HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Five years after his release from prison, former Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim has ridden an unlikely comeback bid to the brink of winning back his old job in Connecticut's biggest city.
Ganim, who spent seven years behind bars for corruption, enters Tuesday's election as the endorsed candidate of the hard-luck city's most powerful party after defeating two-term incumbent Mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic primary.
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — A garbage-strewn hillside on this Greek island has become the European Union's testing ground for a new fast-track registration process for migrants. If it works, authorities plan rapid expansion to other refugee "hotspots" struggling to cope with the influx of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty.
Thousands are camping out here in a tent city that has sprung up around the police registration center chosen for the pilot program, which includes translators and police interviewers who use a secret questionnaire aimed at helping to quickly determine the migrants' country of origin.
