Monday is the fourth Monday before Election Day, and it begins the stretch when most of America starts voting. Time for Conservatives to lock in!

Twenty-six days before Americans finish voting, the two men charged with holding the Republican congressional majority were in the Balkans, advising a Russia-friendly government's reelection campaign.

In Washington, political muscle is usually measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Constitutional Rights PAC has never played that game, and it has never needed to.

A machine built by a handful of companies in California is now helping decide American elections, and not one of those companies will tell you what political assumptions they built into it.

Justice Samuel Alito told CBS News that he now thinks about retirement every term. He is 76 years old. Clarence Thomas is 78. Both were appointed by Republican presidents, and both sit on a Court whose conservative majority rests on a margin that disappears with a single vacancy filled by the wrong Senate.

The Senate has the entire month of October off, plus the first week of November. So does the House. Both chambers are home, and they will not return in any meaningful way until after Americans have finished voting.