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Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler believes migrants — but not Americans and their children — are the “lifeblood ” of the United States. Nadler, who is the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, made the visceral claim at a hearing Thursday as he denounced criticism of migration into the United States and his home city of New York:

The Australian Red Cross Lifeblood plans to submit a proposal to the country’s health regulator this year to introduce individual donor assessment (IDA) to determine blood donor eligibility, CEO Stephen Cornelissen, MHA, said in a recent news release. ... Under the “plasma pathway,” Lifeblood will remove all questions about sexual activity from the plasma donor questionnaire, allowing anyone to donate plasma for fractionation, which undergoes pathogen inactivation, if they meet all other eligibility criteria. Notably, Australia will become the first country to expand plasma donor eligibility to include donors taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection and donors having...

Central Valley farmers took a crippling blow Friday when U.S. officials made the unprecedented announcement that they would get no irrigation water from the federal government this year because of the drought. But growers in a region with the country's most productive soil said the loss of one of their chief water supplies won't be their problem alone: Consumers will be hit hard in the form of higher prices at the produce market. California's unusually dry weather is forcing producers of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains to make tough decisions about which crops to plant, and which ones not to...

BAQOUBA, Iraq, July 18, 2007 — Local Iraqi leaders of Mrezat, a small agricultural village in a northern section of the Adhamiyah District, shed tears of joy as water pumped from the Tigris River and passed attendees of a ceremony to mark the opening of a new pumping station in the community. In Mrezat, water is the lifeblood of the people. The agrarian community subsists primarily on palm-date groves, which are grown throughout the year. Without proper irrigation the groves wither and date production ceases. “It’s important for soldiers to see they are not merely security guards but are helping...