NEWS BRIEFS

Brooks Koepka wins PGA Championship

Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship by two strokes over Dustin Johnson on Sunday at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. It was the fourth major title in eight starts for the 29-year-old Koepka, who was winning the PGA Championship for the second straight year. The victory makes him the first player in golf history to own back-to-back U.S. Open and PGA Championship titles simultaneously.

Morehouse grads to have loans paid off

Commencement came with a big bonus for the class of 2019 at Morehouse College. On Sunday, billionaire investor Robert F. Smith promised during his commencement speech to pay off the student loans for the 396 members of the graduating class at the historically black college in Atlanta. Morehouse President David A. Thomas estimated the total amount covered by the gift at up to $40 million and called it a “liberation gift” that would allow the new graduates to have “the liberty to follow their dreams, their passions.”