A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a ...

The court's decision will make it more difficult for the weak minority government to make the crucial decisions needed to control a ballooning public debt.

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample ...

Crowd estimates at a rally in support of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Paris on April 6 range between 7,000 and 15,000 people, not 100,000, as claimed on social media.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said that barring her from running for public office for five years is a "political decision" aimed at preventing her from running in the next ...

By Roger Cohen and Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred ...

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ...

President Donald Trump criticized the punitive actions taken against French politician Marine Le Pen this week, calling it a ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement into a more respectable nationalist party ready to govern. The French ...

A member of the French Parliament, Le Pen and others were accused of misusing 4.4 million euros, or $4.8 million, in European Parliament funds to pay staff who were working for he ...

French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen attends a party meeting in Nanterre, France, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon. File) Honorary President of far-right party ...

PARIS (AP) — Her “political death.” That's how French far-right leader Marine Le Pen described what's at stake in a verdict expected Monday that could derail her plans to run in the next presidential ...