Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road ...

It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

Ross Ulbricht, the man behind a Dark Web platform for masked contraband deals, was nabbed and convicted of his crimes—and then pardoned by Trump. Libertarians cheered, but is this the stuff of ...

An earlier version of this article said that Ulbricht was not charged for soliciting murder. He was charged in a separate indictment in Maryland but prosecutors later dropped the charges.

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Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some ...

Donald Trump took a victory lap over the weekend celebrating his January pardon of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web drug marketplace, who had been serving a double life sentence in ...