This weekend’s Kennedy Center honors brought together quite a crowd: Glenn Close, Stephen Colbert, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Diamond, Robert De Niro, Yo-Yo Ma, and Smokey Robinson. Oh, and Newt.

NAACP: “In the face of far-reaching demographic and electoral trends revealing unprecedented minority political mobilization in America, an assault on voting rights accelerated in 2011.”

EPA and Army join forces on ‘net zero’ sustainability program.