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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 ...

Reality slots so neatly into my soul with her relentless outpouring of love that I didn’t find myself minding much when the book’s events became increasingly jumbled and nonsensical. She’s weird as ...

Political analyst Arnaud Benedetti, who has written a book on the RN, said the ban on Le Pen would reverberate across parties and through the electorate. Le Pen’s right-hand man, party president ...

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to a five-year ban on running for public office for embezzling EU funds, a major political earthquake. The ruling ...