Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

As rioters have rampaged in cities across France to protest the killing of a 17-year-old

at the hands of police during a routine traffic stop, some are tourists have often had a front

row seat.

And Pierce Eleanor Beersley reports that's especially true on the Mediterranean port of Marseille,

where the violence has been unfolding in the city center.

These groups of young men played cat and mouse with riot police Saturday night, tear

gas hung in the air over the old port of Marseille.

Australian tourists Helen Edwards looked on with her husband.

It's very disappointing, we're only here for two nights, and so it would have been lovely

to just experience Marseille as it normally would be.

But unfortunately, this has happened and it's a bit uneasy for us.

She says they're not targeted so they didn't cancel, and she says she understands the

use anger.

Eleanor Beersley in NPR News, Marseille.

Lawmakers in Alabama are planning to hold a special session this month to draw a new

map of congressional voting districts after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's

current map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act.

As in Pierce Hansi LaWong reports, the new map could shift the balance of power in Congress.

This special session of Alabama's legislature sets alas for five days beginning on July

17th.

That's more than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the congressional map

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