Your Friday Evening Briefing

Your nightly rundown of the day's top stories delivered straight to your inbox. View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Friday, July 7, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( [Your Friday Evening Briefing]( By KAREN ZRAICK AND SANDRA STEVENSON Good evening. Here’s the latest. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times 1. President Trump [confronted Vladimir Putin]( over Russian meddling in the 2016 election during a longer-than-expected sit-down session at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg. Mr. Putin denied any interference, and asked for evidence. Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, told reporters after the two leaders met that the disagreement might be “intractable,” but that the countries should try to “move forward.” Much of the meeting, which lasted over two hours, focused on Syria. Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin reached an agreement on a limited cease-fire in the country’s southwest. _____ David Young/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 2. Protesters outside of the Group of 20 meeting clashed with the police, who used water cannons to stop them from advancing. The [demonstrators were venting their anger]( over the global political and economic system. The G-20 meeting, comprising 19 countries and the European Union, was a fitting target. Its members are major economies who collectively produce 80 percent of the global gross domestic product. [Test your G-20 knowledge in our quiz](. The meeting is focusing on climate change, trade and conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. _____ Lexey Swall for The New York Times 3. Add Maxine Waters to the list of older public figures being embraced by millennials. The 78-year-old Democrat, who was first elected to represent a section of Los Angeles in Congress in 1990, has become a viral sensation thanks to [her outspoken criticism of the White House](. She hopes that her new fans will be inspired to enter the fray. “I was at the BET Awards with Chance the Rapper. And all these people get up and scream and holler,” Ms. Waters said. “I keep wondering, ‘Where did all these people come from? Why can’t they come into politics?’” _____ Lucy Nicholson/Reuters 4. The U.S. economy [added 222,000 jobs in June]( while the unemployment rate ticked up because more people entered the work force. Wages still aren’t rising, though. Our senior economics correspondent says the numbers support optimism that [the labor market has room]( to improve — with higher wages — before it gets worse. Economists are also waiting for the Trump administration to decide whether to [impose]( on]( imports]( a move that could provoke a global trade war. _____ Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 5. Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited [the American prison at Guantánamo Bay]( in a gesture of support for the continuing detention of terrorism suspects there. The Trump administration has yet to bring any newly captured prisoners to the Cuban base, where 41 men are still being held. Earlier this year, officials circulated drafts of an executive order that would keep the prison open, but President Trump hasn’t signed it. _____ Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 6. With each [North Korean nuclear or missile test]( United States officials protest and threaten, to no avail. The danger is severe and American leverage is limited, and there’s little way around that reality, our Interpreter columnist writes. Above, a photo released by North Korea of Kim Jong-un celebrating the latest missile test. The Interpreter, which focuses on international affairs, has its own newsletter. [Sign up here](. _____ Yahya Arhab/European Pressephoto Agency 7. For much of the world, cholera, a bacterial infection spread by water contaminated with feces, has been relegated to the history books. Yet this entirely preventable and treatable disease [is ravaging war-torn Yemen](. Malnourished children are particularly at risk, and the conflict there has badly damaged infrastructure and hospitals. Our reporter in Yemen spoke to many families who have lost children or other relatives. “The international community should just make people stop fighting and help our hospitals,” said one man who was nearly killed by the disease. _____ Andrew Burton for The New York Times 8. Chaunté Lowe learned eight years [after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing]( that she had earned a bronze medal in the high jump. The reason? Three athletes — two Russians and a Ukrainian — who finished ahead of her failed retroactive doping tests, bumping her up from sixth place to third. It was her first medal, and she watched someone else receive it on the Olympic podium. As our sportswriter puts it, justice arrives like a distant echo. Above, Ms. Lowe in a competition last year. _____ The New York Times 9. Why are Jane Austen’s novels still so popular? We did some data analysis to answer that question. We mapped the vocabulary used in English novels published between 1710 and 1920, and discovered that [Austen’s focused more on the abstract]( over the physical, and the quotidian over the melodramatic. Her word choices may help explain her enduring appeal. _____ Chuck Zlotnick/Sony Pictures - Columbia Pictures, via Associated Press 10. Finally, Spider-Man is back on the big screen. Our [critic says “Spider-Man: Homecoming,”]( is amusing and likable. Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker, but Michael Keaton owns the movie as the Vulture, “the regulation baddie, who after weaponizing some extraterrestrial leftovers has become a criminal mastermind, with the usual yelling, minions and death.” Have a great weekend. _____ Photographs may appear out of order for some readers. Viewing [this version]( of the briefing should help. Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern. And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays. Want to look back? Here’s [last night’s briefing](. What did you like? What do you want to see here? Let us know at [briefing@nytimes.com](mailto:briefing@nytimes.com?subject=Evening%20Briefing%20Feedback). ADVERTISEMENT Sponsor a Subscription Inspire the future generation of readers by contributing to The Times’s [sponsor-a-subscription program](. For questions, email sponsor@nytimes.com or call [1-844-698-2677](. 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