Usha Vance finally put rumors to rest when she opened up about her marriage to Vice President JD Vance in a rare interview. The Second Lady has been at the center of divorce speculations since her husband was spotted hugging Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Vance, without his wedding ring. Usha has famously kept herself and her children largely out of the limelight since her family moved to Number One Observatory Circle. But after the recent negative press, she defended her relationship, claiming the ordeal has turned into “a family joke.” “I find that one of the really curious things about this life is that people really like to read the tea leaves,” she told USA Today in an interview published on Dec. 13. “And there’s a kind of an industry building stories about everything that they can imagine.” “I’d rather just sort of live in my marriage and in the real world and less in kind of the fever dreams that surround it,” she added. “So I mean, it is kind of a family joke. But also not something that I spend very much time thinking about.” Usha Vance Says ‘There Are Things That I Miss’ About Her Old Life Of course, JD’s recent appearance without his ring wasn’t the first time he and Usha fell into the “Ringgate” scandal. The couple had their first round when Usha was seen without her ring after JD said he hoped that Usha, who was raised in a Hindi family, would one day convert to Catholicism. At the time, Usha briefly commented about the situation to People, saying, “A mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.” “I wear it when I wear it, and I don’t when I don’t,” she noted while speaking to USA Today. “…Sometimes I’m wearing it, and sometimes I’ve just been to the gym and showered, and I’m not wearing it.” Overall, Usha Vance admitted that being married to the Vice President of the United States isn’t always fun and glamorous. And the former litigator sometimes misses parts of her old life. But she’s also “excited to have moved on from” other parts and is happily following her husband as he continues with his political aspirations. This story’s featured image is by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

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REUTERS—Two alleged gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach were a father and son, police said on Monday. The father, a 50-year-old, was killed at the scene, taking the number of dead to 16, while his 24-year-old son was in a critical condition in hospital, police said at a press conference on Monday. Officials have described Sunday’s shooting as a targeted antisemitic attack. Forty people remain in hospital following the attack, including two police officers who are in a serious but stable condition, police said. The victims were aged between 10 and 87. Witnesses said the attack at the famed beach, which was packed on a hot evening, lasted about 10 minutes, sending hundreds of people scattering along the sand and into nearby streets. Police said around 1,000 people had attended the targeted Hanukkah event, which was held in a small park off the beach. President Donald Trump called the attack “horrible” and “purely antisemitic.” ? PRESIDENT TRUMP: "We're here to celebrate Christmas and today – we can say LOUDLY, we celebrate Hanukkah. Because that was a horrible, purely antisemitic attack." pic.twitter.com/dRj88EXRCP— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 14, 2025 “Please say a prayer for all of the victims of the terrible terrorist attack in Australia. May their memory be a blessing,” posted Vice President JD Vance on X. Wishing all of my Jewish friends in America a very Happy Hanukkah as they begin their celebration this evening.Please say a prayer for all of the victims of the terrible terrorist attack in Australia. May their memory be a blessing.— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 15, 2025 A bystander captured on video tackling and disarming an armed man during the attack has been hailed as a hero whose actions saved lives. 7News Australia named him as Ahmed al Ahmed, citing a relative, who said the 43-year-old fruit shop owner had been shot twice and had undergone surgery. A fundraising page for the man had raised more than A$350,000 ($233,000) by Monday afternoon. Police did not release the shooters names or disclose if they were Australian citizens, but said the father had held a firearms license since 2015 and had six licensed weapons. Police did not provide details about the firearms, but videos from the scene showed the men firing what appeared to be a bolt-action rifle and a shotgun. “We are very much working through the background of both persons. At this stage, we know very little about them,” New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon told reporters. Bondi local Morgan Gabriel, 27, said she had been heading to a nearby cinema when she heard what she thought were fireworks, before people started running up her street. “I sheltered about six or seven. Two of them were actually my close friends, and the rest were just people that were on the street. But people, their phones had been left down the beach, and everyone was just trying to get away,” she said. “It’s a very sad time this morning… Normally, like on a Monday or any morning, it’s packed. People are swimming, surfing, running. So this is very, very quiet. And there’s definitely a solemn sort of vibe.” A makeshift memorial with flowers and Israeli and Australian flags was set up at the Bondi pavilion and an online condolence book was established. Police and private Jewish security guards wearing ear pieces were positioned around as mourners paid respects and laid flowers. World Leaders Condemn the Attack Authorities said they were confident only two attackers were involved in the incident, after previously saying they were checking whether a third offender was involved. Police raided the home of the alleged attackers, who they did not name, late on Sunday. At the suspects’ home in Bonnyrigg, a suburb around 36 km (22 miles) west of the CBD, there was a heavy police presence on Monday, with a cordon wrapping around several neighbouring houses. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Bondi Beach on Monday morning and laid flowers near the scene of the attack. “What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an iconic Australian location,” Albanese told reporters. “The Jewish community are hurting today. Today, all Australians wrap our arms around them and say, we stand with you. We will do whatever is necessary to stamp out antisemitism. It is a scourge, and we will eradicate it together.” Albanese said several world leaders including Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron had reached out and he thanked them for their solidarity. Sunday’s shootings were the most serious in a string of antisemitic attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars in Australia since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had warned Albanese that Australia’s support for Palestinian statehood would fuel antisemitism. In August, Australia accused Iran of directing at least two antisemitic attacks and gave Tehran’s ambassador a week to leave the country. ‘Saw Bodies on the Ground’ Mass shootings are rare in Australia, one of the world’s safest countries. Sunday’s attack was the worst since 1996, when a gunman killed 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in the southern island state of Tasmania. Rabbi Mendel Kastel, whose brother-in-law Eli Schlanger was killed in Sunday’s attack, said it had been a harrowing evening. “You can very easily become very angry and try to blame people, turn on people but that’s not what this is about. It’s about a community,” he said. “We need to step up at a time like this, be there for each other, and come together. And we will, and we will get through this, and we know that. The Australian community will help us do it,” he added. Local woman Danielle, who declined to give her surname, was at the beach when the shooting occurred and raced to collect her daughter, who was attending a bar mitzvah at a function centre near where the alleged shooters were positioned. “I heard there was a shooting so I bolted there to get my daughter, I could hear gunshots, I saw bodies on the ground. We are used to being scared, we have felt this way since Oct. 7.” Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. The attack precipitated Israel’s war in Gaza. Australia’s Jewish diaspora is small but deeply embedded in the wider community, with about 150,000 people who identify as Jewish in the country of 27 million. About one-third of them are estimated to live in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, including Bondi. Major cities including Berlin, London and New York stepped up security around Hanukkah events on Sunday following the attack at Bondi. ($1 = 1.5044 Australian dollars) ($1 = 1.5035 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Renju Jose, Scott Murdoch, Christine Chen, Kirsty Needham, Alasdair Pal, Pete McKenzie, Stella Qiu in Sydney, Peter Hobson in Canberra and Lucy Craymer in Wellington; Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Nia Williams, Diane Craft and Michael Perry) The post Father and Son Behind Bondi Jewish Festival Shooting That Killed 15, Australian Police Say appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A Pakistani national is suspected in what one police official called a "terrorist incident" against a Jewish gathering at an Australian beach on the first night of Hanukkah in which at least 15 were killed Sunday, including a 12-year-old.Another 40 people were hospitalized with injuries, including two officers and three children, after the attack at Bondi Beach, CBS News reported.'What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of anti-Semitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach, that is associated with joy, associated with families gathering, associated with celebrations, and it is forever tarnished by what has occurred last evening.'On Monday morning local time, police said two gunmen — a 50-year-old father and his 24-year-old son — opened fire while the local Jewish community was celebrating the first night of Hanukkah, the network news outlet said.The 50-year-old gunman died, and his son was hospitalized in "serious condition," New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said, according to CBS News.More from the network news outlet:The 24-year-old was identified as Naveed Akram, a Pakistani national based in Sydney, according to a U.S. intelligence briefing and a driver's license provided by Australian police. Police previously said the deceased gunman was the son, but Lanyon later clarified that the father was shot and killed by police.New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park said the death toll had risen from 12 to 16 overnight, including a 12-year-old child. Three other children are being treated in the hospital, he said."This is absolutely horrendous for the community broadly, but particularly the Jewish community. ... What we saw last night was the worst of humanity, but at the same time, the very best of humanity," Park told CBS News, which added that it is unclear if the number of fatalities or injuries included the gunmen.RELATED: Conservative political group fined $95K after correctly identifying male athletes competing with women in Australia The international organization Chabad, which represents a branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, said one of its rabbis — Rabbi Eli Schlanger — was among the dead, the network news outlet said, citing the Associated Press.More from CBS News:Called Hanukkah by the Sea, the event was held to mark the beginning of the Jewish holiday observed from sundown on Sunday until Monday, Dec. 22. More than 1,000 were at the beach when gunfire broke out, said Lanyon. He called the attack a "terrorist incident" and said the perpetrators used "long arms," referring to long guns such as shotguns or rifles, to carry it out.New South Wales Premier Chris Minns and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also characterized the attack as targeted, with Minns saying it "was designed to target Sydney's Jewish community." The prime minister said it was "a targeted attack on Jewish Australians.""What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of anti-Semitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach, that is associated with joy, associated with families gathering, associated with celebrations, and it is forever tarnished by what has occurred last evening," Albanese said during a news conference Monday morning local time, the network news outlet noted.Lanyon added to CBS News that police believed several improvised explosive devices were inside a vehicle at Campbell Parade — a main street that runs parallel to Bondi Beach — which officials discovered shortly after the shooting occurred; a rescue bomb disposal crew was at the scene.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a social media post said "the United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration. Antisemitism has no place in this world. Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia," the network news outlet reported.More from CBS News:One video appeared to show someone wrestling with one of the suspected gunmen and taking his weapon from him, according to Minns, who paid tribute to that individual in some of his comments Sunday.The video was recorded by a bystander along Campbell Parade, a main street that runs parallel to Bondi Beach. In it, a man jumped up from a crouched position behind a parked car and tackled the suspect, who had just fired his weapon toward something out of view.Following a short struggle, the man disarmed the suspect, pushed him to the ground, and turned the weapon on him, at which point the suspect stood up and walked in the opposite direction. The man then lowered the weapon and raised his free hand in the air. Off to the side, one person appeared to be lying unresponsive on the sidewalk beside a different vehicle.RELATED: Kids have already found a way around Australia's new social media ban: Making faces Minns called the man — whom relatives named Ahmed al Ahmed, a fruit shop owner, to Australian media — a "genuine hero," the network news outlet said.More from CBS News:Mass shootings in Australia are rare. But researchers have recorded dramatic upticks in antisemitic incidents in the country since the Oct. 7, 2023, assault by Hamas terrorists on Israel triggered the war in Gaza, along with spikes in hate incidents against Muslim groups. In response, the Australian government appointed special envoys last year to address antisemitism and Islamophobia in its communities. However, attacks have continued to happen since then. In July, an arsonist set fire to the door of a synagogue in Melbourne, another major Australian city, seven months after a different synagogue in the same city was burned by criminals in a blaze that injured one worshipper.This is a developing story; updates may be added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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