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Published Sunday, March 21, 2021 | 10:45 a.m.

Updated 3 hours, 26 minutes ago

The Latest on the second round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):

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Baylor is the No. 1 seed in the South Region, but Wisconsins recent NCAA Tournament history gives the Bears reason for concern heading into their second-round matchup Sunday.

Wisconsin has won three of the past four times it has faced a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Those three wins include a 64-63 overtime triumph in a 2014 regional final, a 71-64 victory over previously unbeaten Kentucky in a 2015 NCAA semifinal and a 65-62 decision over Villanova in a 2017 second-round game.

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12:50 p.m.

Sister Jean Delores Schmidt gave an inspirational pregame prayer to her Loyola Chicago team before the eighth-seeded Ramblers met top-seeded Illinois in Sundays second round.

Sister Jean, the 101-year-old chaplain to the team, said, As we play the Fighting Illini, we ask for special help to overcome this team and get a great win. We hope to score early and make our opponents nervous. We have a great opportunity to convert rebounds as this team makes about 50% of layups and 30% of its 3 points. Our defense can take care of that.

The Ramblers responded well. Loyola was up 33-24 at halftime of the Midwest Region game.

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12:15 p.m.

The NCAA Tournaments round of 32 is underway with nine double-digit seeds still alive.

According to NCAA spokesman David Worlock, that matches the second-highest total of double-digit seeds ever to reach the round of 32.

Ten double-digit seeds advanced that far in 2016. There also were nine double-digit seeds in the round of 32 in 2001 and 2012.

The double-digit seeds still around include Maryland (No. 10 East), Rutgers (No. 10, Midwest), Syracuse (No. 11, Midwest), UCLA (No. 11, East), Oregon State (No. 12, Midwest), North Texas (No. 13, South), Ohio (No. 13, West), Abilene Christian (No. 14, East) and Oral Roberts (No. 15 South).

UCLA and Abilene Christian face off Monday, assuring that at least one double-digit seed will reach the Sweet 16.

This is the first time four teams seeded 13th or worse made it to the second round.

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The Las Vegas Raiders have made some great moves in free agency, but there are still major areas to address on both sides of the ball.

In terms of addressing some areas of need, the Las Vegas Raiders have done a nice job revamping the roster during the first wave of free agency. They have added an elite edge rusher in Yannick Ngakoue, and have brought in a few defensive tackles to bolster a position group that was a major issue last season.

Also, the Raiders have added a solid backup to Josh Jacobs in the run game, though it came at an expensive price, and they brought back some home-grown talent in Johnathan Hankins, Nicholas Morrow, and Denzelle Good to name a few. Overall, it has been a pretty solid first wave, though there is still a ton of work to be done.

While there have been good players brought in at numerous positions, the Raiders need to continue to work on filling some of the bigger voids on this roster. We still do not know who is going to play right tackle next season, the safety spot is a gaping hole, and cornerback continues to be an issue.

Luckily, there is a lot of talent left on the board entering the weekend, and the Raiders have been pretty cap-savvy so far. Also, the Silver and Black now hold a few earlier draft picks, picking up a third and a fifth in trades of Rodney Hudson and Gabe Jackson.

Las Vegas is still carving out this roster, but since the shock of the Hudson reported release which turned to trade, the team has mellowed the worries of the fan base. With a good next couple of days, this is a roster that could actually be more talented heading into the 2021 NFL Draft than they were when legal tampering started.

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman released a statement on Wednesday morning from the city's council meeting about the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions in Nevada.

Goodman says one year ago she expressed deep concerns about completely shutting down Las Vegas and that her concerns continue as of Wednesday.

"My plea at the time (in 2020) was to take a more nuanced approach to enact safety precautions that would enable Las Vegas to continue to function. A full year later we see some states that took this moderate approach actually realized a lower death count than did some states with prolonged total shutdowns like Nevada," Goodman wrote in part of Wednesday's statement.

In March of 2020, Goodman took on Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak with his order to shut down all casinos and nonessential businesses.

RELATED: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman implores governor to shorten business shutdown

"I know we cannot survive any total shutdown of the economy for any length of time beyond the immediate week or two," Goodman said last year. "Many working in the hospitality industry (more than likely in big hotels) and also small, privately-owned businesses are most definitely at the greatest risk. "They cannot survive any lengthy shutdown."

Goodman made her opinion known from the start on being against the state shutdown during the pandemic calling it "total insanity."

RELATED: Shutdown showdown: Mayor Goodman unapologetic in push to reopen economy

She was also interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper about the Vegas closures in April 2020. Goodman told Cooper that with no cure or vaccine, the shutdown could go on for months or maybe even a year.

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Now a year later, the mayor says businesses are still only operating at 50% capacity "up from a bizarre 35% that was in effect until three days ago" with some not being permitted to open at all.

"Masks, distancing and frequent handwashing and sanitation are reasonable measures that health officials assure us to make a difference. That is following the science. The science has not proven that complete shutdowns accomplished any more than more moderate, reasonable precautions," Goodman's statement read on Wednesday.

Currently, Sisolak continues to loosen COVID-19 restrictions in the Silver State while Goodman also continues her say on being against the governor's initial closures saying there is apparently no sunset on emergency power bestowed to some governors, which smacks of tyranny.

RELATED: Nevada COVID restrictions: Restaurants, casinos operate at 50% capacity

Goodman closed her Wednesday remarks in part by saying the city of Las Vegas will continue to seek ways for people and businesses to advocate for their own lives, make their own choices, create and follow their own destinies along with earning a livelihood while providing for their families and helping others.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 in Washington. The President is traveling toTexas.

By Lisa Mascaro, Eric Tucker, Mary Clare Jalonick and Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Published Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 | 11:55 p.m.

Updated 12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON Prosecutors in Donald Trumps impeachment trial said Wednesday they would prove that Trump was no innocent bystander but the inciter in chief of the deadly attack at the Capitol aimed at overturning his election loss to Joe Biden.

Opening the first full day of arguments, the lead House prosecutor said they will lay out evidence that shows the president encouraged a rally crowd to head to the Capitol, then did nothing to stem the violence and watched with glee" as a mob stormed the iconic building. Five people died.

To us it may have felt like chaos and madness, but there was method to the madness that day, said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.

The day's proceedings were unfolding after an emotional Tuesday start to the trial that left the f ormer president fuming after his attorneys delivered a meandering defense and failed to halt the trial on constitutional grounds. Some allies called for yet another shakeup to his legal team.

Trump is the first president to face an impeachment trial after leaving office and the first to be twice impeached. The riot followed a rally during which Trump urged his supporters to fight like hell, words his lawyers say were simply a figure of speech. He is charged with incitement of insurrection.

Senators, many of whom fled for safety the day of the attack, watched Tuesdays graphic videos of the Trump supporters who battled past police to storm the halls, Trump flags waving. More video is expected Wednesday, including some that hasnt been seen before.

House Democratic prosecutors on Wednesday plan to use Capitol security footage that hasnt been publicly released before as they argue that Trump incited the insurrection, according to Democratic aides working on the case.

Security remains extremely tight at the Capitol, fenced off with razor wire and patrolled by National Guard troops.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden would not be watching the trial.

Joe Biden is the president, hes not a pundit, hes not going to opine on back and forth arguments, she said.

The House impeachment managers described police officers maimed in the chaos and rioters parading in the very chamber where the trial was being held. Trumps team countered that the Constitution doesnt allow impeachment at this late date.

Thats a legal issue that could resonate with Senate Republicans eager to acquit Trump without being seen as condoning his behavior.

Lead defense lawyer Bruce Castor said he shifted his planned approach after hearing the prosecutors emotional opening and instead spoke conversationally to the senators, saying Trumps team would denounce the repugnant attack and in the strongest possible way denounce the rioters. He appealed to the senators as patriots first, and encouraged them to be cool headed as they assessed the arguments.

Trump attorney David Schoen turned the trial toward starkly partisan tones, arguing the Democrats were fueled by a base hatred of the former president.

Republicans made it clear that they were unhappy with Trumps defense, many of them saying they didnt understand where it was going particularly Castors opening. Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted with Democrats to move forward with the trial, said that Trumps team did a terrible job. Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who also voted with Democrats, said she was perplexed. Sen. Lisa Murkowki of Alaska said it was a missed opportunity for the defense.

Six Republicans joined with Democrats to vote to proceed with the trial, but the 56-44 vote was far from the two-thirds threshold of 67 votes that would be needed for conviction.

At one pivotal point, Raskin told his personal story of bringing his family to the Capitol that day to witness the certification of the Electoral College vote, only to have his daughter and son-in-law hiding in an office, fearing for their lives.

Senators, this cannot be our future, Raskin said through tears. This cannot be the future of America.

The House prosecutors had argued there is no January exception for a president to avoid impeachment on his way out the door. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., referred to the corruption case of William Belknap, a war secretary in the Grant administration, who was impeached, tried and ultimately acquitted by the Senate after leaving office.

If Congress stands by, it would invite future presidents to use their power without any fear of accountability," he said.

It appears unlikely that the House prosecutors will call witnesses, and Trump has declined a request to testify. The trial is expected to continue into the weekend.

Trump's second impeachment trial is expected to diverge from the lengthy, complicated affair of a year ago. In that case, Trump was charged with having privately pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, then a Democratic rival for the presidency.

This time, Trump's stop the steal rally rhetoric and the storming of the Capitol played out for the world to see.

The Democratic-led House impeached the president swiftly, one week after the attack.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a news conference in the Queens borough of New York, Monday, Feb. 8,2021.

Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | 2 a.m.

Theres bullying, and then theres the right-wing hate machines abuse of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

In falsely claiming that Ocasio-Cortez reported being inside the Capitol during the attack and then ridiculing her based on an equally false claim that shed exaggerated the danger she faced, the partys extremists and their allies in far-right media have once again revealed that theres no limit to their cruelty, bigotry and capacity to poison Americans with misinformation.

Here are the facts: In an Instagram Live video posted Feb. 2, the New York congresswoman said she was in her office in the Cannon House Office Building, situated on the Capitol complex, as the violence took place. She heard several loud bangs on the door, along with someone shouting Where is she? A staff member advised her to hide, and she did so in her office bathroom. As it turned out, the voice belonged to a police officer who was carrying out orders to evacuate the building. Ocasio-Cortez was taken to another building, where she hid out again in a colleagues office.

Recounting the trauma of the experience, her voice quivering with emotion, she revealed that she was a survivor of sexual assault earlier in her life.

Immediately, the GOP extremists ganged up on her. And theyve been at it ever since, piling on falsehoods and further victimizing Ocasio-Cortez. On TV news programs and in social media posts shared by hundreds of thousands of people, they mocked her for making up an imaginary mob and compared her to actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a hate crime against himself in 2019.

AOC wasnt even in the Capitol Building during her near-death experience. One big lie, read a Facebook post viewed more than 100,000 times, according to the Associated Press.

The editorial cartoonist of a local news publication not the Sun even got in on the hatred this week with a cartoon in which a garishly drawn version of Ocasio-Cortez talks about nearly dying from a paper cut she received while looking at a map showing the Cannon building a half-mile away from the Capitol.

Never mind that the Cannon building was evacuated, as already noted. Or that its connected to the Capitol by tunnels that allow lawmakers easy access. Or that one of the people arrested in connection to the violence tweeted assassinate AOC, according to federal prosecutors not to mention similar posts that reportedly went up on Parler before it was shut down.

Lets state what should be obvious: Theres nothing funny about Ocasio-Cortezs experience that day.

This is someone who has faced death threats regularly throughout her service in Congress, after the GOP made her one of its biggest punching bags over her progressive policies and undoubtedly over her gender and ethnicity as well. These werent idle threats, either, as evidenced by the high-profile 2019 arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant and white nationalist who allegedly included her on a list of progressives he planned to execute with an arsenal of weapons he had stockpiled. As Ocasio-Cortez told Vanity Fair, the abuse eventually spread to people around her: her mother, brother and even her former dean at Boston University were targeted.

Then came the Jan. 6 riot, the Feb. 2 video and the massive campaign to discredit her.

This reveals something especially sinister about the far right and not just the violent groups in its midst, like the Proud Boys and white supremacists, but also the propagandists for the likes of One America News Network and Breitbart News, and others who post and share abusive information online.

Far from condemning the violence or expressing sympathy to those who were traumatized, these forces are continuing to fan the hatreds that led to the insurrection. Ocasio-Cortez isnt alone in that regard, as extremists have continued to vilify any number of others in Democratic Party leadership and even members of their own party who have failed to show complete loyalty to former President Donald Trump.

To the many responsible members of the Republican Party, this should serve as a call to action. Its time to counter your partys lies with truth, support rational candidates and stop the extremism that has grown malignant in the GOP. Its not too early to start gearing up for the 2022 primaries now, by making plans to run for office or by encouraging your moderate friends to do so. Then help drive turnout to the primary among middle-of-the-road Republicans so that those candidates can beat back the extremists.

America needs a sane and respectable Republican Party. Democracy thrives when groups with opposing views come together to hash out their differences and construct policy.

But a GOP that doubles down on the horrors of Jan. 6 by re-victimizing survivors and continuing to foment anti-government hatred will only cause more destruction.

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Published Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | 9:46 a.m.

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BERLIN (AP) Germany says its citizens will be able to use smartphones to store their government-issued ID cards and prove their identity online.

The move is part of a broader effort to haul Germany's decidedly analogue bureaucracy into the 21st century.

The Interior Ministry said Wednesday that from this fall, citizens will be able to use the electronic ID stored in their smartphones together with a PIN number to prove they are who they claim to be when communicating with authorities or private businesses.

Germans are frequently required to present credit card-sized cards featuring their photo and personal details, such as when applying for benefits, opening bank accounts or registering a vehicle. While there are already ways of doing this online, the physical card and a card reader are currently required.

Separately, the ministry said the Cabinet has agreed on a bill that will make government-generated data openly available to businesses and private individuals where possible, to spur the development of new applications.

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Resorts World has seen a staggering amount of interest since its November announcement that it would be hiring for 6,000 open positions.

The under-construction Strip property has received about 85,000 applications, a testament to the large amount of unemployed and underemployed Nevadans.

(Roughly 14 applications) for every open position reflects the number of people actively looking for work, or better work, than they have now, said Jeremy Aguero, principal of Applied Analysis. (COVID-19) did a lot of damage to the economy. We have a lot of healing to do.

The $4.3 billion property, set to open this year, could be a boon Nevadas economy. Not only will it provide a steady stream of income to thousands of workers, but it also could attract travelers to Las Vegas, according to Aguero.

Scott Sibella, president of Resorts World Las Vegas, said the company is blown away by the number of applicants.

(We) know the hardest part will be choosing from an incredible pool of talented applicants, Sibella said in a statement. The large number of applications shows us just how deeply impacted our city has been amid the pandemic. We are hoping to contribute to Las Vegass rebound and are happy to be getting some people back to work.

Along with Resorts World and its 100,000-square-foot LED screen to look forward to, visitors will also have the new Virgin Hotels Las Vegas and the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center to check out.

People love to see the new thing in Las Vegas, Aguero said. Theres just an excitement that comes with it.

Aguero said that the applications indicate many Nevadans are ready to get back to work.

There were about 300,700 leisure and hospitality jobs in Nevada in December, down 14 percent compared with such jobs during the prior year, according to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.

But the pandemics impact on this industry spans nationwide. The U.S. hospitality workforce lost nearly 4 million jobs in 2020, more than 670,000 of which were in direct hotel industry operations, according to the American Hospitality and Lodging Association

Only 200,000 of the direct hotel operations jobs are expected to be filled this year.

The resurgence of COVID-19, emergence of new strains and a slow vaccine rollout have added to the hotel industrys 2021 challenges. It will take months, if not years, fully recover, with half of all U.S. hotel rooms expected to remain empty in 2021.

COVID-19 has wiped out 10 years of hotel job growth,AHLA President and CEO Chip Rogers said in a statement last month. Yet the hallmark of hospitality is endless optimism, and I am confident in the future of our industry.

The AHLA expects travel demand to begin a slow rebound this year that will accelerate in 2022.

Contact Bailey Schulz at bschulz@reviewjournal.com. Follow @bailey_schulz on Twitter.

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