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Lincoln University of Missouri has joined a consortium of universities preparing college students for careers in U.S. intelligence agencies as part of a $2.5 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The grant will fund creation…

Amid a contest in which the defenses for Kentucky and Missouri flexed their muscles most of the afternoon, it was a botched punt snap that proved the difference for the Wildcats in escaping with a 21-17 victory over the Tigers on Saturday.

One woman was killed and two other women were hurt Saturday morning in a shooting at a Belleville home

Police responding to a call in the 300 block of South Church Street found three female victims suffering from gunshot wounds.

No one was injured in the crash.

The complaint comes a day after the Chicago Tribune first reported the head of the PAC, Dan Proft, tried to intercede in a potential legal matter involving Bailey.

Though Carter was not identified, officials responded to a drowning just before 11 a.m. in the 42000 block of Valley Vista Drive, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

The Train Shed at Union Station is already swinging into the holiday spirit early with a holiday pop-up bar.

James Maulding, 79, was driving on an Interstate 55 exit ramp toward Highway 141 around noon when he went off the left side of the ramp and hit a road sign.

Stacker compiled a list of fishing records in Missouri from Land Big Fish.

In my previous article on Decide Technologies’ connections to the alt-right, I shared my research into when LockerDome’s alt-right advertising network first launched shortly after Ferguson, the size of the network that we can see with our own eyes and my estimates for how much money the company is paying out to alt-right publishers and how much they’re making.

• Size of Alt-right publisher network: 115 sites generating 567 million page views a month 
• Revenue to Alt-right publishers: an estimated $6.53 million to $15.24 million a year
• Revenue to Decide Technologies: an estimated $0.54 million to $1.27 million a month

In this article, I’ll explain how ad networks work for any publisher, and why Decide's business proposition lends itself especially well to working with fake news and disinformation networks.

The post The Business of Trafficking in Political Disinformation and Fake News appeared first on EQ.

An investigation is underway after authorities spotted and confirmed human remains Friday in Crawford County.

Five Years Ago This week in 2017, declassified documents revealed the NSA’s efforts to prosecute a journalist for successful FOIA requests, a judge refused a boilerplate request from the DOJ for a gag order, Dianne Feinstein was trying to get Twitter to just hand over a bunch of private communications, and we took a closer […]