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Business

US jobless rate is highest since 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% last month, highest since 2021. The ...

Oddfellows becomes events venue, with food vendors at week’s end

IRON MOUNTAIN — Jesse and Erica Land have turned the former Oddfellows Restaurant in downtown Iron Mountain into a modern, private event space. They found that running a restaurant and trying to have a family life with their three children was too difficult. They planned to sell to some ...

Humanoid robots take center stage at Silicon Valley summit

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering ...

Chamber welcomes Many Hats Marketing in IM

IRON MOUNTAIN — Many Hats Marketing has joined the Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce, which recently had a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate. Many Hats Marketing is an Iron Mountain-based marketing consulting business offering executive-level Fractional Chief Marketing Officer, or fCMO, ...