10 things you need to know today: June 7, 2014

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1. Presidents Obama, Putin, meet for first face-to-face since Ukraine crisis

President Barack Obama attended Friday's 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasions in France, as did Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the Obama administration had been mum in the run-up to the event as to whether or not the two leaders would break their silence, which began early this spring in the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Obama and Putin did engage in a brief conversation. Obama reportedly urged Putin to end his support of Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin media spun the meeting as a positive, saying Putin is once again welcome with his Western counterparts.

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Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.