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 ...

This week, a French court found far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling millions of euros of European Union ...

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 ...