UK comedian Russell Brand pleads not guilty to new rape, assault charges

Brand, once a left-leaning political campaigner who has rebranded himself as a conservative guru to millions of social media followers, arrived at Southwark crown court court carrying a copy of the Bible. He wore a leopard-print shirt and dark coat. Brand denied charges of sexually assaulting a woman in London in 2009, and raping another women in the same year, also in the British capital. His bail was renewed at the end of a brief hearing and he is due to face trial in June. The 50-year-old...