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NJ Transit locomotive engineers walked off the job simply after midnight Friday, as a piece stoppage delivered to a halt a rail service utilized by 350,000 commuters. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union and NJ Transit representatives had been nonetheless assembly by means of Friday night in negotiations hoping to achieve an settlement previous to a possible strike, however no such deal might be reached. At 12:01 a.m., the union went on strike, and all rail service for NJ Transit was suspended. Considerations over a potential strike had already led to NJ Transit saying it won’t present any…

This story was produced in collaboration with Documented. The detention and deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this 12 months set off an enormous firestorm when it was first reported by Documented as a result of the Venezuelan had no prison report and a pending asylum utility.However a beforehand unreported interplay that passed off previous to that chain of occasions is elevating additional questions: He was arrested by the NYPD on Feb. 24 and detained in a Bronx precinct lock-up on gun prices, based on federal officers, however was by no means prosecuted.A day…