The United States will be conducting a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts across all wireless and electronic devices in the fall. The purpose of the test is to ...

Your electronic devices may have alarmed you on Wednesday — and there's a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system started broadcasting just before 2:20 p.m. EDT to ...

Did you see an emergency alert? It's was hard to miss as it should have blared out of every TV broadcast, radio and cellphone in the United States with a warning tone. The alert was part of the ...

“THIS IS A TEST”: If you have a cellphone or are watching television Wednesday, that message will flash across your screen as the federal government tests its emergency alert system used to tell ...