A French court found Marine Le Pen guilty on Monday in an embezzlement case, with a sentence that barred her from public office for five years with "immediate effect." ...

France's far-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélénchon dreams of a second-round confrontation with the French far right in the next ...

Until recent years, the RN was an ostracized political party in France. It was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen’s father, as the National Front in 1967. His blatantly xenophobic and ...

By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris Since a Paris court barred her from standing for public office, Marine Le Pen has denounced ... President Emmanuel Macron of France, a centrist, has called ...

The court highlighted the 'central role' played by the far-right in the system set up to embezzle money from the European Parliament by using funds allocated for parliamentary assistants to pay for ...

Marine Le Pen has been handed a four year jail sentence and banned from running in France’s 2027 presidential election after she was found guilty of embezzling millions of euros from the European ...

Le Pen’s party has described the ruling as a ’nuclear bomb’ aimed at silencing one of the country’s most prominent opposition voices. The conviction, which includes a partly suspended jail sentence, h ...

A French appeals court said Tuesday it would examine Marine Le Pen's case within a timeframe that could potentially allow the far-right leader to contest the 2027 presidential election if her ...

Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, cited Martin Luther King Jr in her bid to regain power.

The 56-year-old leader of France’s National Rally party, set up as the National Front by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, was also fined $100,000. Although the ban from public office begins ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader often accused ... of voters who don’t believe the National Rally should govern France. Voting was underway in France on Sunday in pivotal runoff ...

(AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) France Unbowed leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, center ... far-right party National Rally in ...