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Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show.

A rocket launch from Florida could potentially blast off on Friday the 13th. SpaceX is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on June 13 from Cape Canaveral.

The launch from Florida's Space Coast was originally slated for Friday afternoon, but it's now scheduled to take place on June 16, at 1:25 p.m. ET, ULA said in a post to its site.