Kabul's fall, one year later

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Daily Briefing   Monday, August 15 Kabul's fall, one year later Many Afghans are struggling to survive. The disordered U.S. exit from Afghanistan one year ago has left a stain on President Joe Biden's political career. A look at DACA 10 years after the policy's initiation. Actor Anne Heche has died at 53.  🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert, and here's Monday's news. 🌅 Up first: Ever get ringing in your ears? About 750 million people have this perplexing condition, a study says. In most cases, the condition known as tinnitus is a reaction in the brain to damage in the ear or auditory system. However, the American Tinnitus Association says, tinnitus can also be a symptom of roughly 200 health problems, including hearing loss, obstructions in the middle ear, and head and neck trauma. Read more Life in Afghanistan one year after US withdrawal Since the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan one year ago, life in the nation has been transformed for many into a daily struggle for survival – marked by unemployment, homelessness, hunger and fear. After the U.S. military exit, Afghanistan's economy and social safety net collapsed, pushing the country further into poverty after decades of continuous conflict. The Taliban's crackdown has been horrific for many Afghans, especially the middle class, minorities and women. Read more  What it means today: Economic woes, starvation across Afghanistan and a political wound for President Joe Biden. • Background: Here's a timeline of the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan. • A haunting legacy for Biden: Biden's approval rating fell below 50% for the first time following the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. His standing still hasn't recovered. • Afghanistan's ex-president fled as the Taliban moved in. He said this was to prevent the humiliation of another Afghan president. •  The U.S. government evacuated more than 76,000 Afghans. Now, they are torn between their new lives and the haunting reality of home. • Perspective: The people of Afghanistan want peace, not another oppressive totalitarian government. And their will for a better life is only growing. Taliban fighters fired into the air as they dispersed a rare rally by women as they chanted "Bread, work and freedom" and marched in front of the education ministry building, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power, on August 13, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nava Jamshidi, Getty Images More news to know now: • ⚠ Experts warn California of a disaster ''larger than any in world history.'' It's not an earthquake. • 🔵 Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk after he was stabbed as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. • 🌴 The Mar-a-Lago search warrant was unsealed. Now Republicans want more details beyond what the Justice Department has released. • 🟢 The Southern Baptist Convention says it is under investigation by the Justice Department following reported sex abuse. 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear where Afghanistan stands a year after the U.S. withdrawal. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts,  Spotify, or on your smart speaker. DACA was supposed to be temporary. 10 years later, is it working? Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which turns 10 Monday, was introduced by President Barack Obama as a temporary relief until Congress passed more permanent solutions. It never did, and today recipients cling to the tenuous policy as a portal to opportunity. The policy has been under steady attack – from former President Donald Trump, a barrage of lawsuits and state and federal lawmakers who argue it is illegal to allow some immigrants to stay here without an act of Congress. The USA TODAY Network interviewed DACA recipients to better understand how the program changed their lives.  These are their stories. • ''I don't know if I will be deported'': Young immigrants prepare for DACA to end. • Across the nation, 1.5 million people live with a DACA recipient. Often one sibling reaps the benefits of DACA, while another can't legally drive or work. • Point of view: Why it's time to give DACA recipients a path to citizenship. Carlos Medina, 20, was brought to the U.S. as an infant by his parents from Mexico on a touriist visa and the family decided to over stay their visa. Carlos' two older brothers have received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), protecting them from deportation but his petition to receive the same protection has stalled as DACA is challenged in the courts. Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times Just for subscribers: • 📰 The question Democrats keep struggling with: Should Biden run again in 2024? • 🛑 How Liz Cheney went from Trump backer and GOP leader to his fiercest critic and GOP outcast. • 👚 Fake ''Made in the USA'' cases have increased dramatically since 2016. Here's why. • ❗ Not everyone wants to come to the US. Gun violence and safety concerns are keeping travelers away. These articles are for USA TODAY subscribers. You can sign up here. Already a subscriber and want premium content emailed to you every day? We can do that! Sign up for the Your Day newsletter. Sen. Ed Markey leads US delegation to Taiwan, China announces more military drills Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen met Monday with a delegation of U.S. Congress members, led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, in a further sign of support among American lawmakers for the self-governing island that China claims as its own territory. China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the visit occurred, less than two weeks after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan prompted days of threatening military exercises by China. Read more  • China's previous two weeks of threatening exercises prompted Taiwan to put its military on alert. But the drills were largely with defiance and apathy among the public. In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, U.S. Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal of California, Democratic Rep. John Garamendi, Donald Yu-Tien Hsu of Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer from Virginia and Republican Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa, pose for a photo after arriving on Aug. 14, 2022, a U.S. government plane at Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan. AP Lawyers appeal Brittney Griner's Russian prison sentence Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal against her 9-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported. Lawyer Maria Blagovolina and co-counsel Alexander Boykov said after Griner's conviction that the sentence was excessive and that in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole.  Read more   • Russia is ready for 'concrete steps' toward Brittney Griner prisoner exchange. WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner holds images standing in a cage at a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Pool photo by Evgenia Novozhenina ICYMI: Some of our top stories yesterday • ✍ WHO plans to rename monkeypox over concerns the name may be derogatory. • 👉 1 dead and 17 people are hurt after a vehicle plowed into the crowd at a Pennsylvania bar. • 😷 The CDC once again updated its COVID-19 guidance. Here's where to find all the masks and tests you need. • 💔 Freya the famous walrus was put down because people were getting too close to the animal and throwing objects at it. • 📲 The infamous green text: Google has called on Apple to fix text messages between iPhones and Android smartphones. Vanessa Bryant civil trial against Los Angeles County resumes The fourth day of Vanessa Bryant's civil trial against Los Angeles County continues Monday. On Friday, jurors heard testimony from three witnesses, including Douglas Johnson, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who took close-up photos of dead bodies from the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. Bryant's legal team believes Johnson started the spread of the gruesome photos among sheriff's personnel after taking them for dubious reasons. The trial could continue for over two more weeks. Read more • Earlier in the trial: Lakers GM Rob Pelinka fights through tears at Vanessa Bryant's trial over Kobe crash photos. • Vanessa Bryant left court during testimony about the crash photos shared at a bar after Kobe's death. Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, leaves a federal courthouse in Los Angeles last week. Jae C. Hong, AP 📷 Anne Heche dies at 53: See photos from her '90s film fame and Ellen DeGeneres relationship 📷 Anne Heche, an actor whose steady film and television career spanned three decades after her breakthrough role in the soap opera "Another World," has died. She was 53. Heche's death comes nine days after she was pulled from a burning car and hospitalized in critical condition following a fiery crash in Los Angeles. Heche suffered a "severe anoxic brain injury" as a result of the accident and fell into a coma, according to a statement provided to USA TODAY. Read more  Click here to see more photos from the life of Anne Heche. In this file photo taken on April 4, 2019 US actor Anne Heche attends "The Best of Enemies" premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York City ANGELA WEISS, AFP via Getty Images Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY. 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