WASHINGTON -- This is why you may have gotten a notification from the White House on Wednesday. The government tested a new national alert system that would let presidents send out emergency messages ...

Siren sounds have blared from mobile phones across the country in a test of the national emergency alert system. At around 15:00 on Sunday, mobiles vibrated and sounded for about 10 seconds in the ...

After days of buildup and tips on when it was coming, what it meant and how to stop it, the Nationwide Emergency Alert Test sounded on phones across the land. Two minutes earlier than scheduled. And ...

The national system for sending emergency alerts to mobile phones will be tested for the second time this Sunday, 7 September. The alerts are designed for situations where there is an imminent danger ...