Lori Loughlin reports to prison in college scam

BOSTON—“Full House” actress Lori Loughlin has reported to a federal prison in California to begin serving her two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions bribery scandal, authorities said Friday.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said Loughlin was being processed at the federal lockup in Dublin, California.

In August, Loughlin was sentenced to two months and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, got five months for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as rowing recruits.

Study finds more than 1 million tons of U.S. plastic trash go astray

More than a million tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.

In 2016— the last year enough datawas available and before several countries cracked down on imports of Americanwaste— theU.S. generated 46.3 million tons of plasticwaste, by far the most in theworld. Between 2.7% and 5.3% of thatwas mismanaged, according to a study in Friday’s journal Science Advances. Between 1.2 million and 2.5 million tons of plastic generated in theU.S. were dropped on land, rivers, lakes and oceans as litter, were illegally dumped or shipped abroad and then not properly disposed of, the study found.

Judge postpones Trump’s TikTok ban

A federal judge has postponed President Donald Trump’s threatened shutdown of the popular short-form video app TikTok, siding with a Pennsylvania comedian and two other TikTok creators who say Trump’s order hampers their free speech.