Rabu, 17 Februari 2010

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Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in US (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 10:46 PM PST

Nicole Lanford, 18, of Meridian, Idaho, right, and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridian, Idaho, seen waving,  two of the American missionaries charged with child kidnapping are driven away on a van from a Haitian jail in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010. Eight of the ten U.S. missionaries arrested were released on Feb. 17, nearly three weeks after they were caught trying to take a group of children out of the quake stricken country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Eight American missionaries freed by a Haitian judge landed in Miami early Thursday, nearly three weeks after the group was charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the quake-stricken country.


NJ man tells police he tossed baby off bridge (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:25 PM PST

A U.S. Coast Guard boat searches the Raritan River under the Driscoll Bridge Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, near Sayreville, N.J., for a 3-month-old girl after her father told them he threw his daughter off the bridge and into the river. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP - A man who snatched his infant daughter from the arms of her maternal grandmother while the child's mother was in court getting a restraining order against him told police he threw the baby off a bridge and into a frigid New Jersey river, prompting a massive search Wednesday beneath a busy parkway.


3 Tesla workers die when plane hits N. Calif. home (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:43 PM PST

Menlo Park firefighters inspect the scene after a Cessna 310 hit a house in East Palo Alto, Calif. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. The small plane crashed in the residential neighborhood shrouded in heavy fog, killing all three Tesla Motors employees aboard, igniting fires and scattering debris onto a house where a children's day care center operated, authorities said. There were no reports of injury on the ground. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A twin-engine plane carrying three employees of electric car maker Tesla Motors struck a set of power lines after takeoff Wednesday and crashed into a fog-shrouded residential neighborhood, raining fiery debris over homes, sending residents running for safety and killing everyone aboard.


Cops: Imitation pot as bad as the real thing (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:25 PM PST

This  Feb. 15, 2010, photo shows a package of K2 which contains herbs and spices sprayed with a synthetic compound chemically similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. State lawmakers in Missouri and Kansas have introduced bills which would create penalties for K2 possession similar to those for marijuana.(AP Photo/Kelley McCall)AP - There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug's effects on the brain — creating a popular trade in legal dope that has stymied law enforcement authorities.


Study: States must fill $1 trillion pension gap (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 10:01 PM PST

AP - States may be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or slash government services to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits, according to a new study that warns of even more debilitating costs if immediate action isn't taken.

Report on Marines' water omitted cancer chemical (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:39 PM PST

In a Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2009 photo, retired Marine Master Sgt.Jerry Ensminger with some of his documentation related to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, at his home in Elizabethtown, NC. Ensminger lost his 9-year-old daughter Janey, seen in photo at left, to leukemia and believes the government knowingly exposed military families to carcinogenic contaminates. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)AP - An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review, an Associated Press review has found.


Pathologist: Ex-cop's 3rd wife died accidentally (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill. On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, a pretrial hearing is scheduled to resume, where prosecutors are trying to convince jurors that the death of Peterson's ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, was not an accident. Prosecutors have been presenting witnesses to counter the 2004 finding that Savio simply drowned in her bathtub. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - A pathologist hired by a former suburban Chicago police sergeant's attorneys testified Wednesday that the death of Drew Peterson's third wife was accidental and not a homicide as ruled three years later after her body was exhumed.


NY questions health claims of some 9/11 responders (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:23 PM PST

AP - Lawyers defending New York City against thousands of lawsuits filed by Sept. 11 emergency responders say many of the claims are baseless and have asked a judge to dismiss some of the first cases headed toward trial.

Accused coach shooter's mom says son had delusions (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:01 PM PST

Defendant Mark Becker listens to testimony on the first day of witnesses called by the defense on Wednesday, Feb.17, 2010 at the Butler County Courthouse in Allison, Iowa. Joan Becker testified Wednesday that her son was hospitalized for mental issues three times before he was accused of gunning down Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas in June. Becker says she was unable to reach a mental health counselor when her son was released from a hospital the night before the shooting. Becker has been charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. (AP Photo/Cliff Jette, Pool)AP - The mother of a former football player accused of fatally shooting his high school coach testified Wednesday that her son suffered from severe bouts of depression and occasionally violent episodes.


Galveston fears post-Ike Census means lost funds (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:26 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2008, file photo a man walks past debris piled up on the seawall road after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, in Galveston, Texas. Galveston officials, worried millions could be lost if Census shows post-Ike population drop, had asked Census officials to include in the city's population count residents who have temporarily moved off the island since the hurricane. But Census officials say they can't make an exception for natural disasters. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)AP - Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.


Toyota investigates Corolla steering problems (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 08:57 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2010 file photo, salesman Andre Kamali walks next to a Corolla at a Toyota dealership in Palo Alto, Calif. Toyota is considering a recall of its hot-selling Corolla subcompact after complaints about power steering problems — another blow to the world's largest automaker already reeling from a string of recalls for safety troubles. A Toyota executive did not disclose model years or regions that could be affected and said there have been fewer than 100 complaints (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP - First it was gas pedals, then brakes. Now Toyota and the government are looking into complaints that the popular Corolla is difficult to steer straight, raising a new safety concern ahead of next week's congressional hearing about the automakers recalls.


Astronauts take call from admiring President Obama (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:17 PM PST

In this image obtained via Twitter astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the International Space Station posted this image showing the Sahara Desert, the first view out of the cupola's windows on the observation deck of the the Tranquility module station early Wednesday morning Feb. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA via Twitter)AP - With their construction work finished, the 11 astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex accepted congratulations Wednesday from President Barack Obama, who assured them of his "unwavering" commitment to NASA.


Guard troops wait for promised post-deployment pay (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:55 PM PST

In this Feb. 12, 2010 photo, Staff Sgt. Katie Blackwell poses with medals she was awarded, including the Purple Heart and Bronze Star, while she and her husband were deployed in Iraq, at her home in Champlin, Minn. Blackwell, who spent 16 months in Iraq as part of a nearly two-year deployment with the Minnesota Red Bulls from 2005 to 2007, estimates she and her husband are owed $8,000. The Pentagon's fix comes after intense pressure from members of Congress and as Minnesota legislators were considering appropriating state money to make up for the unpaid federal dollars. The Pentagon didn't announce when the soldiers would be paid, but U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., said Defense Secretary Robert Gates' office told him the checks will go out by March 19.  (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)AP - Thousands of National Guard soldiers who served extra-long deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts were supposed to get paid time off when they came home three years ago.


Judges free NC murder convict after 16 years (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST

AP - A North Carolina man who insisted he was innocent of murder through more than 16 years in prison was declared a free man Wednesday after a groundbreaking exoneration pressed by the nation's only statewide innocence panel.

Southern Co.'s lobbying draws complaints (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:24 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama's award of billions of dollars in federal nuclear loan guarantees to Southern Co. has angered environmentalists who say the president is embracing the energy powerhouse that worked aggressively to defeat a key climate change bill championed by his administration.

Stress claim denied for Conn. cop who shot chimp (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:23 PM PST

AP - A police officer who shot and killed a chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied a claim for workers' compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police shootings of people.

Archbishop Tutu's DNA helps show African diversity (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:31 PM PST

This photo provided by Penn State shows Stephan Schuster and Vanessa Hayes completing research in the Namibian bush. Scientists have found new evidence of the wide genetic variation that appears in Africans, in part by decoding the DNA of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. (AP Photo/Penn State, Stephan Schuster)AP - Scientists who decoded the DNA of some southern Africans have found striking new evidence of the genetic diversity on that continent, and uncovered a surprise about the ancestry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.


Father of NY terror plot suspect gets bail (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 01:52 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Mohammed Wali Zazi, left, leaves the federal courthouse in Denver with U.S. Marshals. Zazi, who is accused of trying to destroy chemicals and other evidence in the terror case against his son, Najibullah Zazi, was granted bail Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 but ordered not to speak to his son. Najibullah Zazi has been accused by authorities of receiving explosives training from al-Qaida and plotting to attack targets in New York with homemade bombs. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - A Colorado man accused of trying to destroy chemicals and other evidence in the terror case against his son was granted bail Wednesday, but ordered not to speak to his son.


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Obama hails stimulus effect, says more work ahead - USA Today

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:04 AM PST


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Obama hails stimulus effect, says more work ahead
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President Obama credits the one-year-old economic stimulus legislation with staving off a second depression. But in remarks a short time ago in Washington, he also acknowledged that with unemployment rates still hovering around 10%, "it doesn't yet ...
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Small plane crashes into home in Calif. - msnbc.com

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 08:53 AM PST


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Small plane crashes into home in Calif.
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Rescuers are ready to make another attempt to find a hiker who fell into a crater on top of Mount St. Helens when the snow around him collapsed. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. AP A snowed-in US Capitol, a destitute child in quake-torn Haiti, ...
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Sarah Palin on Tea Party Extremism, 'Family Guy' Down Syndrome Joke - FOXNews

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:25 AM PST


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Sarah Palin on Tea Party Extremism, 'Family Guy' Down Syndrome Joke
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This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," February 16, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch "The O'Reilly Factor" weeknights at 8 pm and 11 pm ET! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story tonight, ...
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Va. House passes several bills to relax gun laws - BusinessWeek

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:11 AM PST


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Va. House passes several bills to relax gun laws
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A flurry of bills to make it easier to buy and carry guns handily won the approval of Virginia lawmakers Tuesday. About 20 gun-related bills passed on the constitutional deadline for each chamber to pass its own legislative proposals. ...
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Health report card: How does your county stack up? - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:14 AM PST


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Health report card: How does your county stack up?
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The first county rankings across the nation give insight into the healthiest places to live in Minnesota. By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY, Star Tribune Based on your attitude toward immigrants I can only assume that you are Native American. ...
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Sarkozy offers aid on historic visit to Haiti - Reuters

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 08:30 AM PST


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Sarkozy offers aid on historic visit to Haiti
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) walks with Haitian President Rene Preval (3rd R) during a visit to the damaged Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti February 17, 2010. PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - France will provide 270 million euros over ...
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Afghan official: Taliban using human shields (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:03 AM PST

A U.S. Marine from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment  peers out from a hole in a wall of a compound in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Taliban fighters are increasingly using civilians as human shields in the assault on the southern town of Marjah, an Afghan official said Wednesday as military squads resumed painstaking house-to-house searches in the Taliban stronghold.


French leader brings reconstruction plan to Haiti (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:46 PM PST

A child cries as he is taken away by police officers with other caught looting from an earthquake damaged store in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy is bringing a French plan to rebuild Haiti with him on Wednesday's visit to the Caribbean country, a trip officials hope will usher in a new era between France and its former colony.


Ala. shooting survivor recalls panic, fear (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:10 AM PST

This police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept.)AP - Seconds after faculty members forced their colleague Amy Bishop out of the cramped conference room where police said she opened fire, the survivors huddled together and braced for what they feared would come next.


GOP sees possible upside in health care summit (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:01 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama talks to reporters following his meeting with Congressional Democrats and Republicans, calling for bipartisanship to fix the economy in the White House press briefing room in Washington.  Obama challenged Republicans to participate in a Feb. 25 one-of-a-kind televised summit with Democrats to come up with health care legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Congressional Republicans see a chance for political gain in President Barack Obama's televised health care summit next week, even though the president will be running the show.


Astronauts unveil phenomenal new window on world (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:44 AM PST

In this image from NASA TV astronaut Nicholas Patrick works on unlocking the shutters over the windows on the observation deck windows of the Tranquility module Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010. The Italian-built dome — 5 feet tall and nearly 10 feet in diameter — is designed to offer sweeping 360-degree views of the home planet and outer space, as well as the space station itself. It's not just for the crew's viewing pleasure; a robotic work station will be installed early Thursday, providing direct views for astronauts when they operate the station's big mechanical arm. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - In a highly anticipated grand finale to their mission, astronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck Wednesday and were humbled by "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth from inside the elaborate atrium of windows.


Toyota president won't attend Congress hearing (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2010, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japan's Transport Minister Seiji Maehara at the ministry in Tokyo, Japan. Toyota's top executive has delayed a visit to the United States until early March, a news report said Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, amid a call by a lawmaker that he testify before Congress this month about the automaker's safety lapses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Toyota's president says he won't attend a U.S. Congressional hearing on the automaker's safety lapses.


7 'Idol' contestants make it to semifinals (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:02 PM PST

In this undated publicity image released by Fox, 'American Idol' judges, from left, Simon Cowell,  Ellen DeGeneres, Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson are shown. (AP Photo/Fox, Michael Becker)AP - Seven "American Idol" contestants can stop worrying, for now: They're in the top 24.


Scottie Sadie wins Westminster after PETA protest (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:54 PM PST

Security closes in on a protester holding a sign that reads 'Breeders Kill Shelter Dogs' during the best in show judging at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in Madison Square Garden in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Sadie the Scottish terrier won America's top dog show Tuesday night, and that was pretty predictable. What happened moments before she took the title at Westminster was far more startling.


Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:26 PM PST

In this July 24, 2006 file photo Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. speaks in Denver.   Bayh, a prominent Democrat who has been mentioned prominently in connection with White House sweepstakes in recent years, is ready to announce he will not seek re-election, a Democratic official said Monday.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growing line of pragmatic, find-a-way politicians who are abandoning Washington. Still here: ever-more-polarized colleagues locked in gridlock — exactly what voters say they don't like about politics in the nation's capital.


Obama's latest bipartisan outreach: nuclear energy (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:13 PM PST

President Barack Obama and Sean Myers, right, look over a Motor Control Panel as they toured a jobs training center at the International Brotherhood of Electricians (IBEW) Local 26 headquarters in Lanham, Md, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. From left are Charles E. 'Chuck' Graham, Business Manager of  (IBEW) Local Union 26, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the president and Myers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Prodding Republicans, President Barack Obama on Tuesday championed nuclear energy expansion as the latest way that feuding parties can move beyond the "broken politics" of Washington that have imperiled his agenda and soured voters.


Obama ups nuclear investment for climate fight (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:32 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama gives an impromptu news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington February 9, 2010.REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees Tuesday to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades, a move designed to help advance climate legislation in Congress.


Pakistani army confirms arrest of Taliban commander (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:40 AM PST

Reuters - Pakistan's military confirmed on Wednesday that the Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, had been captured.

U.S. to return envoy to Syria after five-year absence (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:16 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama took a major step toward improving strained ties with Syria on Tuesday, announcing his intention to reappoint a U.S. ambassador to Damascus after a five-year absence.

U.S. warship on schedule in HK despite China tension (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:24 PM PST

Reuters - The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz sailed into Hong Kong on schedule on Wednesday despite a Chinese pledge to suspend military exchanges with the United States after its announced arms sales to Taiwan.

Obama stimulus plan halted economic freefall, White House (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 05:59 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus prevented another Great Depression while creating or preserving 2 million jobs, according to a White House report to be released on Wednesday.

Ahmadinejad vows to 'retaliate' against any new sanctions (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 12:52 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a news conference in Tehran February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday any country that tried to impose new sanctions on Iran would regret its actions, as the United States and Russia voiced shared concern about Tehran's nuclear program.


Pakistani court rejects Americans' bail request (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:38 AM PST

A man identified as Umar Farooq (L), who police say is one of five Americans accused of planning terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, hugs his father Khalid Farooq (C) as fellow American detainee Waqar Hussain Khan looks on before a court appearance in Sargodha, Punjab province, 190 km (118 miles) southeast of Islamabad, February 16, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - A Pakistani court dismissed on Wednesday a request for the release on bail of five Americans accused of contacting militants over the Internet and plotting terrorist attacks.


Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty: NATO (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:13 AM PST

Reuters - NATO forces in Afghanistan have resumed using a type of rocket that killed 12 civilians after concluding that the missile hit its intended target and did not veer off course, a NATO commander said on Tuesday.

Pakistan military confirms arrest of Taliban commander (AFP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:41 AM PST

<p/>(AFP)AFP - Pakistan's military on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior member of the Afghan Taliban who has been described as the the militia's second-in-command.


Dalai Lama heads for Obama meet as China fumes (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:36 PM PST

Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama attends a special prayer session at The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya on January 10, 2010. The Dalai Lama headed Wednesday for the United States and a long-awaited meeting with President Barack Obama that has infuriated China.(AFP/File/Diptendu Dutta)AFP - Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama headed Wednesday for the United States and a long-awaited meeting with President Barack Obama that has infuriated China.