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A storm that dumped snow on the Midwest was doing the same in the Northeast on Tuesday, with parts of New England expecting as much as a foot from what is the first major snowstorm of the season. Tom Hanson reports on the conditions and Lonnie Quinn takes a look at the forecast. President Trump and his defense secretary spoke Tuesday at a Cabinet meeting about their involvement in a September attack on an alleged drug boat that has come under fire following a Washington Post report that said the military launched a follow-up strike that killed two survivors of the initial attack. At the same Cabinet meeting, Mr. Trump also launched a vicious verbal attack on Somali immigrants. Weijia Jiang reports. President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Russia's Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss the war in Ukraine. Putin, meanwhile, accused America's European allies of meddling in the peace process. Holly Williams reports. Michael and Susan Dell on Tuesday committed more than $6 billion to open savings accounts for 25 million American children aged 10 and under. Ed O'Keefe reports. In San Francisco on Tuesday, city attorney David Chiu announced the first government lawsuit of its kind against 11 companies that manufacture ultra-processed foods. Elizabeth Cook reports. 

The Pentagon's internal watchdog determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized sensitive military information and could have endangered American service members when he shared certain details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in a private Signal group chat earlier this year, sources told CBS News. Charlie D'Agata has more. Newly released videos and photos show the epicenter of some of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes -- his private estate in the Virgin Islands. The footage was obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Scott MacFarlane reports. Minnesota is reeling from a fraud scandal involving $1 billion siphoned from multiple federal programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past three years, 87 people have been charged and 61 have been convicted -- most of Somali descent. WCCO's Jonah Kaplan reports the Somali community is now bracing for an immigration crackdown. Big leaps in science are presenting parents with choices that were once impossible -- screening the DNA of embryos to help pick a future child with lower risks of disease, and higher odds of being taller or even smarter. But with the new technology comes a renewed ethical debate. Tony Dokoupil spoke to Nucleus Genomics CEO Kian Sadeghi. Prediction-market trading, where you can invest in the outcome of real-world events, is rapidly growing in popularity. Jo Ling Kent looks at the risks.