WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments from the 2016 race for president, one week out from the Iowa caucuses. All times local. 
 
 3:15 p.m. 
 
 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's campaign released a parody video based off singer Adele's 2015 hit song "Hello" ahead of Iowa's Feb. 1 leadoff caucus. 
 
 Huckabee's campaign released a 3.5 minute online video Wednesday entitled "Hello, Huck," with satirical lyrics sung over the Adele's hit, with direct jabs to Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. He doesn't mention any of his GOP rivals by name. 
 
 "Iowans are not for sale," the song says. "They're stubborn and picky. There's just no difference between Obama and Hillary." 
 
 "Hello from caucus night. If Bernie wins I'm gonna die. This crazy circus, it's gone coo-coo-ca-choo, and Huckabee is the guy who's long overdue." 
 
 Huckabee, who is lagging in the polls behind others in the crowded GOP field, previous ran for president in 2008. He won the Iowa caucus that year, but did not win his party's nomination. 
 
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 1:40 p.m. 
 
 An Iowa man has been arrested on charges that he threw tomatoes at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign stop at the University of Iowa. 
 
 Hayley Bruce, a University of Iowa spokeswoman, says 28-year-old Andrew Joseph Alemao was charged Tuesday with disorderly conduct after officers say they saw him throwing two tomatoes toward Trump during a speech. It wasn't clear whether the tomatoes hit anyone. 
 
 Secret Service and University of Iowa police officers arrested Alemao, and he was booked into the Johnson County Jail. 
 
 Johnson County Jail officials say Alemao was released Wednesday morning without bond. 
 
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 1:00 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton says she wants the Democratic National Committee to add another presidential debate before the New Hampshire primary and urging Bernie Sanders to join her on stage. 
 
 Clinton says in a phone interview with MSNBC that she's "anxious" for another debate, adding, "let's try to make it happen." She says she wants DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the other campaigns to support another debate. 
 
 Sanders' campaign has said it has no plans to do so because the DNC hasn't sanctioned the debate. The Vermont senator's campaign has said it wouldn't want to jeopardize its participation in two debates planned for after the New Hampshire primary in Wisconsin and Florida. 
 
 The DNC has said it's sticking with its debate schedule. 
 
 Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley supports adding another debate. 
 
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 12:25 p.m. 
 
 Snow is being forecast in Iowa for early next week, but people gathering for the presidential caucuses likely won't be hindered. 
 
 Mindy Beerends, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Des Moines, says there could be rain and a little snow during the caucuses, set to begin at 7 p.m. Monday, but early projections show no accumulating snow until early Tuesday. 
 
 Weather is always an unpredictable factor of the caucuses, which typically draw hundreds of thousands of Iowans to precinct gatherings to choose presidential candidates and conduct political party business. 
 
 The bigger problem could be for the many campaign staffers and reporters in Iowa who want to leave after the caucuses. They could find their exit complicated by steadier snow Tuesday. 
 
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 12:00 p.m. 
 
 President Barack Obama will welcome Bernie Sanders to the White House Wednesday with days to go until the presidential hopeful takes on Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in the Iowa caucus. 
 
 Sanders and his wife arrived to the White House earlier Wednesday ahead of the scheduled meeting with the president. 
 
 The long-discussed meeting between the sitting president and his sometime critic is a moment for the president to display public neutrality in the heated and unexpectedly tight primary race to replace him — refuting suggestions that he's in the can for Clinton. 
 
 For Sanders, it's a chance to show he's got some sway with a president still popular among Democrats. 
 
 The president this week rebuffed suggestions that Sanders' upstart campaign is a reboot of his own battle against Clinton in 2008. 
 
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 10:00 a.m. 
 
 Republican presidential contender John Kasich is turning his attention to Iowa after a flurry of activity has signaled he may be headed toward the top-tier victory he seeks in New Hampshire. 
 
 The Ohio governor has planned town hall meetings in Davenport Wednesday and in Cedar Rapids Friday. He will also participate in the Republican presidential debate Thursday, which is in Des Moines. 
 
 The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 1. 
 
 Kasich has focused most of his early attention on New Hampshire, where he's competing for votes from GOP moderates and independents against candidates including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio. 
 
 Kasich landed endorsements in that contest from the Concord Monitor and the Boston Globe and some polling placed him second among New Hampshire voters behind Donald Trump. 
 
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 8:45 a.m. 
 
 Ted Cruz is mocking Donald Trump's decision to skip Thursday's Fox News Republican presidential debate, taunting him on Twitter and creating an image of his face on the illustrated body of Disney tycoon Scrooge McDuck, sitting on top of bags of money. 
 
 Cruz on Tuesday responded to Trump's decision to skip the debate in Des Moines by challenging him to a one-on-one debate, "mano-a-mano." Cruz is following that up on Wednesday with a satirical message on Twitter, linking to a clip of the song "Brave Sir Robin Ran Away" from a film by the British comedy troupe Monty Python. 
 
 Cruz created an online petition showing a mock-up of Trump with the Disney character's body, sitting on bags of money, on top of a mountain of gold coins, encouraging supporters to "Tell Ducking Donald: Debate Ted Cruz." 
 
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 7:20 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is accusing Fox News anchorwoman Megyn Kelly of being "completely obsessed" with his candidate, and says most people tuned in to the first FOX News Republican debate because Trump was on stage. 
 
 His comments to ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday follow a statement by Trump a day earlier that he would not participate in the upcoming FOX News GOP debate, scheduled for Thursday. 
 
 The feud between Trump and Kelly began during the first FOX News debate in August, when Kelly asked the candidate if previous, disparaging comments he has made against women reflect the temperament of a president. 
 
 On Tuesday, Trump called Kelly a "lightweight reporter." 
 
 Lewandowski said Wednesday that Trump will instead spend his time with wounded veterans in Des Moines, Iowa. The state hosts the country's lead-off presidential contest on Feb. 1. ||||| Ha! Thank you for understanding my creative humor & sarcasm Mr. President, the smart ones always do… *sends love & support* @BarackObama — Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) 10 Sep 12 
 
 Lest there be any lingering confusion: sometimes performers say things in the context of their work that they do not mean literally – political endorsements included. 
 
 Following a convention week in which Mitt Romney learned that celebrity testimonials were not all they are cracked up to be – just ask Clint Eastwood and his chair – the Republican presidential nominee received an unexpected shout-out from the hip-hop musician Nicki Minaj. 
 
 In a guest appearance on the track “Mercy,” from the Lil Wayne mixtape “Dedication 4,” Ms. Minaj, an artist known for her garishly imaginative outfits and a range of cartoonish voices to rival Mel Blanc’s, rapped, “I’m a Republican, voting for Mitt Romney.” She then completed the verse by rhyming it with a vulgar line about “lazy” people who were wreaking havoc on the economy. 
 
 While nothing about Ms. Minaj’s music is as simple as it may seem, some listeners took “Mercy” (which started appearing online around Sept. 3) at face value. Music Web sites like rapdose.com reported on the lyric with headlines that read “Nicki Minaj Endorses Mitt Romney,” while the gossip blog Gawker hedged its bets, asking readers, “Did Nicki Minaj Really Endorse Mitt Romney?” 
 
 However, there were clues in the song that Ms. Minaj was not describing a factual set of circumstances. For example, in the very next line of the song, she raps: “Out in Miami I be chillin’ with a zombie.” 
 
 There would also seem to be a general rule that applies to pop songs and other works of performance, under which artists are allowed to adopt fictional personae in the service of evoking an audience’s emotions. (To date, there is no evidence that Johnny Cash ever shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.) 
 
 President Obama appeared to suggest as much in an interview with the Orlando, Fla., radio station Power 95.3. Asked whether he thought Ms. Minaj’s lyric was an authentic endorsement of his rival, Mr. Obama said: “I’m not sure that’s actually what happened. I think she had a song on there, that – a little rap that said that. But she likes to play different characters.” 
 
 Ms. Minaj gave credence to the president’s interpretation of the song on Monday, writing in a post on her Twitter account: “Ha! Thank you for understanding my creative humor & sarcasm Mr. President, the smart ones always do…” ||||| Band release official statement asking voters to ‘focus on the bigger picture’, after singer Michael Stipe slams Donald Trump’s ‘moronic charade of a campaign’ 
 
 Michael Stipe may have sung that he “felt fine” at the prospect of “the end of the world as we know it”, but his temper has obviously been frayed by Donald Trump, after the Republican presidential frontrunner used one of REM’s songs at a rally. 
 
 Trump walked out to the REM song It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) at a rally in Washington, DC, on Wednesday and the band seemed none too impressed to find themselves dragged into the political arena on his behalf. 
 
 “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you – you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men,” Stipe said, in a statement tweeted by REM bassist Mike Mills. “Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.” Though the statement spoke broadly about “the lot” of politicians, Mills prefaced it with the stipulation that it reflected Stipe’s opinion on Trump. 
 
 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) Upcoming is Michael's statement about Trump using our song at the rally. His opinions are HIS, please do not tweet angry responses at me. 
 
 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) Personally, I think the Orange Clown will do anything for attention. I hate giving it to him. 
 
 If that message weren’t quite clear enough, the jangle-pop indie band had already posted an official collective statement on Facebook before releasing Stipe’s unfiltered opinion: 
 
 While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here. The media and the American voter should focus on the bigger picture, and not allow grandstanding politicians to distract us from the pressing issues of the day and of the current presidential campaign.” 
 
 The LA Times once named REM one of the “most liberal and politically correct rock groups” in the US, and the band supported former presidential candidate John Kerry on the Vote for Change tour in 2004. The tour raised money for the two organisations that registered voters and campaigned for the Democratic party. 
 
 In the three short months since Trump announced he was running to “make America great again”, the mercurial real estate mogul has gone from strength to strength despite a number of controversies, any one of which, by conventional political wisdom, might have triggered a candidate’s decline. 
 
 The controversy appears only to have emboldened Trump, who is surging in the polls and maintains a strong lead over his Republican challengers. 
 
 Trump and his unorthodox presidential bid have so far survived a series of scandals that begin at the launch of his presidential campaign when he branded Mexicans who come to the US as criminals, drug dealers and rapists. The comments drew heavy fire from candidates on both sides of the aisle, incited international condemnation and cost him several business deals. Nevertheless, Trump’s polling numbers only improved, and, unabashed, he has claimed he is even confident that he will “win the Latino vote” (although polling does not back him up on that point). 
 
 Trump again courted controversy when he said that 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who spent five and a half years a North Vietnamese jail, where he was tortured, was “not a war hero”. Amid widespread criticism for his remarks, Trump announced the formation of Veterans for Trump, several of whom later told the Guardian they were not aware they had been enlisted to join the group. Again, his poll numbers continued to rise. 
 
 In July decades-old allegations resurfaced that the Republican presidential candidate had raped his then wife, Ivana, to which his attorney inaccurately retorted: “You can’t rape your spouse.” Trump distanced himself from the lawyer, and his ex-wife walked back her accusations. 
 
 Trump again sparked trouble when he provoked a feud with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who questioned his record of sexist and misogynistic name-calling during the first Republican debate. The candidate bemoaned unfair treatment, and in a later interview with CNN, he insinuated that Kelly had asked him tough questions because she was menstruating. (He said the remark was misinterpreted.) Neither of these controversies seemed to negatively affect his standing. 
 
 Trump’s most recent insult was directed at Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, the party’s only female contender in the presidential race. During an interview with Rolling Stone, Trump was quoted as responding to an image Fiorina on the news by saying: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?! I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?” 
 
 Fiorina told Kelly on Fox News that she considered his remarks to be “very serious”. On Thursday, Trump said he had made the remark in a “jocular manner” and that he was not referring to her appearance. “I’m talking about persona, I’m not talking about look,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday morning. 
 
 He then complained of a double-standard. “When I get criticized constantly about my hair, nobody does a story about, ‘oh, isn’t that terrible, they criticized Donald Trump’s hair.’” 
 
 While a recent poll in Iowa showed Republican challenger Ben Carson neck and neck with Trump, the first time in more than a month Trump was not leading every poll in an early voting state. 
 
 Nevertheless, average polling in the state shows Trump with a strong lead that remains in the double digits and a recent CNN/ORC survey Trump registered his highest national number yet at 32%. 
 
 
 
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 This isn’t the first time a rock act have spoken out against their music being played at a political event. In June, Neil Young slammed Trump’s use of hit Rockin’ in the Free World, and Bruce Springsteen expressed his disdain at former president Ronald Reagan using his track Born in the USA in the former actor’s 1984 election campaign.
– Three celebrities have weighed in on the 2016 presidential candidates ... well, mostly Donald Trump: Azealia Banks went on quite a rant Sunday night on Twitter, and though the rapper started off by saying she'd be voting Trump, the whole thing ended up being satire, Salon reports. Sample tweets: "I only trust this country to be what it is: full of s---. takes s--- to know s--- so we may as well, put a piece of s--- in the White House." And: "In conclusion, I think Donald trump is evil like America is evil and in order for America to keep up with itself it needs him." Kid Rock, though, appears to actually like The Donald. "I'm digging Trump," the rocker, who once campaigned for Mitt Romney, tells Rolling Stone. "My feeling: Let the motherf---ing business guy run it like a f---ing business. And his campaign has been entertaining as s---." Add Adele to the list of musicians not in favor of Trump, however—or at least not in favor of him using her music. After Trump played "Rolling in the Deep" at some of his Iowa rallies and Mike Huckabee released a parody of her new single, "Hello" (yes, really), Adele's spokesperson issued a statement noting that "Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," per the Raw Story.