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2024 Super Bowl set, with the Kansas City Chiefs to face the San Francisco 49ers

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The matchup for the 2024 Super Bowl is set, with the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs taking on the San Francisco 49ers. 

Super Bowl LVIII will be broadcast live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, on CBS and Nickelodeon and streaming on Paramount+. 

AFC Championship: Kansas City Chiefs defeat Baltimore Ravens

Kansas City will head to its second straight Super Bowl, the franchise’s fourth appearance in the NFL’s title game in the last five seasons, after prevailing over the Baltimore Ravens 17-10 in the AFC Championship.

Sunday’s matchup at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore featured two of the NFL’s most dynamic quarterbacks in Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, and, following a three-and-out from the Ravens on their opening drive, the game looked like it could turn into a barn burner. 

Both teams exchanged touchdown drives on the next two possessions. The Chiefs put together a 10-play, 86-yard drive capped by a touchdown reception by star tight end Travis Kelce (and yes, Taylor Swift was in attendance). The Ravens responded with a quick 6-play drive punctuated by a 30-yard pass from Jackson to Xavian Flowers, taking a little over two and a half minutes to tie the game up. 

AFC Championship - Kansas City Chiefs v Baltimore Ravens
Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with the Lamar Hunt Trophy along with Patrick Mahomes and Chris Jones after a 17-10 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship game at M&T Bank Stadium on January 28, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Chiefs then orchestrated a lengthy 16-play touchdown drive that ate up nine minutes of game time. A two-yard touchdown run by Isiah Pacheco with 10:56 left in the second quarter put the Chiefs up 17-7 and would be the final touchdown scored by either team.

The rest of the game was marked by strong defense and missed opportunities. The Ravens next drive ended with a strip sack of Jackson recovered by the Chiefs at Baltimore’s 33 yard line. But despite the great field position, Kansas City came away with nothing on the ensuing drive after failing to convert on a 4th and 1 run. 

The teams then exchanged punts on the next three drives until the Chiefs were able to close out the half with a 56-yard field goal.

Two crucial turnovers in the second half doomed the Ravens. The first came on the very first play of the 4th quarter, when Flowers fumbled just before crossing the plane for what would have been a touchdown. Instead, the ball was recovered by the Chiefs in the endzone for a touchback. 

On the Ravens’ next possession, a promising drive ended abruptly when Jackson’s pass on 2nd and 10 from the Kansas City 25 yard, intended for a well-covered Isaiah Likely, was picked off in the endzone. 

But despite the Ravens’ issues, the Chiefs’ offense couldn’t muster anything after halftime either.

The only scoring in the second half came with just 2:34 left to play in the 4th quarter, when Justin Tucker kicked a 43-yard field goal to bring the Ravens back within seven. But Baltimore’s offense never saw the ball again, as the Chiefs were able to put the game away with a 32-yard pass from Mahomes to Marquez Valdes-Scantling on 3rd and 9, giving the Chiefs a fresh set of downs as the game wound down to the two minute warning. 

The Ravens, with no more timeouts remaining, were unable to stop the clock and all the Chiefs needed were a few kneel downs to end the game.

NFC Championship: Detroit Lions fall to San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers dealt the Detroit Lions a crushing 34-31 loss in the NFC Championship game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California (and yes, Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir was in attendance).

The Lions jumped out to a 24-7 lead at the half, putting them in excellent position to make their first ever Super Bowl appearance. But the 49ers came storming back in the second half. 

San Francisco kicked a field goal on its first possession of the third quarter to make it a two-score game. An improbable catch by Brandon Aiyuk on a deep ball that bounced off a defender’s facemask set San Francisco up with a first and goal at the five yard line. The Niners went on to score 27 unanswered points for a 24-34 lead with about 4:30 left in the game.

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Brandon Aiyuk #11 of the San Francisco 49ers catches a pass that was tipped by Kindle Vildor #29 of the Detroit Lions during the third quarter in the NFC Championship Game at Levi’s Stadium on January 28, 2024, in Santa Clara, California.

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Detroit pulled back within three with 56 seconds left to go, but failed to recover the ensuing onside kick. San Francisco was then able to bleed out the rest of the clock.





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In some battleground states, low-wage workers keep losing ground

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Half of the eight battleground states in this year’s U.S. presidential election use the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a rate that hasn’t changed since 2009 despite a 47% surge in the cost of living since then. In essence, that means minimum-wage workers in those states have seen much of their purchasing power vaporized by inflation over the past 15 years. 

Donald Trump’s October 20 visit to a McDonald’s location in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, where the former president served food to pre-selected supporters, has renewed public attention on how much low-income workers earn. Asked by CBS News reporter Olivia Rinaldi if he thought the minimum wage should be raised after spending time behind the counter at the fast-food restaurant, Trump sidestepped the question. 

“Well, I think this. I think these people work hard. They’re great,” he said. “And I just saw something a process. It’s beautiful. It’s a beautiful thing to see. These are great franchises and produce a lot of jobs, and it’s good and great people working here too.”

Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the former president’s views on the minimum wage. 

Vice President Kamala Harris has stated that she wants to raise the nation’s minimum wage, as well as the sub-minimum wage that is earned by tipped workers. Both Trump and Harris have proposed eliminating income taxes on tips as a way to boost earnings for people in the hospitality industry. 

While the federal minimum wage has been frozen since 2009, 30 states have stepped in to boost wages for their lowest-earning workers, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. That’s left 20 states still paying the federal baseline wage, representing annual earnings of $15,000. Those states are mostly in the South and Midwest, including the four battleground states that use the $7.25 an hour minimum: Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. 


Experts note tha workers in these locations are at risk of falling behind people who reside in states providing a higher pay floor.

“It’s ridiculous that Pennsylvania has a lower minimum wage than its neighbors as well as states like Arkansas, Florida and Nebraska, where voters had a chance to pass raises through ballot initiatives,” Holly Sklar, CEO of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, a group that advocates for higher pay, told CBS MoneyWatch.

Earning $7.25 an hour “is a poverty wage, and it’s bad for business as well as workers,” Sklar added.

The minimum wage versus inflation

The renewed focus on worker pay comes amid polling that shows many people continuing to struggle financially even as inflation fades and the job market continues to click

A majority of Americans say they feel worse off than four years ago, according to Gallup, a pessimism that could sway their decisions in the November 5 election. And 6 in 10 voters describe the U.S. economy as either “fairly bad” or “very bad,” according to CBS News polling. 

That is likely tied to elevated prices caused by the hottest inflation in 40 years, which outpaced wage growth during the pandemic. Yet since May 2023, the typical worker’s pay has outpaced inflation, boosting their purchasing power.

That isn’t the case for workers who earn the federal minimum wage because it isn’t indexed to inflation, a step that some states are now taking to ensure that people can keep up with the rising cost of living. If the federal minimum wage had been indexed for inflation, it would now stand at $10.61 per hour. 

The four other battleground states have lifted their hourly minimum wage to about that level, or even higher:

  • Arizona: $14.35 an hour
  • Michigan: $10.33 an hour
  • Nebraska: $12 an hour
  • Nevada: $12 an hour

“In our region, the minimum wage has gone up in surrounding states but not in Pennsylvania,” noted Keystone Research Center, a think tank for Pennsylvania-related issues, in a blog post. “Minimum-wage workers in Pennsylvania have also lost ground relative to workers in the middle of the wage distribution, that is, relative to the median wage.”



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Worries about medical bills weigh on voters’ minds as election nears

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Tom Zawierucha, 58, a building services worker in New Jersey, wishes candidates would talk more about protecting older Americans from big medical bills.

Teresa Morton, 43, a freight dispatcher in Memphis, Tennessee, with two teenagers, wants to hear more about how elected officials would help working Americans saddled with unaffordable deductibles.

Yessica Gray, 28, a customer support representative in Wisconsin, craves relief from high drug prices and medical bills that have driven her and her husband deep into debt. “How much are we going to pay?” she said. “It’s just something that’s always on my mind.”

Health care hasn’t figured prominently in this increasingly acrimonious presidential campaign. And the economy has generally topped the list of voters’ concerns.

But Americans remain intensely worried about paying for medical care, national surveys show. 

Two in 3 U.S. adults in a recent nationwide poll by West Health and Gallup said they’re concerned a major health event would land them in debt. A similar share said health care isn’t getting enough attention in the campaign.

To better understand voters’ health care concerns as the 2024 campaign nears an end, KFF Health News worked with research firm PerryUndem to convene a pair of focus groups last week with 16 people from across the country. PerryUndem is a nonpartisan firm based in Washington, D.C., that studies public views on health care and other issues.

The focus group participants represented a broad swath of the electorate, with some favoring Republican candidates, and others Democrats. But nearly all shared a common complaint: Neither presidential candidate has talked enough about how they’d help people struggling to pay for medical care.

“You don’t really hear anything much about health care costs,” said Bob Groegler, 46, who works in residential financing in eastern Pennsylvania. Groegler said he’s worried he may never be able to retire because he won’t have enough money to pay his medical bills.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, hasn’t offered a detailed health care agenda, though he criticizes current laws and said he has “concepts of a plan” to improve the 2010 Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.

Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, has laid out more detailed health care proposals, including building on legislation signed by President Joe Biden to lower patients’ bills. 

In 2022, Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which limits how much Medicare enrollees must pay out-of-pocket for prescription drugs, including a $35 monthly cap on insulin. The legislation also provides additional federal aid to help Americans buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, though this aid will expire unless Congress and the president renew it next year.

Harris has said she will expand the aid and push for new assistance to Medicare enrollees who need home care. She also has pledged to continue federal efforts to relieve medical debt, a nationwide problem that burdens about 100 million people

But most of the focus group participants said they knew little about these proposals, complaining that hot-button issues like abortion have dominated the campaign.

Many also expressed deep skepticism that either Harris or Trump would do much to lighten the burden of medical bills.

“I believe they’re out of touch with our reality,” said Renata Bobakova, 46, a teacher and mother outside Cleveland. “We never know when we’ll get sick. We never know when we’ll fall down or sprain an ankle. And prices really can be astronomical. … I’m constantly worried about that.”

Bobakova, who is from Slovakia, said she went back to Europe to give birth to her daughter 10 years ago to avoid crippling medical debt she knew she’d incur in this country. Parents with private health coverage face on average more than $3,000 in medical bills related to a pregnancy and childbirth that aren’t covered by insurance.

Other focus group participants said they or people they knew had left the country to get cheaper prescription drugs. The U.S. has the highest medical prices in the world, research shows.

Several focus group participants, such as Kevin Gaudette, 64, a retired semiconductor engineer in North Carolina, blamed large hospitals, drug companies, and insurers for blocking efforts to lower patients’ costs to protect their profits. “I think everybody has their finger in the pie,” Gaudette said. 

Martha Chapman, 64, who is also retired and lives in Philadelphia, pointed to what she called “corporate greed.” “I just don’t think it’s going to change,” she said.

In the closing days of the campaign, that cynicism represents a particular problem for Harris, said PerryUndem co-founder Michael Perry, who led the two focus groups. 

Harris has tried to distinguish herself as the candidate who is more serious about policy and more sympathetic to voters’ economic struggles, Perry said. And in recent weeks, she’s begun airing new ads highlighting health care issues.

But even focus group participants who said they lean Democratic seemed to blame both candidates for not addressing Americans’ health care concerns. “They’re not feeling listened to,” Perry said.

Many of the participants nevertheless continued to express hope that an issue as important as health care would someday get the attention of elected officials, regardless of political party. 

“We’re all human beings here. We’re all people just trying to make it,” said Zawierucha, the building services worker in New Jersey. “If we get sick or have to go in and get something done, we should have that peace of mind that we can go in there and not have to worry about paying it off for the next 20 years.”

“Just give us some peace of mind,” he said.

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling and journalism.



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Cardi B “medical emergency” forcing her to cancel ONE Musicfest performance

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10/23: CBS Evening News

16:57

Cardi B says she’s been hospitalized with a medical emergency and will have to miss a Saturday night headlining performance at an Atlanta music festival.

“I am so sad to share this news, but I’ve been in the hospital recovering from a medical emergency the last couple of days and I won’t be able to perform at ONE MusicFest,” the Grammy-winning rapper wrote on Instagram. “It breaks my heart that I wont get to see my fans this weekend.”

She added, “I’ll be back better and stronger soon. Don’t Worry.”

Balmain Spring/Summer 2025 collection at Paris Fashion Week
Cardi B looks on during the presentation of designer Rousteing’s Spring/Summer 2025 Women’s ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Balmain during Paris Fashion Week in Paris on Sept. 25, 2024.

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The 32-year-old New York native gave no details on her condition.

Cardi gave birth to her third child with rapper Offset less than two months ago. The two are going through a divorce.

She was to have performed along with Earth, Wind & Fire, Nelly, Gunna and GloRilla at the two-day ONE Musicfest.



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