The man convicted of trying to kill author Salman Rushdie is on trial again, this time in a federal case that casts the stabbing on a lecture stage as an act of terrorism.
Prosecutors say Hadi Matar attacked the renowned author and free-speech advocate in 2022 to try to carry out a decades-old fatwa, or religious ruling, calling for Rushdie's death over what some Muslims saw as blasphemy in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
