A.M. Links: Putin Finalizes Crimea Annexation, Still No Sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Turkey Bans Twitter

• Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty that formally
  
  annexes Crimea. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
  signed an agreement on closer relations with the
  European Union.
• Search teams looking for the possible debris of
  Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 seen on satellite images have
  found nothing.
• Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ordered an investigation into the
  CIA’s alleged
  spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
• Turkey
  banned Twitter, the social media site that is being used to
  share evidence of alleged corruption within Prime Minister Tayyip
  Erdogan’s inner circle. Erdogan said, “We’ll eradicate Twitter. I
  don’t care what the international community says.” Thankfully,
  Turks can still tweet via text.
• Brigadier General Jeffrey A. Sinclair
  avoided jail time and was ordered to give up $5,000 per month
  for four months by the judge overseeing his sexual misconduct
  trial.
• President Barack Obama told Democratic donors that Democrats
  usually
  “get clobbered” in midterms “either because we don’t think it’s
  important or we’ve become so discouraged about what’s happening in
  Washington that we think it’s not worth our while.”

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