Headlines pretty much always use the historical present tense.
If this is incorrect, then so is the entire front page of the New York Times today, e.g. "Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown" (should it be "passed"?)
That's not true, and certainly not true enough to make such sweeping generalizations.
From the actual New York Times regarding their editing standards for writing headlines: [1]
Headlines are written in the historical present
tense. That means they written are in present
tense but describe events that just happened.
The exception to that is when you're reporting
on something that happened quite some time
ago."
If this is incorrect, then so is the entire front page of the New York Times today, e.g. "Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown" (should it be "passed"?)