Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 18, 2019

See ya: Netflix has announced that its canceled its "One Day at a Time" after three seasons. The new version of the sitcom starred RITA MORENO along with JUSTINA MACHADO, ISABELLA GOMEZ, MARCEL RUIZ, TODD GRINNELL, SHERIDAN PIERCE and STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY.

"Honey Boo Boo's" "Mama" JUNE SHANNON and her boyfriend were busted last week for drug possession at a gas station in Alabama after a domestic dispute. TMZ says she and boyfriend GENO DOAK were arrested for felony possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, while Gene also had a charge of domestic violence tacked on as well. The couple has been dating for three years.

Another calf for April the giraffe! She gave birth on Saturday around 12:40 pm (Eastern), --while streaming the birth on YouTube-- to her fifth calf --a baby boy-- at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York. No word yet about the name of the calf.

LORI LOUGHLIN's 19-year-old daughter, OLIVIA JADE, says she's not going back to the University of Southern California today. She also took a hit from Sephora, whom she was blogging for (on Instagram and YouTube) until her mother's arrest for alleged involvement in the college fraud scandal. Lori and her husband allegedly paid a half-million dollars to make it appear that their daughter had been a rower, according to the indictment.
Meanwhile, there is talk in Congress about new laws which could be aimed at cracking down on this kind of payoff, and the Department of Education is also reviewing the case.

And here's a frightening story. You've heard about the dangers of plastic being found in the ocean, but the latest is about a 1,100-pound whale, measuring 15 feet long, found dead in the Philippines on Saturday with 88 pounds of plastic trash inside its body. While every country is contributing to the reported 5-to-13 million TONS of plastic waste in the ocean EACH YEAR, the Philippines is reportedly the world's third-biggest contributor of plastic to oceans behind China and Indonesia.