By Tierney Sneed, Sarah Owermohle, CNN

(CNN) — As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that would achieve a key goal of its allies in the anti-abortion movement by ending the availability of abortion pills by mail.

The lawsuit, brought by Louisiana against the President Donald Trump-appointed health officials, is one of several pressure points the anti-abortion movement is pressing to push the administration to limit access to medication abortion, which now accounts for roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States.

“We’re at a point where, from a lot of the pro-life movement’s perspective, this is too important to play political games with,” Katie Glenn Daniel, the director of legal affairs for SBA Pro-Life America, told CNN. “They could pull these drugs out of the mail tomorrow. The justification is more than there.”

While Trump has erected some hurdles to abortion in his second term, his administration has not reversed regulatory rules that have allowed abortion pills to be sent by the mail. That policy, enacted under President Joe Biden, has made it possible for women within states that limit of ban abortion to obtain the two-step drug regimen used to terminate a pregnancy.

Trump health officials promised to look at the drug’s safety data, but they have been noncommittal about when that would happen, or if they would ultimately reverse the Biden-era changes.

“Where we are is that that the Trump administration has managed not to say anything,” said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at UC-Davis and author of several books about the anti-abortion movement. “It seems pretty clear politically that all the steps that Republicans and abortion opponents are taking aren’t really moving the administration.”

Anger within the anti-abortion community over the lack of action has reached a fever pitch and is manifesting in lawsuits, congressional hearings and calls for the firing of a top Trump appointee.

“We can simply fix this if we have the courage to do it,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and staunch Trump ally, said last week. “So, what all of us are telling the administration: ‘you’ve been a very pro-life president, Mr. President, it’s now time to deal with this issue.’”

The White House, which did not respond to CNN’s inquiry, is this week announcing new anti-abortion measures related to federal funding, including an expansion of a policy that bars foreign aid to groups that promote abortion. But SBA-List said that addressing abortion drugs was an “urgent” issue the administration must act on.

“If there are those that don’t care about the life issue, they should care about the politics of this,” said Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. “This is going to be a political problem for those who have sold out the pro-life movement.”

Ire directed at Trump health officials

At a Senate hearing last week that aired GOP grievances about how medication abortion was reaching states that had banned the procedure, Republicans made clear that they had lost patience with the administration.

“Republican members of this committee and many other senators expect an answer,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the chair of the committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. “At an absolute minimum, the previous in-person safeguards should be restored and that should be done immediately.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said in a September letter to Republican attorneys general that he had ordered drug regulators to “review the latest data” on mifepristone’s risks and safety. But Kennedy and agency spokespeople did not say when the review began or how long it would take.

Abortion advocates and mifepr

By Taylor Romine, CNN

(CNN) — Three people who denounced federal immigration agents in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday were arrested on federal charges and kept in custody Wednesday — and more arrests could be coming.

The protesters were charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after they and several others disrupted a Sunday service with chants denouncing Immigrations and Custom Enforcement over a pastor’s apparent role at the agency.

“They are trying to turn a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration into a crime,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the protesters arrested Thursday in an interview the night before her arrest, saying the focus should instead be on “what ICE has done” and their ”extremely brutal” enforcement actions in the campaign across the Twin Cities and Minnesota at large.

“I just don’t understand how this man looks himself in the mirror, and I don’t know how anyone who claims to be Christian could condone his behavior and the dual nature of the roles that he plays,” she said.

The arrests come as federal agents continue intense immigration enforcement, an incursion repeatedly criticized by state and local officials as unwanted, especially after the death of Renee Good. Despite Thursday’s arrests, people remained out in the streets protesting the Trump administration’s crackdown on the region.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey denounced the arrest of one of the protesters, calling it “a gross abuse of power,” while the White House celebrated — and also posted an altered photo of one of the protesters who was arrested.

Here is what we know about the arrests of the protesters:

What the protest was about

On Sunday, a group of people entered Cities Church in St. Paul during a service, where they sat and listened to the pastor preach, Levy Armstrong told CNN’s Erin Burnett. She was one of the people arrested Thursday and is also a Christian reverend.

After the pastor was finished praying, Levy Armstrong rose and repeated one of his statements, saying, “You just prayed that God would chasten you and help you get your house in order,” she told CNN in another interview. “And he said, ‘Correct.’ I felt that was an invitation for dialogue.”

She said she asked him about David Easterwood, who is listed as a pastor at the church and appears to be the same David Easterwood who is a top ICE official in the Twin Cities.

Easterwood was recently named as a defendant in a case brought by protesters who allege immigration agents violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights. A DHS spokesperson declined to say whether Easterwood was employed with ICE, saying “DHS will never confirm or deny attempts to dox our law enforcement officers.”

When Levy Armstrong mentioned Easterwood’s name, she said the pastor started saying “Shame, shame.”

“And that is when I led us in chants: ‘Justice for Renee Good’ and ‘Hands up, don’t shoot,’” she said.

Video of the protest obtained by CNN shows people in the church sitting down as one person’s voice can be heard yelling. A man’s voice is heard saying “You are interfering,” and people started to get up from their seats and chant “Justice for Renee Good.” Another video obtained by CNN shows protesters chanting “ICE out.”

After officers responded to multiple calls reporting up to 40 protesters in the church

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) -

High School Girls Basketball:

Ventura 69, Pacifica 21: Kai Staniland poured in 24 points for the Cougars who are 10-0 in the Channel League.

Dos Pueblos 60, Rio Mesa 49 (2OT): Carly Letendre scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for DP.

San Marcos 52, Oxnard 24: Lily Ruvalcaba had 18 points for the Royals.

Buena 49, Santa Barbara 18: Presley Bosch scored 10 points for Bulldogs.

High School Girls Soccer:

Buena 3, Dos Pueblos 2: Tatiana Padilla scored a goal and had 2 assists for the Bulldogs who lead Channel League at 7-0-4.

San Marcos 1, Rio Mesa 0: Zeina Matni scored for Royals.

Santa Barbara 3, Pacifica 1: Paloma Valenzuela, Sofia Lopez and Lanaya Solis scored goals for the Dons.

Oxnard 1, Ventura 0: Ashley Herrera scored the lone goal of the match.

Laguna Blanca 4, Santa Clara 0: Elle Harris scored 2 goals for the Owls.

Coastal Christian 2, Bishop Diego 1

Thacher 3, St. Bonaventure 2

Grace 3, Cate 1: Scarlett Angel had a hat trick for the Lancers.

High School Boys Soccer:

Pacifica 3, Santa Barbara 0: Francisco Hernandez scored two goals for the Tritons who lead the Channel League at 8-2.

San Marcos 3, Rio Mesa 1: Ricky Olivo scored two goals for the Royals.

Dos Pueblos 3, Buena 3: Owen Ribbens tallied two goals for DP.

Ventura 1, Oxnard 0: Steven Mayorga had the lone goal of the match.

High School Girls Water Polo:

San Marcos 9, Long Beach Wilson 8: Jade Pattison scored 4 goals as the Royals won on the first day of the Elite 8 Tournament in Newport Beach.

Dos Pueblos 19, Rio Mesa 7: 10 different Chargers scored goals led by MacKenzie Beard scoring her first three varsity goals.

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By Aleena Fayaz, Rashard Rose, CNN

(CNN) — The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city’s Independence National Historical Park.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court Thursday against the US Interior Department, Secretary Doug Burgum, the park service and its acting director Jessica Bowron, asks for a judge to issue a preliminary injunction to return the displays.

The exhibit, located at the President’s House Site where Presidents George Washington and John Adams lived, features displays honoring individuals enslaved by Washington and a historical timeline of American slavery.

Video from CNN-affiliate WPVI shows work crews dismantling large display panels at the site on Thursday afternoon.

“The interpretive displays relating to enslaved persons at President’s House are an integral part of the exhibit and removing them would be a material alteration to the exhibit,” attorneys for the city said in the filing.

The exhibit’s removal comes as the Trump administration continues its campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with the president’s political directives.

In an executive order signed last March, President Donald Trump accused the Biden administration of advancing “corrosive ideology,” specifically citing Independence Park, and called upon the Interior secretary to remove content within the department’s jurisdiction that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

“Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” the order states. “This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.”

In the lawsuit, attorneys for the city wrote, “Without notice to the City of Philadelphia, the National Park Service has removed artwork and informational displays at the President’s House site referencing slavery, presumably pursuant to the mandate in the Executive Order.”

“Defendants have provided no explanation at all for their removal of the historical, educational displays at the President’s House site, let alone a reasoned one,” the attorneys said.

CNN has reached out to the White House; the National Park Service; and Interior Department, which oversees NPS, for comment.

CNN has also reached out to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.

City Council President Kenyatta Johnson slammed the removal, calling it “totally unacceptable.”

“Removing the exhibits is an effort to whitewash American history. History cannot be erased simply because it is uncomfortable,” he said in a statement.

Michael Coard, founding member of the advocacy group “Avenging the Ancestors Coalition” that helped installed the exhibit in 2010, in a social media post called the removal “outrageous and blatantly racist.”

The Trump administration has imposed the president’s views on other US cultural and historical institutions, purging materials focused on diversity.

Last year, the American Battle Monuments Commission, a small, little-known federal agency,

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - The UC Santa Barbara Women's Basketball Team added another conference win to their register tonight, defeating Cal Poly on the road 61-51. They now stand 14-3 on the season and 6-2 in Big West play.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Gauchos took the first quarter to get their bearings, faltering after Zoe Shaw began the game's scoring with a head-on three-pointer. The Mustangs came out of the gate strong, threatening the Gauchos with intensity and ten points by Cal Poly scoring leader Dulci Vail. The Mustangs came away with the first quarter 16-15.

A bucket by Shaw began the Gauchos' second, kicking off a quarter that would prove to be insurmountable and game-defining for the Mustangs. The Gauchos administered a six-minute, 19-point run that went nearly interrupted, save for one basket by Cal Poly. Santa Barbara finished the half ahead by nearly 20 points at 38-22.

In the third, the Gauchos reached the twenty-point threshold two minutes in. Maddie Naro sank six straight points to make it 44-22 Gauchos. Their lead peaked at 47-24, but didn't hold for long. The 'Stangs slowly descended upon the Gauchos, making ten consecutive points and closing the half behind at 49-37.

The Gauchos had to hold their ground in the fourth, a feat they managed largely thanks to six-straight free throws in the final moments of the game. Mid-period, Cal Poly came within two baskets of the Gaucho lead at 55-51. Santa Barbara stalled effectively and pulled multiple fouls, leading to their last-chance scoring opportunity. Shaw put in four while Olivia Bradley had two.

Cal Poly actually outscored Santa Barbara in every quarter except the second, during which the Gauchos scored a blistering 17 greater points than the Mustangs.

Zoe Borter was back to holding the reins for the Gaucho offense and scored in double-digits for the fifth time this season. Her 24 points were the best of the game by ten.

Shaw also secured over a dozen points, sinking 13 from a 50% shooting performance. Olivia Bradley and Jessica Grant led in rebounds with six each, while Maddie Naro was back to dealing assists, making four. Grant had her most diverse statistical showing of the year, getting season-highs in steals (2), blocks (2), assists (3) offensive rebounds (2), and defensive rebounds (4).

UP NEXT
The Gauchos return to home play with a game against Long Beach State at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24 in The Thunderdome.

(Article courtesy of UCSB Athletics)