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The Trump administration says it has arrested more than 700 people in Washington, DC as part of its mission to crack down on crime. Data given to NPR by the city's police department indicates a ramp-up in arrests during the campaign, but criminal justice experts caution that it's difficult to draw conclusions about public safety merely from arrests.

Thailand's Supreme Court said former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for previous convictions on graft and abuse of power charges.

Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.

SCOTUS clears way for sweeping immigration operations to resume in L.A., Trump continues to threaten unmoved Russia with sanctions, House committee releases some documents from Epstein's estate.

More than 300,000 disabled Kentuckians on Medicaid fear they'll see fewer services under the Republican-backed federal budget. Countering what the Trump administration calls the “Big Beautiful Bill," the Kentucky Democratic Party brought its Defense of Medicaid tour to Bowling Green on Thursday.

Nearly 500 Korean immigrants working to build a battery factory in Georgia were arrested.

Why do some friendships survive for decades while others fade away?

More than 300 South Korean workers were detained in an immigration raid on Thursday. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said South Korea plans to send a charter plane to bring the workers home.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed his intention on Sunday to step down following growing calls from his party to take responsibility for a historic defeat in July's parliamentary election.

On Sunday, South Korean officials said they would send a plane to bring the detained workers home. Earlier, South Korea's Foreign Minister said his nation was "deeply concerned" by the arrests.