{"id":701009,"date":"2026-07-20T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701009\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:48:12","slug":"jd-vance-announces-birth-of-baby-boy-with-wife-usha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701009\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance announces birth of baby boy with wife Usha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US Vice-President JD Vance has announced the birth of his fourth child, a boy, with his wife Usha Vance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alec Neel Vance was born on Sunday morning, the vice-president said in a statement on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cUsha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,\u201d he added, also thanking the military doctors and staff at Walter Reed Medical Center for their care. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the first time a baby has been born to a sitting vice-president while in office for more than 150 years, according to the Associated Press.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair have three other children: Ewan, 9, Vivek, 6, and four-year-old Mirabel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Usha Vance was born and raised in the working-class suburbs of San Diego, California, to a mechanical engineer father and a molecular biologist mother who had moved to the US from India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She met JD Vance as a student at Yale Law School in 2010, when they joined a discussion group on &#8220;social decline in white America&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Vice-President JD Vance has announced the birth of his fourth child, a boy, with his wife Usha&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-701009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}