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US midterm elections: Five key Senate battlegrounds to watch our for

At least eight of the 35 Senate races in US are considered competitive, but the battle for the Upper Chamber is likely to come down to five key states — Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Ohio and Wisconsin

Traffic leaves ‘Burners’ to feel the heat of the Burning Man for hours

This year’s Burning Man Festival was a little different. The energy and excitement were the same as previous years, but revellers had to walk around in the midst of a sandstorm and were forced to wait for over nine hours to go back home owing to massive traffic

Explained: New, stricter water cuts to hit Western states of the US next year

The officials have said that there will be less water available next year from the Colorado river that serves 40 million people in the West and Mexico. Observers say a reckoning is still coming for the growing region

From New York to Nevada, how US is bidding farewell to COVID-19 restrictions

Seeing a drop in coronavirus infections and hospitalisations, several states, including Nevada, New York and Illinois have ended mask mandates for indoor settings

Fires rage in several states as heat wave broils US West, strains power grids

The largest wildfire of the year in California, the Beckwourth Complex Fire, was raging near the border with Nevada. It doubled in size between Friday and Saturday.

Burning Man cancels 2021 festival in northern Nevada desert citing COVID-19 pandemic

Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell said the “difficult decision” is “based on the best information available to us.”

Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao's meditative drama set in the American West, wins Best Picture

Based on Jessica Bruder’s book of the same name, Nomadland stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who, after the economic collapse of her company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road to explore a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.

Milwaukee County vote recount ends with Joe Biden adding 132 votes to his margin

The US president-elect won Wisconsin by nearly 20,600 votes, and his margin in Milwaukee and Dane counties was about 2-to-1

US election: Joe Biden pulls ahead in Pennsylvania, Georgia as country awaits a winner

In Arizona, Biden's advantage shrank slightly, but not by as much as Republicans had hoped. In Nevada, Biden nearly doubled his lead Friday to around 20,000 votes

US Election 2020: Joe Biden eases ahead in Georgia; Donald Trump attacks election process

Though millions of ballots are yet to be tabulated, Democrat Joe Biden already has received more than 73 million votes, the most in history