The CIA has officially closed its World Factbook, ending a publication that for more than 60 years served as one of the most widely used reference tools on countries, territories, and global regions.

The CIA shut down its World Factbook resource Wednesday, after it spent more than six decades in existence. The agency announced on its website that the World Factbook “has sunset” without providing ...

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teachers and librarians are scrambling after the CIA abruptly killed off The World Factbook, its long-running reference about ...

When one of the world's most secretive and far-reaching organizations offers to share how it sees the world, it's worth taking a peek. That's the thought I had when I dove into the CIA World Factbook ...

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants nearly everyone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CIA shut down its World Factbook resource Wednesday, after it spent more than six decades in existence. The agency announced ...

Taylor Hale was in the middle of teaching a Western geography lesson on Wednesday afternoon when his sixth-grade students informed him that the online reference they usually consulted was gone. He’d ...