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FILE — Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Reality Labs at Meta, speaks during a presentation at Meta Connect in Menlo Park, Calif., Sept. 18, 2025. Meta plans to cut around 10 percent of the employees in its Reality Labs division who work on products including the metaverse, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions, as the company shifts priorities to build next-generation artificial intelligence. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)

Meta plans to cut about 10% of employees in Reality Labs business

January 12, 2026 at 4:02 p.m.

Meta plans to cut about 10% of the employees in its Reality Labs division who work on products including the metaverse, as the company shifts priorities to build next-generation artificial...

Ariana Grande arrives at the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, at The Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Critics Choice Awards 2026: The complete winners list

January 5, 2026 at 11:47 a.m.

“One Battle After Another” claimed its first televised trophies Sunday night, earning the best-picture prize at the Critics Choice Awards.

A variety of drinks served at Matcha Thomas in Beacon, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2025. A growing assortment of low- and no-caffeine options at cafes across the country are just as enticing as their stimulating counterparts. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)

There’s never been a better time to quit caffeine

January 2, 2026 at 8:03 a.m.

A renewed focus on health has inspired many people to examine their relationship with coffee and, more specifically, caffeine.

Cases of beer are displayed at a grocery store on Feb. 11, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty)

American Heart Association revives theory that light drinking may be good for you

December 31, 2025 at 9:47 a.m.

Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific review that is drawing intense criticism, setting off a new round of debate about alcohol consumption.

Pages that show New York grand jury subpoenas being issued into the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell investigation, then pages of redactions that follow, in this document released by the U.S. Justice Department, are photographed, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Justice Dept. now said to be reviewing 5.2 million pages of Epstein files

December 31, 2025 at 9:40 a.m.

The Justice Department is seeking to enlist about 400 lawyers to review roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein files documents, an effort that is drawing in prosecutors who work on...

Workers process purple yams at Benguet State University, in Benguet, northern Philippines, Dec. 1, 2025. Ube, a purple yam, is going viral and Philippine farmers are struggling to keep up. (Jes Aznar/The New York TImes)

Ube is in high demand. Philippine farmers are struggling to keep up.

December 29, 2025 at 7:29 a.m.

The world’s new hunger for ube, the Philippine purple yam, it is starting to strain the people who farm it.

FILE – This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

More Epstein files are released and include some references to Trump

December 23, 2025 at 8:59 a.m.

The Department of Justice released more files related to the investigation of financier Jeffrey Epstein late Monday, making public thousands of documents that included emails from prosecutors, unverified tips and...

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Takeaways from President Donald Trump’s address to the nation

December 18, 2025 at 10:12 a.m.

President Donald Trump gave an 18-minute speech intended to defend his accomplishments in the first year. Here are six takeaways.

Jeanette Winter, Chicago-born children’s book illustrator, dies at 86

December 15, 2025 at 12:29 p.m.

Jeanette Winter found an unusual specialty in turning the lives of great artists into inviting, inspiring picture books for children.

The stern of the sunken schooner Margaret A. Muir sits on the bottom of Lake Michigan near Algoma, Wis., on June 2, 2024. The schooner sank during a storm in September 1893. Searchers discovered the wreckage on May 12, 2024. (Tamara Thomsen/Wisconsin Historical Society via AP)

She helps unearth the submerged history of the Great Lakes

November 26, 2025 at 8:59 a.m.

As a maritime archaeologist in Wisconsin, in the American Midwest, she spends many of her days descending into the Great Lakes to uncover lives and moments that have been submerged...

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