My weirdest Christmas: I tried to catch out Santa with a whoopee cushion

Who was Santa, really? Aged eight, I devised a cunning plan to catch him in the act, involving a booby trap and a camera. Unfortunately, the joke was on me …

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The kindness of strangers: a boy picked up my spilled shopping when I was too pregnant to reach the ground

I’d turned around for a second but that was all it took for my trolley to start rolling away. Before I could react, it tipped over

‘I feel special, in my heart’: thousands gather at Stonehenge for winter solstice

People, including druids and pagans, come from across world to watch sunrise on shortest day of the year

Sisters survive deadly Christmastime attack at Utah cabin

Updated on: December 21, 2025 / 7:29 AM EST / CBS News

Major outage leaves more than 130,000 customers in San Francisco without power

Updated on: December 20, 2025 / 11:14 PM PST / CBS San Francisco