- Reuters
Sirens sound for the dead and for rockets on Israeli Memorial Day
Memorial sirens for generations of Israeli war dead sounded throughout the country on Monday, while air raid sirens warned of incoming shelling as the conflict triggered by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack dragged on into its eighth month. Traffic slowed to a standstill for a traditional two-minute silence for Israel's annual Memorial Day, observed the day before Independence Day. President Isaac Herzog opened commemorations at Jerusalem's Western Wall on Sunday evening with his shirt collar torn in a Jewish mark of mourning.
- Associated Press
A US-based museum curator is detained in Turkey over claims of smuggling scorpion and spider samples
A curator at the American Museum of Natural History was detained in Istanbul on Monday while allegedly attempting to smuggle spider and scorpion samples, Turkish media reported. Lorenzo Prendini, an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum, was held by police at Istanbul Airport while allegedly trying to take about 1,500 samples out of the country, news outlets reported. The state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Prendini was detained for allegedly attempting to smuggle species found in Turkey.
- Investor's Business Daily
Dow Jones Futures Rise; Apple, Google Move On iPhone News; Nvidia Gets Price Target Hike
Futures rose with Apple reportedly near a deal to use Microsoft-backed OpenAI tech, a blow to Google. Nvidia got a big price target hike.
