Days after the attack against writer Salman Rushdie, an official who asked that his name not be mentioned, said Hassan Mattar, the father of Hadi Mattar lives in a small village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon. Matar has been refusing to speak to journalists since the stabbing happened adding that he is locking himself at…

A man accused of attacking New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin during a recent campaign rally told investigators he’d been drinking that day and didn’t know who the congressman was, authorities said as the man was arrested on a federal assault charge Saturday. David Jakubonis, 43, made an initial court appearance Saturday before a…

By Richard Winton and Gregory Yee From Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES—Hours after Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s office declined to file felony charges against a man who tackled comedian Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl, City Atty. Mike Feuer announced late Thursday afternoon that his office had filed four misdemeanor counts…

RABAT, Morocco—A Moroccan judge on Thursday ordered a man suspected of fatally stabbing a French woman and injuring a Belgian visitor to undergo psychiatric evaluation, as authorities in three countries opened probes into the suspect’s possible links to terrorism. A 78-year-old French woman was killed in a knife attack in a market in the southern…

PARIS—A man dressed like a ninja attacked and wounded two policewomen with a sword in Cherbourg in northwestern France on Thursday before being shot and captured, a police spokeswoman said. She said there were no immediate signs that the attack was terrorism-related. She said the attacker had stolen a vehicle and caused an accident, after…

ORANGE, Calif.—A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged for allegedly assaulting an 18-year-old female student on Chapman University’s campus after the man’s parents recognized their son on the news and turned him into the police. Dalante Jerome Bell, of Anaheim, is accused of wearing a skeleton mask and attacking the female student outside of…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand authorities imprisoned a man inspired by the ISIS terrorist group for three years after catching him with a hunting knife and extremist videos—but at a certain point, despite grave fears he would attack others, they say they could do nothing more to keep him behind bars. So for 53 days from…

AUSTIN, Texas—Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after an exchange of gunfire between two individuals on a crowded downtown Austin street left 14 people wounded early Saturday, two of them critically. The Austin Police Department said in a news release that the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force assisted in…