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Ian Karbal

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
25
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Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Philadelphia Tribune
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · By IAN KARBAL

    ICE enforcement around healthcare facilities in Pa. leads to fears about immigrants who need care (opens the original)

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    Earlier this month, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeted construction workers building an addition at the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Montour County. Along with local law enforcement, they stopped and arrested a number of workers on roads near the facility as the men left for the evening on Sept. 2. While details have been difficult to verify -- advocates, workers and law enforcement have told different stories, and few documents have been publicly released --

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Ian Karbal

    Pa.’s latest online age verification bill would restrict access to adult content (opens the original)

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    A bill advanced through the Senate Judiciary committee Monday with bipartisan support that would require Pennsylvanians to provide proof of their age, such as state identification documents, when accessing websites with at least one-third of their material consisting of adult content. The goal, according to the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Cris Dush (R-Jefferson), is to protect minors. “When it comes to the protection of children from exposure to pornography, the only verification measure, if any, i

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ian Karbal | Pennsylvania Capital-Star

    What happened at Geisinger? Arrests near Danville hospital show difficulty tracking ICE activity. (opens the original)

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    Earlier this month, immigrants’ rights advocacy groups, the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition and the Centre County Rapid Response Network, brought attention to what they were calling the “largest ICE workplace raid in Pennsylvania to date.” They said more than 40 construction workers — nationals from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and other countries — were detained in a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation while leaving work building an addition on the Geisinger Medical

  4. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Ian Karbal | Pennsylvania Capital-Star

    Utility executives, cybersecurity experts warn Pa. lawmakers of growing threats (opens the original)

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    In the past year, FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has seen a growing number of attempted malware and cyberattacks around their critical infrastructure. "Our defensive systems block tens of thousands of automated malicious connection attempts against public facing services each month," said Brian Harrell, the chief security officer at the company that serves 2.1 million electric customers across 56 counties in Pennsylvania. "These statistics underscore why cybersecurity requires constant attention and c

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · By Ian Karbal

    Health experts, lawmakers push for Pa. kratom regulation; proponents warn they’ll fight a ban (opens the original)

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    Sarah Kawasaki first heard about kratom around five years ago. It wasn't through her work -- she's an addiction medicine specialist at Penn State, and the medical director of their associated opioid treatment program -- but through her personal life. "People would say, 'Hey, what do you know about kratom?,'" she told the Capital-Star. "And I'd be like, 'What?'" So Kawasaki began looking into it. Kratom, she found, is an herbal supplement with opioid-like effects. In low doses, it can act as a st

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