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States across the country ring in 2022 with new laws that will go into effect
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From marijuana to minimum wage, states across the country are ringing in 2022 with new laws that will go into effect in the new year. January 1 is typically a day when laws passed in the previous year go on the books, Christina Ruffini reports for "CBS Saturday Morning."
The nation's capital will join 15 states where recreational pot is legal. New York will become the second largest state after California where it's legal to light up.
And while the federal minimum wage has stayed stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, 25 states will be upping theirs in the next year, with most topping $10 an hour.
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A fleet of Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, left Havana's port on Monday after a five-day visit to Cuba following planned military drills in the Atlantic Ocean. The exercise has been seen by some as a show of strength by Moscow against the backdrop of tensions as U.S. and other Western nations support Kyiv in Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Firefighters across California are working to extinguish blazes that broke out over the weekend and continued to grow on Monday, as the state contends with a mix of hot, dry weather and powerful, gusty winds. The Post Fire, burning near Gorman, northwest of Los Angeles, spread to more than 14,600 acres, while the Point Fire, in Sonoma, covered 1,190 acres.