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Kate Hudson on her “Glorious” album
The music coming from a North Hollywood studio might not be familiar – yet – but you’ve definitely heard that voice. Recently Kate Hudson was fine-tuning her songs, for her new album, “Glorious.” It’s a role the singer-songwriter was born to play.
Asked how long she’s been writing songs, Hudson replied, “Really poorly, my whole life! I guess I wasn’t ready for it until now.”
And why is she “ready for it” now? “Because I just don’t care anymore about what people think, probably. It was never right, whether it was my own stuff or feeling afraid to mess up my movie career – just never felt right. Until now. I’m just doing it.”
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She made her stage debut this year at a few small-ish events, but she didn’t sound like a novice – maybe because she’s always been on stage (or very close to it).
Her first really big film role was as “band aide” Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” which earned her an Oscar nomination:
Smith asked, “How fitting is it that your breakout role was in this movie that’s essentially a love letter to rock ‘n’ roll?”
“It kind of makes sense,” said Hudson. “Probably a reason why Cameron hired me.”
She could act, but she also had the pipes: As the daughter of Bill Hudson, of the ’70s band The Hudson Brothers, you might say that music is in her blood. “Those Hudson Brothers are crazy-talented musicians and wonderful songwriters. My dad’s a great songwriter.”
Bill Hudson and wife Goldie Hawn split when Kate was a toddler, so she grew up with her mom’s longtime partner, Kurt Russell, and has been estranged from her father for some time.
Asked what her relationship is now with her dad, Kate replied, “I don’t really have one. But it’s like, you know, it’s warming up. There’s warming up [with] this all happening. But it’ll be whatever it will be, you know? I have no expectation of that with my father. It’s like, I just want him to be happy.”
And what makes her happy is singing – on stage, on camera, or both. “Any musical that you’ve seen in the last 15 years, I have auditioned for it!” she laughed.
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Like? “Oh, oh God, I’ll never forget one of my favorite auditions of all time was ‘Moulin Rouge’ with Baz Luhrmann. And we had so much fun. And at the time, it was written for – I was like 19 at the time – it was actually written for a young girl, and Nicole [Kidman] ended up doing it — she wanted to do it! And I was like, Oh well, my chances are gone!
“I mean, all of them, a ton. That’s what we do: we audition!” she laughed.
And between auditions, life happened: relationships, children, and the kinds of things that inspire songs. Maybe not surprisingly, the one song of Hudson’s that truly rips her heart out, “Live Forever,” is about Ryder, her son with her former husband, Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson.
You and I will be forever
You will walk off on your own
Down the streets that you’ll call home
And I’ll watch in wistful wonder
As you’ll meet your destiny
I’m there, why don’t you be free
Take it over, take your time
Oh, I was just a little girl
Gone deep into the world
Thought I could take it on
And you showed up right by my side
My witness and my light
Now, we’ve grown up in stride
Hudson said, “It’s the strongest love I ever had. So, when you have your first child, I was so young, and when I was writing this album, which was two years ago now, Ryder was leaving for college. … I was like, oh my God, my whole adult life, I’ve had this incredible partner, and now I have to like, say goodbye? So, that’s really like all of the things I was thinking about in the song.”
The album’s out next month, and she’s definitely going on tour: in her words, she can’t wait to get back on the bus. “It just feels, like, normal,” she said. “They say like, when you’re ready to solo for the first time you should be kicking the instructor out the plane, like, Get out of here! I’m ready! And that’s kind of what I feel like right now. I just feel like I’m ready to do it. I don’t have the fear. I just have excitement. It’s wild.”
At 45, she’s still very much involved with acting projects, but for Kate Hudson, following one dream doesn’t mean giving up on another.
She remembers when someone said to her she couldn’t do music: “There was someone who said to me – and it kind of jarred me a little – it was when I was in my early thirties, and they basically said, ‘It’s done, it’s passed. You can’t, you’re too old.’ And you know, for me it wasn’t just about being a performer, it was about wanting to write music. So it kind of, like, kind of resonated there for a bit.
“And then I was like, ‘Eh, **** you,'” she laughed. “No, no one tells me what to do!”
To hear Kate Hudson perform the single “Gonna Find Out,” from her new album, “Glorious,” click on the video player below:
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Story produced by John D’Amelio. Editor: Carol Ross.
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Frito-Lay is recalling a limited number of 13 oz. bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips after being alerted by a consumer contact that the product may contain undeclared milk.
The bags of chips affected by recall were distributed to certain retail stores and e-commerce distributors in Oregon and Washington and were available for sale beginning Nov. 3, 2024.
“Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,” the Food and Drug Administration said in the recall notice posted Thursday.
No allergic reactions related to the recall have been reported, according to the recall. Additionally, no other Lay’s products, flavors, sizes or variety packs are affected.
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The recalled chips include Lay’s Classic Potato Chips, in flexible 13 oz. (368.5 grams) bags with UPC code 28400 31041, a “Guaranteed Fresh” date of 11 Feb 2025, and one of either two manufacturing codes: 6462307xx or 6463307xx.
General guidelines from the FDA advise consumers who have purchased any recalled food to dispose of the product or return it to the retailer for a full refund.
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What is the debt ceiling? Here’s why Trump wants Congress to abolish it before he takes office
Washington — President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk blew up a GOP-backed deal to fund federal agencies into March, raising the pressure on Republican congressional leaders to craft a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the holidays.
In a statement Wednesday, Trump and Vance lambasted the agreement for including provisions favored by Democrats. But the incoming president and vice president also added a new, significant wrinkle to negotiations when they urged Congress to raise or abolish the debt ceiling now, instead of next year.
“Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,” Trump and Vance said in their statement. “If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now.”
What is the debt ceiling?
Set by Congress, the debt ceiling, or limit, is the maximum amount of money the U.S. Treasury is authorized to borrow to pay debts incurred by the federal government. Lifting the debt ceiling does not authorize new spending, but instead lets the government spend money on obligations that Congress has already been approved.
Failing to address the debt ceiling could lead the U.S. to default on its debt, which would have devastating effects on the economy. The government has never defaulted, and the Treasury typically uses accounting moves, known as “extraordinary measures,” to delay breaching the debt ceiling.
While raising the debt ceiling used to be routine, legislation addressing it has in recent years been used as leverage to force policy concessions and fuel debates over government spending.
Congress last addressed the debt ceiling in June 2023 as part of a legislative package negotiated by President Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That deal suspended the debt ceiling through Jan., 1, 2025, ensuring any fight over it would take place after the 2024 elections.
The Treasury Department will likely implement extraordinary measures to stave off a default in the new year. It will also announce an “X date,” the estimated point at which the government will no longer be able to pay its obligations. The Economic Policy Innovation Center, a conservative think tank, projected in an analysis released Monday that it’s possible the debt limit will be reached by June 16.
While the Treasury Department’s use of extraordinary measures would give Congress more time to address the debt ceiling, Trump is now urging lawmakers to take action now, before he takes office.
Why does Trump want to raise the debt ceiling?
The president-elect will come into office with a legislative to-do list that includes securing the border and extending provisions of his signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was enacted in 2017 and overhauled the tax code. But a fight over the debt ceiling could complicate efforts by the Republican-led House and Senate to focus on those legislative initiatives and pass them quickly.
Trump is urging lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether, a position that some prominent Democrats have endorsed in the past.
“Number one, the debt ceiling should be thrown out entirely,” Trump said in a phone interview Thursday with CBS News’ Robert Costa. “Number two, a lot of the different things they thought they’d receive [in a recently proposed spending deal] are now going to be thrown out, 100 percent. And we’ll see what happens. We’ll see whether or not we have a closure during the Biden administration. But if it’s going to take place, it’s going to take place during Biden, not during Trump.”
Trump separately told ABC News that “there won’t be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with,” indicating any spending deal to prevent a shutdown must address the debt limit.
“If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only [injure] the person who’s president,” he told ABC News.
Whether Republicans and Democrats would go along with such a plan, though, is far from clear. GOP lawmakers in both chambers have opposed raising the debt ceiling without spending reforms, and debates over the debt limit often give way to broader fights over the federal budget, which conservatives in Congress have said is bloated and should be reduced. Plus, Democrats still control the Senate and the White House.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that shutting down the government would harm families and endanger services Americans rely on.
“Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instability across the country,” she said. “President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance ordered Republicans to shut down the government and they are threatening to do just that — while undermining communities recovering from disasters, farmers and ranchers, and community health centers.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested Democrats would not go along with a plan pushed by Republicans to raise the debt limit.
“GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check. Hard pass,” the New York Democrat wrote on the social media platform Bluesky.
Jeffries also told reporters “the debt limit issue and discussion is premature at best.”