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A conversation about reparations. How sugar affects your brain. The women behind Tequila production in Mexico. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in. Here’s what you might have missed during a busy news week.

Remembering Malaysia Flight 370 five years later

On the fifth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance, the aviation industry is close to implementing technology that would make a similar event impossible.

Alabama tornado aftermath

Days after the tornado, residents in this neighborhood along Lee Road 39 are struggling to process the devastation around them.

An iconic American job nears extinction

GM idles a factory as it eyes a future in which fewer people own vehicles. For workers, the transition means uncertainty and dislocation.

Opinion: Reparations’ role in the 2020 election

Democratic candidates on the campaign trail have been discussing reparations. Here’s how the conversation about reparations got started and what it could mean for voters.

What happens to your brain when you give up sugar?

Sugar isn’t just empty calories; it’s also making us sick. The addiction is real and so is the withdrawal.

Analysis: We’ll never listen to Michael Jackson the same way again

The disturbing claims of HBO’s documentary “Leaving Neverland” have many fans rethinking their feelings about the late King of Pop.

If not for women, there’d be no tequila

In the town of Tequila, Mexico, known as the birthplace of the drink, the farming of agave blooms has historically been left to the town’s women.