Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.

This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.

This is a Levoit Vital 100 and it has a timer to switch itself off after x hours but i'd like to turn it on automatically.

I'm somewhat fit with soldering and taking stuff apart but i don't wanna go that route before i have atleast a rough understanding of what's up with those buttons.

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• Hurricane Melissa is set to make landfall in Jamaica any time.

• The Category 5 storm is the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began 174 years ago.

• It is expected to slice diagonally across the island, from south to north, before hitting Cuba.

• "There is no infrastructure in the region that can withstand a Category 5," said Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

• Jamaican officials warned residents that conditions will soon worsen, despite heavy rains already battering the island before the storm’s landfall.

• The Category 5 storm is headed for the Caribbean, packing winds of up to 295 km/h (183 mph)

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Two days after the Guardian article published, the Maple Valley Township Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting, where they voted on a [freedom-of-speech] statement prepared by their attorney.

Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.

Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.

Although Gates said investment to battle climate change must continue, he argued that President Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID threaten a more urgent problem, inflicting potentially lasting global damage to the fight against famine and life-threatening preventable sickness.

“Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems,” Gates wrote. “We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause.”

The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.

“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”