Jury convicts Rushdie stabbing suspect on federal terrorism charges

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A federal jury convicted Hadi Matar on all charges of transnational terrorism for the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, a case tied to the decades-old fatwa; Rushdie survived the attack with serious injuries, and Matar, already serving a 25-year New York state sentence for attempted murder, faces a potential life sentence on the federal counts.
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