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IA: President Trump is reacting for the first time to CNN's reporting federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording from 2021 in which he acknowledges he held onto a classified document. (CNN/Pool/WSOC/FOX/WJLA)
File: Hurricane season begins today -- June 1
Atlantic Hurricane Season officially kicks off Thursday with forecasters already watching tropical development in the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN)