Cosby defense rests; comedian doesn’t testify
NORRISTOWN, Pa.— Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial is set to go to the jury on Tuesday, but not before closing arguments pitting the prosecution’s portrayal of a serial predator against the defense’s contention that he’s the victim of a “con artist” who made up drugging and molestation allegations to score a big payday. The defense rested on Monday after the 80- year- old comedian said he wouldn’t testify, echoing his decision at his first trial, which ended in a hung jury last year.
Veteran who survived blast gets unusual penis transplant
WASHINGTON— A veteran who lost his genitals from a blast in Afghanistan has received the world’s most extensive penis transplant, and doctors said Monday he is recovering well and expected to leave the hospital this week.
Saying they wanted to address “an unspoken injury of war,” Johns Hopkins University surgeons rebuilt the man’s entire pelvic region— transplanting a penis, scrotum and part of the abdominal wall from a deceased donor— in a highly experimental 14- hour operation last month.
Such transplants “can help those warriors with missing genitalia just as hand and arm transplant transformed the lives of amputees,” Dr. W. P. Andrew Lee, Hopkins’ chairman of plastic and reconstructive surgery, told reporters Monday.
The patient, who asked to remain anonymous, is expected to recover urinary and, eventually, sexual function. The scrotum transplant did not include the donor’s testicles, meaning reproduction won’t be possible. “We just felt there were too many unanswered ethical questions” with that extra step, said Hopkins’ Dr. Damon Cooney.
Deal on Clinton- probe documents
WASHINGTON— Two House Republican committee chairmen say the Justice Department has agreed to provide them with documents on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation that they’ve been requesting for months. The deal was struck after leaders of the Judiciary and Oversight committees met this month with Chicago’s U. S. attorney, John Lausch, who has been selected to respond to Republican demands for documents.