  We report on an extensive global QCD analysis of new DIS and hadronic
inclusive jet production data emphasizing the impact of these recent data on
the determination of the gluon distribution, and on the interpretation of the
high $E_t$ jets highlighted by the CDF collaboration. This analysis results in
(i) a better handle on the range of uncertainty of the gluon distribution, (ii)
a new generation of CTEQ parton distributions which incorporates this
uncertainty, (iii) a viable scenario for accommodating the high $E_t$ jets in
the conventional pQCD framework, and (iv) a systematic study of the sensitivity
of the various hard processes to $\alpha_s$ and the consistency of $\alpha_s$
determination in global analysis.
