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The Weekly Arc: May 26, 2017

Welcome to Arc’s newsletter, sent out once per week, highlighting the best and most interesting stories from around the web. The Weekly Arc is curated by Berny Belvedere. Past editions can be accessed here.

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9 min readMay 25, 2017

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Terror in Manchester

A suicide bomber attacked the crowd leaving a concert in Manchester, England, on Monday. Here is a look at how events unfolded in local time.

9 p.m. Ariana Grande begins her concert at the 21,000-seat Manchester Arena, part of her Dangerous Woman world tour.

10:28 p.m. Shortly after the American pop-star finishes her final number, “Dangerous Woman,” and leaves the stage, a lone man near one of the exits detonates an explosion as fans stream out of the venue.

Witnesses later describe a confused scene as the blast sounded to some like a bursting balloon, to others like a speaker blowing up and to still others something more like a bomb.

Fans race for the exits, according to footage from the scene. People begin running and an employee from the arena shouts, “You need to get out,” according to concertgoer Stefan Petrovic. “As we left we could smell some sort of explosive,” he said.

The wounded are strewn over the floors or carried out of the venue by others, according to pictures from the scene and witnesses.

10:33 p.m. Police receive reports of an explosion at the arena. More than 240 calls are received by emergency services in the minutes after the incident.

10:46 p.m. The first of 60 ambulances are deployed to the scene, where a major incident is declared by North West Ambulance service.

11:44 p.m. Police say the explosion caused a number of fatalities and injuries.

Friends and family searching for those missing after the attack take to social media to appeal for information about them. — The Wall Street Journal

ISIS went on to claim responsibility.

This BBC explainer is continually updated with the latest information. Here is an image from that post that assists us in visualizing the scene of the attack.

The NYT’s Bret Stephens offers a poignant reflection.

In response to U.S. news outlets including specific details in their reports — details U.K. security forces did not want disclosed — the U.K. temporarily suspended intelligence sharing with the U.S. Prime Minister Theresa May said she would bring up the issue with President Donald Trump, and, according to reports, the U.K. has now restored intelligence sharing with the U.S.

You can — and should — read about the victims of this unimaginable atrocity here. One small way to honor their lives is to get to know who they were and how they lived.

President Trump’s First Foreign Trip

President Donald Trump is in the middle of his 9-day foreign trip, a stretch defined thus far by its smoothness and general lack of controversy.

Trump navigated the early days of the trip through the Middle East with no major problems, a considerable feat given the delicate politics of the region and Trump’s much-proven tendency to pop off. He landed in Italy Tuesday and will meet with Pope Francis today. The media coverage, and again this is a big shift for Trump, has been largely positive since he touched down in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

In short: It’s been the best six days of his presidency in quite some time. — CNN

Here’s an image showing Trump’s itinerary:

Here are some of the best photos from the trip thus far. And this Washington Post article is continually updated with the most important happenings at each stop on the trip.

Trump’s Budget

President Trump has unveiled his budget, and it won’t shock you to find out that it has not been generally well-received.

The positive takes:

…were outnumbered by the negative ones:

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This Week In History

May 28

1972 — Watergate event: White House “plumbers” break into the Democratic National Headquarters at Watergate in Washington D.C.

1843 — Noah Webster (b. 1758), the American writer and educator whose name has become inextricably associated with the dictionary, passes away.

May 29

1453 — The Fall of Constantinople (now Istanbul). The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks, effectively ending the Byzantine Empire.

1917 — John F. Kennedy, one of our most adored U.S. Presidents, is born.

May 30

1431 — Joan of Arc (b. 1412), the young French revolutionary, is burned at the stake by the English.

1539 — Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida, my home state.

1778 — Voltaire (b. 1694), the French Enlightenment thinker, passes away.

June 1

1967 — The Beatles release “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the U.S., which goes on to spend 15 weeks at number one. Beyond its commercial success, the album instantly becomes a symbol of the Beatles’ creative dominance. It’s not their best album, but it’s the one most associated with their artistic brilliance.

Quote

Common sense is not so common.

— Voltaire

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