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Former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney, who is in an Israeli jail for trying to take humanitarian aid to Gaza, says the White House has done nothing to secure her release. Speaking to Press TV from inside the Israeli jail, she said US taxpayers paid for Israel's 22-day war on the Gaza Strip. “Operation Cast Lead was made possible by the US taxpayers' gift to the Israeli war machine in the form of F16s, helicopters gunship, white phosphorous, depleted uranium, cluster bombs and anything that kills," she told Press TV from inside the Israeli jail on Saturday. McKinney has been in...

An Israel Navy ship clashed on Tuesday with a small boat carrying international activists with aid destined for Gaza, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. There were no reported casualties from the incident involving the small cabin cruiser "Dignity" that sailed from Cyprus late on Monday. Israel has declared the coastal territory a closed military zone and said the Free Gaza Movement boat would not be permitted to dock. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry, said the boat failed to respond to Israeli naval radio contact, and that an Israeli vessel "clashed with the ship." Free Gaza Movement...

U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney refused to answer questions Monday about grumblings she made about her communications director this past weekend. The embattled congresswoman who already faces a possible arrest for allegedly punching a Capitol police officer apparently forgot she left her microphone on when she stepped away from a videotaped interview. McKinney proceeded to call her communications director Coz Carson "a fool" for arranging the interview in the first place. McKinney, surrounded by reporters, photographers, and Carson, arrived at the state Capitol on Monday to file paperwork to qualify for her upcoming re-election campaign. Both she and her primary challenger...

1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor, the actress, gets pulled over for a traffic violation. She gets out of the car and slaps the Beverly Hills police officer. A jury convicts her of assault, and a judge sentences her to three days in jail and fines her $13,000. 2006: Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., reportedly walks around a metal detector at a security checkpoint while entering the Longworth House Office Building. She fails to wear her congressional I.D. pin, the wearing of which is not required, although most members do. A U.S. Capitol police officer reportedly calls out to her, "Ma'am, Ma'am, Ma'am."...