FILE PHOTO: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks at a rally in support of her, after calls for a peaceful ...

“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.

PARIS (AP) — For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and ...

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 ...

Marine Le Pen, the front-runner to replace French President Emmanuel Macron in 2027, ... March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File) “If Marine Le Pen cannot run, ...

Marine Le Pen has been banned from standing in French elections for five years after a court found her guilty of embezzling EU funds to pay party staff on Monday.. Why It Matters. Le Pen is a key ...

Her young lieutenant and protege Jordan Bardella, 29, who is the RN party chief, was not among the accused in the trial and is also seen as a potential presidential contender should Marine Le Pen ...

FILE -French far-right leader Marine le Pen adjusts her jacket at the end of a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on the day of the verdict of her trial over accusations of misappropriation of European Union funds, at the courthouse in Paris on March 31.

“Marine Le Pen posts pictures of her cat, talks about being a mother. But when it comes to policy, there’s no softening,” said Pierre Lefevre, a Paris-based consultant.

This photo provided by the Oceanic Society shows a young leatherback turtle in Trinidad in 2019. ... “Marine Le Pen posts pictures of her cat, talks about being a mother.