Michelle Singer

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Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of Chinese-made toys - including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters - because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.The recall, announced on Aug. 1, involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.The recall is the first for Mattel Inc. invo…

In an exclusive, CBS News has learned of a corruption scandal involving The Home Depot.In recent weeks, four Home Depot purchasing managers were fired at a meeting at an Atlanta hotel for their role in the scandal, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian. The managers were allegedly paid enormous sums — totaling millions of dollars — to insure that certain flooring products made their way onto the company’s shelves, which is among the most competitive retail real estate…

The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent . It was originally broadcast on April 1, 2007. It’s embarrassing these days to see how much the people who want to be president are spending trying to get that job. Something’s gone wrong with the democracy that we’re so proud of. The candidates are spending a fortune trying to buy our vote and most of us would rather have the cash. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln spent $100,000 on his campaign and this may have been the beginni…

60 Minutes viewers can now order DVD versions of many of their favorite stories from the broadcast at Amazon.com/60minutes. And soon CBS News archive, one of the great treasures of news content in the world, will make selected segments available on customized DVDs through a unique agreement CBS News has signed with Amazon.com and its subsidiary, CustomFlix. The deal was announced July 14, 2006, by Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports. Containing millions of feet of film and over 2 mil…

What would you do with your time if you found out you only had three weeks to live? That’s the difficult question posed in the comedy “Last Holiday” starring Queen Latifah.Latifah plays Georgia Bird, a timid cookware saleswoman who bumps her head in a tragic work accident and finds out she only has three weeks to live. “She decides to go off and explore all the possibilities that she had been holding herself back from exploring,” Latifah said. “And a lot of comedy, a lot of humor comes from all…