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What time is the Super Bowl Halftime Show? How to watch Usher’s 2024 performance
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The 2024 Super Bowl will be played this Sunday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV. Though the San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs game is one of the best Super Bowl matchups in recent history, fans are just as excited for the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show starring Usher.
Usher promises viewers “a show unlike anything they’ve seen before,” which means you’re not going to want to miss a beat. Keep reading for all the details on Usher’s Super Bowl halftime show, including what time you can expect Usher to take the stage.
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When is the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show?
The 2024 Super Bowl will be played Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 at 6:30 p.m ET (3:30 p.m. PT).
The Super Bowl halftime show typically starts about 90 minutes to two hours after kickoff, or around 8:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m. PT).
How long does the first half of the Super Bowl usually last?
Most Super Bowl games last about three and a half hours. That means you can expect the first half of this game to last about an hour and a half.
How long is the Super Bowl halftime show?
While halftime in a regular NFL game lasts roughly 13 minutes, the Super Bowl gets a supersized halftime to allow for moving the sets (and performers) on and off the field. Still, you should expect Usher’s performance to be approximately 13 minutes long.
How to watch the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show
The Super Bowl LVIII halftime show will air live on CBS and Nickelodeon and stream live on Paramount+.
How to watch the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show without cable
While most cable packages include CBS and Nickelodeon, it’s easy to watch the 2024 Super Bowl, and Usher’s halftime show, if CBS or Nickelodeon aren’t included in your cable subscription, or if you don’t have cable at all. Your best options for watching are below.
Stream the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show for free on Paramount +
If you don’t have a cable TV package that includes CBS or Nickelodeon, you can stream the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show through a subscription to Paramount+. Not only can you watch the 2024 Super Bowl and Usher’s halftime performance with a Paramount+ subscription, the streamer also offers access to all NFL games locally and nationally televised on CBS on all its subscription tiers. In addition, you can watch top-tier soccer like the Champions League live and SEC college football games (with a Paramount+ with Showtime subscription), plus popular shows such as “Survivor” and “NCIS.”
If you’re not a Paramount+ subscriber, the streaming service is offering a seven-day free trial. That means you can watch Super Bowl LVIII, including the halftime show, for free. After that, a subscription to the Paramount+ Essential plan is $5.99 per month. Bundle Paramount+ with Showtime for just $11.99 per month
Tap the button below to sign up.
Get Paramount+ as part of Walmart+ and watch the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show
The Walmart+ shopping subscription service includes access to the Paramount+ Essential tier, which gives viewers access to Super Bowl LVIII and the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show, plus all live NFL games airing next season on CBS. Walmart+ subscribers also get discounts on gasoline at Mobil and Exxon stations, access to special members-only deals, same-day home delivery from your local store and more.
Walmart+ costs $98 per year. Tap the button below to learn all the benefits of Walmart+, and to start your 30-day free trial.
Why we like Walmart+:
- Walmart+ members get access to this game through the Paramount+ streaming service (a $72 value).
- You can get groceries delivered to your home quickly — sometimes same day — without paying Instacart-like markups.
- Walmart+ members get early access to Walmart’s Black Friday deals.
- You can make returns from home — Walmart will pick them up for you. (Restrictions apply; must be present for pickup.)
Watch the Super Bowl halftime show free with FuboTV
You can also catch the show on FuboTV. FuboTV is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to almost every NFL game, including the Super Bowl and the Usher halftime show. Packages include CBS, Fox (“NFL on Fox”), NBC (“Sunday Night Football”), ESPN (“Monday Night Football”), NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just this one event.
To watch the show without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to Usher’s performance, you’ll have access to NFL football, FuboTV offers MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. FuboTV Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with FuboTV — you can cancel at any time.
- The Pro tier includes 169 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
- FuboTV includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, and other devices.
Watch the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch the halftime show with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including CBS. NBC, ABC, Fox and ESPN. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every NFL game on every network next season with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch live NFL preseason games, exclusive live regular season games, popular studio shows (including NFL Total Access and the Emmy-nominated show Good Morning Football) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+. It’s priced at $77.
Watch the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show on your phone with NFL+
If you want to catch the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show on your phone, check out NFL+. The premium streaming service is $7 per month, but NFL+ is currently offering an annual subscription at 60% off the regular rate. You’ll pay just $20 for a yearly subscription.
NFL+ offers access to the NFL Network. And yes, that includes games being broadcast out-of-market. To boost your NFL experience even further, you can upgrade to NFL+ Premium with NFL RedZone and watch up to eight NFL games simultaneously. A seven-day, free trial is available.
Top features of NFL+:
- You get access to all NFL preseason games, including those that are out of market.
- NFL+ lets you watch stream local and primetime regular season games on your phone or tablet, but not your TV.
- Includes the NFL Network (and NFL RedZone with NFL+ Premium), so it’s a good option for those who are looking to stream football on the go.
Watch the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show live with a digital HDTV antenna
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You can watch the Super Bowl and the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, NBA, NHL, MLB and college sports on TV with an affordable indoor antenna, which pulls in local over-the-air HDYC channels such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, Univision and more. Here’s the kicker: There’s no monthly charge.
Anyone living in partially blocked-off area (those near mountains or first-floor apartments), a digital TV antenna may not pick up a good signal — or any signal at all. But for many homes, a digital TV antenna provides a seriously inexpensive way to watch college football without paying a cable company. Indoor TV antennas can also provide some much-needed TV backup if a storm knocks out your cable.
This amplified digital antenna can receive hundreds of HD TV channels, including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Fox, Univision and can filter out cellular and FM signals. It received signals 360 degrees and delivers a high-quality picture in 4K, UHD and 1080 HDTV, top-tier sound and features a 16-foot digital coax cable.
Who is Usher?
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Born Usher Raymond IV, the 45-year-old singer, dancer, actor, producer and philanthropist is known to fans as Usher. The Texas native grew up in Chattanooga, TN, where he was encouraged by his mother, Jonetta Patton, to join a local church youth choir. After hearing him sing, Usher’s grandmother encouraged him to sing professionally.
The family later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, hoping the city would provide more opportunity for the budding singer. A performance on the TV talent search show “Star Search” helped earn Usher a meeting with famed LaFace Records owner L.A. Reid, who signed the young singer.
Usher went on to become a top recording artist who has won eight Grammy Awards, 18 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Soul Train Music Awards and eight American Music Awards. Usher has been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has received both the Freedom Award and President’s Volunteer Service Award for his philanthropic work.
In addition to his successful music career and his charitable efforts, Usher served as a judge on NBC’s “The Voice” and has appeared in such films as “Scary Movie 5”, “Muppets Most Wanted” and “The Incredibles 2.”
Usher is the father of four children.
What are Usher’s most popular songs?
Known for swoon-worthy hits like “U Remind Me” and iconic dance hits like “Yeah!” (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris), it’s no wonder Usher has nine Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles. Often called “The King of R&B,” the 45-year-old crooner has been performing live since he was 15 years old.
Usher’s other top hits include “Nice & Slow,” “You Make Me Wanna…,” “U Got It Bad,” “U Don’t Have To Call,” “Burn,” “There Goes My Baby,” “Love In This Club” (featuring Young Jeezy), “OMG” (featuring will.i.am), “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” and “My Boo”(with Alicia Keys).
Get ready for the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show with an Usher playlist
Fans can’t predict the winner of the 2024 Super Bowl, but we can lock in on getting ready for Usher’s halftime show. That means brushing up on all of Usher’s hits so we can fully enjoy his halftime show (and proudly sing along) at our own Super Bowl watch party.
Not signed up for Apple Music? The music streaming service is offering a one-month free trial. Afterwards, you’ll pay $10.99 per month.
Download the latest Usher playlists and check out Usher’s official halftime show trailer at Apple Music by tapping the button below.
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Congo says mystery disease behind dozens of deaths of women and children finally identified as severe malaria
Johannesburg — For weeks it was dubbed simply “Disease X.” But the mysterious flu-like disease that has killed more than 143 people — mainly women and young children — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally been identified.
“The mystery has finally been solved,” Congo’s health ministry declared in a statement on Tuesday. “It’s a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness.”
The health agency said malnutrition in the hardest-hit region had weakened the local population’s immunity, leaving them more vulnerable to the disease. People who contracted the malaria infection have exhibited symptoms including headache, fever, cough and body ache.
The Congo’s health minister had told journalists the country was on “maximum alert” over the spread of the previously unidentified disease, and health officials told CBS News in early December that the remoteness of the epicenter of the outbreak and lack of a diagnosis made it difficult to launch a concerted response.
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At least 592 cases were reported after the alert was first raised by Congo’s health ministry on Oct. 29. The ministry said the disease had a fatality rate of 6.25%. More than half of the deaths recorded were children younger than five who were severely malnourished when they contracted the disease, according to the World Health Organization.
At a press briefing on Dec. 10, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 10 out of 12 samples from patients suffering from the mysterious disease had tested positive for malaria, but he said they were still testing at the time for other diseases.
The Congolese government had sent a rapid intervention team to the Kwango province, 435 miles southeast of capital city Kinshasa, consisting of epidemiologists and other medical experts. Their objective was to identify the disease and mount a suitable response. Government officials had earlier warned locals to avoid touching people infected with the illness or the bodies of those who had died.
Congo has suffered from many disease outbreaks in recent years, including typhoid, malaria and anemia. The country has also grappled with an mpox outbreak, with more than 47,000 suspected cases and over 1,000 suspected deaths from the disease, according to the WHO.
Anti-malaria medicine provided by the WHO was being distributed at local health centers in Congo, and WHO officials said more medical supplies were due to arrive in the country Wednesday.
It’s the rainy season in Congo, which often sees a rise in malaria cases, and will certainly complicate treating those most at risk.
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Russia says suspect detained in killing of Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russian chemical weapons unit
Moscow — Russia’s security service said Wednesday that it had detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in a Moscow bomb blast. The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen whom the agency said had been recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.
Ukrainian security sources told CBS News on Monday that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the explosion that killed Lt. General Igor Kirillov. The claim couldn’t be independently verified, but Russian officials quickly vowed to take revenge against Ukraine’s leaders.
Russia’s Federal Security Service didn’t name the suspect, but it said he was born in 1995. According to an FSB statement, the suspect said he was recruited by Ukrainian special services.
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“Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, since he gave orders to use prohibited chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military,” an informed source in the SBU asserted to CBS News. “Such an inglorious end awaits everyone who kills Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable.”
Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. His assistant also died in the attack.
The FSB said the suspect had been promised a reward of $100,000 and permission to move to a European Union country in exchange for killing Kirillov. It said that, acting on instructions from Ukraine, the suspect traveled to Moscow, where he picked up a homemade explosive device. He then placed the device on an electric scooter and parked it at the entrance of the residential building where Kirillov lived.
The suspect then rented a car to monitor the location and set up a camera that livestreamed video from the scene to his handlers in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. When Kirillov was seen leaving the building, the suspect detonated the bomb.
According to the FSB’s statement, the suspect faces “a sentence of up to life imprisonment.”
Kirillov, 54, was the chief of the Russian military’s radiological, biological and chemical protection forces. Either Kirillov himself or his military unit were sanctioned by several countries, including the U.S., Britain and Canada, for the alleged use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine. On Monday, Ukraine’s SBU had opened a criminal investigation against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.
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Ukraine’s SBU has said it recorded more than 4,800 occasions when Russia used chemical weapons on the battlefield since President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February 2022. In May, the U.S. State Department announced sanctions against Kirillov’s unit, saying the U.S. had recorded the use of chloropicrin, a poison gas first deployed in World War I, against Ukrainian troops.
Russia has denied using any chemical weapons in Ukraine and, in turn, has accused Kyiv of using toxic agents in combat, and Kirillov was allegedly behind the spread of that propaganda.
Kirillov, who had been in his post since April 2017, was accused by the U.S. government of helping to spread disinformation about biological weapons and research.
In March 2023, about a year into Russia’s full-scale invasion, the U.S. State Department said Kirillov had “significantly increased his media engagement” to issue repeated, baseless claims that the U.S. government had been involved in creating both the mpox virus and COVID-19, and that the U.S. “is developing biological weapons able to selectively target ethnic groups.”
“The U.S. Government is concerned that this false narrative may be a prelude for a false-flag operation, where Russia itself uses biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and then attempts to blame it on Ukraine and/or the United States,” the State Department said at the time.
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The bomb used in Tuesday’s attack was triggered remotely, according to Russian news reports. Images from the scene showed shattered windows and scorched brickwork.
Russia’s top state investigative agency said it’s looking into Kirillov’s death as a case of terrorism, and officials in Moscow vowed to punish Ukraine.
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Suspect detained in killing of Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s biological, chemical forces in Moscow blast
Moscow — Russia’s security service said Wednesday that it has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior general in Moscow.
The suspect was described as an Uzbek citizen recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services.
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, didn’t name the suspect, but said he was born in 1995. According to an FSB statement, the suspect said he was recruited by Ukrainian special services.
Ukrainian security sources had told CBS News Monday that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) killed Kirillov in a special operation. The claim couldn’t be independently verified, but Russian officials quickly vowed to take revenge against Ukraine’s leaders.
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Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. His assistant also died in the attack. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.
The FSB said the suspect had been promised a reward of $100,000 and permission to move to a European Union country in exchange for killing Kirillov.
The agency stated that, acting on instructions from Ukraine, the suspect traveled to Moscow, where he picked up a homemade explosive device. He then placed the device on an electric scooter and parked it at the entrance to the residential building where Kirillov lived.
The suspect then rented a car to monitor the location and set up a camera that livestreamed footage from the scene to his handlers in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Once Kirillov was seen leaving the building, the suspect detonated the bomb.
According to the FSB’s statement, the suspect faces “a sentence of up to life imprisonment.”
Kirillov, 54, was the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces and was under sanctions from several countries, including the U.K. and Canada, for his actions in Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. On Monday, Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, opened a criminal investigation against him, accusing him of directing the use of banned chemical weapons.
Russia has denied using any chemical weapons in Ukraine and, in turn, has accused Kyiv of using toxic agents in combat.
Kirillov, who took his current job in 2017, was one of the most high-profile figures to level those accusations. He held numerous briefings to accuse the Ukrainian military of using toxic agents and planning to launch attacks with radioactive substances – claims that Ukraine and its Western allies rejected as propaganda.
The bomb used in Tuesday’s attack was triggered remotely, according to Russian news reports. Images from the scene showed shattered windows and scorched brickwork.
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Russia’s top state investigative agency said it’s looking into Kirillov’s death as a case of terrorism, and officials in Moscow vowed to punish Ukraine.
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Congo says mystery disease behind dozens of deaths of women and children finally identified as severe malaria
Russia says suspect detained in killing of Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russian chemical weapons unit