MAYVILLE, N.Y. — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times ...

MAYVILLE, New York (Reuters) - Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in ...

Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old American-Lebanese man, faces up to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and assault.

Matar was also convicted of assault for injuring Ralph Henry Reese, co-founder of a program that provides refuge for writers, ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture ... “From my standpoint, this is a localized event. It’s a stabbing event. It’s fairly straightforward ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury ... It was the first time since the stabbing that the 77-year-old writer found himself in the ...

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a ... over supposed blasphemy in "The Satanic Verses." Rushdie had told jurors of Matar ...

Despite the traumatic experience, Rushdie remained composed during his testimony, occasionally injecting humor. He also ...