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"The movement to confer personhood status to IVF embryos is long-standing and one example of the broad-reaching implications of anti-abortion politics," said one expert. "We can expect more cases like this one."
"They have amassed untold wealth off the back of death, destruction, and spiraling energy prices," a Global Witness investigator said of a new analysis.
The U.S. has shown it is willing to go "very far indeed" in disregarding international law to defend the Israeli government, said Paul Reichler during a hearing on the occupation of Palestine.
The normalization of gun violence has already created a generation of youth who does not know a world absent the fear of mass shootings, schoolyards have become combat zones.
