Neha Thirani Bagri

This summer will mark the fourth time British hockey players Kate Richardson-Walsh and Helen Richardson-Walsh will be competing in the Olympics. The long-time teammates made history in London in 2012 when they won Great Britain’s first Olympic hockey medal in two decades. In Rio, they’re gunning for gold, but before their first match, they’ve already made their mark—this time, as the first same-sex married couple ever to compete in the Olympic games.

The Olympic torch has been transported over 22,515 miles since April, moving through three countries and 300 cities and towns, carried by thousands of people using boats, bicycles and even a surfboard. The torch relay ends tonight in Rio de Janeiro, with the lighting of the main cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Summer Games at Maracanã Stadium.

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors Inc. has agreed to buy SolarCity Corp. for $2.6 billion, in an all-stock deal that would double Tesla’s workforce to 30,000 people and, Musk hopes, make it possible for the company to bring solar energy to the masses.

The Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, ranked one of the 10 worst prisons in America by Mother Jones, is finally closing its doors.

Throughout US history, religious leaders and institutions have played a vital role in addressing the issues of the day. The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which witnessed a horrific shooting in June last year, was used in the struggle against slavery as a site for organizing and activism. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership of the civil rights movement was definitively shaped by his role as a preacher.