Jubilant Iranians Celebrate The Nuclear Deal On Social Media

Iran and six world powers announced on Tuesday they have reached a historic agreement for the future of Tehran’s controversial nuclear program. The deal comes after months of contentious negotiations, and will curb Iran’s nuclear capabilities in exchange for relief from crippling sanctions. Jubilant Iranians living at home and abroad took to social media in the wake of the announcement

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Obama Tweets Back To Girl’s Awesome Letter About World Peace, Marriage Equality

A 5-year-old has some suggestions for how to solve a couple of global issues, and the leader of the free world has responded. Last week, Yasmeen, self described as “5 almost 6 years old,” took to writing a handwritten letter to President Obama advocating for world peace and marriage equality. @POTUS A letter from my 5 year old niece. Right

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Bill Simmons And The Patriots Nation Go To War With The World

The NFL finally announced Monday exactly how it plans to punish the New England Patriots for the “deflategate” controversy that was “more probable than not” to have occurred, and the Patriots nation is pissed off, riled up and banding together. The Patriots’ official Twitter account, for example, has apparently been switched to a Tom Brady jersey, a not-so-subtle signal of

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Pope Francis Is Still The Most Influential World Leader On Twitter

BERLIN (AP) – A new study shows U.S. President Barack Obama is still by far the most followed world leader on Twitter, but Pope Francis is considered the most influential by the number of his messages retweeted. The annual Twiplomacy analysis of Twitter accounts released Tuesday by PR firm Burson-Marsteller shows nearly 57 million people following Obama, up from 44

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