The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: New research suggests that people can lose more weight by avoiding these hugely popular foods.

NEW YORK TIMES: The parody, with its main character ‘Spraygun’ has audiences laughing — and dancing — at the world’s biggest arts festival.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: NASA has put out a call for commercial interests to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It is, however, not clear what it will power.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ann Buszard, a retired nurse, had never so much as touched a weight until she was 74, when she found herself struggling to stand up after kneeling down. She wanted to get stronger.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Sometimes there is something unseen in the story, and the mistake isn’t to theorise about it; it’s to lock on too quickly to a single theory.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The main political argument in the 20th century was over the size of government. That era is clearly over.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: You’re not a terrible person for feeling depleted around your friend’s kids. Even under the best of circumstances, being around other people’s children can feel extremely draining.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Everybody eats potatoes, it seems, but nobody can say where they came from.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is also a technical problem with telling AI systems how to behave. Namely, they don’t always listen.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Elizabeth Castillo wasn’t an activist until Immigration and Customs Enforcement started taking away her neighbours.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Hundreds of millions of people live along its path — in giant cities and in isolated towns — tethered by a common geological fate forged by tectonic forces churning deep beneath their feet.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The refuges are illusory, the alternatives are compromised or weak, and the future of freedom will be American or it will not be at all.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: What the science says on whether you really need those electrolyte drinks when exercising and otherwise.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In the 1980s, America’s two biggest soft drink companies raced for another milestone: to serve the first fizzy drink in orbit.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Apple will close a store in northeastern China in August, the first time it has shuttered one of its retail locations since it opened its first outlet in the country in 2008.