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DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry starting Sunday as 61,000 TSA employees work without pay in the second week of a shutdown while ICE operates uninterrupted on $75 billion in pre-secured funding.
3rd DHS shutdown during this Congress
Source: The Hill
February 21, 2026
NIST restricts foreign scientists' lab access and cancels hiring plans, threatening the agency that sets U.S. standards for cybersecurity, semiconductors and AI with roughly 800 international researchers annually.
Noncitizens lost after-hours lab access last month
Source: Ars Technica
February 21, 2026
Federal judge seizes control of Arizona's entire prison health care system after 14 years of litigation, two contempt findings and 131 of 154 court-ordered health standards violated, covering at least 25,000 incarcerated people.
97% of critical referrals late or missing
Source: The Arizona Mirror
February 21, 2026
Trump announces he is sending a Navy hospital ship to Greenland to treat people "not being taken care of," though Greenland provides free health care and both Navy hospital ships are in an Alabama shipyard until at least April.
Greenland's population is roughly 56,000
Source: The Wall Street Journal
February 21, 2026
NASA's Artemis II moon rocket requires rollback to its assembly building after a helium pressurization failure, pushing the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 from March into April.
Delay 1 day after successful test
Source: CBS News
February 21, 2026
Trump approves FEMA emergency disaster relief for Washington after a Potomac River sewage line collapse that the city estimates will cost $20 million to repair and remediate.
Officials warn avoid direct Potomac contact
Source: WUSA Washington
February 21, 2026
