Covington, Kentucky

Catholic students exonerated of racist behaviour An independent report into the encounter between students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky and a Native American activist has found no evidence that the students made “offensive or racist statements”. The report came from four investigators who spent 240 hours examining the events at last month’s March for Life in Washington, DC. They spoke to 43 students, 13 chaperones and several third-party witnesses, and reviewed about 50 hours of internet footage and comments. The report suggested that the boys’ “Make America Great Again” headgear may not have been a political statement: on previous trips, pupils had bought President Obama hats as souvenirs.