Sticky posts not working when a specific category is set

As per documentation for WP_Query(), category_name should be category slug.
So replace EVENTS with the slug of category EVENTS

'category_name'  => 'events'  // Assuming that 'events' is slug of category `EVENTS`

OR

'cat'  => 5'   // Replace 5 with id of  of category `EVENTS`

I hope this helps.

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