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An American man is guaranteed to make the final of the U.S. Open after Ben Shelton's win over defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals. Shelton faces American Frances Tiafoe next.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has returned home after a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea supporting the Iran war. The extended deployment drew attention following reports of crew stress and supply shortages.

Corrections officials in Ohio say Castro is believed to have committed suicide in his cell Tuesday night. He was serving a life sentence for holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for more than 10 years.

The Arctic Sunrise was boarded after a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Russian Arctic. The crew tweeted the dramatic events in real time.

Herman Wallace, who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement after his conviction on murder charges related to a 1972 prison riot, is now suffering from liver cancer. A U.S. district judge in Louisiana ruled that Wallace had not received a fair trial.

JPMorgan Chase says its profits were up 53 percent in 2012's fourth quarter — but CEO Jamie Dimon's salary will be cut in half, after the bank lost billions of dollars on risky bets placed by a single trader. Dimon's salary now stands at $11.5 million.

German media company Bertelsmann will own 53 percent of the new firm, Penguin Random House; Pearson, which owns Penguin, will control the rest. The merger, subject to regulatory approval, is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2013.

Two-Way readers were emphatic last year: the Canadian band should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Well, the trio's now been nominated and the hall says fans will have a say about which artists get inducted.

NPR's Don Gonyea says looking through his old baseball scorecards stirs up sweet memories from summers long past.

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.