Le Pen took over as head of the then-National Front (FN) in 2011 but rapidly took steps towards making the party an electoral force and shaking off the controversial legacy of its co-founder and ...

Le Pen took over the then-National Front (FN) from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011 and set about de-toxifying its image with voters. Her father, who died in January, was often accused of ...

The far-right French politician was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years. By Amelia Nierenberg and ...

US President Donald Trump has thrown his support behind another embattled far-right European leader, backing Marine Le Pen after French presidential hopeful was convicted of embezzlement and ...

What caliber the weapon is doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not it’s a “system.” Many would argue that no handgun ...

A French criminal court’s disqualification of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French populist party, the Rassemblement National, from running for office for five years, along with a sentence of four ...

“It’s my political death they want,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen claimed in November – a prediction that proved prescient, though few took it seriously at the time. The three-time ...

This week, a French court found far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling millions of euros of European Union funds and banned her from running for political office for five years ...

Marine Le Pen was today barred from running in the French elections for five years after she was found guilty of embezzlement. She - along with a series of other right-wing politicians at home and ...

PARIS, April 1 (Reuters) - When French far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the judiciary of deploying a "nuclear bomb" to blow up her presidential hopes, she added France to the countries where ...

PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Far-right leader Marine Le Pen believed respect for France's cherished institutions would open her path to the presidency, betting it would endear her once-fringe party ...

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 ...