Your customized headlines for Fri, Jul 20, 2012

On the day Jim Lenox got his last injection, the frail 54-year-old cancer patient was waiting to be discharged from the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He'd put on his black leather coat. Then a nurse said he needed another dose of anemia drugs.

President Obama has repeatedly embraced three titans of American commerce, General Electric, Boeing and JPMorgan Chase, showering their chief executives with praise and adopting policies that benefit the companies.

The revelation that Barclays and other big banks schemed to rig Libor, a critical global interest rate, sent shock waves across the world of finance.

Top bank executives resigned. Central bankers launched probes into how rates are set in Britain, Sweden, Japan and elsewhere. Some commentators called the scandal one of the worst in history.

European nations have made concessions in recent weeks to boost confidence in an upcoming rescue of the Spanish banking system, and the country's politicians have forged ahead with plans to control government deficits.

Five years after the financial crisis began to unfold, questions are arising about whether federal securities regulators are running out of time to pursue alleged fraud.

The answer, as usual, depends on who you ask.

European nations have made concessions in recent weeks to boost confidence in an upcoming rescue of the Spanish banking system, and the country's politicians have forged ahead with plans to control government deficits.

President Obama has repeatedly embraced three titans of American commerce, General Electric, Boeing and JPMorgan Chase, showering their chief executives with praise and adopting policies that benefit the companies.

The revelation that Barclays and other big banks schemed to rig Libor, a critical global interest rate, sent shock waves across the world of finance.

Top bank executives resigned. Central bankers launched probes into how rates are set in Britain, Sweden, Japan and elsewhere. Some commentators called the scandal one of the worst in history.

In the warped universe where this American currently resides, there remains only one heroic person brave enough to save our beloved United States from secretly being taken over by a falafel-eating, Mecca-praying and Ramadan-fasting cabal of sinister Muslims duplicitously bent upon imposing Islamic sharia law upon our golden shores.

"Guilty as charged" is how Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy answered questions about his restaurant chain's support of traditional marriage earlier this week.

That's according to an interview published Monday in the Baptist Press, in which Cathy says his Atlanta-based company is "very much supporting of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit."