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Salman Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Reports say the acclaimed author was stabbed 10 times in the shocking attack at an event in New York.
- by Kanishka Singh
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Opinion
Freedom of speech
Rushdie attack: naive Westerners still refuse to accept truth about Iran’s evil regime
Iran never has lifted the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie, even as the West pretended it could be trusted.
- by Stephen Pollard
People exposed to COVID-19 may need three at-home tests: FDA
The new guidelines come as the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron continues to spread.
- by Emily Anthes
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Crime
Salman Rushdie stabbed onstage in New York
The Indian-born novelist, who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, will likely lose an eye and suffered severed nerves in an arm.
- by Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Allen
Analysis
US politics
Donald Trump’s voters will lap up tale of unjust persecution by FBI
Republicans and independents have started to tire of his myopic focus on the “Big Lie” of a stolen election, and nothing riles up Trump followers like an existential fight against “The Establishment”.
- by Josie Ensor
Joe Biden wins, US drug giants lose in major new bill
Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s spending at least $US142 millionon lobbying efforts, the $US430 billion Inflation Reduction Act to change climate, health and tax policies will become law.
- by Ahmed Aboulenein
FBI removed top secret documents from Trump’s home: officials
FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the US Justice Department says.
- by Sarah N. Lynch
Opinion
USA
America’s last stand against Trumpification: uphold the rule of law
The FBI raid on the residence of former president Donald Trump raises the stakes in a country torn apart by years of poisonous politics.
- by Nick Bryant
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US politics
Attorney-General breaks silence on raid, Trump agrees search warrant be made public
Hours after Merrick Garland said he approved the decision to execute a search warrant, a US outlet reported agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Poisoned’: Trump’s troubled relationship with the keepers of US secrets
Trump’s behaviour led to such mistrust that officials who gave him classified briefings occasionally erred on the side of withholding some sensitive details from him.
- by Mark Mazzetti
Deputy shared graphic photos of dead Kobe Bryant at a bar: witness
A court in LA is hearing depositions in the privacy and public trust lawsuit brought by the NBA basketball star’s widow and other families.
- by Ngai Yeung