Eleanor Beardsley

It's our unlucky.

Police say the brazen daytime heist was likely carried out by an organized criminal gang that had surveilled the Louvre and meticulously planned the operation.

There is rising anger in France over what experts say was a lack of security at the museum.

The heist has also set off a political blame game over who is responsible.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.

Disappointed tourists and curious onlookers stand outside the Louvre to try to understand what happened.

Ixchel Sintikaya and family from Dusseldorf, Germany, planned their Paris trip around the museum.

We have already our reservation for today and now we cannot get in.

Police say the brazen daytime heist was likely carried out by an organized criminal gang that had surveilled the Louvre and meticulously planned the operation.

There is rising anger in France over what experts say was a lack of security at the museum.

The heist has also set off a political blame game over who is responsible.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.

The Dow is up more than 470 points or more than 1%.

In an unheard-of move, President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sébastien Le Cornu as prime minister just days after Le Cornu resigned from the position.

Le Cornu told the media he has no other ambition but to pull France out of its crisis.

But the parliament is fragmented and no party has a majority, though the extremes have the biggest voting blocs.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says Macron must let the French people choose their future.

This is a deplorable circus, she said.

The only solution that respects democracy is to dissolve the National Assembly and hold new elections.

But analysts say doing so might increase fragmentation and the representation of the extremes in the French parliament.