Spin City: After an undeclared campaign that lasted years, former First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected today to announce today with an Internet video that she’s running for president.

Clinton’s campaign is expected to focus on the economy and a promise that she will be able to work with Congress. In effect it will be a backhand slap at President Obama, who’s been unable to break the partisan blockade. It remains to be seen whether Clinton will run with Obama, or away from him. But yesterday in Panama the president said, “I think she would be an excellent president.”

Rum and Coca Cola: In an historic moment, President Obama yesterday met with Cuban President Raul Castro in the first meeting of the two countries’ leaders in 50 years. Obama said, “I’m not interested in having battles that frankly started before I was born.”

Castro said, ”We are willing to discuss everything, but we need to be patient, very patient.”

Earlier in the day addressing the Summit of the Americas Castro delivered an impassioned and sometimes angry speech as he listed Cuba’s grievances against the US, including its support for the Batista regime, the Bay of Pigs invasion to unseat Fidel Castro, the establishment of the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the 50 year economic blockade.

But in a cooler moment Castro was careful to say he did not blame President Obama, calling him “an honest man.”

Nation: Walter Scott, the black man shot in the back by a white South Carolina police officer was mourned yesterday at a funeral attended by so many people it spilled out of the church. The Rev. George Hamilton, the minister at W.O.R.D. Ministries Christian Center, said, “There is no doubt in my mind and I feel that Walter’s death was motivated by racial prejudice.”

>The US Capitol was briefly shut down yesterday after a man committed suicide with a gun outside the west front of the building. The man was described as a middle-aged white male.

World: Turkey is angry that Pope Francis referred to the 1915 Armenian massacre as “genocide” and the Turkish foreign minister said the Pope’s comments create a “problem of trust” with the Vatican. Turkey has steadfastly refused to admit that it tried to wipe out the Armenian population, killing about 1.5 million people.

> Looking to stomp out a growing anti-vaccination movement, the Australian government announced plans to stop welfare payments and other government benefits to families that won’t vaccinate their children. About 40,000 Australian children have parents who claim a religious or medical exception to vaccination.

Spring Break: Two students from Troy University in Alabama have been accused of raping an unconscious young woman on a Florida beach while hundreds of people stood by watching, doing nothing about it. The assault in Panama City was captured on video. The local sheriff said it’s “probably one of the most disgusting, repulsive, sickening things that I have seen this year on Panama City Beach, and I have seen a lot of them,”

The Sports Page: Boston College lost the lead in the NCAA hockey final last night when Boston’s goalie caught an easy shot then fumbled the puck, which dribbled into the goal between his feet. Providence College went on to win 4-3.

Rap Sheet: The Rapper Nelly was arrested in Tennessee for felony possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia after his bus was stopped because it was missing a Department of Transportation and fuel tax sticker. Hmmmm. Troopers said they smelled marijuana coming from the bus and searched it. They say they also found several handguns. As Nelly himself has rapped, “Ain’t nothin I can do when them laws get they hands on ya’.”

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