Author: George Lanington

Author Salman Rushdie, marking his return to the literary world after a violent attack last year that left him permanently injured, says he doesn't want pity.“I've always tried very hard not to adopt the role of a victim,” he recently said to New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick. The story marked the author's first interview of him since he was stabbed.His reappearance as a public figure also included a recent real-life visit to the New York City office his agent, Andrew Wylie, promotion for his new book, "Victory City," completed before the stabbing, and a vow to eschew feelings of bitterness six months after the attack in western New York.In 1989, Rushdie defended advice to lie low after Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, put a virtual contract on his life i...

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Biden administration officials are offering top congressional leaders a briefing on classified documents found in the possession of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, two sources familiar with discussions said.The officials had not yet scheduled a briefing, because, they said, priority goes to an intelligence briefing for those leaders about the developments and diplomatic friction with China over a suspected spy balloon spotted floating over the US before one was shot down Saturday, the sources said.The aim was to get the briefing on wayward documents done by the end of the week, the two officials said. The documents briefing would be for Congress' "Gang of Eight," the top leaders of the House and the Senate and of the congressiona...