Moscow — President Vladimir Putin signed a bill Thursday revoking Russia's ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was needed to establish parity with the United States. Putin has said that rescinding the ratification of the ...

A new academic study finds that when public companies give their shareholders a vote on the selection of an external auditing firm, they are less likely to make financial restatements than those that don’t. The study, which appears in the latest issue of ...

In 1933, three-quarters of the states ratified the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution—often referred to as the “Lame Duck Amendment”—the main purpose of which was to dramatically reduce the period between an election for national offices and ...

Ratifying a contract means approving it, not necessarily signing it. This occurs after two parties negotiate the details of a contract, but one or both of the parties does not have the authority to sign the contract. The contract then needs to be approved ...

On March 30, Angela Lauer Chong, vice president for student life, sent an email to students announcing that both UO and UA have reached a tentative agreement. “University administration is incredibly grateful to the members of the UO and UA bargaining ...

The European Parliament’s top trade official called Sunday for an immediate freeze on ratification of the bloc’s transatlantic trade agreement with the United States, citing mounting legal and policy uncertainty stemming from the Trump administration’s latest round of tariff maneuvers.