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It seems like more and more of the U.S. government's business is taking place behind closed doors. What aren't we being told, and why?

There has been a rising storm of high dudgeon among the national media in recent days because the daily briefings have been closed to cameras — when the briefings happened at all.

"Like any good attack, this one begins with deception," says an investigator. Phishing text messages, including one that appeared to come from the U.S. embassy, were sent to a dozen targets.

After popularizing sensational headlines and taking your news feed by storm, Upworthy seemingly fell off a cliff. Its story reveals just as much about Facebook as it does about why we click.

NPR's East Africa correspondent Eyder Peralta was seized by armed men and imprisoned without charge just after he'd been given permission to report in South Sudan, ravaged by civil war since 2013.

From "Moana" to "Beauty and the Beast" and "Zootopia," new Disney films for children are becoming more inclusive and questioning of racial and gender stereotypes. A look at new Disney films, stereotypes, representation and diversity.

Rachel Martin talks to Mark Bowden, national correspondent for The Atlantic, about how to deal with the nuclear threat from North Korea. Bowden says the U.S. has four broad strategic options.

Megyn Kelly's show carried a lengthy interview with right-wing Internet sensation Alex Jones, a figure who routinely circulates hateful conspiracy theories. Criticism rolled in ahead of the broadcast.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Nelba Marquez-Greene, a family member of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, about Megyn Kelly's upcoming interview on NBC News with radio host and notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

"We'd just taken all the safety gear off, because we were in what we thought was a very safe place in Marawi," said Australian reporter Adam Harvey. "But I guess it's not safe."

Huffington Post founder and editor Arianna Huffington has left the company after a corporate restructuring. Lydia Polgreen, the editor of the rebranded HuffPost, talks about her plans for the site.