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Usha Vance has been seen wearing an elegant black ensemble paired with a traditional veil as she attended Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass. The second lady - who is Hindu - stood dotingly beside her Catholic convert husband, Vice President JD Vance, as they returned to the Vatican on Sunday. Usha, 39, supported her husband and the new American pontiff by clasping her hands in prayer during the service despite not sharing the same faith. She also showed respect through her black mantilla, a traditional Spanish veil symbolizing reverence, modesty and piety. Pope Leo, 69, warmly took hold of Vance's...

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Greenland’s prime minister said a planned visit to the island by US officials, including second lady Usha Vance, is “highly aggressive,” plunging relations to a new low after President Donald Trump vowed to annex the autonomous Danish territory. Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance, will travel to Greenland this week to watch the island’s national dogsled race and “celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity,” according to a statement from the White House. National security adviser Mike Waltz is also expected to visit the territory this week, according to a source familiar with the trip. Greenland Prime Minister Mute...

When Vice President-elect JD Vance takes the oath of office next week, his wife's former boss will swear him in. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will administer the oath to Vance at the Jan. 20 inauguration, according to a spokesperson for the presidential inaugural committee. The former Ohio senator, who lives in Cincinnati and grew up in Middletown, will be inaugurated alongside President-elect Donald Trump just two years after he first joined the U.S. Senate. Incoming second lady Usha Vance clerked for Kavanaugh when he served on the U.S. Court of Appeals' D.C. Circuit, according to her LinkedIn profile....

By any measure, JD Vance, 40, has had a meteoric rise. In a matter of three years, he has gone from a longshot run for the Senate, to becoming the third youngest vice-president in American history. At his side every step of the way has been his "spirit guide", as he calls her - wife, Usha. At Yale Law School the pair were friends at first. Though they shared a reading group and social circle, their backgrounds could not have been more different. Usha Vance, the 39-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants, grew up in the San Diego suburbs before attending...

The comments came a few days after Senator JD Vance, the vice-presidential candidate from Ohio, rejected far-right white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who had recently targeted Vance's wife, Usha Vance, because of her Indian heritage. Vance stressed that the best way to handle such attacks was to "ignore" them. Jaden McNeil @JadenPMcNeil: Homosexual anti-Trumper Nick Fuentes praises Kamala Harris as a good candidate and says she's extremely likable. Aug 19, 2024

Vice presidential hopeful Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged the white supremacist attacks against his wife, Usha Vance, who is a child of Indian immigrants.Usha Vance has faced a slew of far-right attacks targeting her Indian heritage following her husband’s nomination to the Republican ticket. “Who is this guy, really? Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?” prominent white supremacist Nick Fuentes said of Vance after former President Trump announced his running mate. Fuentes was invited to Mar-a-Lago by Trump in November 2022, stirring a...

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Extremist figures and members of the Make America Great Again movement have criticized the wife of Ohio Senator JD Vance after former President Donald Trump named him as his running mate in the 2024 election. .... In the wake of Trump's vice presidential announcement on Monday, numerous conservative and far-right figures have taken to social media to launch racist attacks against Usha Vance because of her Indian heritage and the assumption that her influence on her husband's political career means the Republican Party will be softer on immigration. "I'm sure this guy is going to be great on immigration," Jaden...

Like Doug Emhoff before her, another VP pick's spouse has left Biglaw thanks to politics. "Usha has informed us she has decided to leave the firm. Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career."— A statement given by a Munger Tolles & Olson spokesperson to Bloomberg Law, concerning the recent departure of litigator Usha Chilukuri Vance, in the wake of her husband Sen. J.D. Vance’s selection as Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 election. Usha, a Yale Law graduate who clerked...

Usha was born in California; per The New York Times, she is “the child of Indian immigrants,” and grew up in the suburbs of San Diego. According to her LinkedIn, she attended Mt. Carmel High School, a public high school located in Rancho Peñasquitos. While studying at Yale, Usha was also the executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, per her bio on Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. She participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance...