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Calley Means, senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned on Thursday after growing frustration that the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda had stalled inside the White House. Means, a longtime MAHA ally, said he was proud of the work he had done but left with “tremendous respect for President Trump and RFK” while noting the movement was “in the first inning and just getting started.” His departure comes less than two weeks before the midterms, amid reports that a key meeting to define ultraprocessed foods—a MAHA priority—was postponed, a decision described by officials as a “straw that broke the camel’s back.” The White House has not yet commented.

Microsoft’s new AI system, the Diagnostic Orchestrator, achieved diagnostic accuracy of about 83 % on cases from The New England Journal of Medicine, compared with roughly 36 % for generalist physicians using references and 22 % for those working without them. On emergency‑department cases from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the AI scored 80 % accuracy versus an average of 47 % for human physicians. The system, powered by OpenAI’s GPT‑5 and built on Microsoft’s SDBench benchmark, also reached diagnoses at a lower estimated cost than human counterparts. The findings were published Thursday in Science. Microsoft says the technology still requires further development before wide deployment.

The World Series has a Dutch connection this season, with Dutch baseball international Richie Palacios set to face the Milwaukee Brewers in the championship game.

EA shut down BioWare and canceled the studio’s new Mass Effect game. A trailer that appears to represent the cancelled title was posted on Reddit the following day. The video shows in‑engine footage and pre‑production assets, featuring an ex‑soldier and an Asari character. It ends with the subtitle “Mass Effect: Universe.” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier and IGN confirmed the trailer is legitimate. Amazon is still developing a Mass Effect TV show for Prime Video.

Harry Brook scored two hundred and two runs in England’s ODI against Sri Lanka, becoming the first Englishman to hit a double‑hundred in the format. The innings, completed in one hundred fourteen balls, was the fastest double ton in ODI history, surpassing Shubman Gill’s record. Brook’s 202 was the first double‑hundred by an Englishman, eclipsing Ben Stokes’ 182 against New Zealand in 2023. He joined Chris Gayle’s exclusive club by completing a hundred in a T20, a double‑hundred in an ODI and a triple‑century in a Test. Despite the personal milestone, England lost the match to Sri Lanka, who chased 430, the second‑highest run‑chase in ODI history.