http://www.prdailysun.com/ The Puerto Rico Daily Sun, Puerto Rico s only English-language daily newspaper, our mission is fairness and truth in reporting. Our daily sections cover news related to local events, the economy, U.S. and World, Arts and Living and Sports. en-us http://www.prdailysun.com/rss.gif http://www.prdailysun.com/ 96 24 http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1301885707 JEFF KAROUBThe Associated PressDETROITCharlie Sheen was heckled, booed and eventually abandoned by the crowd at his inaugural stage show, with many of the audience members chanting refund and heading for the exits even before the show abruptly ended . Winning? Not on opening night . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1301885789 DAVID GERMAINThe Associated PressLOS ANGELESThe Easter bunny has hopped into the top spot at the weekend box office . Russell Brand s family comedy Hop debuted at No . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1301885851 RAPHAEL G . SATTERThe Associated PressLONDONHe s been filmed trekking through the Arctic, gives a smoldering look from the cover of a men s magazine and is being targeted by legions of young women who only a few years ago would have been lusting after his older brother . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1301885970 By The Associated PressNORRIDGE, Ill . A 3-year-old boy died at an indoor family amusement park in suburban Chicago after falling out of a roller coaster, authorities said Sunday . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1301886176 By GREG BLUESTEINThe Associated PressATLANTAThe federal health care overhaul s core requirement to make virtually all citizens buy health insurance or face tax penalties is constitutional because Congress has the authority to regulate interstate business, the Justice Department said in its appeal of a ruling that struck down the Obama administration s signature legislation . The government s 62-page motion filed Friday to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals argued that Congress had the power to enact the overhaul s minimum coverage requirements because it is a rational means of regulating the way participants in the health care market pay for their services . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1302651347 The rear section of an Air France jet that crashed off Brazil s coast in 2009 remains relatively intact on the ocean floor, raising hopes the plane s black boxes may still be attached to the wreckage, family of some victims said Tuesday after being briefed by officials . Experts have said that without retrieving the voice and data recorders, located at the rear of the jetliner, there would be almost no chance of determing what caused the crash that killed all 228 people aboard . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1302651382 Uruguay s senate debated Tuesday whether to annul an amnesty for crimes against humanity committed during the 1973-85 dictatorship, with a narrow majority expected to overrule voters who upheld the law in two referendums . Backed by leftist President Jose Mujica, the measure would then return to the lower house for minor changes and could become law by May 20 the day Uruguay honors the political prisoners who were kidnapped and killed during the military junta s crackdown on leftists . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306949990 MALIBU, CaliforniaBarbra Streisand says she understands that California has to sell her donated 22-acre Malibu ranch to help balance the state budget but hopes the buyer will preserve its special habitat . The singer released a statement last week about Gov . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306952338 EUREKA, Calif . Actress Irene Gilbert, who ran the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles for 20 years after persuading her mentor to open it in 1985, has died . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306952466 NEW YORK Tribeca Film and ESPN are establishing a video-on-demand sports film festival . Tribeca and ESPN announced Tuesday that the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival will debut June 23 and run through Aug . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306952671 DALLAS A Texas man is suing comedian Andy Dick over his December performance at a Dallas nightclub . Robert Tucker claims he suffered emotional distress and defamation as a result of an alleged incident in which Dick exposed his genitals while walking through the audience . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306952894 WASHINGTON As the lights went out, Placido Domingo ducked his head underneath the descending curtain as if to soak in the applause a little longer . You could excuse the legendary Spanish tenor for seeking to revel as long as possible in the afterglow of a night when he scaled walls, rolled around like an actor in his prime and projected his honey-colored voice across an overflowing opera house . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306952979 DES MOINES, Iowa A back injury has forced actor Michael J . Fox to withdraw from the Principal Charity Classic pro-am golf event in West Des Moines this week . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306953162 Summing up a career as long as Franco de Vita s takes great effort, according to the popular Venezuelan pop singer . When it came time to make his double CD and DVD, Primera Fila, he chose 40 of his favorite songs . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306953316 The play Agüeybaná El Bravo (Agüeybaná the Warrior) by Ricardo Magriñá Vélez will premiere Friday as part of the Ateneo Puertorriqueño s Second Festival of Young Puerto Rican Playwrights . The festival, being held in the Ateneo Theater, is part of the Ateneo s 34th Theater Festival . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306953570 JOHANNESBURG Regulators approved Wal-Mart s $2 . 4 billion bid to buy a controlling share of a South African chain in a ruling Tuesday that followed a fierce debate over protectionism in the country with the continent s most promising economy . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306953733 WASHINGTONSeeking to boost exports and accelerate the growth of the U . S . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306953895 ATLANTIC CITY, N . J . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306954091 BERLINA massive and unprecedented outbreak of bacterial infections linked to contaminated vegetables claimed two more lives in Europe on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 16 . The number of sick rose to more than 1,150 people in at least eight nations . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306954228 ZEINA KARAMSyrian President Bashar Assad issued a general amnesty Tuesday for prisoners that includes those deemed to have committed political crimes as pressure built from a 10-week-old uprising that his regime has failed to quell with overwhelming military force . The offer was swiftly rejected by the opposition as just another plot by the regime to gain time . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306956131 WAUKEE, IowaA powerful tornado that came within a few miles of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant last month wouldn t have splattered north Alabama with radiation even if it had hit a reactor directly, federal regulators told a skeptical crowd Tuesday during a meeting at the troubled installation . The plant s Unit One has the lowest safety marks of any reactor in the nation because an important cooling valve was found inoperable last fall, and the close call with an EF-5 tornado that plowed across the region on April 27 heightened fears of a nuclear disaster at the plant, which is nearly identical to the Fukushima plant that was damaged after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306956217 JOPLIN, Mo . Home Depot employees in orange vests were busy helping customers Tuesday in the parking lot of the Joplin store flattened just nine days ago by a tornado . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306956927 HOUSTONThe Texas Legislature ended its regular session with a mixed bag of environmental rules, passing some bills that put it ahead of the nation and others that are bound to infuriate the U . S . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306957347 The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals called Tuesday for a full investigation of the apparently illegal monkey import-and-export permit granted by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources and the Environment to Bioculture Puerto Rico, Inc . In an urgent letter, PETA wrote the Puerto Rico Department of Justice noting that Bioculture is prohibited by law to operate in Guayama, where the facilities are being built . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306957467 WashingtonResident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi called Tuesday for the reformation of the criminal justice system and the manner in which first-time offenders are sentenced in drug cases, in Puerto Rico and the United States . The idea that our way of looking at criminal offenders needs a reform has become more viable in recent years, he said . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306957626 New Progressive Party Sen . Antonio Chuchin Soto is the latest lawmaker to be involved in legal trouble . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306957819 Forty of the island s 78 municipalities are operating with budget deficits . Of those, the four most deficit-strapped municipalities are under the control of the New Progressive Party . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306958910 The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s climate prediction . Instead of six hurricanes, which is the average, there could be as many as 10, with up to six major storms, triple the average . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306959126 STAMFORD, Conn . Football Hall of Famer Andy Robustelli, who played for the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams during a 14-year NFL career, has died . http://www.prdailysun.com/index.php?page=news.article&id=1306959314 NEW YORK Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter said doctors discovered four very small brain tumors after he had an MRI on Friday in Florida . The 57-year-old Carter said he expects to learn more about his diagnosis when he is examined again Thursday at Duke Medical Center .