Garth Greenwell’s ‘Small Rain’ wins PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction on Monday.
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‘FREE MARINE LE PEN!’: Trump Voices Support For French Right-Wing Politician After Prison Sentence, Ban From Elections
President Donald Trump expressed support for former French presidential front-runner and National Rally leader Marine Le Pen after she was banned from running in elections and handed a prison ...
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Judge who sentenced Marine Le Pen under police protection amid online threats
While far-right politician Marine Le Pen vowed to appeal the conviction she ... in France's National Assembly was handed a four-year prison sentence, with two of those years suspended and two ...
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Trump weighs in, making Marine Le Pen’s case part of the politics of grievance
It is far from clear, however, that this verdict would go her way. The court sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison, with two of those suspended, and the other two to be served under a form of ...
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Trump demands France free far-right leader Marine Le Pen and claims she is facing ‘witch hunt’
has now been banned from standing – having been handed a four-year prison sentence, two years of which will be served under house arrest and the other two suspended. Le Pen denied all the ...
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Marine Le Pen may be headed to prison — antisemitism and xenophobia still roam freely
The sentencing was an even greater clap of thunder than the verdict: Not only was Le Pen sentenced to four years in prison — two of which were suspended, two of which she would have to wear an ...
‘I want to be remembered.’ Death row inmate puts San Quentin journals, art up for sale at $80,000
The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The ...
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Marine Le Pen brought the far right to France’s front door
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 built in its place ...
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Marine Le Pen condemns ‘nuclear bomb’ court ruling as party urges nationwide protests
Le Pen was also fined €100,000 (£82,635) and handed a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended and the rest with an electronic tag.
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Le Pen's party chief calls on French people to rally against election ban
Le Pen was also given a four-year prison sentence - two years of which are suspended and two years to be served under home detention - and a 100,000-euro ($108,200) fine, but they will not apply ...
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Macron backs judges over Le Pen ban
On Monday the Paris court found Ms Le Pen guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds to pay national party expenses. She was also handed a four-year prison term but will not go to jail and ...
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French court bars Le Pen from office for five years, sentences her to prison – global far right cries foul
A Paris court on Monday sentenced Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), to four years in prison and imposed a five-year ban on holding public office, effectively ...