As he did in his memoir, Vance credits his grandmother “Mamaw,” with helping him overcome a harrowing childhood. “I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely ...

He was grateful for his Mamaw’s steady presence even as she struggled to raise two grandchildren well into her 70s. That boy grew up to be Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

In Vance’s best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he wrote that his late grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” helped keep ...

The vice president, amid a national epidemic of substance abuse, touts Beverly Aikins’ recovery from debilitating addiction.

Vice President JD Vance has spoken and written about his mother's addiction struggles. On Monday, he led a White House ...

Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of ...

(Photo by Justin Merriman) Aikins’s mother, Bonnie Vance, “Mamaw” to JD Vance, was profoundly influential in her grandson’s life and helped raise JD with the help of his older sister ...

US Vice President JD Vance met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on Lok Kalyan Marg, where the two leaders ...

Republicans have reacted positively to the speech delivered by Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance. In a primetime speech, the Ohio senator vowed to fight for working-class Americans that he ...

An instant bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy told the story of Vance’s turbulent childhood with a drug addicted mother and hard-working grandparents (“Mamaw and Papaw”) who were from Appalachia ...

Vance spoke about his pride in his mother ... noting that his grandmother, "Mamaw," stepped in to fill the gap. "She raised me in part because my own mother struggled with addiction for a ...