A.M. Links: Satellite Images Don’t Show Debris From Missing Malaysia Flight, Pulitzer Prize Board May Not Reward Reporting on Snowden Leaks, Obama Administration To Endorse Reduction of Drug Sentences

• According to Malaysia’s transport minister the satellite images
  released by China’s State Administration of Science that some
  thought may have shown debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
  MH370 were
  released by mistake and “did not show any debris from
  MH370.”
• The Obama administration is expected to endorse a plan that
  would reduce the average sentence for
  a federal drug defendant by almost a year.
• The Pulitzer Prize Board may play it safe and not reward
  The Washington Post and The Guardian for their
  reporting on the information leaked by
  NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The Board did reward The
  New York Times for its reporting on Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon
  Papers.
• President Obama is expected to use his executive authority to
  update
  regulations on overtime pay. Currently, employers are not
  required to pay managerial workers overtime pay if they earn at
  least $455 a week.
• Ukraine has created a 60,000-strong
  national guard ahead of Sunday’s referendum in Crimea on
  whether the peninsula, which is currently part of Ukraine, will
  join Russia.
• Republican pro-life senators are urging the GOP to
  focus on social issues in this year’s midterms and in the 2016
  presidential election.

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