10 things you need to know today: April 10, 2015

The U.S. and Cuba hold their highest-level talks in a half century, Hillary Clinton reportedly sets presidential announcement date, and more

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1. John Kerry and Cuban foreign minister hold highest-level U.S.-Cuba talks in 50 years

Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met in Panama Thursday night in the highest-level talks between the U.S. and Cuba since then-vice president Richard Nixon met with Fidel Castro in April 1959. Kerry and Rodriguez talked for two hours in a hotel restaurant-bar on the eve of the Summit of the Americas. President Obama, who is expected to cross paths with Cuban President Raul Castro at the summit, hinted Thursday that he could soon remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the latest sign of improving U.S.-Cuba relations.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.