U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for ...

President Donald Trump carried through on another campaign promise, issuing a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground website Silk Road. But why did he do it?

During his four-week trial, Ulbricht acknowledged he created Silk Road, but his lawyers contended he had later handed off the website to others and was lured back toward its end to become the "fall ...

Ulbricht has denied any involvement in illegal trading on Silk Road, claiming during his four-week trial he wanted to “empower people to make choices in their lives and have privacy and ...

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

Prosecutors at Ubricht’s trial said more than $200m in drug deals had taken place on his site and alleged that he had also solicited six murders-for-hire, including one against a former Silk Road ...

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

While Ulbricht had admitted to creating Silk Road and operating it under the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts," he maintained at trial that he relinquished control to others and was being set up as a ...

Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case against Ross Ulbricht and the dark web marketplace Silk Road.

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, in 2015 in connection with his ownership ...

President Trump said he granted the full pardon in honor of Ross Ulbricht's mother "and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly." ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for ...