnight on Saturday. Subsequent clips show her stumbling off elevators and walking alone through hallways.

 The release of the videos came hours after the lawyer for Jenkins’ mother said “serious questions remain” about the circumstances involving Jenkins’ death — and capped a week of apparent miscommunication between several of the parties involved.

 Rosemont police opted to make the videos public during a press conference held by Jenkins’ mother’s attorneys — during which those attorneys repeatedly said they had been shown only a few “snippets” of video from the night Jenkins died. A day earlier, the Crowne Plaza had issued a statement offering to show Jenkins’ family all 36 hours of footage in private.

 Jenkins left her home near the United Center at 11:30 p.m. Friday to go to a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, according to Rosemont Police. Jenkins’ sister last heard from her via text message about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

 About 4 a.m., Jenkins’ friends called her mother to tell her they could not find her, longtime Chicago anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes has said. An hour later, Tereasa Martin — who had recently undergone a double mastectomy — was at the hotel. She filled out a police report and Jenkins’ sister reported her missing.

 Jenkins was last seen at a party on the ninth floor of the hotel in the early hours of Saturday, police said. She was reported missing at 1:16 p.m. that afternoon. Police told Martin that surveillance footage showed Jenkins inebriated near the front desk, according to Holmes.

 Hotel staff and management searched the hotel and discovered Jenkins inside a freezer at 12:24 a.m. Sunday, police said.

 Rosemont police released a statement Friday evening saying detectives had interviewed 25 people so far during their investigation. Of those, 16 were in the hotel room during the party. Police continue trying to locate and interview another 15.

 It was also determined, police said, that the room used for the party was paid for with a “fraudulent credit card obtained through identity theft.”

 Since the weekend, Twitter and Facebook have been deluged with theories about Jenkins’ death — with many believing she was murdered. Rosemont police have said Jenkins’ death is considered noncriminal and that there was “no credible evidence at this point” that would prompt police to reclassify Jenkins’ death as a murder. Her autopsy was inconclusive pending further study.

 Village officials on Friday also released 911 calls and police radio dispatches related to the search for Jenkins.

 Martin called 911 from the hotel about 7:15 a.m. Saturday asking for police to help get the hotel to turn over security camera footage. The dispatcher advised her to wait a few hours in case her daughter turned up elsewhere.

 A little before 6 p.m., another female, who didn’t indicate her relationship to Jenkins, made a tearful 911 call to file a missing person report; the dispatcher tells her a report already had been filed. Police said Jenkins was formally reported missing about 1:15 p.m.

 Officers were dispatched to the hotel by 2 p.m., and they spent hours canvassing floors and trying to figure out on which floor Jenkins was last seen, according to radio transmissions.

 At one point, the hotel’s front desk called police to remove Jenkins’ mother from the premises, saying she was going door-to-door throughout the building looking for her daughter.

 At 12:25 a.m. Sunday, an officer radioed from a kitchen near a loading dock in the rear of the hotel.

 “I have the subject in a kitchen in a freezer,” the officer said. “She is frozen solid.”

 Thursday, the Crowne Plaza released a statement saying the hotel would allow Jenkins’ family to watch, in private, all 36 hours of video from more than 40 different cameras. The hotel also offered to cover funeral expenses. At Friday’s press conference, Martin’s attorneys said they were not aware of any such offer.

 Glenn Harton, a Crowne Plaza spokesman, told the Chicago Sun-Times that Thursday’s offers were relayed to three well-known community activists in Chicago: Jedidiah Brown, Ja’Mal Green and Andrew Holmes. Harton said that as of Thursday, the hotel didn’t know if Martin had retained an attorney and the three activists were told of the offers because “they all identified themselves as spokespeople for the family.”

 It was not known if Brown, Green or Holmes relayed the message to Martin. None of the three responded to requests for comment Friday evening. Friday afternoon, Harton said the family had not taken the hotel up on its offers.

 In a statement Friday afternoon, Martin’s attorneys said: “No other person is or has been authorized to speak on behalf of the family.”

 Shortly after the offer was made Thursday, Holmes said he saw surveillance footage and said Jenkins went into the freezer by herself, without being forced inside.

 “We all was wondering and wanted to know did anybody pull her down there?” Holmes said, contradicting Rogers’ statement. “Did anybody force her down there? Was anybody on the other side in that room when she got down there? And the answer to that is ‘no.’”

 Sam Adam Jr., one of Martin’s attorneys, said Friday: “I don’t know what Mr. Holmes saw or he didn’t. Quite frankly, to our investigation, it’s irrelevant.”

 “At the end of the day,” Adam said, “we have a child who is dead and a mother who doesn’t know why.”

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– Police have released surveillance video of Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen whose death in a walk-in hotel freezer after a party last weekend has led to protests and theories that she was murdered. The footage, which appears to be from a motion-activated camera at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont, Ill, doesn't capture the moment the 19-year-old entered the freezer, but it shows her walking, alone and apparently disoriented, through a disused hotel kitchen on the way there, reports the Chicago Tribune. The video shows that nobody else entered the kitchen area until her frozen body was found early Sunday morning, almost 24 hours after friends said she was missing. Video from early in the evening shows Jenkins with friends, but a later clip shows her emerge from an elevator alone and so unsteady that she had to hold on to a wall, the New York Daily News reports. Another shows her wandering down a hotel hallway. Police say they have interviewed 25 party guests and they have no reason to believe Jenkins was murdered, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Sam Adam Jr., an attorney for the Jenkins family, says lawyers will carry out their own investigation. The hotel "never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," he told reporters Friday. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened."


– It may be a bit early in 2015 to be handing out the Parents of the Year Award, but a man and woman in Indiana are certainly contenders: Police say they found a cellphone video featuring Michael Barnes, 19, and Toni Wilson, 22, encouraging a 1-year-old baby girl to place a .40-caliber handgun in her mouth and say "pow." "The video also shows the child placing the muzzle of the gun in [her] mouth," police say in a statement (amended here). "At no point does Barnes try to stop the child from playing with the gun." Wilson is the girl's mother, but Barnes is not her father. Authorities obtained the video after arresting Barnes in a separate incident in which he made arrangements via social media to sell a handgun to an undercover cop, Reuters reports. Wilson claimed the gun in the video was just a pellet gun, but police say that's not true. Barnes has been charged with child neglect, allowing a child to possess a firearm, and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, and Wilson faces the same charges, NBC News reports. The baby, as well as month-old twins in the home—of whom Barnes is the father, police say—were put into emergency care. (As for 2010's Parent of the Year winner, it might be the guy who tried to trade his baby for beer.)

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An Indiana couple has been charged with child neglect after cell phone video obtained by authorities recorded the pair telling a one-year-old baby to put a gun in her mouth and instructing her to make sounds like the weapon was firing, police said.

 Authorities in Evansville said on Friday they found the video on the phone of Michael Barnes, 19, who was arrested Thursday after he agreed to sell a handgun to an undercover officer through a transaction made on social media, Evansville police said in a statement.

 During what police called a "follow up investigation," officers looking through Barnes' phone discovered the video of the one-year-old baby putting a gun in her mouth. In the background, two adults, identified as Barnes and the toddler's mother, Toni Wilson, 22, encouraged the child to play with the weapon, police said.

 "Barnes can be heard telling the child to say "pow" on multiple occasions while the child plays with the gun," police said. "The video also shows the child placing the muzzle of the gun in her mouth. At no point does Barnes try to stop the child from playing with the gun," the statement said.

 The child's mother told police that the firearm was a pellet gun. Evansville police said the weapon was a .40 caliber handgun.

 Both Barnes and Wilson face multiple charges in the incident, including child neglect and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon. Barnes also faces charges in connection with the thwarted gun sale, police said.

 The 12-month-old girl and one-month-old twins in the home were placed in emergency care, police said.

 Barnes and Wilson were in custody and not available for comment. It was unclear if they had obtained attorneys or how they intended to plead.

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 Police investigating the cellphone of an Indiana man arrested for trying to sell a gun to an undercover officer found a disturbing video Friday — of a baby playing with a .40 caliber handgun. Two videos discovered on 19-year-old Michael Barnes' cellphone showed a 1-year-old boy tinkering with the handgun as Barnes tells the child to say "pow," according to a statement from the Evansville Police Department.

 Authorities didn't say if the gun was loaded. In the video, the infant can also be seen placing the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth. "At no point does Barnes try to stop the child from playing with the gun," police said.

 Barnes was wanted for armed robbery when he attempted to sell a handgun to an undercover officer. He was arrested and charged with resisting law enforcement with a weapon, carrying a handgun without a permit and carrying a handgun without a permit within 500 feet of a school, according to Evansville police. Once investigators found the video of the child playing with the gun, Barnes was charged with child neglect, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and allowing a child to possess a firearm, police said.

 The baby's mother, Toni Wilson, 22, faces the same charges after police determined she was present while the videos were being recorded. When questioned, she claimed the gun was a pellet gun, police said.

 The couple's 1-month-old twins were removed from the home and are in emergency care, along with the 1-year-old in the video. Barnes is the father of the twins, but not the older baby boy, police said.

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 Evansville Police arrested two people on various charges, including child neglect, after the couple allowed a 12 month old boy to play with a .40 caliber handgun.

 Police arrested 19 year old Michael Barnes on Thursday night after he had agreed to meet with someone to sell a handgun. Barnes had an active warrant for Armed Robbery. Unbeknownst to Barnes, the person he had agreed to sell the handgun to was an undercover officer. When Barnes arrived at the meeting location across from Delaware Elementary School, he was approached by officers and tried to run. He was caught by a Vanderburgh County K-9 Unit a short distance away. The gun he had agreed to sell was found at the scene of his arrest. He was arrested for Resisting Law Enforcement with a Weapon, Carrying a Handgun without a Permit, and Carrying a Handgun without a Permit within 500 Feet of a School.

 During the follow up investigation on Friday, detectives with the ATF/EPD Task Force were examining Barnes' cell phone for evidence related to the attempted sale of the handgun. Investigators found two videos on the phone that showed a 12 month old boy playing with a handgun that appears to be the same one that was recovered from Barnes during his arrest. Barnes can be heard telling the child to say "pow" on multiple occasions while the child plays with the gun. The video also shows the child placing the muzzle of the gun in his mouth. At no point does Barnes try to stop the child from playing with the gun.

 Investigators determined the child's mother, 22 year old Toni Wilson, was present when the video was made. Wilson had been with Barnes during his Thursday night arrest, but was released at the scene. She denied knowing Barnes had a gun at that time.

 Investigators went to Wilson's home at 920 N Elliott on Friday afternoon to speak with her. When confronted about the video, she claimed it was a pellet gun.

 Wilson was arrested for Child Neglect, Criminal Recklessness with a Deadly Weapon, and Allowing a Child to Possess a Firearm. Barnes is also facing those charges in addition to his original charges from his Thursday night arrest.

 The 12 month old and two 1 month old twins were placed into emergency care. Barnes is not the father of the 12 month old, but is the father of the twins. |||||


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Marine experts off Sydney, Australia, made a daring, first-of-its-kind rescue to save a grey nurse shark being choked to death by an elastic cord that somehow got wrapped around its gills and was acting like a noose.

 The challenge was that rescue divers needed to capture the shark, belonging to the most critically endangered shark species, and bring it to the surface.

 “When you’re dealing with a wild animal like this anything can happen,” Rob Townsend of SeaLife sanctuary and aquarium told 7News Sydney. “Their teeth are always on display and they are very sharp.”

 How would they capture the shark? 7News Sydney has video detailing the procedure and amazing rescue:

 The grey nurse shark was spotted off Magic Point, known as critical shark habitat. The shark’s labored breathing was a sign it was slowly dying.

 A team of divers and a veterinarian from SeaLife used a clear-plastic shark sock and coaxed the shark into it. The see-through characteristics of the massive sock resulted in other sharks entering, too.

 Once in the sock, the injured shark was wrestled into a special stretcher and taken to the surface, where vet Rob Jones cut away the suffocating cord and gave the shark a shot of antibiotics to prevent infection.

 “If we hadn’t intervened, I have no doubt it would have died, the elastic would have kept cutting deeper and deeper into the neck,” Jones told 7News Sydney.

 The shark swam away, and though the wound looks pretty bad, officials said it should heal in a month or so.

 Only an estimated 1,500 of the grey nurse sharks remain off the Australian coast, so saving one is certainly a commendable act.

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– Australian divers got up close and personal with a grey nurse shark that was in desperate need of saving last week in a "first-of-its-kind" rescue caught on tape, via 7News Sydney, picked up by GrindTV. Somehow the young female shark—spotted breathing heavily in a shark habitat off Sydney—had managed to get an elastic band wrapped around her body. The band acted like a noose, slowly killing the shark as it pressed in on her gills. That's when a vet team swam into action, wrestling the shark into a clear plastic "sock" that could bring her to the surface—"the first time that we've run this kind of operation in the wild," a SeaLife sanctuary worker said. "When you're dealing with a wild animal like this anything can happen," he added, noting, "Their teeth are always on display and they are very sharp." At the surface, however, a vet was able to cut the cord, which left a nasty wound and had probably been there for some time. After an antibiotic shot, the shark went freely on her way and should be fully healed in a month or so, 7News reports. "If we hadn't intervened, I have no doubt it would have died, the elastic would have kept cutting deeper and deeper into the neck," the vet said. Click to read about another shark rescue; this one was choking ... on moose.


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A paradox of the new music industry: Albums sell less and less well every year, but as a marketing tool they are now more important than ever.

 A case in point is Lady Gaga, whose new album, “Born This Way” (Interscope), was released on May 23 and sold 1,108,000 copies in the United States in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Some 662,000 of those sales, or about 60 percent, were digital downloads, the most any album has ever sold in a week.

 The extraordinary success of “Born This Way” — it outsold the next 42 albums on Billboard’s chart combined — are a testimony to Lady Gaga’s appeal and the hard work of her business team, which devised one of the most extensive and savvy marketing campaigns ever mounted in music.

 Once an artist’s biggest source of income, recorded music now plays second fiddle to touring, endorsements, merchandise sales and an array of other revenue streams once considered ancillary. That’s especially true for an artist like Lady Gaga, who has lined up more branding and promotional deals in the last six months than most artists will in a lifetime.

 “People lose sight of how an artist becomes successful in 2011,” said Bill Werde, Billboard’s editorial director. “She could have sold 600,000 albums, or a million, or two million. But in terms of revenue that’s going to be a smaller piece of the pie.”

 If there is any asterisk on her achievement, it’s that about two-thirds of the digital downloads are owed to a 99-cent deal offered by Amazon, which helped sales pass the million mark. The huge discount drew an angry reaction from brick-and-mortar retailers who saw their sales drop in response.

 Ish Cuebas, vice president for music merchandising of Trans World Entertainment, which operates 460 music and media stores, including F.Y.E., said that his shops sold about half as many copies of “Born This Way” as he had expected.

 “I don’t think it sends a good message,” Mr. Cuebas said of Amazon’s deal. “I can understand what Amazon did, but I think it devalues music even further. In the customer’s mind it’s worth 99 cents.”

 But something is still needed to organize the flurry of products, activities and side deals that now constitute an artist’s business, and most often that role is filled by an album, no matter what the cost. The album still establishes an artist’s sound, look and message and provides an anchor around which long promotions can be built, from early singles (and leaks) to concert tours and television appearances.

 Recognizing this, Interscope and Lady Gaga’s manager, Troy Carter, built their campaign around the release date, which they chose late last year to take advantage of music-related high points on the television calendar, like the Grammy Awards in February (where Lady Gaga played the premiere of her song “Born This Way”) and the finale of “American Idol” last week (where she sang her latest single, “The Edge of Glory”).

 “We wanted to approach this like we were opening a blockbuster film,” said Steve Berman, vice chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M.; “It became: ‘We’ll put a flag in that date well in advance. We won’t move. And what we’ll do for the next six months is pour gas on that fire every day, really branding the date.’ ”

 Like any good movie campaign the selling of “Born This Way” began nearly a year in advance and continued as a well-timed drumbeat of promotional appearances, retail tie-ins and media deals that rose to a climax as the release date approached.

 Lady Gaga announced the title of the album at MTV’s Video Music Awards last September and gave the release date on New Year’s Eve. As the promotions piled up in recent weeks, she became inescapable. If you missed her HBO concert special or “Saturday Night Live” appearance, her GagaVille online game or fashion sale through Gilt Groupe, then perhaps you rode in one of the New York City subway cars decked out top to bottom with “Born This Way” advertising.

 Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, apparently knows the value of these deals. Mr. Carter said she accompanied him on numerous trips to retailers and to Silicon Valley start-ups eager to attach themselves to the Gaga brand.

 But the most effective offering may have been the one the Gaga team knew nothing about. On May 23 Amazon put the digital version of the album on sale for 99 cents to draw music fans to Cloud Drive, its entry into the world of so-called cloud music services, which store a user’s songs on remote servers.

 Amazon paid Interscope’s distributor, Universal, the full wholesale price for the album — between $8 and $9 — and accepted the difference as a loss, according to several people briefed on the sales arrangement, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the details. Billboard reported that Amazon’s two-day sale yielded about 440,000 digital sales; if correct, that would mean that the retailer lost more than $3 million on the promotion. (Amazon declined to comment.)

 Several other new releases reached high on Billboard’s album chart this week, but none came close to “Born This Way.” Brad Paisley’s new “This Is Country Music” (Arista Nashville) is No. 2 with 153,000 copies sold, and “Glee: The Music, Vol. 6” (Columbia) sold 80,000, reaching No. 4. Adele’s “21” (XL), which has been No. 1 for a total of nine weeks this year, fell two spots to No. 3 with 127,000.

 Mr. Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager, said the prerelease promotional campaign for “Born This Way” had been in full swing for six months. “If you look at ‘The Fame,’ ” Mr. Carter continued, referring to Lady Gaga’s first album, “it wasn’t marketing ploys that drove the success of that album. It was the quality of the content and Gaga’s willingness to go around the world and play for the fans, do the promotion, do the TV shows, visit the radio stations and the club D.J.’s. There’s a lot more of that than there are marketing ploys.”

 That means the promotion for “Born This Way” is far from over. “This is where the work begins,” he said. ||||| After all that talk about underperforming singles and creative bankruptcy and overexposure, Lady Gaga did exactly what she was supposed to do with Born This Way, her first album since officially branding herself a superstar: sell a ridiculous number of units. The exact number, 1.1 million in the first week , is startling — but it comes with a caveat. That final tally was greatly boosted by the fact that Amazon, looking to drive people toward their new Cloud Drive music locker service, dropped the price on Born This Way’s digital release to an all-new loss-leader low of 99 cents. Over the two days of the offer, the album was downloaded 440,000 times, roughly two thirds of its overall digital sales count. So how much did Amazon cough up in the process?

 According to the New York Times, Amazon paid Gaga’s distributor, Universal, full price (between $8 or $9 per album), meaning they lost more than $3 million. That is certainly a ton of money to have kicked into your campaign by an entity that has no actual interest in how well your album sells, and it provides much fodder for anyone wishing to quibble with the validity of the 1.1 million number. But Lady Gaga should still get a lot of the credit: Amazon would have wanted to pull this kind of sales gimmick with someone, and, thanks to the all-permeating pop-culture presence that Gaga has cultivated, she was the top option. Meanwhile, Amazon chalks all those millions up to marketing costs and moves on. Win-win! Still, Taylor Swift — who only mustered a paltry 1.04 million sales for Speak Now’s first week — is probably pretty salted. |||||

– Lady Gaga sold a whopping 1.1 million copies of Born This Way in its first week, but 440,000 of those copies went for just 99 cents on Amazon.com. Amazon, however, did pay Gaga's distributor the full price of $8 to $9 per album—which means, the New York Times calculates, the online retailer lost more than $3 million. Of course, New York magazine points out, a big point of the gimmick was to drum up new users for its Cloud Drive service, so the company can just consider those millions "marketing costs." As for Gaga, the move does provide "much fodder for anyone wishing to quibble with the validity of the 1.1 million number," writes Amos Barshad. Click to see which artist Barshad thinks is "probably pretty salted" right now.


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– Joan Rivers is still on life support, her daughter says on Facebook, per the Wire. "I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers," Melissa Rivers notes. Family and friends are with Rivers in the hospital, the New York Daily News reports. Yesterday, a source to E! News said Rivers was "on the road to recovery," though slowly, while other reports said she was being brought out of a medically induced coma. A recovery would be followed by a months- or years-long rehab period during which she wouldn't appear publicly, insiders tell the Daily News.

Comedian Joan Rivers, five days after a near-fatal heart and lung failure, remained on life support Tuesday as her daughter, Melissa, stood vigil at her mom’s bedside.

 Melissa Rivers issued a three-sentence statement that shed little new light on the situation — including the medical options going forward as the “Fashion Police�? host battles to stay alive.

 Rivers went into cardiac and respiratory arrest during a doctor’s visit on Thursday, and medical machines have been keeping her alive since the weekend.

 “On behalf of my mother and our family, we are extremely grateful for all the love and support we have received,�? Melissa Rivers said.

 Rivers' assistant Graham Reed was seen getting into a taxicab Tuesday morning. (Marcus Santos/Daily News) Rivers was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital on Thursday. (Richard Harbus/(Richard Harbus/for New York Dai)

 “At this time, she does remain on life support.

 “I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.�?

 Rivers, 81, remained surrounded by family and friends in her room at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her grim-faced assistant, Graham Reed, left the hospital Tuesday morning without comment.

 Several sources told the Daily News that if Rivers pulls through, she’s in for a rehab process that could take months or even years and would keep her out of the public eye.

 A woman whose brother is hospitalized on the same floor as Joan Rivers said Melissa has gone out of her way to treat them nicely despite her own burden.

 “It really affects her, what she’s going through,�? said the woman, who declined to give her name. “She’s hurting, and yet she took the time to really care for us — and she doesn’t even know us.�?

 Joan Rivers (r.) with daughter Melissa Rivers, who has been by her mother’s side since she was hospitalized Thursday. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images) Joan Rivers (l.) with daughter Melissa Rivers, who has been by her mother’s side since she was hospitalized Thursday. ( ERIC THAYER /REUTERS)

 Doctors at Mount Sinai had initially placed Rivers into a medically induced coma as they began running tests on her.

 The medical team hopes to get a read on any damage caused when Rivers stopped breathing last week at an Upper East Side clinic. Rivers was getting her throat checked out.

 bpaddock@nydailynews.com ||||| Comedienne Joan Rivers remains on life support in a New York City hospital, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, said on her mother's Facebook page on Tuesday.

 Rivers, 81, was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital on Thursday after going into cardiac arrest during a routine procedure at Yorkville Endoscopy on the Upper East Side. Melissa and Rivers' grandson Cooper flew to New York later that same day.

 Earlier Tuesday there were various disputed reports that Rivers was being brought out of her medically induced coma in order to assess possible brain damage.

 Meanwhile there have been conflicting accounts as to the severity of her condition. Just yesterday, a source told the E! Network the comedy queen was "getting better."

 "It's a slow process, but she's on the road to recovery..." a source close to the situation told E!. "Don't believe all this ridiculous speculation," the person added.

 The New York Daily News reported that a taping of Rivers' show, Fashion Police which was supposed to coincide with New York Fashion Week has been cancelled.

 Twitter continues to light up with support from fans of the legendary funny lady.

 .@Joan_Rivers Get well soon Joan - keep fighting! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2014

 We have a gig in 2 weeks and I'm not doing it without you YOU'RE BEING RIDICULOUS @Joan_Rivers — Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 31, 2014

 4 the first time in years I got down on my knees & prayed tonight! I encourage U 2 do the same 4 @Joan_Rivers my grandma! #inconsolable — Kelly Osbourne (@KellyOsbourne) August 30, 2014

 Sending love, love and more love to Joan. @Joan_Rivers — Jane Lynch (@janemarielynch) September 1, 2014

 Dear @Joan_Rivers, FYI the flowers u JUST sent me r still goin strong! Thinking of U every minute. LUV U #JoanRivers pic.twitter.com/VWXe0Xb85e — Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) September 1, 2014

 Oh, Joanie. This isn't funny. Please wake up. I promise I'll be your piano player...for free again! Loving you and praying for @Joan_Rivers — Barry Manilow (@barrymanilow) September 1, 2014

 Please keep praying for Joan. RT @nikkibrooks88: @Joan_Rivers @MelRivers wishing the wonderful, clever, funny Joan a full & speedy recovery — Giuliana Rancic (@GiulianaRancic) August 31, 2014

 It's Sunday morning and I am praying for a miracle for the great Joan Rivers. The world needs Joan. 🙏🙏 — Andy Cohen (@Andy) August 31, 2014

 We can't lose Joan. All love and healing wishes to Her Majesty Joan Rivers- being ripped a new one by you is an honor to be treasured. — Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) August 31, 2014

 Sending love to my pal, Joan Rivers. — Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) August 29, 2014

 I’m thinking about you, @Joan_Rivers, and sending lots of love your way. — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) August 28, 2014 ||||| Christopher Polk/Getty Images

 Joan Rivers is a fighter.

 As the E! Fashion Police host remains hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a source reveals the comedian is making small, but positive, steps.

 "It's a slow process, but she's on the road to recovery," a source close to the situation tells E! News exclusively. "She's getting better. Don't believe all this ridiculous speculation."

 Joan stopped breathing while undergoing a minor throat procedure Aug. 28 in New York City. She was then rushed to the hospital where she was placed in a medically induced coma.

 Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, flew across the country the same day with her son, Cooper, to be by the comic legend's side.

 NEWS: Fashion Police co-hosts send heartfelt prayers to Joan Rivers

 "She is a rock. She is calmer than I've ever seen her," the source told E! News in regards to Melissa. "All these reports about doomsday are not true. She is her mother's daughter and she's tough as nails. She's the person keeping everyone together."

 The insider added, "She's focused on one thing: Her mother's health."

 Joan remains in stable, yet critical, condition. On Sunday, Melissa thanked fans for all their prayers and well wishes.

 "Thank you for your continued love and support," she said in a statement. "We are keeping our fingers crossed."

 Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the Rivers family at this time.

 PHOTOS: Check out the best jokes Joan Rivers has made about celebs

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President Trump recently asked his lawyers for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort and other aides accused of crimes, his lawyer said Thursday.

 The subject of pardoning Manafort came as Trump’s former campaign chairman faced multiple charges of bank fraud and tax evasion in an Alexandria criminal case, Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said in an interview.

 Trump’s lawyers counseled the president against the idea of pardoning anyone linked to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, according to Giuliani, saying Trump should at least wait until special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his probe. Giuliani said the president agreed and did not push the issue further.

 “He said yes,” Giuliani said. “He agreed with us.”

 Giuliani said Trump was seeking advice in the wake of a spate of pardons he granted earlier this summer, including for a woman whom Kim Kardashian had lobbied the White House to release. Giuliani said he and fellow personal attorney Jay Sekulow had advised waiting to see whether Mueller delivers a damning report that accuses the president of trying to block a federal probe of his campaign’s contacts with Russians.

 White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Wednesday that she “wasn’t aware” of any discussions of Trump pardoning Manafort and that the topic was “not something that’s been up for discussion.”

 On Thursday, in the wake of Giuliani’s comment, Sanders said the pardon topic is not under active consideration “in the White House.”

 “This pardon is not something being discussed in the White House and the president has not made a decision on pardoning Paul Manafort or anyone else,” she said in a statement.

 The exact timing and nature of the pardon discussion is unclear.

 A senior administration official said the president discussed the pros and cons of granting pardons to Manafort and others linked to a probe of his campaign “a few weeks ago.”

 Giuliani initially said he and Trump had the conversation “three to five weeks ago” but later corrected his statement to say he believed they discussed it several weeks earlier, in June. Giuliani clarified in a follow-up call to The Post that his conversation with Trump was a general discussion about potential pardons for a range of people under investigation, including but not limited to Manafort.

 Some experts have argued Trump could expose himself to more legal danger if he were to pardon aides who are witnesses in the Mueller probe, because Mueller is examining the president’s own conduct and whether he sought to obstruct justice.

 Giuliani acknowledged that risk.

 “We sat him down and said you’re not considering these other pardons with anybody involved in the investigation. He said yes, absolutely, I understand,” Giuliani said. “The real concern is whether Mueller would turn any pardon into an obstruction charge.”

 Other Trump associates who have pleaded guilty as part of Mueller’s investigation include former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and Trump campaign aide Rick Gates.

 Mueller’s findings are supposed to be provided in a report to Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who would then decide whether any evidence of wrongdoing was serious enough that it should be presented to Congress to consider for impeachment proceedings.

 Trump has repeatedly decried the government’s treatment of Manafort — who a jury found guilty Tuesday on eight counts of tax- and bank-fraud charges. Manafort refused to cooperate with Mueller investigators seeking his information about the Trump campaign and instead took his chances at trial.

 On Tuesday, the president told reporters that Manafort was a “good man” and that he felt sorry for him.

 Trump tweeted his support of Manafort on Wednesday while criticizing Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to a bank and two campaign finance violations: willfully causing an illegal corporate contribution and making an excessive campaign contribution.

 “I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family,” Trump tweeted. “ ‘Justice’ took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to ‘break’ — make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’ Such respect for a brave man!”

 Inside the West Wing, the prospect of a Manafort pardon is met with near universal opposition. Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, White House counsel Donald F. McGahn and attorney Emmet T. Flood are all opposed. Aides are trying to keep Trump from even discussing the matter. After Ainsley Earhardt, the Fox News anchor, said Wednesday night that Trump discussed a pardon while appearing on Fox News, Sanders asked her to clarify her comments that she did not hear Trump say that, according to a person familiar with the matter. Officials are increasingly frustrated with Giuliani inside the West Wing.

 Trump has admiringly talked about how Manafort did not “flip” on him and was ebullient when Judge T.S. Ellis said that the prosecution only wanted to go after Manafort to get him. Asked about a pardon, one senior White House official said: “What does it accomplish? You pardon him, it doesn’t get rid of the Mueller probe, it causes you more headaches, he still has another trial, you have more Republicans coming after you.”

 “Legally he’s entitled to pardon Manafort,” said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor that Trump likes to watch on TV. “My advice to the president is don’t tweet, don’t pardon, don’t testify, don’t fire.”

 That was a major shift for Trump, who in April called it a “national disgrace” when federal investigators raided Cohen’s home and office as part of an investigation into his efforts during the campaign to squelch embarrassing stories about Trump.

 Cohen implicated Trump directly in some of his acts when he pleaded guilty Tuesday, saying he arranged to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public before Election Day — in coordination with the then-candidate.

 Trump has repeatedly expressed his anger at how federal prosecutors had “beat up” and mistreated Manafort. The president’s critics argue that Trump’s public tweets are a thinly-veiled message to Manafort, that he supports his refusal to cooperate with Mueller and is willing to pardon him in the future.

 Giuliani said Trump’s concern for Manafort is what motivates him to consider a pardon.

 “He feels Manafort has been mistreated. Nobody in a case like this gets raided in the middle of the night, put in solitary confinement,” Giuliani said. “They tried to crack him and it didn’t work. Over the last two to three weeks, he’s expressed anger and frustration about how he’s been treated.”

 This story has been updated.

 Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report. ||||| On Wednesday, several aides dismissed the news about Mr. Cohen as just another bad headline lacking the silver bullet that they say the special counsel would need to prove that the president conspired with Russian officials.

 Mr. Trump spent the early hours of Wednesday tweeting — he called the convicted Mr. Manafort a “brave man” who, unlike Mr. Cohen, “refused to ‘break’” or “make up stories in order to get a ‘deal.’’’ He also monitored headlines, as he did after his news conference with Mr. Putin. In the interview with Fox News, he asserted that money for the payments to the women had come not from his campaign, but from his own accounts.

 “I don’t know if you know,” Mr. Trump said during the interview, “but I tweeted about the payments. But they didn’t come out of the campaign.” Campaign finance laws still prohibit Mr. Trump from making unreported payments related to the campaign, regardless of where they came from. Neither payment was disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.

 On Air Force One on Tuesday night on the way back from a rally in West Virginia, Mr. Trump repeatedly minimized the news, telling aides that the legal developments were not about him, but about Mr. Manafort and Mr. Cohen. He also groused over the optics of the rally, telling a person close to him that the crowd seemed flat and that some chairs were empty.

 By Wednesday, Mr. Trump’s lawyers were arguing privately that Mr. Cohen’s admission and guilty plea to violating campaign finance laws was a punch but not a knockout blow, and were assessing what options they had for fighting back. They stressed that Mr. Cohen had said repeatedly in previous accounts that Mr. Trump was not aware of his payment to Ms. Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels. |||||

– President Trump has discussed the political fallout of a potential pardon for Paul Manafort, whom he believes "has been horribly treated"—and understands a pardon is off the table, at least for now, according to Rudy Giuliani. The president's personal lawyer made the comments to the New York Times on Wednesday before elaborating to the Washington Post. Claiming the conversation occurred "three to five weeks ago" then correcting that timeline to June, Giuliani said Trump had brought up the possibility of a pardon but both Giuliani and fellow attorney Jay Sekulow advised against it, at least before the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. "We sat him down and said you're not considering these other pardons with anybody involved in the investigation," Giuliani said. That would ostensibly include former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and campaign aide Rick Gates, all of whom have pleaded guilty as part of the Mueller probe. "He said yes, absolutely, I understand," Giuliani continued. "The real concern is whether Mueller would turn any pardon into an obstruction charge." Still, the president has been publicly praising Manafort since his Tuesday conviction on eight counts of financial fraud. "Some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in Washington probably does," Trump told Fox News on Thursday, a day after he took to Twitter to praise Manafort for refusing to "break" for prosecutors. "Such respect for a brave man!" he wrote.


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The posting continued, “although he struggled for years to overcome his sorrow, he finally succumbed, and during the night of the 4th of January 2011, in his Boston residence, took his own life, plunging his family and friends into great sorrow.’’

 “It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi,’’ according to the posting by his older brother, Reza Pahlavi. “Like millions of young Iranians, he too was deeply disturbed by all the ills fallen upon his beloved homeland, as well as carrying the burden of losing a father and a sister in his young life.’’

 Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi was found inside his West Newton Street home by Boston police around 2 a.m. today, according to police and the posting on rezapahlavi.org.

 The 44-year-old son of the late shah of Iran died early this morning inside his South End home after he allegedly shot himself, according to law enforcement officials and a Web posting by his brother.

 The statement added, “Once again, we are joined with mothers, father and relatives of so many victims of these dark times for our country.’’

 Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, confirmed the identify of the body as Al-Rreza.

 Al-Reza Pahlavi’s father was the shah of Iran and a close American ally. The shah was overthrown in the 1970s by a fundamentalist Islamic revolution that remains in power, bedeviling the current American administration with reported plans to produce nuclear weapons.

 Ali-Reza was born in 1966 and has lived in the South End for many years, but has kept a low public profile. The Globe reported incorrectly earlier today that Pahlavi was a student at the Harvard Divinity School. In fact, Pahlavi enrolled in a doctorate program in Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard in 1993 but did not complete his degree, according to the registrar's office of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

 His older brother, Reza Pahlavi, is a lawyer who lives in the United States and has taken a much more public role in opposing the continued control of his homeland.

 A younger sister, Leila Pahlavi, died in a London hotel room in 2001 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs,according to the Agence France Press. She also battled emotional problems for many years.

 Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said that “preliminary investigation suggests that the bullet wound was self-inflicted.’’

 Neighbors said Pahlavi was reserved and quiet. He bought the five-story brick rowhouse in 2001, according to city records, and renovated it.

 Daniel Shannon, a doctor and scientist who lived across the street from Pahlavi, said he first met the prince in 1973 in his father's castle in Iran, where Shannon had gone with a small group of doctors and scientists to advise the shah, who wanted to build a medical science center.

 At the time, Pahlavi was about 7 years old, curious, friendly and with an impressive knowledge of the United States, Shannon said.

 Shannon said he was shocked to see Pahlavi again on West Newton Street years later, this time as his neighbor.

 "He was the spitting image of his father," Shannon said. "I recognized him right away."

 But the open child had grown into a reserved man whose face froze when Shannon brought up their first meeting in the 1970s.

 "What I read in that is he didn't want to talk about it," Shannon said. "When I mentioned having known him as a child, the reserve turned to ice."

 After that, Shannon and his wife, Marcia Lloyd, rarely saw him around the neighborhood. He would pull up in his black Porsche and dart inside the house. The only people the couple saw were another friend and a striking young woman who studied painting.

 The wooden, Venetian blinds in the windows were always closed, Lloyd said.

 He had placed satellite dishes with Arabic letters on the roof of the house so he could access Al Jazeera, but they disappeared about a year ago, Lloyd said.

 "We've seen him so seldom that it was hard to know if someone was living there or not," Shannon said. "He might have come here to be in a place where he was a little anonymous."

 Late this afternoon, the blinds remained closed. On West Newton street, a police cruiser idled as three men from the crime scene clean up company, Aftermath Inc., went back and forth from their van into Pahlavi's house holding plastic buckets and hoses.

 An elderly man answered the door but told a reporter he could not comment.

 John Tirman, a professor of international affairs at MIT in Cambridge, said the Pahlavi family has not played a major role in Iranian politics since the family left Iran, partly because the family was reviled by many Iranians because of the ruthlessness of the shah’s regime and the family’s extravagant lifestyle while in power.

 “We don’t like what is in Iran right now,’’ Tirman said. “But what was there before was pretty nasty, too.’’

 Tirman said he did not know Ali-Reza Pahlavi personally. adding that many close followers of the Pahlavis relocated to the United States after the shah's fall from power. The largest concentration is in California. he said.

 “It’s a very big community in the US, very well educated,’’ Tirman said. “Many Iranians have been quite successful in business and academia and elsewhere in the US. It’s not an exile community that had a head exactly, they were first among equals in that exile community.’’ ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| The youngest son of the late shah of Iran was found dead Tuesday of an apparent suicide at his home in Boston, after he had "struggled for years to overcome his sorrow," his brother said.

 FILE - In this March 30, 1979 file photo, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, third from left, poses with his family while vacationing in the Bahamas. From left are daughter Leila Pahlavi, son Alireza... (Associated Press)

 A Boston police cruiser drives past the South End home of Alireza Pahlavi in Boston late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 4, 2011. Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late shah of Iran, was found dead Tuesday of... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this Friday, April 15, 2005 file photo, Alireza Pahlavi is seen during Prince Rainier III's funeral procession, in Monaco. Pahlavi, son of the late shah of Iran, has been found dead of an apparent... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this Friday, April 15, 2005 file photo, Iran's Farah Pahlavi, widow of Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, right, and her son Alireza Pahlavi, are seen during Prince Rainier III's funeral procession,... (Associated Press)

 A Boston Police Officer walks up the front steps of the South End home of Alireza Pahlavi as a woman walks past in Boston, late Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 4, 2011. Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late shah... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this Jan. 26, 1975, file photo, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, center, sits with his children Princess Leila, left, and Prince Alireza, during a vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Alireza... (Associated Press)

 "Once again, we are joined with mothers, father and relatives of so many victims of these dark times for our country," the shah's oldest son, Reza Pahlavi, wrote on his website in announcing the death of his brother, Alireza Pahlavi.

 Pahlavi, 44, died from a single gunshot wound that was apparently self-inflicted, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney's office.

 Boston police said officers responding to a 911 call found the man dead in his home in the city's South End neighborhood shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday. A police spokesman did not know who made the call or whether it came from the home.

 Fardia Pars, who is close to Reza Pahlavi, said by phone from Paris that Alireza Pahlavi went into a deep depression following his the death of his sister Leila in 2001, who was found in a London hotel room at age 31 after overdosing on barbiturates.

 Alireza Pahlavi never recovered, Pars said.

 "He became a different person," he said.

 Pahlavi's depression "grew over time _ his departure from Iran, living in exile, the death of his father and then his sister to whom he was very close," said Nazie Eftekhari, who works in Reza Pahlavi's office in Washington and is a close family friend.

 "The deaths were a huge blow to him," she said.

 When Leila Pahlavi died, her mother said her daughter had been "very depressed." Her doctor had said she had a history of anorexia, bulimia and psychological problems.

 Pars said Alireza's style even in taking his life was militaristic in nature, reflecting his royal background. "Like an army commander, he shot himself. He was a very disciplined man," Pars said.

 Former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution. He fled Iran and wandered from country to country, ill with cancer, and eventually died in Egypt in 1980.

 Alireza Pahlavi was born in Tehran in 1966 and attended school there until 1979, according to a brief biographical sketch on the website of his mother, the former empress Farah Pahlavi.

 From 1979 to 1981, Pahlavi attended schools in New York and Cairo, and from 1981 to 1984 he attended Mount Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Mass.

 Pahlavi studied music as an undergraduate at Princeton University and ancient Iranian studies as a graduate student at Columbia University.

 He also did postgraduate work at Harvard University in ancient Iranian studies and philology. Pahlavi was not studying at the university at the time of his death, a Harvard spokesman said Tuesday.

 A police officer was seen late Tuesday afternoon going in and out of Pahlavi's Boston apartment and speaking with family representatives, who would not talk to reporters.

 A neighbor, Dan Phillips, 42, said he did not know Pahlavi personally but recognized his picture and described him as someone who was very social and "who always dressed very dapper."

 "I would always see him walking around here and he used to wear blue jeans and a blazer," Phillips said.

 Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, said in a statement that "the Iranian-American community was deeply saddened by the news of this tragedy.

 "There are many divisions in the community, but on a day like this, I think we are all united in our sympathy with the Pahlavi family for their tragic and painful loss," Parsi said.

 Reza Pahlavi, who is based in the U.S., has spoken out in opposition to Iran's clerical regime. It's not clear how much weight exiled opposition forces have inside Iran, nor how many Iranians support the idea of a return to monarchy. Pahlavi said in 2009 that that is not his goal.

 "I'm not here to advocate anything but ... freedom and democracy for the Iranian people at first and I've determined this as my unique mission in life," he said at the time.

 Pahlavi will head to Boston on Wednesday, Eftekhari said, and she expected his mother, who's in Paris, to go as well.

 Eftekhari said the family asks to be allowed to mourn privately for a few days and that no funeral arrangements have yet been made.

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 Associated Press writers Scheherezade Faramarzi in Beirut; Matthew Barakat in McLean, Va.; and Bob Salsberg and Russell Contreras in Boston contributed to this report. |||||

– The youngest son of the late shah of Iran killed himself in his Boston home this morning, his family says. Alireza Pahlavi, 44, apparently shot himself, reports the Globe. “Like millions of young Iranians, he too was deeply disturbed by all the ills fallen upon his beloved homeland, as well as carrying the burden of losing a father and a sister in his young life," said a family statement. It refers to his sister Leila, who died of a drug overdose in 2001. Pahlavi's father, an American ally, was overthrown in 1979 and died the following year in exile in Egypt. A family friend says Alireza Pahlavi never recovered from the death of his sister and that his depression "grew over time," reports AP. He had studied music and history at Princeton, then did postgraduate work at Harvard. He kept a relatively low-key profile, unlike his brother Reza Pahlavi, a US attorney who frequently speaks out against the Iran regime. Click for more on Alireza Pahlavi.


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A service dog who attends school with her owner in Louisiana is getting plenty of attention online after the boy's school included the female golden doodle in its yearbook.

 Joseph "Seph" Ware, 14, of West Monroe, La., has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a diagnosis he was given at the age of 3. The genetic condition causes progressive muscle weakness and muscle wasting, with most patients confined to wheelchairs by the time they are teens.

 Ware's service dog, Presley, has been with him for the past four years, including when Seph attends classes at Good Hope Middle School. When picture day came around, school officials decided to include Presley - who has a canine sibling named Elvis - in the yearbook with all the other students.

 Seph's mother, Lori Ware, told AL.com on Wednesday that her son's reaction was, "Why not," when school officials asked his permission to include Presley in the yearbook.

 "Seph says that it took about 10 minutes to get Presley to look at the camera - and who knows how many shots," Ware said.

 Ware said she thinks the administrators' gesture was a great one since, in the past, Presley has not been welcomed as openly at school.

 "We have had issues with his elementary school accepting Presley, so to come to Good Hope and her to be welcomed has been very refreshing," Ware said. "The kids adore her and she loves the attention."

 The administrators' gesture has also gained traction on social media.

 A recent story in the News-Star, Monroe's local newspaper, highlighted the work that Presley does for Ware. The 5-year-old Presley and her canine sibling, Elvis, reunited last month for a visit after years apart. Elvis lives and works as a service dog in Wisconsin, also for a young boy with muscular dystrophy.

 Both dogs help their young owners by doing things for them that their weakened muscles no longer allow, like picking up things they drop, hitting light switches and opening drawers, the news story reported.

 Duchenne muscular dystrophy, one of nine types of the disease, is caused by a missing protein that, in most people, helps keep muscle cells intact. According to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, it affects primarily boys.

 Besides the muscle deterioration leading to physical impairment, the disease also affects the heart and respiratory muscles. Advances in cardiac and respiratory care in recent years has expanded patients' life spans, making survival into their 30s more common.

 There are also cases of those affected living into their 40s and 50s, the MDA reports. ||||| Among all the headshots of smiling students in a Louisiana middle school’s new yearbook, one photo clearly sticks out.

 It shows Presley, a service dog, and the photo in West Monroe’s Good Hope Middle School yearbook has been drawing a lot of attention since it started bouncing around the internet last week.

 The 5-year-old golden doodle shows up in the yearbook next to her owner Joseph “Seph” Ware, a 14-year-old Good Hope seventh-grader diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The student relies on Presley to help him get around.

 “We’re kind of stunned at all the attention,” the boy’s mom, Lori Ware, told FoxNews.com Friday. “It’s humbling. I’m glad Presley is making the world happy.”

 Ware, 52, said her son has been drawing a paw print when classmates ask him to sign their yearbooks on behalf of Presley.

 “He’s loving it,” she said of her son.

 Presley has been at Seph’s side since she was a small puppy.

 When picture day came around, school officials wanted to include the dog in the yearbook with the other students, Al.com reported this week.

 Ware said her son's response was, “why not.”

 “Seph says that it took about 10 minutes to get Presley to look at the camera - and who knows how many shots,” she told Al.com.

 Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic condition that causes progressive muscle weakness, AL.com reported. People diagnosed with the condition are usually confined to a wheelchair by the time they are teens.

 Good Hope students love having Presley around, Ware said.

 “They aren’t supposed to pet her, but they sneak pets in the hallways after classes,” she told FoxNews.com. “And if Presley hears someone say, ‘Oh, look at the pretty puppy,' she perks right up because she knows she’s pretty.” |||||

– The cutest yearbook photo ever was just taken by Presley at Good Hope Middle School in Louisiana. In fairness to everyone else's not-quite-as-cute yearbook photos, Presley is a 5-year-old golden doodle. She's also a service dog for seventh-grader Joseph "Seph" Ware, who was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy when he was 3 years old, Al.com reports. Presley has been attending class with Seph for a few years, so it only seemed right for the school to give the dog her own yearbook photo, right next to Seph's. "Seph says that it took about 10 minutes to get Presley to look at the camera—and who knows how many shots," his mother, Lori Watkins-Ware says. Presley's yearbook photo went viral, and Ware says Seph is his having his "15 minutes of fame," Good Morning America reports. Though she tells Fox News her family can't believe all the attention the photo is getting. “It’s humbling," Ware says. "I’m glad Presley is making the world happy.” Presley helps Seph with everything from turning on light switches to opening doors. Now Seph is returning the favor. Ware says other students have been asking Presley to sign their yearbooks, so Seph helpfully draws a paw print for her.


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 Flu season is just around the corner and trying to squeeze in your latest immunization may not be on the top of your To Do List.

 You’re not alone. The flu affects up to 20% of the population each year — but it’s preventable. While vaccination remains the single best option, less than 50% of adults receive a flu shot.

 Let us help you beat the bug. On Thursday, we’re bringing house calls back with UberHEALTH across more than 35 US cities. From 11 am until 3 pm we will be delivering wellness packs for $10. If you request and receive a wellness pack, you’ll also have the option to request a free flu shot from a registered nurse for up to ten people – at the single touch of a button.

 ON THURSDAY, FLU PREVENTION IS ON DEMAND IN 35 CITIES

 HOW IT WORKS:

 Open your Uber app between 11 am and 3 pm Select the ‘UberHEALTH’ option and request. Pro Tip: Please select a suitable indoor location prior to UberHEALTH arriving. Upon arrival, users will receive a wellness pack for $10 and the option to request a Fluzone® vaccine from a registered nurse from Passport Health for up to ten people – at no cost. If you request a shot, the nurse will handle all paperwork and consent forms We expect demand for UberHEALTH to be high, so your patience is appreciated.

 Last year we learned some valuable insights from our first UberHEALTH pilot program and today our journal was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine* that explores more. Convenience and delivery method are both key components of many people’s decision of whether or not to get a flu shot.We know there is more that we can do and are thrilled to have John Brownstein, PhD joining as our first advisor in the field of health care. With his guidance and expertise, we will be able to identify other ways we can leverage the Uber platform so we can drive to a healthier future.

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 Unable to get UberHEALTH, but still interested in getting a flu shot? Use VaccineFinder to find the nearest shot provider nationwide.

 DETAILS:

 Cost is $10 for wellness pack which includes a UberHEALTH water bottle, tissues, hand sanitizer, lollipop and recyclable UberHEALTH tote.

 Maximum of one wellness pack & ten free flu shots per request.

 All vaccinations (appropriate for ages 4 and up) will be administered by a registered nurse through Passport Health . All consent information and paperwork stays between the recipient and them.

 About John Brownstein, PhD:

 John Brownstein, Ph.D., is the Director of Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-founder of Epidemico and is joining as Uber’s first advisor in the field of health care.

 *This article is made freely available to our readers via an agreement with the American College of Physicians. Website users may not distribute or post this article without written permission from the American College of Physicians. Posting or distributing article PDFs not only violates the ACP copyright, but it also could proliferate the sharing of non-authoritative versions of articles. Brownstein JS, Huston JE, Steingold L, Joyce MV. On-Demand Delivery of Influenza Vaccination. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163:806-807. doi:10.7326/L15-5169 Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â© 2015 American College of Physicians. Used with permission.

 Sources:CDC National Early Season Flu Vaccination Coverage, United States, November 2014.

 Thompson M. Updated Estimates of Mortality Associated with Seasonal Influenza through the 2006-2007 Influenza Season. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010;59(33):1057-1062. |||||

 Kevin Flynn got a flu shot in Boston last year from nurse Kate Dicker. He used Uber's one-day on-demand service. (Courtesy of Uber)

 Haven't gotten your flu shot yet? On Thursday, you can order one up using Uber.

 Customers who normally use the Uber smartphone app to call for a ride will be able to request a flu shot -- and a nurse in an Uber car will show up at their home or office in about three dozen cities across the country.

 The charge is $10, but the nurse can give up to 10 flu shots at each location for no additional charge. So work colleagues can split the cost among themselves.

 But it's only a one-day offer.

 Sorry, kids. There's a nationwide FluMist shortage so you'll probably have to get a shot.

 Last year, the company provided flu shots for a day in Boston, New York, Washington and Chicago. The effort was so successful -- with more than 2,000 vaccinations -- that Uber and its partners decided to scale up this winter.

 The on-demand flu shots will be available between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Passport Health, a travel-clinic company with locations across North America, is again providing the registered nurses.

 Organizers expect interest to be high. Users will be able to tap an option labeled "UberHEALTH" to request a nurse.

 "If you don't get one the first time, you'll get a message that basically says all cars are busy and to please try again," said company representative Sarah Maxwell.

 Screenshot of what Uber users will see if they want to request a flu shot.

 Organizers plan to have more than 10,000 flu shots available. Hundreds of nurses will be at the ready in Uber vehicles across the country, with the specific number varying by city, Maxwell said. The $10 fee will cover a portion of the total cost; the remainder is being donated by Uber, Passport Health, and Epidemico, a public health data mining company owned by Booz Allen Hamilton.

 Another reason the ouch! of a flu shot may be worth it

 John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, came up with the idea last year as a strategy for boosting vaccination rates. Though experts say vaccination is the single best way to prevent the spread of influenza, only 30 percent of adults ages 18-49 get inoculated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Convenience and accessibility are often cited as barriers.

 But new technology may help address the convenience factor. Brownstein and researchers surveyed consumers who used the service last year to get their flu shots. Nearly 80 percent said they were unlikely to have gotten the vaccine if not for the on-demand delivery, according to a paper released Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

 "This is basically a hard-to-reach population," Brownstein said in an interview. "They're not opposed to the vaccine. It's just not part of their routine."

 Whether such efforts are practical depend on cost-effectiveness and scalability, which the researchers didn't address in their paper. But if such programs are shown to be practical, they could be extremely useful in scenarios "when near-complete immunization of the population is necessary to prevent circulation of an infectious agent, especially one with severe consequences," they noted.

 Here are the cities where the on-demand flu shots will be available to Uber users:

 Northeast: Baltimore; Boston; Hartford, Conn.; Hoboken, N.J.; Jersey City, N.J.; New York; Philadelphia; Providence, R.I..; Washington, Worcester, Mass.

 South: Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Houston; Nashville, Tenn.; New Orleans; Orlando; Raleigh/Durham, N.C.; Richmond; Tampa Bay, Fla.

 Midwest: Columbus, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Detroit; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Mo.; Milwaukee; Pittsburgh

 West: Boise, Idaho; Los Angeles; Orange County, Calif.; Phoenix; Portland, Ore.; San Francisco, Seattle.

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– Uber says it's now making "house calls," at least for one day. The ride-sharing service says that after the success of last year's program, it is offering flu shots to people in 35 cities for $10 between 11am and 3pm on Thursday, Nov. 19, the Washington Post reports. The shot—technically free, as long as a $10 "wellness pack" is purchased—comes with a nurse, who will actually deliver up to 10 shots with the purchase of that single pack, meaning you and your co-workers can take care of business for the low, low cost of $1 each. Of course, there may be a tussle over who gets to keep the pack, which includes an UberHEALTH-branded water bottle and tote, tissues, hand sanitizer, and a lollipop. Those who select the UberHEALTH option via their app are asked to "select a suitable indoor location prior to UberHEALTH arriving," and the shot may be administered to those ages 4 and up. The nurses will be provided by a company called Passport Health, which will share the costs of the program with Uber and health data-mining firm Epidemico, reports the Chicago Tribune. It adds that 10,000 shots will be available; 2,000 vaccinations were given in just four cities by Uber last year. Instructions on how to take part, and a list of all the cities covered, can be found on Uber's "UberHealth" page. (Last month, Uber drivers delivered something soft and fuzzy to cuddle-craving users in 50 cities.)