Equal Opportunity: CBS says it will investigate claims of sexual misconduct against its CEO, Les Moonves. The company made the announcement shortly in advance of the publication of a Ronan Farrow story in The New Yorker  in which six women accuse him of forcibly kissing them or putting his hand up their skirts.

The story goes into excruciating detail with plenty of corroboration.

Moonves is one of the most powerful people in all of entertainment, making CBS the #1 network. CBS shares fell by 6 percent after the news.

Moonves defended himself saying, “I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances.”

The 68-year-old Moonves is married to Julie Chen, 48, the host of Big Brother  on CBS, and co-host of The Talk. She said she is standing by him.

Moonves is in a separate battle with Shari Redstone, who controls CBS. He and the board are suing to prevent her from merging the company with Viacom, which she also controls. The sexual harassment accusations raise the question of whether he can survive in his job, but profit is power.

Evidently it’s not just the guys playing office grab-ass. HuffPost reports that former Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox Valkyrie, was bounced from the network for sexually inappropriate behavior. The  story says, “Six sources said Guilfoyle’s behavior included showing personal photographs of male genitalia to colleagues (and identifying whose genitals they were), regularly discussing sexual matters at work, and engaging in emotionally abusive behavior toward hair and makeup artists and support staff.”

Oh, please, please tell us none of those pictures are of her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr. We’re trying to eat breakfast.

Econ 101: The economy grew at a healthy annualized rate of 4.1 percent in the second quarter, causing president Trump to crow that he’s not only delivering on his campaign promises, but he will do better.

Trump said, “As the trade deals come in one by one we’re going to go a lot higher than these numbers, and these are great numbers.”

But the quarterly jump could be a blip. Foreign customers were rushing to buy American stuff, including soy beans, before Trump’s new tariffs kicked in.

LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik issued a caution, noting that President Obama had four quarters better than Trump’s best so far, and never reached a real annual growth of 3 percent. Hiltzik wrote, “Trump promised growth of 3.5% a year, and sometimes even 4%. That’s sustained, annual growth, not annualized growth for a single quarter. He still hasn’t delivered on that promise. Looking back over the last 12 months, real GDP has grown by 2.85% in a year.”

Remains of the Day: As North Korea promised President Trump, the remains of some US service members killed in the Korean War have been returned to American hands. About 100 small wooden caskets are in transit for a repatriation ceremony to be held Aug. 1.

The boxes are wrapped in tasteful blue and white paper.

An estimated 5,300 Americans are estimated to have been lost inside North Korea. Starting in the 1990s, the remains of more than 600 members of the military were returned to the US.

Rolling Backward: Scott Pruitt’s acting replacement at the EPA announced that he’s reversing a Pruitt policy that would have allowed more highly-polluting diesel trucks on the road. Andrew wheeler’s reversal applies to so-called “glider” trucks that have older and less-efficient engines installed.

It sounds good to the environmentally-concerned, but part of what Wheeler is doing is attempting to de-regulate in a way that will withstand legal challenge as opposed to Pruitt’s meat axe approach.

Also, The NY Times reports, senior administration officials are clashing over Trump’s proposal to allow cars to emit more tailpipe pollution. It would also challenge California’s right to set more stringent emission standards than the federal government.

The Obit Page: Bill Loud, the philandering patriarch of an affluent Santa Barbara family portrayed in the groundbreaking 1973 pubic television documentary series, “An American Family,” has died at age 97.

The Louds were not played as a typical wholesome family … far from it. They were the new American family. Pat loud complained on camera about Bill’s infidelity. He bemoaned the lack of freedom for American men. Lance, one of five children, was flamboyantly gay at a time when homosexuality in America was still emerging from the closet.

Half way through the series Pat kicked Bill out of the house and he asked which of the three cars he could take.

Pat replied, “Take the Jag.”

Addiction: Police in Palo Alto, Calif. say a 17-year-old kid broke into a home in the night and woke up a sleeping couple in their 60s. He asked if he could use their WiFi and explained that he had run through all the data on his phone.

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