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What Happened Today – February 21, 2026

NIST researcher Shelly Bagchi works with a robot at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST engineer Shelly Bagchi, a Bronze Medal Award winner for her robotics research, works at the agency now purging foreign-born scientists under new Trump administration restrictions. (Photo courtesy of NIST)

Two threats are tightening around Donald Trump at the same time. Ghislaine Maxwell filed suit late Friday from prison to block 90,000 pages from a civil defamation case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life last year. The pages include more than 30 depositions and financial and sexual information about Maxwell … Read more

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