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 evidence against her.

The judge also gave Le Pen a four-year prison sentence - of which two years are suspended and the rest served under home detention - and a 100,000 euro fine.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump criticized the punitive actions taken against French politician Marine Le Pen this week, calling it a “witch hunt” and an example of an aggressive left-wing weaponization of 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 ...

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 ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 11 others convicted in an embezzlement trial that shook French politics have lodged an appeal, a judicial source said on Friday. On March 31, 24 people were ...

French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office.