Armenia is considering applying to join the European Union‚ its Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday. In a television interview with Turkish channel TRT on the sidelines of a diplomatic gathering in Antalya‚ Turkey‚ Mirzoyan said Armenia is seeking to get closer to the West amid worsening relations with Russia. “New opportunities are largely being discussed in Armenia nowadays‚” Mirzoyan said. “That includes membership in the European Union.” His...

Bitcoin’s BTCUSD surge to an all-time high may not say anything about bitcoin’s reality. In fact‚ it may be nothing more than random fluctuations above and below the cryptocurrency’s fair value. I base this on a valuation model that‚ following Metcalfe’s Law‚ relates bitcoin’s price to the square of the number of users. The chart below — courtesy of data from Claude Erb‚ a former commodities portfolio manager at TCW Group — plots bitcoin’s actual price over the past decade...

American forces on Saturday shot down more than two dozen drones launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen in one of the largest recent attacks by the Iran-backed group‚ Pentagon officials said. U.S. Central Command said the Houthi drones were an “imminent threat” to commercial ships sailing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The drone assault came just days after the Houthis struck a commercial ship in the Red Sea‚ killing three seafarers‚ the first known fatalities of the Houthis’ terror...

Voters in Ireland rejected two proposed changes to the country’s Constitution that would have removed language about women’s duties being in the home and broadened the definition of family beyond marriage‚ dealing a blow to the government that analysts said suggested the weakness of their campaign to pass the proposals. While the decisions will have no practical implications for the law‚ the results‚ announced on Saturday‚ saw the proposals defeated by a wide majority‚ an...

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both held campaign rallies in the US state of Georgia‚ as their general election showdown comes into greater focus. The former president‚ 77‚ slammed Thursday's State of the Union speech as an "angry‚ dark and hate-filled rant". An hour later‚ President Biden‚ 81‚ unveiled new endorsements as he went on the offence against his rival. Both men are now within striking distance of clinching their respective party nominations for president. Mr Trump has...

Andrew Moseman goes into some detail in Friday's Atlantic magazine as to why electric vehicle sales have slowed down recently to the extent that he is now calling 2024 a lost year for EVs as reflected in the title‚ "America’s Lost Year for Electric Cars." Despite Moseman providing us with a myriad of obvious reasons why consumers appear to be rejecting EVs‚ he falls back on the easy all-purpose explanation for liberals to blame for whatever the woes: Trump's fault! First...

No Joe! He Was Illegal!

Cupcakes are always tasty‚ but since half of their appeal is visual‚ why not make them as colorful as possible? Multicolored frosting is the way to go.