France’s Marine Le Pen to Face Trial Over Spending

PARIS—French judges have ordered far-right figurehead and former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to stand trial alongside 26 other members of her National Rally party for allegedly misusing European Union funds to hire staff in France.

Prosecutors say that Le Pen, who was a member of the European Parliament between July 2004 and June 2017, cut checks to party officials using money that had been earmarked for parliamentary assistants.