Morning Updates: The ups and downs of college tours, Massachusetts man killed in fight with ISIS
Good morning, Boston. Here are the stories you need to know today, including a Massachusetts man’s death fighting ISIS, Hillary Clinton’s college loan push, and Joyce Carol Oates’s “joke.’’
A first in the battle against ISIS: “An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said Wednesday, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists. Keith Broomfield, who was from Massachusetts, died June 3 in a battle in a Syrian village named Qentere.’’ (Boston.com)
The popularity – and frustrations – of touring colleges with your high school child: “The trips are costly for parents, and they can be emotionally taxing, too. ‘You want to help them find the nirvana they are looking for,’ said Sara Cornell, a Newton mother. ‘But at the same time, you are stuck in a car or an airplane with an agitated 17-year-old.’ Her daughter decided several hours into a Jet Blue flight to San Francisco — somewhere over the Rockies — that the University of California, Berkeley was too far away from home.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Influenced by Sen. Warren, Clinton examines college loans: “In weekly calls and in meetings over the past few months, Hillary Clinton’s policy team has been soliciting input from policy experts with ties to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with the goal of making student loan reform the core of Clinton’s economic agenda.’’ (Politico)
They keep finding bodies by my grandparents’ house: “Very few people walk through these woods, which makes them a perfect place to hide bodies. Police have found eight bodies there: one in 1995, three in 2007, and four more this spring. All but the first victim, say police, were killed by the same person. All waited years to be identified. Why has it taken so long?’’ (Boston.com)
Famed author Joyce Carol Oates was joking, you guys: “All were equally baffled after Oates tweeted a link to a joke tweet that showed [Steven] Spielberg posing with a fake dinosaur. The image was from the set of the movie Jurassic Park—a context the author didn’t quite seem to recognize. ‘So barbaric that this should still be allowed,’ she wrote.’’ In an email, she said the tweet was a joke. “Many of my tweets are meant to be funny; but I guess that is not always a good idea,’’ she wrote. (Newsweek)
The Goodbye: Here’s what the MBTA used to look like.
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