Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who is currently facing numerous accusations of sexual harassment by a growing number of current and former employees, is reportedly—reportedly!—departing the channel, which he founded in October 1996 and has helmed for the past 19 years. This morning, Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine reported that Fox News’ star anchor, Megyn Kelly, had told investigators hired by 21st Century Fox that her boss had sexually harassed her approximately ten years ago, when she still worked at Fox. In the same piece, Sherman claimed that attorneys for 21st Century Fox had given Ailes an ultimatum: “Resign or face being fired for cause” by August 1 of this year.

Hillary Clinton’s supporters often argue that mainstream political reporters are incapable of covering her positively—or even fairly. While it may be true that the political press doesn’t always write exactly what Clinton would like, emails recently obtained by Gawker offer a case study in how her prodigious and sophisticated press operation manipulates reporters into amplifying her desired message—in this case, down to the very word that The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder used to describe an important policy speech.

Today the editorial board of Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Review-Journal endorsed Florida Senator and third-place Iowa caucuses loser Marco Rubio for Nevada’s upcoming Republican caucuses. The board writes:

Most people in Washington attribute the success of Politico’s marquee morning newsletter, Playbook, to the superhuman work ethic of its main author and Politico’s Chief White House correspondent, Mike Allen. According to several 2010 emails recently obtained by Gawker, however, Allen has employed one unusual productivity trick: letting someone he covers ghostwrite an item for him.

Late last year, the conservative billionaire Sheldon Adelson acquired the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the largest newspaper in Nevada. The immediate effects of Adelson’s ownership on the paper’s editorial autonomy were initially minor; its reporters managed to cover the sale, and the bizarre lengths to which their employer courted their future owner, like any other story. But now the Review-Journal’s newly installed publisher, a former Gannett executive named Craig Moon, is making sure his staff fall in line with their new leader’s wishes.

A longstanding fear among Hillary Clinton’s supporters is that U.S. authorities will attempt to indict the front-runner candidate for mishandling classified information as Secretary of State—a move that would almost certainly help derail Clinton’s entire campaign. Today is not a good day for those supporters! Among this morning’s revelations:

Remember how Hillary Clinton used a private homebrew email server to conduct official State Department business? Today—only hours before the agency is expected to release the next batch of Clinton’s emails, and just days before the Iowa caucuses—the sitting administration disclosed that 22 of those emails are now considered top secret, and thus exempt from release:

At least three Americans were kidnapped by militants in southern Baghdad on Saturday, according to several American and Iraqi news outlets. An unnamed official of the city’s police force confirmed the group’s disappearance to The Washington Post on Sunday evening, but their precise identities, and why exactly they were kidnapped, were initially unclear:

"I used to shoot cocaine, heroin and ketamine. All together. Morning, night, 20 times a day." Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., now four years sober, can finally wear short sleeves.

[British synchronized swimmers Olivia Allison and Jenna Randall compete earlier today in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India. Also today, 15 swimmers reported having a stomach virus, which has been blamed on dirty pool water. Image via Getty]

When South Korea last blared propaganda and obnoxious music from 11 sets of loudspeakers along the border with North Korea, the North threatened to turn Seoul "into a sea of flame." So Seoul is cranking the music back up again.

The Obama administration yesterday said 3,500 abandoned Gulf oil wells must be plugged by the companies that abandoned them. But American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said, "This is not the time" to ask more of struggling oil companies.

The Iowa farm that recently recalled 500 million eggs tainted with salmonella, Wright County Egg, over a two-year period detected salmonella in 426 samples at its facilities, according to investigators. But the FDA doesn't require notification of salmonella detection. Nice.

Sotheby's next week will auction off the $10 million art collection of deceased investment bank Lehman Brothers, including works by Damien Hirst. One collector said, "It's not a fire sale, but it's priced to sell." Just like a subprime mortgage!

Thomas Guinzburg, co-founder of The Paris Review and later the president of Viking Press, died in New York on Wednesday at 84. Guinzburg published Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," hired Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an editor, and served in WW2. [NYT]

Tony Blair's book tour is fizzling out after being attacked with eggs and flip flops in Ireland last weekend. His party at the Tate Modern museum has been cancelled over the "inevitable hassle" that comes with being a lying politician.

Good news from U.S. government scientists! The dumping of 771,000 gallons of controversial dispersants in the Gulf, like Corexit, worked and everything is cool now. Oil-eating microbes aren't using up oxygen or creating "dead zones," so let's move on.

According to U.N. estimates, the flooding in Pakistan has put 3.5 million children at "imminent risk" of waterborne disease, while 72,000 kids are at "high risk" of death. One fifth of Pakistan has been hit by flooding. [AP; Getty]

Blasting "Born in the USA" over loudspeakers, opponents of the Not At Ground Zero Park51 Community Center took to the streets of Lower Manhattan today to yell at people and wave stupid signs: "Obama, your middle-name is Hussain, we understand."