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FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in San Francisco. A judge on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted the company's request for a new trial, saying there were errors and jury misconduct in the previous trial that ended with the award two months ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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Judge tosses $417M award against Johnson & Johnson
FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in San Francisco. A judge on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted the company's request for a new trial, saying there were errors and jury misconduct in the previous trial that ended with the award two months ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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  • FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in San Francisco. A judge on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted the company's request for a new trial, saying there were errors and jury misconduct in the previous trial that ended with the award two months ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
  • People walk on the beach in Biarritz, southwestern France, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. Temperatures in southwestern France reached 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
  • Sandra Vonderloh, 18, of Anaheim protests outside of California Republican Convention in Anaheim, Calf., on Friday Oct. 20, 2017. Protesters have gathered outside a Southern California hotel where former White House adviser Steve Bannon is expected to give the keynote speech at a state Republican convention. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
  • Former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha hugs an unidentified woman after he appeared in federal court in Honolulu, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Kealoha and his wife, a deputy city prosecutor, have pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Puglisi on Friday released Louis and Katherine Keahola on $100,000 bond each. They entered the pleas Friday after a federal grand jury indicted both of them in a public corruption case. Authorities claim the couple used their positions to bilk clients and relatives out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their lavish and overextended lifestyle and then used their power to target anyone who threatened them. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
  • Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump, speaks at the California Republican Convention in Anaheim, Calf., on Friday Oct. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017 file photo Steve Bannon, former strategist for President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally for Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward in Scottsdale, Ariz. Bannon wants to oust Republican senators that he sees as disloyal to President Donald Trump. But when he comes to Southern California Friday, Oct. 20 he'll be in a state Trump lost by over 4 million votes and where Republicans have become largely irrelevant in state politics. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin,File)
  • Dan Gilbert speaks during the dedication ceremony for the Gilbert Pavilion and Tom Izzo Hall of History inside Michigan State's Breslin Student Events Center, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
  • Officials stand outside the scene of a fatal shooting at a business park in the Edgewood area of Harford County, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. The victims and the suspect worked for Advanced Granite Solutions. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
  • FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. A lawyer says he will file a lawsuit against Ohio State University after the school failed to respond to a request to rent space for an appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Attorney Kyle Bristow said earlier this week that he wanted an “unequivocal and unconditional assertion” from Ohio State by 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 that the school would allow Spencer to speak. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
  • FILE- In this March 12, 2015 file photo, Retired U.S. Army 1st Lt. Will Milzarski, touches the Purple Heart Medal he received at the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Milzarski, who served almost seven years, led 24 soldiers in Afghanistan on 244 combat missions and 43 engagements. The federal government forgave wounded veteran Milzarski's sizable student debt but, in an ironic twist, the IRS wants him to pay $62,000 in income taxes on the loan cancellation. A Michigan State University College of Law tax professor who is trying to help him said it "seems incredible" while a state senator dubbed the situation "the definition of insanity", Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (Matthew Das Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
  • Family members listen during a funeral for Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Henderson, Nev. Hartfield was killed by a gunman shooting from a hotel into a crowded outdoor concert October 1 in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool
  • FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. A lawyer says he will file a lawsuit against Ohio State University after the school failed to respond to a request to rent space for an appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Attorney Kyle Bristow said earlier this week that he wanted an “unequivocal and unconditional assertion” from Ohio State by 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 that the school would allow Spencer to speak. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
  • Former Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha, right, shows off his flower lei outside U.S. District Court in Honolulu on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Louise Kealoha, his wife city deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, and current and former police officers conspired to frame the couple's relative for stealing a mailbox to discredit him in a family financial dispute, according to a federal indictment released Friday. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
  • Pamela Foster, foreground, and Gary Mike, center background, parents of Ashlynne Mike, prepare to make a statement after their daughter's killer Tom Begaye was sentenced to life in prison, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 outside of a federal courthouse in downtown Albuquerque, N.M.. Tom Begaye was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole as part of a plea deal in the 2016 rape and murder of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
  • Timothy Keck, Kansas secretary of aging and disability services, answers questions about a threat from the federal government to cut off funds for patient care at the state's mental hospital in western Kansas, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Topeka, Kan. Keck says he's confident the state can fix all of the problems cited in a building at Larned State Hospital. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
  • In this undated photo released by the Montgomery (Ala.) Police, policer officer Anderson Gordon poses for an official photograph. Gordon was killed in 1997 when he was shot by Torrey Twane McNabb fleeing a bail bondsman. The state attorney general's office says it has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the execution of 40-year-old Torrey Twane McNabb proceed as scheduled. (Montgomery (Ala.) Police, via AP)
  • Former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha, right, and his wife, Katherine Keahola, center, leave federal court in Honolulu, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Kealoha and his wife, a city prosecutor, have pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Puglisi on Friday released Louis and Katherine Keahola on $100,000 bond each. They entered the pleas Friday after a federal grand jury indicted both of them in a public corruption case. Authorities claim the couple used their positions to bilk clients and relatives out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund their lavish and overextended lifestyle and then used their power to target anyone who threatened them. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)
  • FILE -A grounded 79 ft fishing boat called "Pacific Paradise" caught fire on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, shortly after 10 am near Kaimana Beach in Honolulu. No injuries were reported. A boat that ran aground off Honolulu while transporting foreign fishermen to work in Hawaii's commercial fishing industry has raised new questions about the safety and working conditions for foreign laborers in this unique U.S. fleet. A long, cramped journey to the United States for a group of fishermen from Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Kirabati ended last week with a rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard after their fishing vessel smashed into a reef just off Waikiki's shore.(Cindy Ellen Russell /The Star-Advertiser via AP, File)
  • This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a barge on fire approximately three miles from Port Aransas, Texas, jetties, Friday. Oct. 20, 2017. A Coast Guard Corpus Christi MH-65 Dolphin and HC-144 Ocean Sentry are searching for two missing crew members. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
  • Sign with note of thanks to fire fighters are seen on the lawn of a residence on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Sonoma, Calif. California fire officials have reported significant progress on containing wildfires that have ravaged parts of Northern California. The fires that swept through parts of seven counties starting Oct. 8 were the deadliest and most destructive series of blazes in California history. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
  • Pallbearers carry the casket of Las Vegas Police Officer Charleston Hartfield during his funeral, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Henderson, Nev. Hartfield was killed by a gunman shooting from a hotel into a crowded outdoor concert on Oct. 1 in Las Vegas. (Chase Stevens /Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)
  • FILE – In this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo, Alex Hribal, right, is escorted to a bail hearing in Greensburg, Pa. Hribal is charged as an adult with stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard April 9, 2014, at his suburban Pittsburgh high school. Hribal charged with stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school will spend the weekend mulling whether to plead guilty. The Tribune-Review first reported the development, which grew out of a pretrial hearing in Westmoreland County on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 for 20-year-old Alex Hribal. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo, Sean Bordelon, left, and Raphiel Heard, of Shreveport, pause after reading the inscription on the Confederate soldier's monument in front of the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La. Local officials have voted to remove the Confederate monument from the courthouse grounds in the northwest Louisiana parish. The Caddo Parish Commission voted 7-5 for the measure on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, after hearing nearly two hours of opinions about the monument erected 111 years ago in a parish once called "Bloody Caddo" because so many African-Americans were killed during Reconstruction. (Douglas Collier /The Shreveport Times via AP)
  • FILE - This combination of photos provided by the National Park Service show Rachel Nguyen, left, and Joseph Orbeso, as they were seeking the public's help in locating them. Southern California authorities say the deaths of Nguyen, and Orbeso, who vanished in Joshua Tree National Park last summer were a murder-suicide. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, that the bodies found Sunday, Oct. 15, were identified as Nguyen and Orbeso, both of Orange County. Autopsies found gunshot wounds, and evidence at the scene that led detectives to believe Orbeso shot Nguyen and then himself. Orbeso's actions remain under investigation. (National Park Service via AP,File)
  • Circles mark the scene the road along Interstate 75 at the scene of a traffic fatality Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, in Vienna Township, Mich. Michigan authorities are asking for the public's help in finding out who threw a rock from a highway overpass that smashed a car windshield and killed a 32-year-old man on Oct. 18.(Terray Sylvester/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
  • FILE - This undated file photo provided by San Juan County, N.M. Detention Center shows Tom Begaye of Waterflow, N.M. Begaye, who pleaded guilty to murder and sexual assault in the death of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike on the largest American Indian reservation is set to be sentenced. Begaye is scheduled Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 to receive life in prison for the May 2016 killing that prompted calls to expand the Amber Alert system and the death penalty to tribal communities across the U.S. (San Juan County Detention Center via AP, File)
  • California's State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones talks during a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Jones says preliminary estimates of losses from the state's recent siege of wildfires exceed $1 billion and that the figure is expected to rise. Jones told reporters that the estimate comes from the eight largest insurers in the affected areas. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2017 file photo, police gather as demonstrators march in response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley in St. Louis. Stockley was acquitted in the 2011 killing of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black motorist following a high-speed chase. A federal judge is hearing from police and St. Louis protesters before deciding whether to grant a request to regulate police conduct. At issue is a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri filed over what it calls "unlawful and unconstitutional action" during the demonstrations that followed the acquittal of a former police officer in the killing of a black man. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2011 file photo, Sean Bordelon, left, and Raphiel Heard, of Shreveport, pause after reading the inscription on the Confederate soldier's monument in front of the Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La. Local officials have voted to remove the Confederate monument from the courthouse grounds in the northwest Louisiana parish. The Caddo Parish Commission voted 7-5 for the measure on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, after hearing nearly two hours of opinions about the monument erected 111 years ago in a parish once called "Bloody Caddo" because so many African-Americans were killed during Reconstruction. (Douglas Collier /The Shreveport Times via AP)
  • Religious leaders and supporters circle a smaller group beginning a Muslim prayer during a "pray-in" in response to the blocking of a travel ban one day before it was set to take effect, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Seattle. On Tuesday a federal judge in Hawaii blocked President Donald Trump's latest travel ban, which was to take effect Wednesday. It was the third set of travel restrictions issued by the president to be thwarted, in whole or in part, by the courts. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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