New Jersey’s Democratic governor announced Thursday night that the state will pour millions more taxpayer dollars into a legal slush fund protecting illegal aliens from deportation. “We are increasing funding for the Detention Deportation Defense Initiative by $12 million – for a total of $20.2 million,” Gov. Mikie Sherrill wrote on social media. She also announced the new Rapid Legal Response Initiative to “expand statewide legal capacity for...

As the Trump administration weighs diplomacy and military pressure against Iran, a political clock is ticking at home. Even if the Strait of Hormuz — the global oil choke point largely shuttered since the conflict with Iran due to Iranian attacks — reopened immediately, it could take months for oil flows to return due to logistical bottlenecks involving trapped tankers, swollen inventories and damaged oil infrastructure, according to...