Hadi Matar was also convicted of assault for injuring Ralph Henry Reese, a co-founder of a programme that provides refuge for writers, who was on stage to moderate the event
Mohammed is due to enter his plea Friday morning in the attacks, in which 19 al-Qaida hijackers smashed airliners into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon
Even as author Salman Rushdie is on the road to recovery after a murderous attack on him on August 12 in New York, it has birthed another sharp debate in these already polarised times
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has condemned the "cowardly attack on author Salman Rushdie, asserting that a man with a knife cannot silence a man with a pen
Shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie, Joe Biden prayed for his health and recovery and said the writer stands for essential and universal ideals
At least eight people lost their lives in what was the deadliest terrorist attack to strike New York City since Sept. 11, and about a dozen more were injured