England's Department of Education is considering a push to ban phones in classrooms, as Portugal, Italy and France have already done. It's time for the US to follow suit.

Mobile phones in the UK will be sent an emergency alert as the government tests the nationwide system for the second time.

When it was last tested, the message that appeared on phones said: ‘This is a test of Emergency Alerts, a new UK Government ...

At 3 p.m. local time on September 7, 85 million UK phones will blare a siren as part of a nationwide emergency alert test to prepare for future crises.