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NPR (Jude Joffe-Block) - A federal judge finds a Trump data system to verify voters is unlawful

Tens of millions of voters have had their data run through the Trump administration's revamped SAVE tool. A judge just found it unlawful.

NYTIMES (Anthony DePalma) - Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Architect of Cuba’s Surveillance State, Dies at 94

Considered the country’s most powerful leader after the Castro brothers, he was the first director of the Interior Ministry, keeping a close eye on dissent.

NYTIMES (Gina Kolata) - Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem.

Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors.

NYTIMES (Campbell Robertson, Jill Cowan and Anna Griffin) - With Win in Washington, Socialists Have Momentum in Urban America

Democratic socialists, harnessing generational frustration over affordability, lead New York and Seattle and are knocking on the door in Los Angeles and Washington.

AXIOS (Barak Ravid) - Israel fears Trump is strengthening Iran's hand in Lebanon

Israel's government is concerned that the U.S. is effectively legitimizing Iran's influence in Lebanon and eroding Israel's freedom of operation there through new understandings reached in Switzerland and the memorandum of understanding signed with Iran last week, two Israeli sources told Axios. Why it matters: Iran has managed to wrap the situation in Lebanon into its negotiations with the U.S. in order to support its proxy, Hezbollah. The Trump administration accepts that it must now contain Israel's actions in Lebanon in order to advance its diplomacy with Iran. - Israeli officials worry the new understandings will undermine months of efforts by the U.S. and Israel to weaken Hezbollah and decrease Iran's influence in Lebanon. - More…