NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert showered thanks on Donald Trump, his "Late Show" guest, Tuesday night.
"I want to thank you not only for being here but for running for president," Colbert told the GOP front-runner. "I'm not going to say this stuff writes itself, but you certainly do deliver it on time every day."
Colbert's gratitude for Trump's comic assistance was well-placed. Peppering Trump with questions and wisecracks during his appearance, the CBS host reduced the usually domineering Trump to straight-man status, an unaccustomed role Trump performed with rare grace.
Bringing up Trump's proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, Colbert offered his own mocking version of a way to bar illegal immigration: Two walls, and in between them a moat filled with fire and fireproof crocodiles. "Is that enough?" Colbert asked.
And focusing on Trump's insistence that Mexico would pay for the wall, Colbert drew him into a role-playing exercise — a phone call where "you're you, and I'm the president of Mexico."
Colbert noted that Trump is leading the field while he vows to finance his campaign out of his own pocket.
"The Republican Party has been a big pusher of the idea that money is speech, and you're a $10 billion mouth," said Colbert. "You're their worst nightmare."
"I think the establishment in the Republican Party probably isn't that thrilled," he agreed.
Trump repeated his contention, as a former heavy campaign donor, that candidates who accept major contributions are typically "owned" by those donors once in office.
"You gave them a big contribution and you want something and all of a sudden they've very receptive," he said. If you didn't make a healthy gift, "believe me, you get the cold shoulder."
Colbert asked if Trump really wants to be president: "If you actually got the gig, would that be a step down for you? You know what the pay is like, right?"
Trump replied that he is running "not because I want it, but because I think I can do a great job."
When pressed on his past contention that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, Trump deferred.
"I don't talk about it anymore," he said.
But he was gung-ho for a game that called for guessing who in the past had made certain outlandish remarks: Trump or the comically conservative blowhard Colbert played for a decade as host of "The Colbert Report."
Trump or Colbert? "Medicare is like a nice pair of cufflinks. Nobody wears cufflinks anymore."
"That's you," said Trump. Correct.
Trump or Colbert? "It's freezing and snowing in New York. We need global warming."
"I think it's you," Trump hedged, "but it's close to being me."
It was Trump.
And finally: "The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies."
"It's not me," said Trump after a pause. "It COULD be you."
"It's not me, either," Colbert said. "It's Charles Manson."
"Ooooo," said Trump.


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 (WASHINGTON, DC)
 8:45 a.m.  Welcome ceremony and meeting with President Obama at the White House
11:00 a.m.  Papal Parade along the Ellipse and the National Mall (11:00am-11:15am)
11:30 a.m. Midday Prayer with the bishops of the United States, St. Matthew’s Cathedral
3:50 p.m. Parade in DC
 4:15 p.m.  Mass of Canonization of Junipero Serra, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
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Pope Francis Creates Strange Bedfellows Among Presidential Candidates (ABC News)
Congressional leaders have warned their flock about slowing down Pope Francis when he addresses them in Washington this week -- no fist bumps or selfies, please -- but that hasn’t prevented campaigners of all stripes from attempting to use the historic visit for their own political gain.
Presidential contenders on both sides of the aisle have for days been criticizing and lauding the pope on his views on climate change, foreign affairs and economic justice, among others. Francis’ views have created strange bedfellows: His image as a progressive pontiff -- he speaks out often against capitalism and in support of immigrants -- mixes incongruously, at least in U.S. terms, with his staunch conservatism on social issues like abortion and contraception.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Catholic who is running for the Republican nomination, Sunday said he thought the pope was “wrong” on pushing the United States and Cuba closer together. “The fact is his infallibility is on religious matters, not on political ones,” Christie told CNN. Where President Obama & Pope Francis See Eye to Eye (And Where They Don’t) Pope Francis Chooses a Fiat For His First Ride in US 10 Times Bernie Sanders and Pope Francis Sounded Alike Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida who is also Catholic, disagrees with the pope on Cuba, too. But on ABC News’ “The Week” Sunday, he drew a distinction between doctrinal and theological matters, on which he said he agreed with Francis “100 percent,” and the Pope’s political opinions, which he said "we are free to disagree with.”
Several Republican candidates have taken issue with an encyclical the pope released in June calling global warming largely manmade, a view that bucks a popular belief in the party that minimizes humans’ role in climate change. Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said then Francis should leave "science to the scientists.”
Presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Tuesday he hoped the pope isn’t “overly critical of our country or the systems that made us the richest country in the world and also the most humanitarian.”
Pope Francis does not fit onto the left-right spectrum of U.S. politics, analysts said. Instead, they said, he tries to rise above the fray with a message that brings the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings to those it has not traditionally reached.
“The Pope is not coming to play booster to one side or another in political debates,” Stephen White, a fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington think tank, told ABC News. “He’s coming as a pastor … meeting his large American flock.”
But in a presidential race with a large field of candidates striving to differentiate themselves from one another, some vied to make their mark ahead of the pope’s six-day, three-city visit to the United States, which began Tuesday.
After a report last week that the Vatican was concerned about transgender activists, a gay bishop and an activist nun invited to a White House ceremony with the pope Wednesday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican presidential candidate, accused President Obama of creating a potentially "embarrassing" situation and trying to lecture the pope.
In defending the pope, Huckabee has found himself on the same side as Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and Democratic presidential candidate typically opposed to the socially conservative Baptist minister on most issues.
“Pope Francis has forcefully reminded us that greed, and the worship of money, is not what human existence should be about,” Sanders, who was raised Jewish, tweeted.
Sanders and others who have praised the pope have sometimes overlooked disagreements on hot-button topics like abortion and gay marriage, both of which Francis opposes.
For seven of the candidates who are Catholic -- six Republicans and one Democrat -- the pope’s visit perhaps means more to their religious than political creed.
Vice President Joe Biden, who is contemplating a run for the Democratic nomination, said in an interview released this week that he was “excited, quite frankly, as a practicing Catholic.”
Others shared that sentiment.
“I think he’ll restart the conversation,” Christopher Hale, the executive director of the left-leaning Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, told ABC News as he waited to greet the pope Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Francis hopes preaching the gospel will encourage political leaders to get to the dirty work of finding solutions, according to observers.
“He rises above the politics, but he doesn’t want to be separate from the politics,” Hale said. “Pope Francis has said before, ‘A good Catholic meddles in politics.’”
The pope may be the rare figure who can transcend the vitriol of D.C. politics, analysts said.


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Lizzie Velásquez was 17 when someone uploaded a video of her to YouTube without her knowledge. When the Austin native — who suffers from a rare congenital disease — discovered the clip, she also read the thousands of hateful comments below it calling her “THE WORLD’S UGLIEST WOMAN.” Today, she describes the experience as someone “putting their fist through the computer screen and physically punching me over and over and over.” She was devastated. But she fought back with candor, fearlessness, and a microphone. (Watch our new interview with her above.)
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Velásquez told Yahoo Movies that she never discovered who posted the YouTube video in the first place. But when that person found out that Velásquez had flagged it for removal on YouTube, he or she vowed via the streaming site to keep uploading it over and over again.
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Velásquez’s reaction today? “I honestly think if there was ever a way for me to get a hold of that guy or that girl, I would definitely want to. And not to be mean or to yell at them. But to give them a hug and shake their hand and look them in the eye and just say, ‘Thank you so much, because you absolutely turned my life around in the best way possible.’”
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Jamie Lee Curtis, who caught her big break in the Halloween franchise and cemented her scream-queen status with campy ‘80s classics like Prom NIght and The Fog, has once again found herself on the wrong side of a masked murderer in Ryan Murphy’s new scary-meets-sardonic Fox drama, and she couldn’t be happier. “On the surface, Scream Queens is playing with all those horror tropes from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s movies that helped me establish a career,” she told Yahoo TV during a phone interview on a break from filming the series in New Orleans. “But it is also so much deeper than that. This is the Ryan Murphy think-piece on the state of women. This is Ryan, Brad [Falchuk], and Ian [Brennan] holding up a mirror to the issue. It’s obviously heightened and dark, but unfortunately it’s also very accurate. It will definitely generate conversation.”
Our conversation with the 56-year-old star — who plays the sorority-hating dean of the fictional Wallace University — also yielded her thoughts on being the most senior member of the cast (co-stars include Nick Jonas, Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Ariana Grande), filming in secrecy, and Dean Cathy Munsch’s unexpected bedroom romp.
Usually, Ryan Murphy sets his sights on a particular actress and he makes it happen. Occasionally, as in the case with Lady Gaga on AHS: Hotel, someone calls him. How and when did you become part of Scream Queens?
I got an out of the blue, come-have-a-meeting-with-me-because-I-have-a-role-for-you call. Those calls are very rare. Many performers never get one. I’ve been lucky enough to get three and each time, even though I didn’t need those calls because I was already making a living as a journeyman actor and was very happy in my life when they came, they transformed my life. It was John Cleese calling about A Fish Called Wanda, James Cameron calling about True Lies, and Ryan Murphy calling me in September of last year to be in Scream Queens.
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And that was exactly how this happened. The phone rang. I picked it up. I went in, met him, and frankly all he said was that he was writing a show set in a sorority and he’d like me to play the dean. He said, “You’re a feminist and you basically become the counterpoint to this very evil sorority, and there are murders going on.” That’s what I said yes to. I didn’t read a word until two weeks before we started shooting in March.


Were you worried about what you’d gotten yourself into given how little you knew when you signed on?
No. Ryan Murphy clearly has this handled and clearly he knows what he is doing in the medium of television. Is there a little suspension of control that is hard at points? Of course. He runs a tight ship. He is very tight-lipped. He doesn’t tell anyone involved in the show anything that is happening next. Anyone who says they know anything is a liar.
How has working under the “don’t bother asking because I won’t tell” policy?
It keeps it fresh. It is possible that every single member of this cast will no longer be in this cast by the end of it. We are all kept in the dark very specifically so we all just do our work instead of looking for an end game. It keeps you on your toes.
Executive producer Brad Falchuk told me that you were their first and only choice to play the dean because you are the “OG scream queen.” That must feel validating.
Well, no, because that is not how I live my life. I live a very quotidian life, a domestic life. I’m a mom, a wife who has been married a very long time, and a card-carrying adult woman with a job first. I don’t walk around wearing a scream-queen cape to wave it to people on the street. I try to live a sane, sober life. But I am flattered by their interest and I understand why my involvement would be a good thing to them. I get the joke.
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  • Company funds university, owns soccer club, theme park
Nowhere is Volkswagen 6ue873AG’s widening emissions scandal being felt more acutely than in Wolfsburg, the ultimate company town in Germany.
Here, a hundred miles west of Berlin, VW funds the university, runs the biggest museum and owns the local soccer club, which is competing against some of the best teams in the world in the Champions League.
A man pushes his bike past the headquarters of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.
A man pushes his bike past the headquarters of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg.
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"If you’d visualize traffic in and out of the city, it would look like a pulse and the heart is the VW plant," cab driver Karsten Raabe says as he steers his Skoda by the sprawling complex, where hundreds of gleaming cars sit in parking lots and on the back of freight trains. “Without VW, this city and the entire region would die. We’d become a European Detroit,” which declared the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy in 2013.
More than seven decades after the Nazis built Wolfsburg from scratch to make the original ‘people’s car,’ VW employs about 72,000 people in the city of 125,000. The company’s annual sales have quadrupled over the past two decades to 202 billion euros ($225 billion). The boom has helped drive unemployment down to 4.9 percent, well below the national average.
Even the main tourist attraction is a tribute to VW: Autostadt, a 28-hectare theme park with road-safety tracks and vintage cars that was completed in 2000 for about 400 million euros. And then there are the 7.8 million VW-branded sausages that are made in Wolfsburg and sold nationwide each year.

‘Black Monday’

On Tuesday at Saloniki, a wood-paneled tavern near the central station, six men heatedly debated VW’s admission that it cheated on U.S. emissions tests, sparking an investigation that has wiped about 25 billion euros off the company’s market value.
“Black Monday for VW” read the front-page headline of the local newspaper sprawled on the bar in front of them.
The men discussed details such as how big the fines will be, how many jobs might be cut and what role was played by CEO Martin Winterkorn, who will get a chance to make his case before the executive committee of VW’s supervisory board on Wednesday.
“Volkswagen’s development affects our city in a special way,” Mayor Klaus Mohr, whose office is on a street named after automobile icon Ferdinand Porsche, said in a statement. “In the interest of the city, I hope the necessary clearing up is done quickly and thoroughly.”
Pressure on the automaker is building. The U.S. probe has widened, with VW
setting aside 6.5 billion euros in an initial assessment of potential costs
after concluding 11 million vehicles are affected globally.

Global Probe

Germany’s government plans to send an investigative team to Wolfsburg this week to speak with officials and examine documents. Regulators from France, South Korea and Italy have also vowed to scrutinize the company’s vehicles.
Even in soccer, VW is stumbling. As key supervisory board members held an emergency meeting in a nearby community late Tuesday, its club, VfL Wolfsburg, was thrashed 5-1 by Bayern Munich. A substitute player scored all five goals in the space of nine minutes in the second half.
The people on the street here appear to be holding their breath, hoping for the crisis to pass.
"Everyone knows someone who works at VW," Ivonne Schuckert-Thiele said from behind the counter of a Wolfsburger Nachrichten newsstand and ticket outlet.
Those workers, for now, seem to be quietly rallying around their employer.
Three men and two woman, when asked about the scandal in different parts of the city, all politely declined to comment, saying with a smile or a shrug: “I work at VW.”
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