Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has announced that he intends to run for the US senate in Louisiana.

US President Barack Obama announced today that former Florida senator Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

THE Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly yesterday for Hillary Clinton to become the next secretary of state, with lawmakers saying they were hopeful her leadership would mark a turn from warfare toward diplomacy.

Concerned about Hurricane Rita’s damage to coastal oil refineries, US President George Bush turned his attention to the nation’s energy industry as early economic indicators offered reason for optimism and a speedy recovery.