Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in 2020.

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the outer fringes of the empire, I certainly was ...

Before Vance was a couple of steps away from the most powerful position in the world, he was just a self-proclaimed “hillbilly” raised in the Appalachian mountains, living in poverty ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Maumee man is accused of smuggling drugs into an Ohio prison by spraying Vice President JD Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” with a synthetic marijuana compound ...

The hope, of course, is to draw the masses who love the tale of Dorothy, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow — and the generation that has yet to meet them. The retired, five-time UFC light ...

But now the former Ohio Senator and self-described "hillbilly" faces perhaps his biggest test - keeping in with Trump, even when his views are out of alignment with the Maga base, and keeping the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Before he was “The Night Agent,” Gabriel Basso portrayed now vice president JD Vance in the film based ...