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    US futures rise ahead of new housing data

    NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures are rebounding as investors again focus on domestic economic issues rather than Europe, where the debt crisis is creating new burdens for countries like Spain.

    Dow Jones industrial average futures are up 24 points to 12,455. Standard & Poor's 500 futures tacked on 2.4 points to 1,309 and Nasdaq futures are up 7.5 points to 2,534.

    On Tuesday, Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller issues its 20-city index of changes in home prices from March to April. From February to March, prices rose in most major cities for the first time in seven months. Since then, the supply of homes for sale has fallen, which could help boost prices further this year.

    It's a different story in Spain, where 28 banks inundated by bad home loans were downgraded by Moody's.

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      A new report says Obama's top lawyer knew of the IRS scandal weeks before the president said he had learned about it in the news

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      The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department and seizing two days of Rosen’s personal emails, the Washington Post reported on Monday. In a chilling move sure to rile defenders of civil liberties, an FBI agent [...]

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      The frenzy for last minute tickets is over. The numbers have been picked out. Somewhere, a single person is $590.5 million richer. Last night's record Powerball jackpot has a winner but we have no idea who that person is yet. 

    • Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive

      By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases. Military officers in the combat zone, deep in a semi-desert frontier region, said operations continued and that troops faced considerable opposition from well-armed Boko Haram fighters. ...

    • Sci-Fi Film 'After Earth' Presents Dark Future for Humanity

      The Earth is a pretty bleak place for humans in the new science fiction movie, "After Earth."

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