WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, will not be on Capitol Hill this week when Congress returns from its summer break. He intends to work from his Massachusetts home this fall and return to the Senate in January.
A Kennedy aide said Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker’s doctors are pleased with his progress, but want him to keep working from home through the fall.
Kennedy, 76, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor after he had a seizure in May. He has had surgery and a six-week course of chemotherapy and radiation. He has been working from his home in Hyannis Port, Mass.
N.Y.: Ride’s over at Coney Island
Dante’s Inferno fun house, 22 other rides and three arcades of Coney Island’s historic Astroland amusement park shut down for good Sunday night. Last fall, Astroland and Thor Equities, which owns the amusement park’s property , agreed to a one-year lease extension that expires Jan. 31, 2009. Owner Carol Hill Albert decided to close Astroland when it was clear that Thor had no intention of negotiating with her, her spokesman said.
California: Spice-wielding burglar
Authorities say they’ve arrested a man who broke into the Fresno home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing. Antonio Vasquez, 22, was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack, the sheriff said. He said deputies arrested him after finding a wallet containing his ID in the house.
Canada: Oct. 14 early elections
Canada’s prime minister on Sunday triggered an early election, dissolving Parliament in a bid to bolster his party’s grip on power in a vote next month that will be the country’s third national ballot in four years. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he expects the Oct. 14 vote to produce another minority government but recent polls show the Conservatives could win the majority they need to rule without help from opposition parties.
Egypt: Rock slide toll at 32
Hopes diminished Sunday for finding survivors among hundreds of people believed trapped beneath massive boulders that destroyed an impoverished neighborhood on Cairo’s outskirts, killing at least 32 people, including whole extended families. Anger and resentment mounted as authorities failed for a second day to get heavy machinery into the devastated shantytown to try to clear the large slabs that split away from the Muqattam cliffs early Saturday. Survivors among the 100,000 residents of the Dewika slum were also left to spend the night without shelter, despite government promises to provide it.
France: Jewish teenagers attacked
Three young Jews were treated for fractures and bruises after what France’s interior minister described Sunday as an anti-Semitic attack. The three — aged 17 and 18 — were wearing skullcaps and walking in northern Paris on Saturday when another group of youths threw a walnut at them, the Union of Jewish Students of France said. One of the Jewish youths approached the other group to ask for an explanation and was encircled and beaten, said Raphael Haddad, the student group’s president. The other two Jewish youths went to help their friend and were also beaten, Haddad said.
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