Three days after FBI Director James Comey jolted the presidential race with a provocative letter to Congress, an unexpected dynamic has emerged: Comey is facing allegations of wrongdoing – and Hillary Clinton isn’t.Let’s start with the latest developments, including the FBI obtaining a warrant to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for emails that may (or may not) relate to Clinton.

The warrant came two days after FBI director James Comey revealed the existence of the emails, which law-enforcement sources said were linked to Weiner’s estranged wife, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The FBI already had a warrant to search Weiner’s laptop, but that only applied to evidence of his allegedly illicit communications with an underage girl.

Senior Democrats have called on the F.B.I. to investigate whether any of Donald J. Trump’s aides are colluding with Russia. Some of his aides have ties to Russian interests, but they have denied any wrongdoing.



While Mr. Comey told Congress last month that he would not confirm the existence of any investigation into people associated with Mr. Trump, he said he felt compelled to discuss details of the Clinton investigation because it involved “exceptional circumstances where the public needed information.”



Matthew Miller, a Democrat and former Justice Department spokesman who has criticized Mr. Comey’s handling of the email investigation, said the F.B.I. director should not pick and choose when to follow the guidelines.



“You can’t apply the usual standard to one candidate and an entirely different set of rules for the other,” he said.