The Daily Populous

Sunday December 31st, 2017 day edition

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The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a 25-year-old man who is suspected of sending a SWAT team to a private residence in Kansas, resulting in the death of a 28-year-old man.

NBC News (via Engadget) reports that the LAPD arrested Tyler Barriss on Friday after allegedly providing Andrew Finch’s address to Witchita authorities.

Sources told NBC News that Finch was not involved in the dispute.

“Swatting” is an incident in which someone makes an anonymous, fake emergency call to a local police department, designed to prompt a tactical response from a local SWAT team.

Barriss allegedly called the Witchita Police Department, saying that he shot his father in the head during a family dispute and that he was holding his family hostage.

He provided authorities with Finch’s address, believing it to be the location of one of the gamers.

Wichita’s SWAT team arrived at the location and ordered Finch to raise his hands when he appeared in the door, and was shot by an officer. »

Gal Gadot Is the Highest-Grossing Actress of 2017

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Gal Gadot is officially Forbes’s highest-grossing actress of 2017, having raked in $1.4 billion in movie tickets worldwide for portraying the same superhero twice in six months.

Forbes reports that Gadot is not only the top actress of the year, she’s also the top third highest-grossing actor, period.

Scarlett Johansson was the highest-grossing actor, period, of 2016, after appearing in the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! »

Community donates $20,000 to beekeepers after hives destroyed by - WSMV News 4

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According to the Sioux City Journal, the Sioux City couple, who own and operate “Wild Hill Honey,” discovered the destruction on Thursday morning when Justin went to check on the hives.

All 50 of their beehives were destroyed, and his supply shed was completely ransacked.

However, the loss of the hives was calculated to be between $50,000 and $60,000 and the hives were not covered by insurance. »

Genetically Engineering Pigs to Grow Organs for People

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The second problem is less obvious: Pig genomes are rife with DNA sequences of viruses that can infect human cells.

Quite suddenly, however, solving these two problems has become much easier and much faster thanks to the gene-editing technology CRISPR.

With CRISPR, scientists can knock out the pig genes that trigger the human immune response. »

How often are college students using the dating app Tinder to cheat on their partners?

Authored by psypost.org

The study found that most Tinder users know someone who has used Tinder to cheat.

“There has not been a great deal of research on whether Tinder is actually used to facilitate infidelity.

The study of 550 college students who had used or were using Tinder found that about one in five participants admitted to talking with a person on the dating app while in an exclusive romantic relationship. »