French President Emmanuel Macron is opening the gilded gates of Louis XIV’s palace to U.S. President Donald Trump for a private reception, show and dinner marking America’s 250th birthday.

About 3,000 people have joined a far-right march in the French city of Lyon after a 23-year-old nationalist activist died from a beating last week.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to name a new prime minister within 48 hours.

French President Emmanuel Macron faces increased pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government.

A spokesperson for France's outgoing government says President Emmanuel Macron is seeking a political deal that would allow him to both name a new prime minister and “guarantee the stability of the country.”.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across France, responding to a call from a far-left party leader who criticized as a power grab the president’s appointment of a new prime minister, Michel Barnier.

French opposition parties on the left and the right are scrambling to form alliances for the upcoming snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron after his party suffered a crushing defeat by the far right in the European vote on Sunday.

Senegal’s new prime minister has criticized the French military presence in the West African country.

The head of France’s Greens party stepped down from his post Monday after his former partner reportedly accused him of psychological abuse.

France’s parliament speaker on Thursday released the first public accounting of complaints to a special unit aimed at fighting sexual harassment and other misconduct.

French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing to “legislate in a different way” based on compromises between diverse political forces.

France has awakened to an ecstatic Marine Le Pen after her party’s far-right candidates for parliament sent shockwaves through the political establishment.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance is projected to lose its majority despite getting the most seats in the final round of parliamentary elections.

Leftist parties that had nearly disappeared from the French political landscape have grown wings in the runup to Sunday’s legislative elections and now threaten to weaken President Emmanuel Macron and his hopes of slam-dunking his agenda through parliament.

Elisabeth Borne has been appointed France’s new prime minister.

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

Long-divided left-wing parties in France will march into forthcoming legislative elections largely together, after the Socialist Party voted to join a nascent coalition behind hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

France’s Greens and the party of far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon have reached an agreement to join forces against newly reelected President Emmanuel Macron ahead of next month’s parliamentary election.

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

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.

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 says he wants to “convince” a broad range of French voters to back his centrist vision.

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.

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.

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.

France’s dueling far-right presidential candidates have held back-to-back campaign rallies.

The French left is running divided and weakened ahead of this year's presidential vote in April.

Far-left French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon is seeking to reinvigorate his flagging campaign for April’s election with an unusual rally.

A progressive icon from the South American territory of French Guiana has joined the race for France’s presidential election in April.

A far-right TV pundit who is expected to run for the French presidency is going on trial for allegedly inciting racial hatred with his comments on unaccompanied migrant children.

A prime-time address to the nation by French President Emmanuel Macron sounded very much like the launch of a re-election campaign.

France's far-left leader got a faceful of flour at the start of a Paris march Saturday against “the ideas of the far right.”.

Workers and union leaders have dusted off bullhorns and flags that had stayed furled during coronavirus lockdowns for boisterous May Day marches.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex takes part to a debate of the new Covid-19 measures at the National Assembly in Paris, Thursday, April 1, 2021. French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced a three week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban as the rapid lisped of the virus ramps up pressure on hospitals. Dismissing the measures as half-baked, he urged President Emmanuel Macron to increase vaccine supplies and adopt a more effective vaccine strategy. Some headteachers welcomed the plans, saying the virus had put too many strains on staffing. The French government has announced there will be help for the poorest families to cope financially, amid high or impossible childcare costs.