To me, the story of Santa Claus is like a Greek or Roman myth, a story that suggests a truth about human nature, hinting at a force greater than ourselves, that feeling, writes Christopher de Vinck.

Every holiday season, as winter sets in, kids start gearing up with bated breath for the fluffy, jolly guy in the red suit to pop up and deliver gifts to them. Santa Claus feels like he's been around ...

An opinion columnist explains her decision not to teach her children to believe in Santa Claus. The author wanted to avoid the eventual "lie" and potential breakdown of trust with her children.

It’s nearly Christmas and I know, from my own experience and from watching my children grow up, these are days when doubts about Santa Claus bubble up. It’s inevitable, kind of a right of passage, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a snowy night in December 1955 at the height of the Cold War, a red hotline rang ominously in the combat operations center at ...

For 70 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has tracked Santa's journey on Christmas Eve. The tradition began in 1955 after a newspaper misprinted a Sears Santa hotline number, ...