Your Tuesday 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]( Tuesday, August 8, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( [Your Tuesday Evening Briefing]( By KAREN ZRAICK AND SANDRA STEVENSON Good evening. Here’s the latest. Al Drago for The New York Times 1. President Trump said North Korea would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” [if it continues to threaten the U.S](. His comments, made at his golf club in New Jersey, came after North Korea warned that it would mobilize all its resources to take “physical action” in retaliation for the latest round of United Nations sanctions. Experts say it is unclear whether the new sanctions will [hinder the North’s nuclear militarization]( or even crimp its economy. And Pyongyang’s defiance has politicians in Japan and South Korea eyeing more powerful weapons, raising the prospect of [a regional arms race](. _____ Scott Olson/Getty Images 2. The White House said it is reviewing [a draft report warning of the dire effects of global warming](. We obtained [a copy of the report]( yesterday. More than 2,100 readers have commented about it on our site. “I can’t decide which is more worrying: the report’s findings, or the fact that scientists felt compelled to ‘leak’ the report,” wrote one. “Either way, the news isn’t good.” Above, dried-up corn crop in Texas. We also compiled the best writing from the right and left about the [Justice Department’s moves on affirmative action](. _____ Ariana Cubillos/Associated Press 3. In Venezuela, a growing number of rank-and-file military officers are [taking up weapons against President Nicolás Maduro]( — a development that could ultimately determine the nation’s fate. “Their families, their friends, their acquaintances, everyone is suffering and they begin to ask themselves if it’s getting better or worse,” one retired general said. “Everyone has the same voice that talks to them each day, and that is their conscience.” Above, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, center right, and other top military officials. _____ Pieter Bauermeister/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 4. President Jacob Zuma, above, [survived a no-confidence motion]( after South Africa’s Parliament held its first secret vote on whether to remove him after eight years in office and after rampant charges of graft and mismanagement. And votes are being counted after millions of [Kenyans went to the polls]( in a tightly contested presidential election. There are still fears of violence once the winner is announced. _____ Brittany Greeson for The New York Times 5. Voters also [went to the polls in Detroit]( to begin to elect a new mayor. The top two candidates — among eight on the ballot today — will face off in an election in November. The front-runners are the incumbent, Mike Duggan, and the 34-year-old son of the city’s first black mayor, Coleman Young II, above. The election is coming at a pivot point for the city, which has lurched in only a few years from bankruptcy to a downtown building boom. _____ Eric Risberg/Associated Press 6. Google fired a software engineer who wrote an internal memo that questioned the company’s diversity efforts and argued that the low number of women in technical positions was a result of biological differences. The memo, called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” caused [an uproar in Silicon Valley](. In a companywide email, the chief executive, Sundar Pichai, above, said the memo had crossed the line “by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.” The engineer, [James Damore, told us]( he’s considering legal action against the company. _____ Chad Batka for The New York Times 7. In memoriam: Glen Campbell, the sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper who became a recording, television and movie star in the 1960s and ’70s, [died at 81](. He had learned he had Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. At the height of his career, Mr. Campbell was one of the biggest names in show business. His greatest hits included “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Southern Nights.” _____ Junji Kurokawa/Associated Press 8. And another notable obituary, this one from Japan: Haruo Nakajima, the actor who donned a 200-pound rubber suit to play Godzilla in a dozen films, [died at 88](. Mr. Nakajima was 25 when he was first cast as the gigantic, irradiated lizard whose mutated form and destructive power wreaks havoc on Tokyo. The first movie in the franchise was released in 1954, just nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a not-so-thinly veiled fable about the dangers of nuclear weapons. _____ Joshua Corbett for The New York Times 9. It’s salmon season in Alaska, and we visited the state’s most popular fishery, the Kenai, which looks something like a music festival this time of year. Three hours southwest of Anchorage, millions of wild [sockeye salmon ripple through the water]( each summer to spawn. Fishermen and net-dippers crowd the river’s mouth to grab them, filling their freezers with premium fish for only the cost of gas and gear. Families set up camp on the beach, speaking languages from around the globe. “There is most likely no more democratic fishing spot in America,” our writer observed. _____ Disney-Marvel, via Associated Press 10. Finally, the news of President Trump’s working vacation in New Jersey while the White House is renovated was just too easy for the late-night hosts. “The White House does need some work,” [James Corden quipped](. “Apparently that place has a ton of leaks.” And here’s [what’s new on streaming services]( as noted by our Watching team: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” above, throbs to the beat of the ’70s while giving Kurt Russell a digital face-lift. And Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner get their whine on in a new season of “Difficult People.” Have a great night. If photographs appear out of order, please [download the updated New York Times app]( from iTunes. 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 catch up on past briefings? [You can browse them here](. What did you like? What do you want to see here? 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