After a brief trip delivering gifts to children in Latin America, including Panama and Ecuador, Santa is back in the U.S., according to Norad’s tracker.

So far, Mr. Claus has delivered more than 6 billion gifts and is making his way across the American Midwest.

The US Air Force has assured that mysterious drones recently spotted over the US East Coast will not interfere with Santa Claus’ work.

Santa Claus is now making his way to South America and traveling from Costa Rica to Panama.

We recently reported on the country after US President-elect Donald Trump rocked diplomatic relations with the country by threatening to retake the Panama Canal.

In posts on his social media platform Truth Social, Mr Trump accused the country of “ripping off” the US.

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Every year on Christmas Eve, Santa’s sleigh is pulled by eight reindeer decorated with complete antlers.

While both female and male reindeer wear antlers, males are known to drop their huge antlers after mating season around November.

Female reindeer only drop their antlers after giving birth in spring.

Since Christmas is in December, all males would have dropped their antlers during this time, meaning those pulling the sleigh with full antlers are more likely to be an all-female crew, scientists say.

The way Santa Claus learns what to give each child is used by scientists to understand the concept of teleportation in quantum physics.

Santa Claus’ journey at Christmas is one of the most arduous delivery plans ever undertaken by man in human history.

But a physical process called quantum teleportation could come to his aid, they say.

This phenomenon involves the transmission of pieces of information over long distances without physically moving the pieces of information themselves.

Scientists can use Santa’s Christmas deliveries to explain the concept, according to a new study.

It works when two people hold what researchers call “entangled” bits of information.

Measuring one immediately affects the other, “no matter how far apart they are,” scientists say.

This could explain how Mr. Claus can keep an information book about each child, researchers explain.

For example, Santa Claus can have “entangled” books whose contents represent quantum information.

One of these pairs of books remains in his workshop in the Arctic, while the other is secretly delivered to a children’s home long before Christmas Eve.

The child can then write their own version of the book and keep it until Christmas.

The real “magic” happens on Christmas Eve, scientists say.

On this day, Santa Claus checks his “Ledger of Good Nature” and teleports the book’s contents from the North Pole to the children’s book.

He then uses a machine to check whether a particular page in both books is either blank or contains text.

When a child opens their book early, the entanglement breaks down, leaving gibberish in the text, researchers say.

According to scientists, well-behaved children will have meaningful texts in their secret book, while naughty children will only have “gibberish.”

The process ensures that each child’s wishes are taken into account individually.

“Using Santa Claus as an example, we use an unusual context to explore key aspects of quantum teleportation,” they write.

Scientists at the University of Manchester say Santa Claus has calculated Santa’s movements and discovered that he can deliver presents to all the children in just one magical night by traveling close to the speed of light.

This means that he is affected by “time dilation” and his clock appears to tick slower than our own.

Researchers say this is due to Einstein’s theory of space, time and light, called special relativity.

The European Society of Cardiology has joined in on the fun, claiming that “75-year-old” Santa has been suffering from shortness of breath even with minimal exertion for the past six months.

“Due to obesity, he suffers from hypercholesterolemia and diabetes and requires insulin,” the nonprofit, which aims to reduce the burden of heart disease, posted on X.

Norad’s Santa tracker reveals that at the time of writing, the old man has delivered a record 6 billion gifts.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s real-time tracking of Santa Claus and his reindeer has revealed that he has delivered billions of gifts so far.

As I write this, he is currently near Connecticut in the US, in his 68th year of tracking Santa’s sleigh.

Scientists used 3D modeling to reveal Santa Claus’ face for the first time in nearly 1,700 years of his history.

The legend of Santa Claus goes back to the Christian monk Nicholas of Myra, who lived in what is now Turkey between 270 and 343 AD.

Saint Nicholas was described as an old man who punished children who misbehaved and rewarded well-behaved children with gifts.

The new study, published earlier this month in the journal OrtogOnLineMag, reconstructed the saint’s face from his skull, with researchers describing it as “strong and gentle.”

“The skull has a very robust appearance and creates a strong face,” said Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes, who was behind the study.

Researchers say his thick beard resembled what we think of Santa Claus.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is joining in on the Santa fun and has nominated a new member for the sleigh relay.

I’m not so sure this guy can fly, but I still admire his enthusiasm.

After a few trips through Greenland and Canada, Santa Claus is back in warmer climes.

His sleigh has just passed Puerto Rico.

He has delivered 5,442,632,150 so far.

Personally, I’m hoping for a few new pairs of socks. Maybe a cliche gift, but you can’t have too many of them.