Manafort juror advises against pardon

Juror 0302 had a long drive to the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., for the Paul Manafort trial, and any glimpse in the rearview mirror could have caught her eye to the red hat on the back seat, emblazoned with the phrase “Make America Great Again.”

The juror, Paula Duncan, told Fox News she supports President Donald Trump, including that daily reminder on her 45-mile commute from Leesburg, Va. But that fondness has not extended to Manafort, the president’s former campaign manager convicted Tuesday on eight counts federal crimes, with the remaining 10 counts declared a mistrial.

Ms. Duncan wants to see the full arc of justice applied to the president’s 2016 campaign chairman, she said Friday, and warned against action that would deny it.

“I feel it would be a grave mistake for President Trump to pardon Paul Manafort,” she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday night. “Justice was done, the evidence was there, and that’s where it should stop.”

Female drivers targeted

Nicholas Dagostino hated female drivers, authorities say, so much so that he shot them while they were driving.

Police in Texas linked Mr. Dagostino to two recent shootings in which women said they were shot in the arm. Both incidents happened in broad daylight, within a few miles of each other in the Katy area of Harris County, west of Houston. And both involved a suspect — Mr. Dagostino — who claimed he shot the women in selfdefense, according to criminal complaints.

But social media ramblings indicate that Mr. Dagostino “held a very dim view of women,” believed female drivers are “incompetent,” and that their sole purpose “is to give birth to male children,” investigators wrote in court documents.

Mr. Dagostino, 29, is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Harvey bond question

HOUSTON — Voters in Houston and its surrounding county marked Saturday’s anniversary of Hurricane Harvey coming ashore by deciding whether to approve the issuance of $2.5 billion in bonds to fund floodcontrol projects that might mitigate the damage caused by future storms.

Harvey, which made landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm on Aug. 25, 2017, killed 68 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas.

Thirty-six of the deaths were in the low-lying Houston area, where days of torrential rainfall and decades of unchecked development contributed to the flooding of more than 150,000 homes and 300,000 vehicles.

The bond referendum would help pay for projects to be chosen from a list of more than 230 proposals that include home buyouts, the construction of additional stormwater detention basins and the expansion of area bayous, among other options.

CDC changes course

After advising the public to avoid the nasal-spray version of the flu vaccine for the past two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now giving it the green light.

A favorite of the needleaverse, the spray did not appear to work as well against H1N1, a strain of the flu, in the past few seasons, the CDC said. But it’s expected to work better this year, said the CDC and Dr. Andrew Pavia, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah Hospital.