Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Founder of ‘Silk Road’ Online Bazaar for Illicit Goods

In doing so, the president fulfills a campaign promise to the libertarian movement. President Donald Trump has issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of an underground online marketplace called Silk Road that was designed to let people anonymously buy and sell various unlawful goods and services. Trump said in a Jan. 21 post

California’s Attorney General Joins Others in Challenging Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order 

Two cities and 16 states are filing suit against the order that scraps rules granting citizenship to anyone born in the United States. California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined more than a dozen other state attorneys general is challenging the constitutionality of an executive order redefining birthright citizenship, issued by President Donald Trump on the

Taliban Say 2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Were Freed in Prisoner Exchange

WASHINGTON—A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, officials said Tuesday. The release of two Americans freed in the swap, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered before President Joe Biden left office