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Hackers accessed data on some American Airlines customers

(AP) — American Airlines discovered in July. The air- small number of customers
says personal information line declined to say how pre- and employees' personal in-
of a "very small number" cisely how many people had formation was contained in
of customers and employ- their personal information those email accounts.
ees was compromised af- exposed or the nature of that
ter hackers breached some information. Blessing said American is
employee email accounts. putting in place "additional
"American Airlines is aware technical safeguards to pre-
The airline said Tuesday that of a phishing campaign that vent a similar incident from
it has indication that the at- led to the unauthorized ac- occurring in the future."
tackers have misused any of cess to a limited number of
the personal information. team member mailboxes," American is based in Fort
American spokesman Cur- Worth, Texas.
American said the breach was tis Blessing said. "A very

Trump legal team balks at judge's declassification questions

search of Mar-a-Lago. conduct an independent re- "Otherwise, the Special Mas-
view of the documents so ter process will have forced
Ahead of the status confer- that any material covered by the Plaintiff to fully and spe-
ence, Raymond Dearie, the claims of legal privilege could cifically disclose a defense to
special master, requested the be segregated from the inves- the merits of any subsequent
two sides to submit a pro- tigation — and because the indictment." the lawyers
posed agenda and also pro- Trump team's recalcitrance wrote.
vided a draft plan for how he included an acknowledgment
envisions the process moving that the probe could be build- The Trump team also asked
forward over the next two ing toward an indictment. the judge to consider push-
months. ing back all of the deadlines
Trump has maintained with- for his review.
Trump's lawyers signaled in a out evidence that all of the
Monday evening letter their records were declassified; his Also Tuesday, Trump's law-
objection to several aspects lawyers have not echoed that yers were to respond to a
of that draft plan, including a claim, though they have as- Justice Department's appeal
(AP) — Donald Trump's he's indicted. request from Dearie that they serted that a president has ab- of a different judge's order
legal team has told a disclose to him and to the Jus- solute authority to declassify barring the department at
newly appointed inde- Lawyers for Trump and for tice Department information information. least temporarily from using
pendent arbiter that it the Justice Department are about the classification status the classified documents it
does not want to answer to appear in federal court in of the seized documents. In the letter, Trump's law- seized as part of its criminal
his questions about the Brooklyn on Tuesday before yers say the time for address- investigation. U.S. District
declassification status of a veteran judge named last The resistance to the judge's ing that question would be if Judge Aileen Cannon, in the
the documents seized last week as special master to re- request was notable because they file a motion seeking the same order appointing the
month from the former view the roughly 11,000 doc- it was the Trump team, not return by the Justice Depart- special master, directed the
president's Florida home, uments — including about the Justice Department, that ment of some of the property department to halt its use of
saying that issue could be 100 marked as classified — had requested the appoint- taken from Mar-a-Lago. the records until Dearie can
part of Trump's defense if taken during the FBI's Aug. 8 ment of a special master to complete his work.

Texas sheriff investigating flights to Martha’s Vineyard

(AP) — A Texas sheriff on look into the flights. we expected.”
Monday opened an inves-
tigation into two flights of “I believe there is some crim- The Venezuelan migrants
migrants sent to Martha’s inal activity involved here,” who were flown to the
Vineyard by Florida Gov. Salazar said. “But at present wealthy Massachusetts is-
Ron DeSantis, but did not we are trying to keep an open land from San Antonio on
say what laws may have mind and we are going to Wednesday said they were
been broken in putting 48 investigate to find out what told they were going to Bos-
Venezuelans on private exact laws were broken if that ton. Julio Henriquez, an at-
planes last week from San does turn out to be the case.” torney who met with several
Antonio. migrants, said they “had no
DeSantis’ office responded idea of where they were go-
Bexar County Sheriff Javier with a statement that said ing or where they were.”
Salazar, an elected Democrat, the migrants had been given
railed against the flights that more options to succeed in He said a Latina woman ap-
took off in his city as political Massachusetts. proached migrants at a city- “hoodwinked.” boarded buses or planes un-
posturing. But he said inves- run shelter in San Antonio willingly, or that their civil
tigators had so far only spo- “Immigrants have been more and put them up at a nearby Some Democrats have urged rights were violated. The
ken to attorneys representing than willing to leave Bexar La Quinta Inn, where she the Justice Department to in- rights of asylum seekers ar-
some of the migrants and did County after being aban- visited daily with food and vestigate the flights, includ- riving to the U.S. are also
not name any potential sus- doned, homeless, and ‘left to gift cards. She promised jobs ing California Gov. Gavin more limited because they
pects who might face charges. fend for themselves,’” De- and three months of housing Newsom and U.S. Rep. Joa- are not citizens. The consti-
Santis spokesperson Taryn in Washington, New York, quin Castro, whose district tution, though, does protect
He also did not mention De- Fenske said. “Florida gave Philadelphia and Boston, ac- includes San Antonio. them from discrimination
Santis in a news conference them an opportunity to seek cording to Henriquez. based on race or national ori-
that appeared to mark the greener pastures in a sanctu- A federal investigation might gin and from improper treat-
first time a law enforcement ary jurisdiction that offered Salazar said the migrants be complicated, however. It’s ment by the government.
official has said they would greater resources for them, as had been “preyed upon” and not clear whether anyone