FBI probes new Clinton emails linked to Anthony Weiner

FBI director James Comey has told Congress the bureau is investigating newly found messages relating to Hillary Clinton's emails.

The latest emails came to light during a separate inquiry into top Clinton aide Huma Abedin's estranged husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Mr Comey said the FBI would find if the emails contain classified information.
The FBI has already found the Democratic candidate had sensitive information on a private email server.
The new findings emerged when devices belonging to Ms Abedin and Mr Weiner were seized in an FBI inquiry into whether he sent sexually explicit emails to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.

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The FBI chief said in his letter to Congress that investigators had discovered the emails "in connection with an unrelated case... that appear to be pertinent to the investigation".
He said he "cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work".
In July, Mr Comey said Mrs Clinton's handling of classified material during her 2009-13 tenure as secretary of state was "extremely careless", but cleared her of any criminal wrongdoing.
The revelation that she handled sensitive information while breaking federal rules by running her own email server out of her upstate New York home has dogged her campaign since last year.

How big is this? Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington

It could be nothing. It could be everything. And it almost certainly won't be resolved before Americans head to the polls in just under two weeks.
The letter from Mr Comey to Congress is frustratingly vague. There's no information, for instance, or how many emails are in question. That will only fuel the rampant speculation already breaking out, with leaks from "government sources" in the coming days sure to fan the flames.
Mrs Clinton's critics will go on the attack, using the latest news to support their claims that the former secretary of state engaged in malfeasance. Her supporters will spend the next few days in a defensive crouch, trying to assess how bad the damage could be.
What's certain, however, is that whether this turns out to be a big deal or not, it places the spotlight on all the wrong places for the Clinton campaign. It all but guarantees that even if she wins White House, the early days of her presidency will be dogged by this long-running political imbroglio