MARINE LE PEN

Only once has France had a far-right government -- in the dark days of Nazi occupation during World War II. That lingering association with a period of national calamity confined extreme conservative groups to the margins of politics for the rest of the 20th century. Now they’re making a comeback, exploiting economic insecurity to peddle a narrative of a proud nation in decline, besieged by alien cultures. In an April presidential election, far-right figures secured the most votes since the foun

Only once has France had a far-right government -- in the dark days of Nazi occupation during World War II. That lingering association with a period of national calamity confined extreme conservative groups to the margins of politics for the rest of the 20th century. Now they’re making a comeback, exploiting economic insecurity to peddle a narrative of a proud nation in decline, besieged by alien cultures. In an April presidential election, far-right figures secured the most votes since the foun

The stakes are high, the fight nasty and the party of centrist President Emmanuel Macron is the one to beat.

From Spain to Italy, the ranks of far-right personalities and parties continue to expand, posing a risk to the current unity over the war in Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been inaugurated for a second five-year term.

No sooner had Emmanuel Macron defeated a far-right rival in last month's presidential vote than left-wing parties began mounting a challenge for legislative supremacy in June elections.

Tens of thousands of people were marching in cities across Europe for May Day protests to honor workers and shame governments into doing more for their citizens.

French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection has bolstered his standing as a senior player in Europe.

Seeing Macron win in France, America's Trumpy far right knows that to win, it has to cheat. It has to lie and tear down trust in democratic processes.

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks stormed back from sharp losses to log strong gains.

Critics say French President Emmanuel Macron, whose centrist movement has co-opted elements of France’s much-diminished traditional center-left and center-right factions, is walking an impossibly fine line.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is gathering her party’s troops, not to mourn her loss in the presidential election but to plot out a victory in France's parliamentary election in June.

But while France's left, the European Union and NATO revel in Marine Le Pen's defeat, her share of the vote shows a deeply divided nation.

French President Emmanuel Macron defeated challenger Marine Le Pen and was reelected to a second five-year term Sunday.

Marine Le Pen had her best performance to date, and has successfully pushed many of her far-right ideas into the mainstream.

Russia has unleashed a string of attacks against rail and fuel facilities deep inside Ukraine in an apparent attempt to thwart Ukrainian efforts to marshal supplies.

One of the headlines from the presidential election in France is that the far-right has come out of the cold and gone mainstream.

In just five years as France's president, Emmanuel Macron has gone from a young newbie in politics to a key world player and weighty decision-maker in the European Union.

France's Emmanuel Macron used his victory speech Sunday to address disaffection at his leadership.

Macron's victory deals a setback to the populist movements that have upended politics across the western world, from Brexit to Donald Trump.

France's Emmanuel Macron looks set for a second term as president, with exit polls predicting he will comfortably beat his far-right rival Marine Le Pen in Sunday's election.

Japan welcomed the reelection of French President Emmanuel Macron as key to the unity of Group of Seven.

All opinion polls in recent days converge toward a win for the 44-year-old pro-European Macron.

All opinion polls in recent days converge toward a win for the 44-year-old pro-European Macron.

Voters are choosing between two visions of France and two very different people in Sunday's presidential runoff.

French voters in the presidential election are using an old-school voting system that has defied calls for more flexibility or modernization.

France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday in a race between between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right politician Marine Le Pen.

France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday in a race between between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right politician Marine Le Pen.

French President Emmanuel Macron has comfortably won reelection to a second term.

A win by far-right candidate Marine Le Pen appears unlikely, though still possible.

An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. secretaries of state and defense were meeting with the Ukrainian leader in the highest-level visit to Kyiv by an American delegation since the start of the Russian invasion.

French citizens are heading to the polls Sunday in a presidential election set against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and a cost of living crisis.

It’s crunch time for voters in France as centrist incumbent President Emmanuel Macron is meeting far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen of the National Rally at the ballot box for Sunday’s final presidential vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France's presidential runoff.

Misinformation has been targeting not just the candidates, but also the voting process itself.

Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, came under fire from some of his fellow party members, after an audio recording showed him saying that then-President Donald Trump should resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

But a Le Pen upset victory still remains a possibility.

Sunday's contest has implications for the spread of far-right ideology, France's relationship with the rest of Europe and the country's posture toward Russia.

The outcome is far from certain, according to Wall Street, which is predicting potential market shocks in the case of a Le Pen victory.

Marine Le Pen’s vision for France if the far-right leader wins Sunday’s runoff presidential election would include a ban on Muslim headscarves in public, schoolchildren in uniforms and laws passed by referedum

Marine Le Pen’s vision for France — if the far-right leader wins Sunday’s presidential runoff — would include no Muslim headscarves in public, schoolchildren in uniforms and laws passed by referendum.

President Emmanuel Macron leads far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the polls before Sunday's vote, but her challenge has been unexpectedly strong.

The finalists for France’s presidency, President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, traded blows on the last day of legal campaigning as they tried to appeal to undecided voters.

Stocks slumped on Wall Street Friday, leaving the S&P 500 with its biggest one-day loss in almost seven weeks, as worries deepen about a surge in interest rates and the U.S. central bank's efforts to fight inflation.

Disgruntled left-wing voters whose candidates were knocked out in the first round of France's election are the wild cards in the winner-takes-all runoff on Sunday.

President Emmanuel Macron staked his rule on placing France at the heart of a strengthened European project, while Marine Le Pen is a skeptic of the continent’s defining geopolitical institutions — the European Union and NATO.

Marine Le Pen is facing incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's election, but Le Pen seems to have ties to Putin.

Marine Le Pen has long admired Russia's Vladimir Putin. Her far-right party owes a debt to a Russian bank suspected of being close to the Kremlin.

The latest opinion polls suggest incumbent president Emmanuel Macron has a six- to 13-point lead over his rival, far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

The latest opinion polls suggest incumbent president Emmanuel Macron has a six- to 13-point lead over his rival, far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting a multicultural, working-class suburb north of Paris to woo leftist voters ahead of Sunday's presidential runoff against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen.

France’s presidential campaign has been difficult for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities.

What are the chances Macron loses? Why does the election matter?

French President Emmanuel Macron tore into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a debate for her ties to Russia and wanting to strip Muslim women of their right to cover their heads in public.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny waded into France’s tight presidential campaign, urging voters to back incumbent Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's runoff and alleging that far-right challenger Marine Le Pen is too closely linked to Russia.

Four days before the vote, far-right leader Marine Le Pen is behind Emmanuel Macron in the polls.

It will be the last major opportunity for Le Pen to portray herself as more moderate and presidential than five years ago.

In 2017, a similar debate struck a decisive blow to Marine Le Pen's presidential bid. However, she has pledged to be better prepared for this debate.

French President Emmanuel Macron has torn into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a television debate for her ties to Russia and for wanting to strip Muslim women of their right to cover their heads in public, as he seeks the votes he needs to win another 5-year term.

She could bolster Russian President Vladimir Putin, diminish NATO, break the E.U. and propel other far-right groups.

Marine Le Pen will probably lose on Sunday, but don’t be misled: Populism is shrinking the center of French politics.

A Marine Le Pen victory in France would send shockwaves across the European Union, writes Jessica Parker.

French voters have a big choice to make on public services, immigration and foreign policy.

Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the EU fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament.

FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver breaks down the French presidential election on "This Week."

French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a major campaign rally in Marseille to seek backing from voters who supported a left-wing candidate in the first round of the presidential election.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger in the French presidential vote, Marine Le Pen, have decried as “shocking” the multimillion euro payout to the CEO of carmaker Stellantis.

Muslim headscarves have taken center stage in France’s presidential campaign amid far-right candidate Marine Le Pen’s push to ban them.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is alarming both Muslims and Jews in France with a pledge to regulate the ritual slaughter of animals if she is elected.

As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Jewish voter Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home, reaching directly into her life and the plates of chicken and kosher sausages that she is frying for her husband and their eldest son. “Attacking the way we eat impinges on our privacy and that is very serious," Gutmann said as she busied herself in the kitchen of their Paris home.

The key question, when voters head to the polls on April 24, will be how many people find the new flavor of Le Pen a more acceptable choice.

The capital of France may be thousands of miles away from the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, but what happens in French voting stations this month could have repercussions there.

The head of the European Central Bank says the bank would raise interest rates “some time after” ending its pandemic stimulus efforts later this year.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has warned against sending any more weapons to Ukraine.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen warned Wednesday against sending any more weapons to Ukraine, and called for a rapprochement between NATO and Russia once Moscow’s war in Ukraine winds down. Le Pen, an outspoken nationalist who has long ties to Russia, also confirmed that if she unseats President Emmanuel Macron in France’s April 24 presidential runoff, she will pull France out of NATO’s military command and dial back French support for the whole European Union.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen is envisioning a France with the people’s voices at the center of the political process if she gets elected president in 12 days.

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a tougher-than expected fight for reelection.

The outcome of the first round of France's presidential election Sunday was a stark awakening for the incumbent leader.

A win for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential race would have immense repercussions on the functioning of the European Union

A win for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France's presidential race would have immense repercussions on the functioning of the European Union.

Emmanuel Macron will once again face Marine Le Pen in a second round, but he should have a small but decisive edge.

The challenge for Macron now is to unite the left and center-left behind him for the second-round runoff.

France’s president proves he was no accident of history, but faces a much tougher runoff against the far-right.

With the first round of the French presidential elections out of the way, the duel starts afresh for incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen

French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “convince” a broad range of French voters to back his centrist vision, kicking off a two-week battle against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen ahead of the country’s presidential runoff vote.

French President Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the French presidency, after they both advanced Sunday in the first round of voting. The final vote is April 24th. (April 11)

Asian stock markets are lower as investors wait for U.S. inflation data amid unease about higher interest rates, Chinese efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks and Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Monday's papers cover the latest developments on the chancellor and the French presidential elections.

Beer flowed at President Emmanuel Macron’s celebration of his first-round victory in the French presidential election, while Champagne corks popped across town to mark far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s second-place showing.

The 12 candidates in France’s presidential race are proposing drastically different ideas.

Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the presidency.

For months, President Emmanuel Macron looked certain to become France’s first leader in 20 years to win a second term.

Poland has summoned the French ambassador over recent comments by President Emmanuel Macron who called Poland’s prime minister a “far-right anti-Semite” in a budding feud over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

President Emmanuel Macron says he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election despite far-right rival Marine Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls days before the first-round vote.

With war singeing the European Union's eastern edge, French voters will make a choice in a presidential election that will have an impact beyond the country's borders.

French voters in Sunday’s presidential election will use the same system that’s been used for generations.

French President Emmanuel Macron is the clear favorite in the country's presidential vote on Sunday.

French nationalist Marine Le Pen has softened her rhetoric and her image as she tries to unseat centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the upcoming election, taking place in two rounds on April 10 and 24.

French President Emmanuel Macron held his first big rally Saturday in his race for reelection, promising the French more “progress” and “solidarity” over the next five years.

Three weeks before France’s presidential election, far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon has rallied tens of thousands of supporters on the streets of Paris for his biggest campaign event to date.