Law enforcement said Ulbricht created the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace” on the internet.

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t ... paid 40 bolts of raw silk for an 11-year-old slave girl.

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, founder of the anonymous marketplace website Silk Road, which the president promised to do on Day 1.