10 things you need to know today: April 24, 2018

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Mike Pompeo was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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1. Senate committee recommends confirming Mike Pompeo

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly backed CIA Director Mike Pompeo as the next secretary of state on Monday. Pompeo had been in danger of becoming the first nominee for the top U.S. diplomatic position to get a negative vote from the committee, although the full Senate is expected to confirm him mostly along party lines. President Trump personally intervened to win over committee member Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who had said he would vote against recommending Pompeo's confirmation, but changed his mind at the last minute, saying he had received assurances that Pompeo, like Trump, believes "the Iraq War was a mistake, and that it is time to leave Afghanistan." At least three Democrats have said they would back Pompeo in the full Senate's vote, virtually assuring his confirmation.

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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.