The Yankees have had a need for a third baseman since releasing DJ LeMahieu and moving Jazz Chisholm back to the keystone. As of late, manager Aaron Boone has used a combination of Oswald Peraza and Jorbit Vivas at the hot corner. Clearly New York, now 4 ½ games back in the American League East, was not satisfied with that arrangement.

The New York Yankees have acquired third baseman Ryan McMahon from the Colorado Rockies, giving them a veteran at a position of need as they try to stop their slide down the AL East standings

The Justice Department on Thursday filed a lawsuit against New York City and the city’s leaders for impeding the Trump administration’s immigration actions. The legal action comes days after an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in the face and leg during an ambush robbery attempt in an upper Manhattan park,

New York City is among Democratic-led sanctuary cities in the US that have pledged to withhold assistance to federal authorities seeking to deport illegal immigrants. The lawsuit comes despite Adams’s calls for changing the city’s sanctuary laws to allow local law enforcement to notify federal immigration agents when illegal immigrants are arrested for violent crimes.