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• Marijuana is now legal in Illinois and 21 states are raising the minimum wage as multiple new laws take effect across the country this week. 
• Hundreds were arrested in Hong Kong as police cracked down on New Year's protesters during major pro-democracy rallies across the city.
• Pope Francis is apologizing for slapping the arm of a woman who held on to the pontiff, saying his actions were setting a bad example for Catholics.
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is promising "shocking" new action in his annual new Year's speech as Pyongyang says it will no longer keep any moratorium on nuclear testing.
• Researchers in Mexico are using core samples taken from a 2,000-year-old Mayan village sinkhole to determine what extreme weather events like hurricanes affected Mesoamerican peoples.