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Family matters: How VP Vance, wife deliver ‘normalcy to the kids in a very abnormal situation’
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EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance and their young children are adjusting well to life as the Second Family, with the vice president telling Fox News Digital that they are trying to «deliver as much normalcy to the kids in a very abnormal situation.»
Vance sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital this week.
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Vice President JD Vance and Second family disembark Marine Two at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Thursday, April 17, 2025, and boards Air Force Two en route to Rome, Italy.
«Everyone is adjusting well—they are doing very well,» Vance said. «It’s different, right?»
«My seven-year-old son Ewan, he’s adjusting, but he’s also aware of all of it,» Vance said.
«And then we have our five-year-old son, Vivek, who I think is a little bit less aware of it,» Vance continued. «To him, it’s just fun. He has a bunch of Secret Service agents to play with, and he gets to go wherever he wants to, and he really likes that.»
«And Mirabel, who’s three, has no idea what’s going on,» Vance said of his youngest.
Vance shared a photo of Mirabel, which he and his wife display in their home in the Naval Observatory, «in her pajamas reviewing this Indian troop formation.»
Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance participate in a departure ceremony at Jaipur International Airport in Jaipur, India, Thursday, April 24, 2025, before boarding Air Force Two for Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. (Official White House Photo by Emily J. Higgins)
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«It’s so funny—it’s maybe my favorite photo of the entire 100 days that we’ve had so far—it’s very cute,» Vance said. «So, you sort of see different levels of kids’ understanding of it.»
Vance said the children «have a good school situation.»
«We have good friends here, and they spend a lot of time at the White House,» Vance said.
«Of course, our primary residence—we still have our home in Cincinnati—but our primary residence is the Naval Observatory,» Vance said. «It’s very isolated, so it’s nice, because, for the kids, it’s not like growing up in a fishbowl.»
Vice President JD Vance and Second family disembark Marine Two at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Thursday, April 17, 2025, and boards Air Force Two en route to Rome, Italy.
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Vance said the children «have a lot of room to run around.»
«There aren’t cameras everywhere, and it feels very, very private—very normal for the kids—which is all we could ask for,» Vance said.
As for his wife, Vance said «each second lady approaches the role differently—there’s not like, a manual that says—this is how you will be second lady.»
U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, second lady Usha Vance, their children Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel, Barron Trump, and Viktor Knavs attend a rally on the inauguration day of Trump’s second Presidential term, inside Capital One, in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. (Mike Segar/REUTERS)
«I think what Usha has done is she has focused on some issues she cares about and she is very involved in the Kennedy Center—she really likes the arts and that is a project that she’s taken on,» Vance explained, adding that she plans to «take on additional projects.»
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«But she also is a mom,» Vance said. «And the kids are really young, and she saw this as an opportunity to try to deliver as much normalcy to the kids in a very abnormal situation.»
He added: «But she’s doing well, and she really likes it—I think the role suits her and she’s having fun. She’s amazing.»
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Trump allegedly thanked police for probing Epstein in 2000s, warned Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘evil’: FBI doc
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President Donald Trump allegedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in the mid-2000s to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein while simultaneously warning them to stay focused on «evil» Ghislaine Maxwell, according to an FBI document recapping an interview with the local department’s former chief.
«TRUMP called the PBPD (Palm Beach Police Department) to tell him ‘thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,’» reads an FBI document reviewed by Fox News Digital recounting a 2019 interview with former Palm Beach, Florida, Police Chief Michael Reiter.
When approached for comment, however, an official with the Department of Justice pushed back Tuesday that the office was «not aware of any corroborating evidence that the President contacted law enforcement 20 years ago.»
Reiter served as the police chief in Palm Beach, Florida, from 2001 to 2009. Reiter’s name was redacted from the FBI document released by the Department of Justice (DOJ), but confirmed to the Miami Herald that he was interviewed by the FBI in 2019 and that Trump called the police department regarding Epstein in July 2006, according to the outlet.
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President Donald Trump reportedly called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department in 2006 to thank them for investigating Jeffrey Epstein. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Reiter and a security and crisis management firm he operates, called Michael Reiter and Associates, Tuesday morning. Reiter declined to comment on the matter.
The FBI document was among the millions of files, photos and emails released by the DOJ following Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act in late 2025. The DOJ released its latest batch of files on Jan. 30.
The Florida police department began investigating Epstein in 2005 after receiving a call that a 14-year-old girl was allegedly molested by the financier, the Miami Herald reported. The call led to police uncovering other similar sexual abuse allegations and pulled Reiter into the investigation, the outlet wrote Monday.
The FBI document recapping Reiter’s reported interview with federal officials continued that Trump allegedly called Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate, «evil» and warned that police should «focus on her.»
«TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting,» the FBI document continued of the interview with the former police chief. «TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN’s operative, ‘she is evil and to focus on her,’ the report continues. «TRUMP told (redacted) that he was around EPSTEIN once when teenagers were present and TRUMP ‘got the hell out of there.’ TRUMP was one of the very first people to call when people found out that they were investigating EPSTEIN.»
Fox News Digital also reached out to the White House on Tuesday morning for comment on the alleged phone call and FBI document.
The Department of Justice released a trove of Epstein documents Dec. 19, 2025, following President Donald Trump’s signature on the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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Trump long has maintained that while he did at a time brush elbows with Epstein, he «threw him out» of his Mar-a-Lago resort back in the 2000s as details of his web of sex trafficking and pedophilia circulated.
Reiter’s interview with the FBI also backed up Trump’s longstanding comments that he ended any ties to Epstein in the early 2000s.
«Mar-A-Lago is a mixture of everyone,» the FBI document reads. «DONALD TRUMP told (redacted) that he threw EPSTEIN out of his club.»
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years. (Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Epstein was a well-connected financier with a lengthy Rolodex of billionaires and celebrities who floated in and out of his orbit across the years. He was convicted of sex trafficking minors in 2008 and served just more than one year of incarceration, which also included a controversial work-release arrangement under a plea agreement.
He was arrested again in 2019 on charges of sex trafficking before he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell by suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein was seen in a handful of personal images in the second data set released by the DOJ on Dec. 19, 2025, including on boats and near helicopters. (Department of Justice)
Reiter’s interview with the FBI was held just two months after Epstein’s death, according to the Miami Herald.
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Trump signed legislation in November 2025 that required the Justice Department to release files related to the late convicted sex offender, with the DOJ releasing tranches of the documents since December 2025.
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Fifteen people were arrested in Europe on Tuesday for allegedly spreading Islamic State terrorist group propaganda over TikTok, a report said.
The suspects, whose ages ranged from 16 to 53, were taken into custody in raids across the Netherlands, according to Reuters.
The news agency cited Dutch prosecutors as saying the suspects were detained on suspicion of spreading propaganda from ISIS on TikTok and trying to persuade people to carry out terrorist attacks.
The arrests were sparked by a TikTok account that spread large amounts of ISIS propaganda with Dutch subtitles, the prosecutors reportedly added.
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A masked Islamic State fighter poses holding the ISIS flag in 2015. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Thirteen of those arrested were Syrian and four had Dutch nationality, suggesting that some of the suspects were dual nationals, Reuters reported.
TikTok did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The arrests come as the U.S. military remains active in Syria against ISIS.
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The suspects were accused of spreading ISIS propaganda over TikTok. (Fox News)
U.S. Central Command announced last Wednesday that it carried out five strikes against «multiple» Islamic State targets in recent days as part of a joint military effort to «ensure the enduring defeat of the terrorist network.»
CENTCOM said, from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, its forces «located and destroyed an ISIS communication site, critical logistics node, and weapons storage facilities with 50 precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft.»
«Striking these targets demonstrates our continued focus and resolve for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria,» Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, said in a statement.
U.S. airmen prepare to load GBU-31 munition systems onto F-15E Strike Eagles within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, on Dec. 19, 2025, in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Reuters)
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CENTCOM said it launched the Operation Hawkeye Strike mission in response to a Dec. 13, 2025, ISIS «ambush» attack against U.S. and Syrian forces in Palmyra, Syria.
That attack left two U.S. service members and an American interpreter dead.
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