Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth holds a dinner, lobbyists pay The Washington Post as much as $250,000 for access to major DC players in the White House and Congress. They call it a 'salon'. After word got out it was cancelled.

Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi lays out how Goldman Sachs has engineered, and profited from, every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs calls it a hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories.

US and Afghan forces are taking up positions in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, a remote Taliban stronghold that has largely resisted central government control.