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Donald Trump is now free to start selling shares in Truth Social’s parent company, worth nearly $2 billion, but he seems poised to hold onto them.

The GOP nominee and other large shareholders in Trump Media & Tech Group were released at 4pm on Thursday from a lockup agreement that barred them from selling their stock for six months after it was offered. The agreement has been in place since March, when the company went public following a merger, so long as shares traded at $12 or above, Forbes reported.

Trump owns nearly 57 percent of all shares in the company, traded under the ticker DJT. His stake is worth roughly $1.7 billion.

Kelly Rissman reports.

Joe Germanotta, the father of Lady Gaga, endorsed Donald Trump for president during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday morning.

The Upper West Side restaurateur, who owns Joanne Trattoria, said Trump and Kamala Harris “are two vastly different people, one of them is pure, and he’s a patriot.”

“And the other ... is just going to say whatever she needs to say to get elected,” he added. “That’s basically what I hear.”

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Donald Trump has joked that he would have used a three wood club to take out the suspected would-be assassin at his Florida golf course.

Just hours after hosting a rally in Uniondale, Long Island – which marked his first public appearance since the second attempt on his life on Sunday – the former president appeared on Fox News’ political satire talk show Gutfeld!

James Liddell reports.

North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said “slavery is good,” among other shocking remarks, on a porn forum, according to reporting from CNN’s KFile.

Earlier on Thursday, independent journalist Bryan Anderson had said that Robinson’s campaign was bearing down a negative story about to break. A few hours later, CNN’s KFile reported that he had an account on a porn site called “Nude Africa” where the anti-transgender conservative admitted that “I like watching tranny on girl porn!”

The social conservative, who has taken a stance against promiscuity in the past, wrote: “yeah, I’m a perv too,” and reportedly said on the same site when told that a celebrity had had an abortion: “I don’t care. I just wanna see the tape!”

Robinson denies the allegations and told CNN that the account they had found on the porn site was not his.

Eric Garcia and John Bowden report.

The S&P 500 surged to a record high close on Thursday, the day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points and indicated more rate cuts were on the horizon.

Heavyweight stocks that have enjoyed much of this year's stock market rally made fresh gains, with Tesla, Apple and Meta Platforms up sharply.

AI powerhouse Nvidia rallied, helping lift the PHLX semiconductor index.

Better-than-expected jobless claims data further stoked global risk appetite.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced a rate cut at the high end of expectations, and said it had greater confidence inflation was under control. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the US economy remained strong and the central bank would decide on the appropriate pace of future rate cuts.

Here’s our report on the rate cut decision and how it affects you:

Kodak Black took time out of a recent concert to respond to Donald Trump’s allegation that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

The Florida-born rapper, 27, is the son of Haitian immigrant Marcelene Octave and has been a longtime Trump supporter.

Kevin E G Perry reports on what he said.

Stephen Colbert made his bewilderment clear to audience members and viewers on the latest episode of his talk show after Melania Trump posted a video bizarrely highlighting her nude photos from her modeling days.

“Trump’s struggling campaign needs all the help it can get to stay on message these days,” explained The Late Show with Stephen Colbert host on Wednesday.

“Thankfully, Melania Trump - who has been notably absent from her husband’s side - pitched in with this video,” he added.

Myriam Page has the story.

The Martin County Deputies who detained the suspect in the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump signed the handcuffs used in the arrest and gifted them to Trump.

The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was detained on Sunday after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle through the fence at Trump’s golf course near West Palm Beach, Florida as the former president was playing a round on Sunday.

The agent opened fire and Routh fled but he was later detained after a woman took a photo of his license plate and alerted the authorities.

Trump met the deputies at Mar-a-Lago after the arrest.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

John Bowden reports for The Independent:

These days, “Project 2025” is nothing but a dirty word (or pair of words) to staffers on Donald Trump’s third bid for the presidency. After months of negative coverage and attacks from Democrats, Trump and his top aides are both engaged in a conscious effort to distance the former president from the project whenever possible. That effort drew to a heated pitch this summer as top Trump campaign officials Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles released a statement crowing over the resignation of a top Project 2025 operative and declaring the various groups involved with the plan to be speaking on the former president’s behalf without his permission.

This wasn’t supposed to be how the election went at all. The question remains: How did the Heritage Foundation and the other conservative groups behind Project 2025 fumble the bag this badly?

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Barron Trump, youngest son of the former president, started his freshman year at New York University earlier this month - sparking a flurry of TikTok videos of the 18-year-old making his way around campus, trailed by Secret Service agents.

Fellow NYU students have been taking and sharing videos of Barron, aptly described by WIRED as “Sasquatch-esque”: short, frantic, blurry clips of the elusive 6’9” freshman making his way to class. Many of these videos are posted then reposted, with users making their own edits and setting them to background music.

Katie Hawkinson reports.