'Ketamine Queen' accused of selling Matthew Perry fatal dose gets September trial date

'Ketamine Queen' accused of selling Matthew Perry fatal dose gets September trial date ANDREW DALTON August 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM FILE Matthew Perry appears at the GQ Men of the Year Party in West Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 17, 2022.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman charged with selling Matthew Perry the dose of ketamine that killed him is headed for a September trial.

Jasveen Sangha's trial — the only one forthcoming in the death of the "Friends" star after four other defendants reached plea agreements with prosecutors — is now set to begin Sept. 23 after an order Tuesday from a federal judge in Los Angeles.

The 42-year-old Sangha, who prosecutors say was known to her customers as "The Ketamine Queen," is charged with five counts of ketamine distribution, including one count of distribution resulting in death. She has pleaded not guilty and has been held in federal custody since her arrest last year.

Her trial had been scheduled to start Aug. 19, but the judge postponed it for the fourth time since her April 2024 indictment after both sides agreed it should be moved.

Sangha's lawyers said they needed the time to go through the huge amount of evidence they have received from the prosecution and to finish their own investigation.

Sangha was one of the two biggest targets in the investigation of Perry's death, along with Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who pleaded guilty to ketamine distribution last month. Perry's personal assistant, his friend and another doctor also entered guilty pleas and are cooperating with prosecutors. All are awaiting sentencing.

Perry, who was found dead at age 54 at his home on Oct. 23, 2023, had been getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, an increasingly common off-label use for the surgical anesthetic.

But prosecutors say when the doctor wouldn't give Perry as much as he wanted, he illegally sought more from Plasencia, then still more from Sangha, who they say presented herself as "a celebrity drug dealer with high quality goods."

Perry's assistant and friend said in their plea agreements that they acted as middlemen to buy large amounts of ketamine for Perry from Sangha, including 25 vials for $6,000 in cash a few days before his death. Prosecutors allege that included the doses that killed Perry.

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Savannah Chrisley Says Living with Her Parents After Prison Is 'a Lot,' Even Though 'I Would Have Begged for This a Year Ago'

Savannah Chrisley Says Living with Her Parents After Prison Is 'a Lot,' Even Though 'I Would Have Begged for This a Year Ago' Rachel McRadyAugust 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM Vivian Zink/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Julie Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley and Todd Chrisley on 'Chrisley's Believe It Or Not.

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Savannah Chrisley said it's been a "challenge" living with her parents after their presidential pardon

Todd and Julie Chrisley received a pardon from President Donald Trump in May after starting their 19-year sentence in 2023

Now, Savannah said her dad has thrown out her hard seltzers, and they've had some disagreements over their joint living situation

Savannah Chrisley's living situation has changed drastically since her parents were released from prison.

The 27-year-old reality star opened up about the aftermath of her parents Todd and Julie Chrisley's presidential pardon in May during the Tuesday, Aug. 5 episode of her Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley podcast.

She noted that after her parents were pardoned by President Donald Trump, they all moved in together.

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Savannah Chrisley poses with brother Grayson Chrisley and parents Julie and Todd Chrisley.

"It's a challenge, especially to all of us being under one roof," she said before adding, "It's great. I love it. I would have begged for this a year ago, but it's a lot. It's a lot. Imagine living with your parents again after being out of the house for 11 or 12 years. That's a lot."

One of the reasons Savannah has struggled with the arrangement is what she describes as a "difference in lifestyles."

"I like to go have me a glass of wine or a cocktail. I mean, I am 28... almost 28 years old. Todd Chrisley does not agree with that," she said of her dad. "And so there's some rub there. He came in my house and threw out all my seltzers. Like, threw them out. Who does that? Who does that?"

Savannah pointed out that the act was particularly pointless as she can "go and rebuy them."

Savannah said the dynamic in her family has changed now that she's an adult.

"It's just interesting because now I'm a full-fledged adult," she said. "I have not relied on anyone to pay my bills, support me, guide me. I've done it all on my own. So we've just had a little bit of rub."

Despite the drama, Savannah said, "Also it's been the best time ever because we get to sit and talk at whatever time we want. We're joking on each other, laughing, making up for lost time. So for that, I am extremely grateful."

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Todd previously opened up about his and Julie's post-prison plans to move.

"You know, I think we will always have a presence in Nashville, but I have a pull for Julie and I to go back to South Carolina — to Charleston — to that area. And we have plans for what we wanna do," Todd said in an interview for an ABC News Studios special, which aired in June.

He added at the time, "We have hopes of acquiring a hotel — a mansion — there, that we are gonna convert into a hotel, and we're gonna create a show around that."

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As for Savannah, during the same interview she shared her plans to move out of her parents' $1.6 million mansion and into a condo. She said that Todd was critical of how she maintained their home while they were in prison.

"He comes in and is critiquing everything in the house," she said, laughing. "I was literally fighting for y'all for two and a half years and raising kids, I think the floors are fine."

Todd and Julie were sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison for tax fraud. They began serving their separate sentences in 2023.

The family is now documenting the experience in the upcoming reality show, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality, which premieres as a two-night event Sept. 1 and Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime, with a finale dropping on Sept. 16.

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This Confederate monument will return to DC after protestors tore it down in 2020

This Confederate monument will return to DC after protestors tore it down in 2020 Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY August 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM A controversial Confederate monument, once removed from its post a mile away from the White House, will make its return this fall.

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Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY August 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM

A controversial Confederate monument, once removed from its post a mile away from the White House, will make its return this fall.

The National Park Service said it restored and will bring back a bronze statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate Army brigadier general, to its original post after protesters in June 2020 brought it down with ropes and chains. Videos of the protesters' actions surfaced online.

The National Park Service said in an Aug. 4 statement the move supports two of President Donald Trump's executive orders which direct federal agencies "to protect public monuments and present a full and accurate picture of the American past."

"The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation's capital and reinstate preexisting statues," the agency's statement reads.

After the protesters toppled the statue five years ago, the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Training Center secured it in storage and moved to restore it.

The monument's restoration is nearly complete. It is expected to be reinstalled in October, the agency said.

Protesters attempt to topple a statue of Albert Pike during an event to mark Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, amid nationwide protests against racial inequality, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 19, 2020.

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"Site preparation to repair the statue's damaged masonry plinth will begin shortly, with crews repairing broken stone, mortar joints, and mounting elements," the statement reads.

Protesters who called for racial justice and an end to police brutality after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd sparked mass critique of Confederate monuments across the nation, including the one slated to be reinstalled in Washington, D.C.

A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest calling for the removal of the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, U.S., August 18, 2017.

Before it was taken down, the statue of Pike was the only outdoor statue of a Confederate general in the nation's capital.

The Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction erected the statue in 1901 to honor Pike, who was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, according to the National Park Service. He died in 1891. During his life, Pike helped to develop the Masonry in Arkansas and commanded the Confederacy's Indian Territory during the Civil War, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

Contact Kayla Jimenez at [email protected]. Follow her on X at @kaylajjimenez.

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Ukraine's PM speaks to US Treasury Secretary about investment fund

Ukraine's PM speaks to US Treasury Secretary about investment fund August 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM (Reuters) Ukraine's prime minister said on Tuesday that she and U.S.

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(Reuters) -Ukraine's prime minister said on Tuesday that she and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had discussed prospects for completing the first three projects of a new investment fund within its first 18 months of operation.

Yulia Svyrydenko, the main driving force behind the creation of the fund, said she and Bessent had discussed the fund's operations and "continuing and strengthening cooperation in the defense and investment sectors".

"We are working on expanding its mandate so that the fund can also invest in the defense sector," Svyrydenko wrote in English on the X social media platform.

"The first meeting of the board of directors is scheduled for September. The task is to launch the first three projects within 18 months."

Svyrydenko was speaking to Bessent for the first time as prime minister since her appointment last month. As first deputy prime minister, she had signed the agreement setting up the fund in April as part of an accord, heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump, to develop Ukraine's mineral resources.

In her comments, Svyrydenko also said she and Bessent had discussed a potential broad defence agreement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has cited regarding production and sale of Ukrainian drones.

They also discussed the prospect of imposing tougher sanctions on Russia, a measure Ukraine has long sought. Trump has warned Russia that he will introduce more sanctions on Moscow if it does not make more progress on ending the war before a deadline set for Friday.

(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Will a brewing storm hit the East Coast? Hurricane forecasters watch the Bermuda High.

Will a brewing storm hit the East Coast? Hurricane forecasters watch the Bermuda High. Doyle Rice, USA TODAY August 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM The tropics are heating up and forecasters are keeping watch on a developing tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, a system that the National Hurricane Ce...

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Doyle Rice, USA TODAY August 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM

The tropics are heating up and forecasters are keeping watch on a developing tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, a system that the National Hurricane Center gives a 50% chance of development within the next seven days.

The path this system takes, as is typical with many developing tropical systems, rests with a weather feature known as the Bermuda High, a key steering mechanism that often decides the fate of hurricanes.

If the Bermuda High weakens, the storm may curve out to sea. If it stays strong, the system could track closer to the U.S.

According to a Substack post by Houston-based meteorologist Matt Lanza, "this wave should move more to the west-northwest or northwest over the next few days as it makes an attempt to organize. The most likely scenario still takes this out to sea via a weakness in the subtropical ridge across the Atlantic." The subtropical ridge he refers to is another name for the Bermuda High.

Forecast models disagree

WPLG-TV hurricane specialist Michael Lowry agrees with Lanza's assessment, noting that the European weather model develops the system farther north and forecasts weaker subtropical high pressure, which allows the developing system to curl out to sea.

However, he said the American GFS model homes in on the southern edge of the tropical wave and maintains stronger high-pressure (Bermuda High) steering, which keeps it on a more westward trajectory near or just north of the Caribbean islands this coming weekend.

On X, University of Miami meteorologist Andy Hazelton said, "There is still a lot of uncertainty on the long-term fate of this one. (We) probably won't know for sure which solution is more likely until we see where this attempts to consolidate. It's many days away from any landmasses, thankfully, so plenty of time to watch."

A tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic Ocean has a 50% chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm.What is the Bermuda High?

The strength of the Bermuda High will determine the track of this and many storms this season in the Atlantic.

The Bermuda High, an area of high pressure in the Atlantic Ocean, sits over the Atlantic during summer and often influences hurricane tracks. Its position and strength can steer hurricanes, determining whether they hit the U.S. East Coast, curve out to sea, or impact other areas like Bermuda.

According to AccuWeather, the clockwise circulation around the high-pressure system is what helps direct the path of tropical systems and can determine where they make landfall.

Easterly winds to the south of the high sometimes have the ability to force tropical systems onto a westerly course that can take them from the eastern Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea or over the Gulf.

A strong Bermuda High can steer hurricanes into the Gulf, which is what happened during the active 2004 and 2005 seasons.High moves around haphazardly

Throughout the summer, the Bermuda High can move around in a haphazard way, which makes forecasting tropical systems more of a challenge, AccuWeather said.

"During the early part of the hurricane season, this high tends to be stronger and therefore noses westward into the northern Gulf but then as we go into late July and August, the high tends to expand and contract," explained AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski in an online report.

Later in the season, the Bermuda High tends to relax a bit and change orientation as August and September approach.

"During October, the high sometimes moves farther east, allowing for storms to move much closer to the east coast of the United States, north of the Carolinas," Kottlowski said.

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CDC warns travelers about chikungunya cases in China as global infections hit 240,000

CDC warns travelers about chikungunya cases in China as global infections hit 240,000 Michelle Del Rey , USA TODAYAugust 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM U.S. health officials are cautioning travelers about a mosquitoborne illness being transmitted in parts of Asia, South America, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

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Michelle Del Rey , USA TODAYAugust 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM

U.S. health officials are cautioning travelers about a mosquito-borne illness being transmitted in parts of Asia, South America, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Across the globe, the chikungunya virus has sparked 240,000 cases and 90 deaths in 2025, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The virus, which is infecting people through bites from Aedes mosquitoes, has been spreading in China's Guangdong province this summer. Health officials reported the area has seen over 7,000 confirmed cases since June.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this month issued a travel notice for the Guangdon province in China, encouraging travelers to practice enhanced precautions. The agency issued the same notices for other countries where outbreaks have been reported, including Bolivia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Réunion, Somalia and Sri Lanka.

The CDC is also asking U.S. residents to exercise caution when visiting the following countries, which have not yet reported an outbreak but are at elevated risk of exposure: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Nigeria.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 5.6 billion people are at risk of arboviral diseases such as chikungunya. Other widespread arboviruses impacting humans include dengue, Zika and yellow fever.

What are the symptoms of chikungunya?

Symptoms of the disease include fever, joint pain and swelling, headache, muscle pain and rash, according to the CDC.

How long does infection last?

The illness typically lasts between two to 12 days after infection. Some patients can experience extreme symptoms and the virus can be fatal. Elderly people, newborns and individuals with underlying medical conditions are at higher risk of medical intervention.

Severe complications, including cardiovascular, neurological and multiorgan involvement, may require intensive medical care, according to the WHO.

However, more than half of patients will experience symptoms commonly associated with a fever.

What treatments are available?

There are no known antiviral treatments for the illness.

Medications can be used to manage pain and fever. Two chikungunya vaccines have received regulatory approval but are not widely available. In May, federal officials recommended pausing a vaccine in the United States after reports of serious adverse events.

The illness was first discovered in Tanzania in 1952, with outbreaks being reported in Africa and Asia, according to the WHO. Since then, the virus has been transmitted to 119 countries. Last year, more than 620,000 and 213 deaths were reported globally, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

In what was then dubbed the largest documented outbreak of chikungunya, an estimated several hundred thousand people were affected by "explosive" outbreaks of the virus in the Indian Ocean islands and India, according to a 2008 study. It's estimated that about 60 percent of regional populations were exposed.

CDC issues travel notice for Americans

The CDC issued a travel warning on Friday, Aug. 1, advising U.S. residents to take enhanced precautions when traveling to China. Most of the country's cases have been reported in the city of Foshan.

Last month, Chinese officials held a national conference to discuss treatments for and prevention of the illness. Authorities agreed to continue monitoring the situation and issue early warnings through multiple channels to prevent further spreading, according to China's National Health Commission.

Michelle Del Rey is a trending news reporter at USA TODAY. Contact her at [email protected]

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Reports: Rams RB Kyren Williams reaches 3-year, $33M extension

Reports: Rams RB Kyren Williams reaches 3year, $33M extension Field Level MediaAugust 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM Jul 23, 2025; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Rams running back Kyren Williams (23) during training camp at Loyola Marymount University.

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Jul 23, 2025; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Rams running back Kyren Williams (23) during training camp at Loyola Marymount University. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

Pro Bowl running back Kyren Williams and the Los Angeles Rams agreed to a three-year, $33 million contract extension with $23 million guaranteed, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday.

The deal makes Williams the seventh highest-paid running back in the NFL based on new money per season. He was set to enter the final season of his rookie contract with a base salary of $5.35 million, per Spotrac.

Williams, 24, made a huge impact in 2024, recording career highs in carries (316), rushing yards (1,299) and rushing touchdowns (14).

He has rushed for 2,582 yards and totaled 31 touchdowns (26 rushing, five receiving) in 38 games since being selected by the Rams in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

Last season, Williams became the third Rams player age 24 or younger to have at least 27 scrimmage touchdowns in a two-year span. He joined Todd Gurley (40, 2017-18) and Hall of Fame member Eric Dickerson (34, 1983-84) on the short list.

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