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A woman accused of heckling Chinese President Hu Jintao during a White House appearance this week was charged Friday in federal court with a misdemeanor of willfully intimidating, coercing threatening and harassing a foreign official. ADVERTISEMENT Wang Wenyi, 47, had obtained temporary press credentials as a reporter for a Falun Gong newspaper and positioned herself on a camera stand. According to Secret Service translations provided in court documents, she shouted in Chinese: "Stop oppressing the Falun Gong," as well as "Your Time is running out," and "Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime." She also...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is likely to raise U.S. concerns about China's currency policies when he meets at a summit in Chile with Chinese President Hu Jintao, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. "He's had a consistent practice of raising this," the official said, calling the currency issue "a matter of concern for us." The official repeated Treasury Secretary John Snow's message to the Chinese that "we believe the best economic systems are those that operate under the terms of free trade, free exchange rates and free movement of capital," the official said. The United States wants China...