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The United States ended duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments from every country at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 29 August 2025. The change extended to the rest of the world an exemption's end that had applied only to China and Hong Kong since May, subjecting packages worth $800 or less from retailers such as Shein and Temu to ordinary customs duties.

On a podcast Marc Benioff said Salesforce had cut its support staff from about 9,000 to 5,000 because AI agents now handle half of customer conversations.

A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.

A six-table counter-service Mexican spot in Escondido from chef Juan González and farmer Megan Strom, with most ingredients, including tortilla corn, grown 12 miles away.

Carlos Salgado and Emilie Coulson Salgado, of Orange County's Taco María, open a 22-seat Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Door County, Wisconsin.

Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.

Nestlé's board dismissed Laurent Freixe with immediate effect after an investigation found an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, one year into his tenure. Nespresso chief Philipp Navratil, a Nestlé lifer who joined as an internal auditor in 2001, took over as CEO.

Salesforce told Washington state it was permanently laying off 93 workers across its Seattle and Bellevue offices from 3 November 2025, the same week it noticed 262 cuts in San Francisco.

After a three-day trial, Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration used federalized Guard troops and Marines for civilian law enforcement in Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and enjoined it across California.

American Eagle said its "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans" campaign, alongside a Travis Kelce partnership, drove an uptick in customer awareness, engagement and comparable sales, as the retailer topped second-quarter fiscal 2025 profit expectations even as total revenue slipped 1%.

Alo rebrands its Alo Moves streaming platform as Alo Wellness Club, tying the app of more than 3,000 on-demand classes to its in-person Wellness Clubs in Los Angeles, New York and Seoul.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Nike's first big Just Do It campaign in years: a 60-second anthem film with LeBron James, Caitlin Clark, Carlos Alcaraz, Vini Jr. and others, voiced by Tyler, the Creator, telling young athletes that trying still counts.

Verizon's board raised the quarterly dividend by 1.25 cents to 69 cents a share, its 19th annual increase in a row, payable on 3 November 2025.

Vuori added Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff to its athlete roster, featuring him across its 2025 campaigns in pieces like the Kore Short and Strato Tech Tee.

Africa's largest hydroelectric plant at 5.15 GW, filled over five years amid a long dispute with Egypt and Sudan over Nile flows.