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After successfully testing from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station last December, the Army officially named its long-range hypersonic weapon, the Dark Eagle, on Thursday. The system, designed to “disintegrate enemy abilities,” was on it again on Friday morning. LRHW Dark Eagle lift-off this morning🚀https://t.co/lcjhuxxt84 pic.twitter.com/yjxxusxmjk – Jerrypike (@jerrypikephoto) April 25, 2025 Images posted on social media showed missile launches from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 46, but the eastern range posted a notification of maritime and airspace maintenance, but no mission details were announced. “A team of government, academic and industry partners conducted tests on behalf of the Department of Defense…

ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – A former Disney World employee has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for hacking into Walt Disney World’s computer systems to manipulate menu information. In July 2024, Disney noticed former employee Michael Scheuer and accessed the menu system after it was closed from the company a month ago. Scheuer, who worked as a “menu product manager” at Disney, was accused of hacking the system for over three months and manipulating the menu in a variety of ways, including changing prices, adding blasphemy and changing allergen information. According to NBC affiliate WESH, the judge sentenced…

MIAMI (AP) — As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff. As President Donald J. Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, Krome, the United States’ oldest immigration detention facility and one with a long history of abuse, saw its prisoner population recently swell to nearly three times its capacity of 600. “There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee texted a co-worker last month,…

Republican leaders at Hillsdale, Austin and Harvard University are divided from a left-leaning culture.Senator JD Vance at the time said in 2021 that “universities are their enemy.” The language borrowed from President Richard Nixon foresaw a growing battle through the launch of the Second Trump Administration.President Donald Trump’s team has frozen or reduced taxpayer-funded research, pressuring universities to close diversity, equity and inclusion offices and curb anti-Semitism on campuses that have been linked to anti-Israel protests.The administration calls protests and some academic programs anti-Semitism, but many of the academics defend them on the grounds of freedom of speech.After Harvard refused…

Hillsboro County, Fla. (WFLA) – Starting Friday night, busy roads in the Riverview area will be closed for the next three weeks. Things along Boyette Road look different as the Florida Department of Transport continues its massive restoration project. The lane begins a shutdown at Boyette Road at the intersection of US 301. “It’s a $205 million project, most of which is converting the asphalt-to-concrete intersection, with lots of truck traffic, concrete is more durable, and another part of the project is resurfaced with a larger section of the US 301.” This section is located at 301 from Whit Road…

In New York, a parade and vigil took place in New York to commemorate the 1999 event known as the April 25 appeal, which attracted around 10,000 people in Beijing. The legacy of unprecedented peaceful protests that took place in communist China decades ago was recently commemorated in New York in the form of parades and vigils. Several participants in both events were one of the Chinese protesters at the time, and were insisting on the right to practice their faith freely.April 25, 1999 – To this day, 26 years ago, 10,000 Falun practitioners gathered in Beijing, the capital of…

In a not too distant future, the essential building blocks of electronics, from mobile phones to missiles, could come from Osceola County. Authorities announced on Tuesday the launch of the Florida semiconductor engine at Neocity, a project that trains workers around the world and attracts businesses. With a federal investment of 5 billion people, the 500-acre Neocity campus in Kissimmee leads the state’s efforts to manufacture semiconductors. Neocit is the county technology hub. Until recently, only a few companies were working on semiconductors, but new efforts aim to invite more companies to Osceola and develop more partnerships with the university.…

You don’t have to be in Generation X to enjoy Norwegian Cruise Line’s new ship, but it doesn’t hurt. The Aqua Slidecoaster is part roller coaster, part water slide offering a thrilling, wet option on board Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Norwegian Aqua. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)An osprey stops by The Haven, Norwegian Cruise Line’s ship-within-a-ship concept for suite-level guests, on board the new Norwegian Aqua on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)The 10-deck dry slide The Drop is lit up on board Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Norwegian Aqua. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)Blue is the night light of choice for Norwegian Cruise…

TALHASSEE — The Florida home on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a plan aimed at alleviating financial tensions among apartment owners, setting up negotiations with the Senate ahead of next week, when the 2025 legislative meeting was scheduled.The House and Senate bill addressed the Condominium Safety Act that passed after the 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South Mansion Building on Surfside, which killed 98 people.The law passed in 2022 and tweaked in 2023 included the need for “milestone inspections” and “preliminary structural integrity investigations” of older buildings, and determining how much money should be reserved for future major repairs.Milestone inspections are…

Previous regulations on commercial fishing have been harmful to U.S. territorial industries like Samoa, according to the White House.The Trump administration has turned its attention to commercial fishing and issued several executive orders to ease regulations and help American seafood companies compete.Together, the order aims to support the administration’s goal of putting the American economy and small businesses in a more advantageous position, while some consider a move that is harmful to the environment.The impact of first ordersOn April 17, President Donald Trump signed an order to “unleash American commercial fisheries in the Pacific,” asking officials to change regulations from…