The Silk Road platform was shut down in 2013 with the arrest of Ulbricht. In 2015, the then-31-year-old was found guilty and convicted of seven crimes including the distribution of dangerous ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator ...

The self-declared "pro-crypto president" Donald Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on Tuesday.. Ulbricht, 40, was about 10 years into his life sentence for helming an online black ...

The FBI Declassified: Dangerous Journey on the Silk Road 43:25. President Trump announced Tuesday that he has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website that the FBI ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...