
Jacob Soboroff
Correspondent at NBC News
@NBCNews Political and National Correspondent. Author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy. Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris.
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1 week ago |
cnbc.com | Jacob Soboroff |Julia Ainsley |Laura Strickler
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak during a tour in Kodiak, Alaska, U.S., March 17, 2025. Alex Brandon | Via ReutersPublicly, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said the Federal Emergency Management Agency needs to be reoriented or even done away with altogether. "We are eliminating FEMA," Noem said at a televised meeting of President Donald Trump's Cabinet in March.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Jacob Soboroff |Julia Ainsley |Laura Strickler
May 29, 2025, 8:25 PM EDTPublicly, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said the Federal Emergency Management Agency needs to be reoriented or even done away with altogether. “We are eliminating FEMA,” Noem said at a televised meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet in March.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Jacob Soboroff |Julia Ainsley |Laura Strickler
8 hours agoTwo weeks before Election Day last year, Donald Trump dropped into western North Carolina, where the devastation from Tropical Storm Helene was still fresh and frustration with Washington was boiling over. If elected, Trump pledged, he would do better in future crises, learning the lessons of the …
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix |Jacob Soboroff
Secretary Kennedy said he brought back 328 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health employees, including those overseeing coal miner and 9/11 screenings.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcchicago.com | Nidhi Sharma |Jacob Soboroff
The Los Angeles wildfires were still smoldering when President Donald Trump began reversing Biden-era directives for federal agencies to tackle the climate crisis.
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NEW: HHS backtracks on firing hundreds of federal health workers: RFK Jr. said he brought back 328 employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, including those overseeing coal miner and 9/11 screenings. With @ariabendix. https://t.co/gnlFoPLk19

*good news* update: NIOSH epidemiologist Scott Laney, who was studying black lung in coal miners until he was fired by DOGE and whom we profiled May 1 in our @MSNBC town hall, confirms he’s part of as many as 100 NIOSH employees who have been permanently reinstated to their jobs. https://t.co/IXypNQa026

RT @AmandaBarren: A federal judge has granted an injunction ruling that NIOSH programs must return.. per attorney @Sam4WV the Federal Gov…