The Upshot (The New York Times)

10 hours ago | nytimes.com | Annie Roth

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom we share nearly 99 percent of our DNA, beg to differ. Bonobos are great apes that live in female-dominated societies, a relative rarity among mammals, especially in species where males are the larger sex. While females are smaller than their male counterparts, they reign supreme in bonobo societies.

11 hours ago | nytimes.com | Cameron Teague Robinson

Former North Carolina standout Beau Atkinson, one of the top defensive ends in the transfer portal, committed to Ohio State on Wednesday night. The 6-foot-6, 265 pound edge rusher visited Columbus on Monday and chose the reigning national champions over Georgia and South Carolina. He has two years of eligibility left and can be an immediate-impact player for the Buckeyes, who were looking for help along the defensive line.

14 hours ago | nytimes.com | Zack Rosenblatt

The New York Jets enter the 2025 NFL Draft with eight picks over the three-day draft, including the seventh overall pick in Thursday night's first round. The new head coach-GM pairing of Aaron Glenn and Darren Mougey will lead the draft room, and there are plenty of roster holes still to be filled.

16 hours ago | nytimes.com | Michele Lerner

Anwar (A.B.) Barnes and Cecily Lewis Barnes were proud to own a townhouse in pricey Los Angeles. The high school sweethearts, who have been married for 17 years, were raising their two children (now ages 6 and 14) there, but as the family grew, they realized the townhouse wasn't big enough to handle their changing lives. "We went to an open house at a single-family home for sale in our neighborhood for $750,000," said Mr. Barnes, 47, a video editor with Hulu.

16 hours ago | nytimes.com | Seth Kugel

When the low-cost airline asked for 20 volunteers to take a later flight, one of them never received the promised voucher. Was a handwritten list to blame? In March 2024, I was awaiting my $96 Frontier Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Trenton, N.J., when gate agents announced they were seeking 20 volunteers to fly the next day instead, in order to lighten the aircraft's load. The offer: an $800 credit for a future flight. (Or was it multiple future flights?