Congressional Democrats may just surrender rather than risk catching blame for shutting down a government that Republicans are gutting.

House Democratic leaders are urging their members to oppose the stopgap spending bill Republicans plan to bring to the floor on Tuesday, according to aides and lawmakers. This raises the likelihood that the government could shut down on March 14.

Actor Gene Hackman's wife was captured in a final video image on the last day she was alive. That's according to a painstaking reconstruction of the tragic couple's last days by USA Today. Betsy Arakawa, Hackman's wife, was captured in the surveillance video image on Feb. 11, the final day of her ...