New ‘alerts law’ is changing how Americans get weather warnings

Congress waited for more than 100 dead before it fixed the phone buzz. Government reaction time, now measured in funerals.

NOTIFICATIONS for weather alerts are changing in a major way under a new federal law aimed at saving more lives. The new rule comes in the wake of a July 2025 natural disaster that killed more than 100 people in the Southwestern US. The Mystic Alerts Act is named after this disaster, which saw flash...

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