Article snippet: Robert Francis Kennedy, slain in Los Angeles 50 years ago this week, seems oddly alive today. His ideas and legacy remain fresh, vibrant, unsettling, and challenging. In another time, the shocking death toll in Puerto Rico, and the way it was long obscured, might prompt shame, and soul-searching, in this country. Trump’s lawyers claimed in a confidential letter that the president has unfettered authority over all federal investigations. The president likes to suggest that his predecessors left him the “mess” of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Farmers, dairy producers, distillers, and the employees of Harley-Davidson and Levi Strauss are in the line of fire. Zakim topped Galvin with 55 percent of the delegates’ votes at the state Democratic Convention, but both will be on the Sept. 4 primary ballot. News analysis The president likes to suggest that his predecessors left him the “mess” of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Trump’s lawyers claimed in a confidential letter that the president has unfettered authority over all federal investigations. Lisa Riccobene will be allowed to remain in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner but will be demoted from her $112,000-a-year post. The decision fit an emerging pattern of President Trump pardoning conservative figures, creating an appearance of political favoritism in the exercise of a potent presidential power. <?EM-dummyText [This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This is dumm... Link to the full article to read more