The Gavel is The Hill's weekly courts newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below: Allies of President Trump are attempting a takeover of the D.C. Bar Association as voting ends Wednesday in the election to lead the prestigious organization. The two-way race for president is between Diane Seltzer and Brad Bondi, the brother of...

The Gavel is The Hill's weekly courts newsletter. Sign up here or in the box below: President Trump and his allies are waging war with the Federalist Society as he sees parts of his second-term agenda blocked by some of his own judicial appointees. Simmering tensions broke into full public view after Trump called longtime Federalist...

President Trump acknowledged the tough negotiation tactics of Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the U.S. reminds trading partners that the deadline for striking deals is approaching.

More than a million people filled Tiananmen Square with a fragile hope that the system might bend. Instead, the system broke them.

President Trump must now take further steps to protect Americans from the WHO’s counterproductive approach. 

In today’s issue: The “big, beautiful” megabill just ran into an Elon Musk-shaped roadblock. President Trump’s signature tax and domestic policy bill, which faces consideration in the Senate this week, has been on thin ice for months. The massive, sweeping piece of legislation barely passed the House, and now faces an even tougher crowd in...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Meta have wrapped up a six-week trial over the Facebook and Instagram parent’s alleged social networking monopoly, leaving the final decision in the hands of the judge. The trial, which came to a close last week, seeks to determine whether Meta has a monopoly over personal social networking that...

The educational research community is looking to pick up the pieces after the Trump administration has canceled dozens of studies and ended hundreds of jobs.   In line with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), hundreds of federal contracts have been canceled with education research groups, accused by the administration of either being useless or...

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that it has placed an ICE detainer on an illegal immigrant accused of brutally raping a child.

Ahead of a scheduled call to discuss tariffs and trade, President Donald Trump said he likes China's Xi Jinping but finds the Chinese leader very tough and difficult to make a deal with.