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JD Vance reveals what drew him back to God after seeing Christians had life ‘figured out’

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EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance said years spent chasing academic, professional and financial success ultimately left him searching for something deeper, leading him back to Christianity and eventually to the Catholic faith he practices today.

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«I was really worried about where I went to school and what kind of job I had and what kind of money that I made. But I felt like that wasn’t making me a good person, whereas the Christians in my life seem to have it figured out,» Vance told Fox News Digital in an interview as his new memoir, «Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,» hit bookshelves.

 Whether they were rich or poor, whatever their background or education was. They were just much better people; they were much more gracious and much more kind.»

Vance’s book debuted on Tuesday, recounting the path that took him from a Protestant childhood to atheism — and ultimately to the Catholic faith he embraces today. Vance’s reflections come as he is increasingly regarded as one of the Republican Party’s strongest potential presidential candidates for 2028.

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Vice President JD Vance and his family, including wife Usha Vance and their three children, pose for a photo outside the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, on April 23, 2025. (Kenny Holston/Pool/Reuters)

«There have been so many people who have been very good to me, but I just felt at home in the churches that I was going to with my Catholic friends and that’s a big part of why I converted,» Vance told Fox News Digital.

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He came to believe that the joy, kindness and character he saw in the Christians around him stemmed from their faith.

«Some of those people call the Catholic Church their home. So I’d go to church with them or I’d talk to them about various things that were on my mind… sometimes God puts people in front of you,» said Vance.

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Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance standing together at the Commander-in-Chief Ball in Washington, D.C.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance attend the Commander-in-Chief Ball in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

He shared that he loves how American Christianity is «dynamic» with the various denominations.

Vance drew headlines in October when he spoke out about his wife’s Hindu faith, sharing his desire for her to convert.

«Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that,» Vance said at the time.

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In his book, the vice president points out that it is his wife who helps usher the children off to Sunday Mass even though she does not practice Catholicism.

JD VANCE DEFENDS WIFE USHA AGAINST ‘DISGRACEFUL’ ATTACKS OVER INDIAN HERITAGE: SHE’S ‘WAY OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE’

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In his new book ‘Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,’ VP JD Vance recounts his spiritual journey and how his wife supports his Catholic faith life. (Fox News Digital)

«Usha and I talk about everything. She really is my best friend, and she’s the most interesting person,» said Vance.

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The Vances have three children, Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and Mirabel, 4, and are expecting a fourth child in July.

Vance said he was surprised by the backlash to his comments last year, arguing that it is «common sense» to want the people you love to share your faith.

Illinois Democratic representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, who is Indian-American himself, took aim at the vice president.

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«At a time when Hindu and Indian-American communities are confronting a climate of rising prejudice, talk of mass deportations, and growing anti-Hindu sentiment—even against members of his own party—it’s deeply disappointing that the Vice President would add to that climate through his recent comments while remaining silent in the face of hate,» the congressman wrote on X.

Vance shared that their family life is still centered around faith no matter what faith it is.

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«She definitely participates in the rituals of the church with us, and I really love that. That’s part of our family life that is very good. Whether we do church at home or whether we go out to a church, she’s the person who’s helping me get the kids ready, and the kids are always late, and it takes forever to get their shoes on.

«Even though she’s not a Christian, she’s been very much a part of my faith journey in ways big and small,» said Vance.

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Trump’s new Iran deal faces nuclear blind spot over uranium stockpile, experts warn

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President Donald Trump’s new Iran framework is drawing warnings from nuclear experts who say the deal could leave Tehran too much control over its uranium stockpile unless inspectors first locate, secure and verify the material.

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The concern centers on language in the reported U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) saying the two sides will resolve the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile through a still-to-be-negotiated process. The MOU identifies on-site «downblending,» which means diluting enriched uranium so it is less usable for a nuclear weapon, under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supervision as the minimum acceptable method for dealing with the material. 

The MOU does not explicitly say Iran will retain a civilian nuclear program, but it says the two sides will discuss enrichment and other matters related to Iran’s «nuclear needs» in a final deal.

«Unfettered verification is everything,» Chuck DeVore, Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told Fox News Digital. «There can be no denial for teams to inspect on the ground. Remote, technological means can achieve a lot, but nothing beats in-person inspections.»

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A composite image shows President Donald Trump alongside a missile launch with the Iranian flag in the background. Nuclear experts are warning that Trump’s reported Iran framework could leave Tehran too much control over its uranium stockpile unless inspectors first fully account for and secure the material. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The warnings from experts come as the MOU has already been signed, while planned follow-up talks in Switzerland aimed at launching technical negotiations were postponed Friday. The delay leaves key nuclear details unresolved as the agreement begins a 60-day window for negotiating a final deal.

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IAEA supervision would only be meaningful if inspectors first regain enough access to fully account for Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and ensure Tehran does not retain unchecked control of the material, nuclear experts who spoke with Fox News Digital warned. Meanwhile, a recent IAEA report released this month underscored the agency’s limited visibility into Iran’s declared nuclear program after last year’s military strikes, saying that aside from a single inspection at an Iranian nuclear power plant, the agency «has not received information from Iran» about the status of its other declared nuclear facilities or associated nuclear material. «Nor has the Agency had access» to those sites for in-field verification, the report noted.

A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on background that the MOU required Iran’s regime to reaffirm that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons, calling that a critical first step under Iran’s new Supreme Leader.

The official said the U.S. has reached understandings with Iran when it comes to its uranium stockpile, and the new deal is the first step of turning these understandings into real results, which include progress on enriched uranium stockpiles, dismantlement of nuclear sites, an enrichment ban and inspection access. The official added that the U.S. has already had productive discussions with Iran on those issues and, now that the MOU is formally in place, negotiators will work to make quick progress.

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The official also referred Fox News Digital to comments Vice President JD Vance made Thursday, when he said the deal’s benefits depend on Iran following through on its promises.

«They have promised not to enrich. They have promised that they would allow inspectors in to destroy that highly enriched stockpile. And then, of course, it’s not usable anymore. You take it somewhere else,» Vance said. «They promised a number of things, and that’s why the deal contemplates a number of benefits if they do those things. But it doesn’t do anything if they don’t actually meet those promises.»

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Vice President JD Vance listens as a reporter asks a question in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, on Thursday, June 18, 2026, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Nonproliferation Program, told Fox News Digital that any credible agreement must begin with recovering and safeguarding Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, and not allowing Tehran to keep control of the material while it is diluted inside the country.

«Without verifiably dismantling and destroying all of Iran’s fundamental nuclear capabilities — nuclear material, facilities, centrifuges, manufacturing capabilities, equipment, documentation, and weaponization capacities, and ensuring scientists are redirected to civilian work — Iran’s pledge on paper is meaningless,» she told Fox News Digital, noting that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile could, if recovered and further enriched, provide enough weapons-grade material for roughly 22 nuclear weapons.

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DeVore was more cautious about assigning a single number to Iran’s potential weapons capacity, saying the estimate depends heavily on the sophistication of the weapon design. He said the same stockpile could translate into fewer basic weapons or be stretched further by a more advanced nuclear program.

He said on-site downblending, if properly verified, would be aimed at making Iran’s roughly 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium unavailable for further enrichment. DeVore cautioned that the material would still need additional processing to be turned into weapons-grade uranium and said he does not believe Tehran can currently do that because key facilities were destroyed in last year’s strikes.

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A satellite image shows damage at the Fordo enrichment facility in Iran after U.S. strikes on June 22, 2025. (Maxar Technologies)

Asked what would be needed to make any Iran deal enforceable, DeVore told Fox News Digital the U.S. must avoid repeating what he described as a key weakness of the Obama-era nuclear deal: allowing Tehran to restrict access or keep certain sites off limits. He said the «ultimate question» is on-site verification, warning that Washington cannot allow itself to be pushed into «an agreement for agreement’s sake.»

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DeVore also said the Obama-era JCPOA gave inspectors too much notice and too little freedom to inspect suspicious locations as well, arguing that any new deal must avoid a system where Iran can delay, limit or steer inspections before the IAEA gets on the ground.

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The flag of Iran waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. (Florian Schroetter/AP Photo)

DeVore told Fox News Digital that his concern is informed by his experience as a young special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan administration, when he worked on verification issues surrounding Cold War-era nuclear agreements with the Soviet Union, including the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty and the Threshold Test Ban Treaty.

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In those negotiations, DeVore said, the danger was that the minimum level of verification sought by defense and intelligence officials could become the starting point for diplomats, meaning the final deal could end up below what experts believed was necessary.

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«Once you say, ‘This is the minimum we need,’ then that becomes the starting point, so anything agreed to is less than that,» DeVore said. «That’s what I fear.»

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Fox News Digital reached out to the IAEA asking whether the agency can currently account for Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and whether it has any comment on the verification questions raised by the reported framework.

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Las ideas actuales de Trump son políticamente más relevantes que otras (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Algunos lectores seguro han desestimado el legado de Trump (también están, obviamente, quienes lo consideran absolutamente negativo). Sin embargo, sus ideas hoy son políticamente más relevantes que otra ideas y continúan influyendo en la práctica política contemporánea más que otras. Definitivamente el movimiento Trump defiende y sigue su enfoque, pero además el mismo no tiene más remedio que ser considerado por todos los demás actores a nivel internacional y la lógica de política interna de Estados Unidos hoy sigue discutiendo principalmente una agenda que pone en el día a día el Presidente de los Estados Unidos. Ya hemos analizado en columnas anteriores las principales características del sistema político de Trump por lo tanto no repetiré conceptos, pero sí decir que las leyes, las instituciones, la corrección política, los patrones establecidos por el establishment y los mismos principios, todo eso forma parte de la dinámica política que se pone en discusión con las acciones y declaraciones de las políticas de esta administración.

El análisis de esta conceptualizacion nos lleva a su parte más clara y concreta: la política de uso de la fuerza o amenaza del uso de la fuerza como la piedra angular metodológica para desarrollar las variables y objetivos de negociación. La acción de la administración ha afectado el mundo entero y definitivamente ha tenido un impacto fuerte en la región. Este es el primer aspecto que distingue las políticas de Trump de las concepciones anteriores del mundo y que deja una imagen absolutamente clara y ello es la necesidad de la acción, si es necesaria transformada en conflicto para resolver los problemas en algunos casos o para posicionar el interés de Estados Unidos en otros. En este contexto solo podemos comprender la actualidad desde una perspectiva respecto a la cual Trump cree que la historia debe tener un propósito específico principal que es reconocerlo. Eso no va a estar fácil, especialmente teniendo en cuenta la opinión pública prevalente y la situación de la “intelligentsia” actual, su retórica y la militancia que realiza de sus valores políticos. Las decisiones de la política Trump muestra que sus objetivos no necesariamente son un progreso inmediato hacia la libertad, la ciencia política no tendría que apelar a mayores profundidades analíticas y a distintas perspectivas en sus análisis para determinar que son lisa y llanamente intereses económicos los criterios que forman parte de su marco estructural de trabajo.

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La generación permanente de “hechos Trump” establece la agenda política global. Los hechos demuestran persistentemente la militancia de una “intelligentsia” global que ha sido cerrilmente opositora pero cuya conexión con los “hechos Trump” en muchos casos ha sido distante y su capacidad de previsión ha sido relativamente nula. Es así que predijeron la inviabilidad del proyecto político de Trump en el 2015, pronosticaron su derrota en su primera participación electoral, decretaron su derrota en cada en cada debate presidencial, pronosticaron que cada denuncia significaba condena y prisión inminente, pronosticaron su derrota electoral nuevamente en la última elección, y obviamente han obviado sus resultados en las negociaciones con Panamá, Gaza, con Venezuela y la solución de las crisis humanitarias en el Darien y en la frontera sur, ahora en el caso del conflicto con Irán inmediatamente luego del anuncio del acuerdo aparecieron por lo menos tres versiones “fake” del acuerdo casi inmediatamente. Esto sin duda continuará. Se busca quizás hacer aparecer los acuerdos de la presidencia Obama como de alguna manera similares (o superiores) al acuerdo alcanzado ahora, pero por el punto no es ese, es la permisibilidad que se estructura o no bajo esos acuerdos o en paralelo a esos acuerdos, para que Irán enriqueciera su uranio. Creo que el cambio fundamental sería que esa permisibilidad no esté disponible y haya consecuencias si violan las restricciones para el enriquecimiento de uranio. El concepto por el cual los iraníes pueden firmar cualquier cosa e irrespetar cualquier cosa, de acordar primero y luego ver como no cumplen es que no se permitan esas violaciones, no debería seguir siendo tolerado, que no haya indulgencia con su mala fe. Cualquier acuerdo que se firme con Irán es susceptible de ser violado por Irán cuyos líderes no tienen que rendir cuentas terrenales por sus acciones criminales, violatorias y/o de mala fe. Por otra parte, en lo relativo al acuerdo preliminar con Irán, se deben de tener especialmente las fragilidades que tiene el mismo al no contemplar algunos intereses específicos de seguridad israelíes, que puede obligarlos a activar el uso de la fuerza para contrarrestar amenazas o agresiones.

Quizás resulta extraño para algunos que la libertad como concepto político y civil no haya formado parte de ningún objetivo o resultados de las acciones de la administración de EUA. La política exterior americana, que contiene las semillas de la libertad como marco conceptual, retórico y programático no ha formado parte de los resultados de sus acciones. La administración americana no ha aspirado a cambios de régimen que tantos fracasos costó a administraciones anteriores. Es así que sigue explorando nuevas fórmulas de asociación con los regímenes existentes. Las acciones de Trump marcan el retorno a la antigua democracia hemisférica americana, por la cual la determinación de la legitimidad pasa a estar legalmente reforzada por el apoyo y/o asociación con los Estados Unidos. Esto es muy probable que acarre disfuncionalidades varias en el futuro. La posición de la potencia como fuente de derecho, ser amigo de la misma implica estar legitimado. También la agenda temática global y regional ha cambiado con la apertura a la discusión de nuevos temas de forma recurrente, son temas que una agenda semi-woke internacional había eficientemente censurado. Por todo ello la evolución de la libertad individual es solamente parte sustancial del mundo de los negocios.

El idealismo que se introdujo para negociar el principio clave de la presión a través de la universalización de la justicia americana, la idea del conflicto como una unidad de fuerza y diplomacia. Además, el aspecto espiritual del individuo como en su máximo potencial. La lógica política estadounidense es un despliegue de todo, desde lo material, de lo tecnológico a la abstracción espiritual religiosa, no hay elemento que quede fuera del mensaje político ni de la justificación de las acciones. Los pasos están guiados por lo que podríamos llamar la educación de los asociados, reforzada por las relaciones diplomáticas que pasaron a contener consuetudinariamente por lo menos un viso de presión sobre ellos.

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La diplomacia multilateral cuya agenda tiene notorios problemas para asumir la agenda política global o regional cayo en un período en el que se vive sin ofrecer al individuo el más alto nivel de garantías para su libertad, tanto social como espiritual o política y económica. Sin embargo, para alcanzar su funcionamiento pleno, la sociedad internacional se resintió en su propio dudoso sistema incapaz de soluciones y cuya autoridad moral había desaparecido.

En resumen, la diplomacia multilateral demostró una y otra vez la falta de tenacidad para asumir compromisos políticos ignorando las más básicas necesidades en la comunidad internacional. Por lo cual se terminó yendo por un proceso en el que la comunidad internacional terminó ignorando el multilateralismo. O apelando al multilateralismo para que los problemas no tuvieran solución, algo así como “si no querés resolver un problema nombra una comisión”. Es muy difícil justificar la idea de morir apegado a un sistema que no funciona y cuyo liderazgo hace lo imposible para que no funcione. A través de la lógica de estos procesos históricos, se dieron crimenes de lesa humanidad, violaciones sistemáticas de Derechos Humanos y corrupción rampante bajo la mirada pasiva o declaraciones, pero sin ninguna capacidad de aplicabilidad del derecho o de ejecutoriedad de la norma. Eso ha cambiado. Hoy algunos tiranos por lo menos se preocupan de que se les pueda aplicar el método “Nicolas Maduro”, que es llevárselos para darles residencia en el sistema penal americano o el método “niño Guerrero” o “Khamenei” que es simplemente un bombardeo con objetivo personal.

Cuantos de estos procesos implicaran una transición a la democracia en el futuro es difícil saberlo, consideramos oportuno en este momento subrayar el argumento político de que la promoción de la libertad y la democracia son partes necesarias del proceso histórico regional.

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Man charged with attempted murder, released after allegedly forcing toddler into crocodile enclosure at zoo

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A man was released from custody on Friday after he was charged with attempted murder for allegedly forcing a 3-year-old boy into a crocodile enclosure at a zoo.

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Cambridgeshire police said that the man, who remains unidentified, wasn’t fit to be interviewed.

The boy suffered critical injuries in the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst, a farm and zoo in Huntingdon, England, north of London.

The 30-year-old man will remain on bail until Sept. 30, pending further inquiries.

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A crocodile rests inside an enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst, a farm and zoo in Old Hurst, Cambridgeshire, Britain, on April 14, 2026. (Dorota Dee Trajdos/Reuters)

«The man, who is not known to the victim, was ​assessed as ​not being ⁠fit for interview,» police said in a statement.

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The boy is in stable condition, after reportedly suffering a broken arm and pelvis.

He was saved from the crocodile by Tracey Johnson, the wife of the zoo’s owner.

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 «I know Tracey very well and she’s a lovely lady and it’s nothing more than I’d expect from her,» a local told BBC News. «She’d always put her own life at risk to save someone else. She’s an extraordinary lady and very brave.

The villager added that Johnson put herself in «immense danger» during the rescue.

The owners said their tropical house would remain closed until further notice.

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Crocodiles rest inside an enclosure at Johnsons of Old Hurst farm and zoo in Old Hurst, Cambridgeshire, Britain, on April 14, 2026. (Dorota Dee Trajdos/Reuters)

«Our thoughts and prayers are with the boy and his family following the incident that occurred today,» the owners wrote on social media.

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Johnsons of Old Hurst is a farm and zoo north of London in Huntingdon, England. (Google Maps)

Huntingdonshire district councillor Charlotte Lowe said she couldn’t «fathom how it’s happened because they’ve got all the right protection and safety equipment, for want of a better word, in there,» The Guardian reported.

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