The trial of the man charged with trying to fatally stab author Sir Salman Rushdie in front of a lecture audience in western New York is scheduled to begin today. The 77-year-old is expected to ...

The radical accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie blurted “Free Palestine” as he walked into the courtroom on Monday. Hati Matar, the 26-year-old New Jersey man who tried to kill the ...

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A New York court has heard how Salman Rushdie was stabbed repeatedly in a frenzied 2022 assault by an attacker who came “dangerously close to committing murder”. Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old ...

Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, sits in Chautauqua County court during the first day of jury selection in Mayville, N.Y., Tuesday ...