Officials: Anti-muslim Images Are Protected Speech (ap)

Australia’s military is loosening recruitment criteria to enable non-citizens to join its ranks and help address a personnel shortfall in the defense forces. The move, first announced in the National Defense Strategy released in April, will see the force ease eligibility requirements to allow permanent residents who’ve lived in Australia for 12 months to sign up, according to a statement Tuesday.

New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez filed to run for reelection as an independent on Monday, a move that could be costly for Democrats trying to hold on to what has been a safe Senate seat. Menendez, who is on trial in New York on corruption charges, could play the role of spoiler if a significant chunk of voters stick with him.

The Denver City Council on Monday authorized up to $24 million in additional spending on private security services across the city this year. The greater financial latitude — expanding contracts with three different companies — is necessary to meet Denver’s evolving security needs, according to summary documents, particularly around 24/7 shelters for migrants from the southern U.

Welcome to the Deion Sanders Era, where the CU Buffs are last in the Pac-12 but first in irony. Because to hear scouts tell it, the notion that Shilo Sanders needs cash is … probably costing him money. “The bankruptcy and the fact that he has been playing under his father with the last two programs has not (helped),” Dave Syvertsen, longtime scout and senior draft analyst with the Ourlads.com scouting service, told me Monday.

The next time you board a long flight and decide to enjoy an alcoholic drink before taking a nap, you might want to avoid the temptation. A new study, published in the medical journal Thorax on Monday, found that when people fell asleep after drinking alcohol in a low air pressure environment similar to that on airplanes, their blood oxygen decreased and their heart rates increased.

Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they made a discovery that left them “completely speechless”: a T. rex bone poking out of the ground. The trio announced their discovery publicly Monday at a Zoom news conference as workers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science prepare to begin chipping the fossil out of its rock cast at a special exhibit called Discovering Teen Rex.