--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sean Trainor ## Sean Trainor Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close ## Sean Trainor Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 7, 2017 ### [What the Fugitive Slave Act Can Teach Us About Sanctuary Cities](https://time.com/4659391/sanctuary-cities-fugitive-slave-act/) A historian argues that the 1850 law provides a cautionary tale about what can happen if federal aut... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 27, 2016 ### [What the Digital Age Owes to the Inventor of Morse Code](https://time.com/4307892/samuel-morse-telegraph-history/) Samuel Morse was born on April 27, 1791, but his influence extends to this day [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 6, 2016 ### [How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia](https://time.com/4280458/republican-party-know-nothings/) In the 1850s, they took down a powerful nativist force in American politics [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 20, 2016 ### [What History Can Teach President Obama About His Legacy](https://time.com/4185498/andrew-johnson-legacy-mice/) How much control does a U.S. President have over his legacy? [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Dec 17, 2015 ### [The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling](https://time.com/4143574/wright-brothers-patent-trolling/) How two trailblazing aviators nearly ruined American aviation [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 20, 2015 ### [How Community Colleges Changed the Whole Idea of Education in America](https://time.com/4078143/community-college-history/) Community colleges have been at the forefront of nearly every major development in higher education [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jul 22, 2015 ### [The Long, Twisted History of Your Credit Score](https://time.com/3961676/history-credit-scores/) History’s lessons for surviving life in the age of the credit report [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 17, 2015 ### [Why History Urges Caution on Proposed Trade Deal](https://time.com/3924230/historys-trans-pacific-partnership/) When it comes to globalization, the 19th century has a lot to teach the 21st [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 1, 2015 ### [A Surprising Historical Parallel for Seattle’s Minimum Wage Fight](https://time.com/3754276/seattle-minimum-wage-history-peddlers/) How peddlers can help us understand franchise owners’ struggle with the city [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/sean-trainor/","name":"Sean Trainor"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/sean-trainor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/sean-trainor/"},"name":"Sean Trainor","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/sean-trainor/","sameAs":["https://x.com/ess_trainor"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```