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Why one swimmer is trying to cross the Pacific

NEW YORK -- Off the coast of Japan on Tuesday, 50-year-old Ben Lecomte started a journey unlike any other. "I am looking forward to the big crossing," he said. That doesn't even begin to cover it. Lecomte, a Frenchman now…

India vows to ban all single-use plastics by 2022

A man exercises on a garbage-strewn beach on World Environment Day in Mumbai, India, June 5, 2018. FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS India has vowed to ban all single-use plastics by 2022, according to the U.N.'s environmental agency, which called it an "unprecedented…

Rights group accuses U.S. of "annihilation" in Syria

BEIRUT -- An international human rights group on Tuesday accused the U.S. and its allies of showing little regard for civilians' lives while attacking the Syrian city that was once the de-facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and…

East Ridge Police investigate vehicle break-ins

EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF) - It was over the weekend that Hope Dodson got a call from a relative telling her that there had been several vehicle break-ins in her neighborhood around Frawley Road and Cedar Glen Circle. And, when…

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