PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan spent much of his annual Players Championship state-of-the-tour address dealing with threats from a spreading pandemic to a rival golf tour.

Misinformation and emotive posts shared and reshared online have exaggerated the threat of the coronavirus and have made it difficult to gauge the real risk, says Alex Webb

Two white men in their late-70s will now battle it out to become the standard-bearer for an increasingly diverse Democratic party in the US. Julie Pace reports from Washington