News Briefs: Denmark taxes cow farts; Squad member defeated; Kenyan police in Haiti

Today’s news briefs include Denmark taxing cow and other livestock farts; Squad member and antisemite Jamaal Bowman defeated; International police force arrives in Haiti.

Denmark to tax livestock farts

Denmark will become the first country to tax farmers for gasses emitted by cows, sheep and pigs. The new law has created massive protests across the country as farmers clogged major highways and city centers with combines and tractors. Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus claims the law will help reduce greenhouse gasses by 70% to 1990 levels by 20230. The new tax, say farmer’s unions, will virtually eliminate most livestock farming in Denmark. New Zealand’s cow gas law was set to take effect in 2025 but was reversed after it elected a conservative government in 2023.

Squad member loses House seat to pro-Israel opponent

New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman became the first Squad member to lose his seat Tuesday. Bowman, who regularly used antisemitic rhetoric and refused to denounce Hamas until recently, also became the first Congressional Democrat to lose a primary this year. The reliably Democrat 16th district chose longtime New York political figure George Latimer, who currently serves as Westchester County Executive. Latimer is a moderate and strong supporter of Israel. On Saturday Bowman used a profanity-filled rally to repeat, without proof, claims that Israel is committing genocide.

International police force arrives in Haiti

The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence, Fox News reports. Several hundred armed Kenyan officers landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.  The violent gangs control 80% of Haiti’s capital and have left more than 580,000 people homeless across the country as they pillage neighborhoods in their quest to control more territory. Gangs also killed several thousand people including American missionaries in May.