Thurmond Expected to Go Home Today

Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), hospitalized overnight after losing consciousness in a restaurant, was “doing very well” and hoped to go home today, his spokeswoman said. Thurmond, 97, the oldest senator in U.S. history, was “very alert” at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., when aide Genevieve Erny spoke with him Sunday. “He seems to be doing very well,” Erny said. “They still have not conclusively determined the cause of the occurrence, but . . . it may be the result of dehydration.”