Salman Rushdie was speaking at a literary festival in western New York state when Hadi Matar, then 24, stormed the stage and ...

A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder and assault in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022.

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. ― It took less than two hours for a Chautauqua County jury to deliver a guilty verdict Friday for Hadi Matar, the New Jersey man that prosecutors argued stabbed and nearly ...

It was the first time since the stabbing that the 77-year-old author came face-to-face with the man accused of trying to kill him.

A Chautauqua County jury found Hadi Matar, 27, of Fairview, New Jersey, guilty of the stabbing Rushdie as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. Matar's head was down as the jury ...

Salman Rushdie’s attacker was convicted Friday of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing the famed author in a bloody horror that left him blind in one eye. Hadi Matar, 26, was found guilty by ...

Jurors delivered the verdict after deliberating for less than two hours, also finding Hadi Matar ... for a few steps with Matar hanging on, swinging and stabbing until they both fall and are ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers rested their case without calling any ...

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) — A jury has found Hadi Matar guilty of attempted murder in the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution in August 2022. Matar had previously pleaded ...

A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors delivered the verdict after deliberating for ...

(AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) Hadi Matar, accused of repeatedly stabbing Salman Rushdie as the renowned author was being introduced for a lecture in western New York, sits in court during his attempted ...