The day's other headlines begin in France, where a court found far-right politician Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement

and barred her from running for office for the next five years. Le Pen abruptly left the Paris courtroom

before the judge even finished reading her sentence. This effectively dashes Le Pen's 27 presidential hopes.

She had her eyes set on what would have been her fourth election bid.

Reacting on French TV this evening, Le Pen said the verdict violates the rule of law.

What she is doing here is the judge is saying,

I'm going to make you ineligible straight away,

and I'm doing it precisely to stop you from being able to be elected president.

If that's not a political decision, I don't know what it is.

It's unclear how the ruling will affect voters, and Le Pen vowed to repeal it,

but it paves the way for her heir apparent,

29-year-old Jordan Bardella, to represent the National Rally Party in the

next election to succeed Emmanuel Macron. In the Middle East, the Israeli military ordered

sweeping new evacuations today in the southern Gaza city of Rafa.

Residents there packed up and headed north.

The order indicates Israel may launch another major ground operation in Rafa after resuming

its war against Hamas earlier this month.

Meantime, our producer in Gaza captured this video of a funeral for several of the 15

emergency responders who were killed

last week by Israeli fire. Israel says their vehicles were acting suspiciously and that several

militants were killed in the attack. Three U.S. soldiers have been found dead in Lithuania, after four

went missing last week during a training exercise.

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