Novelist Salman Rushdie returned to the spotlight nine months after he was injured in a stabbing attack to receive a special honor. Find out more about his surprise appearance.
Novelist Salman Rushdie returned to the spotlight nine months after he was injured in a stabbing attack to receive a special honor. Find out more about his surprise appearance.
State lawmakers begin voting on new budget.
New York lawmakers began voting Monday on a $229-billion state budget due a month ago that would raise the minimum wage, crack down on illicit pot shops.
State lawmakers begin voting on new budget.
New York lawmakers began voting Monday on a $229-billion state budget due a month ago that would raise the minimum wage, crack down on illicit pot shops.
Hadi Mater, 24, the man charged with stabbing celebrated author and winner of the world's top literary prizes, Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York, has said he was surprised to learn the victim survived the attack. Mater said this in an interview with the New York Post from jail. The suspect said he decided to see Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution after he saw a tweet last winter about the writer’s planned appearance, Politico reports.