THE US Senate yesterday rejected a California Democrat’s plan to allow the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country to remain, work and eventually become Americans, preserving a fragile bipartisan coalition needed to pass the bill.

US congressman Gary Condit is emerging from a self-imposed media blackout following Chandra Levy’s disappearance, trying to revive his political career and clarify his relationship with the missing former Government intern.

Washington police have decided that Congressman Gary Condit ‘‘is not the central figure’’ in the investigation of intern Chandra Levy’s disappearance.