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The rally was led by young activists from Parkland and across the country, in an array of powerful and composed speeches from young people from diverse backgrounds. Students from the school newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, where the February massacre took place, attended the march as special correspondents for the Guardian and have been guest-editing the Guardian US website since yesterday. “One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me,” he said. “Enough really is enough,” Rebecca Price-Taylor told the Guardian. On Friday, Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that includes modest improvements to background checks for gun sales and grants to help schools prevent gun violence, and the Justice Department proposed rule changes that would effectively ban “bump stock” devices that let semi-automatic weapons fire like a machine gun. (@SamTLevin) Big crowds at #MarchForOurLivesSF outside city hall pic.twitter.com/E74PlOlDjQ March 24, 2018 Sara Butorac, 15, stood outside San Francisco city hall carrying an anti-NRA poster. “Everyone needs to come together and have that support for everyone that has been losing their lives and their loved ones.” She said her school regularly does active shooter drills where they discuss whether to run or hide. Some teachers have instructed them to throw objects at a gunman as a last resort: “We are being trained.” (@SamTLevin) At SF #MarchForOurLives, Amanda Butorac, 24, says she will soon be a teacher and is sad students spend so much time training for shooters: “They shouldn’t be afraid to come to school.” Her sister, Sara, 15, said her school practices running, hiding, throwing objects at a gunman pic.twitter.com/gWqVhwFvVx Her older sister, Amanda, 24, is studying to become a teacher and said it was depressing that students had to spend so much time thinking about a possible killer in their schools. (@j_kirby1) Sign graveyard at Trump International Hotel #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/t7POV9xlKJ March 24, 2018 (@JaclynCorin) My new, life-long friend: Yolanda Renee King. #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/mFVAXdn0gs March 24, 2018 (@davidhogg111) ?? pic.twitter.com/VRtMEzalrd March 24, 2018 (@SamTLevin) “Talk to the kids!

The Trump administration has announced criminal charges and sanctions against nine Iranians accused of participating in a government-sponsored hacking scheme to steal sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and US government agencies. The nine defendants, accused of working at the behest of the Iranian government-tied Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, hacked the computer systems of about 320 universities in the United States and abroad to steal expensive research that was then used or sold for profit, prosecutors said. 'It's become a monster': is Iran's revolutionary guard a terror group? The Department of Justice said the hackers were affiliated with an Iranian company called the Mabna Institute, which prosecutors say contracted since at least 2013 with the Iranian government to steal scientific research from other countries. Also on Friday, the treasury department targeted the Mabna Institute and 10 Iranians – the nine defendants and one charged in a separate case last year – for sanctions. But the grand jury indictment – filed in federal court in Manhattan – is part of the government’s “name and shame” strategy to publicly identify foreign hackers, block them from traveling without risk of arrest and put their countries on notice. “People travel. “Having your name, face and description on a ‘wanted’ poster makes moving freely much more difficult.” According to the indictment, the Iranians broke into universities through relatively simple, but common means: tricking professors to click on compromised links. “Just in case you’re wondering, they’re not admiring our work,” Bowdich said. “They’re stealing it, and they’re taking credit for it, and they’re selling it to others.”