OJ's Cultural Legacy, Ukraine's Mobilization Law, Ohtani's Ex-Translator Charged

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

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We look back at the complicated life and legacy O.J. Simpson leaves behind after he died yesterday from cancer. More than two years into its full scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's war of attrition in Ukraine appears to be succeeding in ways its military superiority has not. And the Justice Department charges baseball star Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter with $16 million of bank fraud.

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0:00.0	O.J Simpson was a football icon movie star and at the center of the so-called
0:07.2	trial of the century. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. He died yesterday.
0:12.2	We'll remember the complicated life and legacy he leaves.
0:15.0	I'm Leila Falden. That's A Martinez, and this is a first from NPR News.
0:19.0	Russia tried to conquer Kiev with military might that didn't work but its war of
0:25.6	attrition is exhausting Ukrainian troops now Ukraine's government is preparing to
0:30.8	draft hundreds of thousands more military-age men.
0:34.3	And the Justice Department charges baseball star
0:36.8	Jorge Otani's former interpreter with bank fraud,
0:40.0	16 million dollars worth, all to pay off gambling debts.
0:43.6	Mr. Otani is considered a victim in this case.
0:48.0	How do prosecutors say all that money got stolen?
0:50.7	Stay with us.
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