Born in 1968, Le Pen was just four years old when her father Jean-Marie co-founded the National Front (FN), France's main postwar far-right movement.

Marine Le Pen's path to the French presidency was thrown back into uncertainty on Tuesday after an appeals court cleared the far-right leader to run in next year's presidential election but ordered her…

Marine Le Pen announced her 2027 presidential bid, saying, "the French will have the last word," while pledging to fight the conviction.

French far-right chief Marine Le Pen's political future remained uncertain Tuesday after a court cleared her to run but wearing an ankle tag, potentially hampering a campaign for next year's presidential elections when her party has its strongest chance yet of winning power.

Conservative French leader Marine Le Pen says she'll run for the presidency next year despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement.

The court also gave Le Pen a detention sentence, meaning she must serve one year under house arrest wearing an ankle tag.