The New York Times is not a news site I regularly read, but I see quite a different set of headlines highlighted on the front page:

Johnson, With His Job Under Threat, Gets a Lifeline From Trump

Biden Wipes Out Another $7.4 Billion in Student Loan Debt

5 People Killed in Stabbing at Busy Mall in Sydney, Australia

Campaign Puts Trump and the Spy Agencies on Collision Course

Republican Women Are Divided on Abortion as Bans Spread

Ocasio-Cortez Never Steered Money to a Key Arm of Her Party. Until Now.

You also list one of these (the last), but the others seem fairly standard things that a newspaper would report, and not clickbait rubbish at all.