The Trump Papers: Republicans are wrestling with what to do about the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mara-a-Lago home, with some calling for defunding of the FBI and others calling for a more moderate response.

  Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican and former FBI agent, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation, “It was an unprecedented action that needs to be supported by unprecedented justification.”

  “The Justice Department should ‘show that this was not just a fishing expedition, that they had due cause to go in and to do this, that they did exhaust all other means,” Republican senator Mike Rounds told NBC.

  Some are calling for release of the so-called “affidavit,” the document that was the underlying justification for a judge to grant the search warrant. It could contain damning information for Trump, but some of his supporters hope that it’s weak and will support their claim that the investigation is political.

  In another development, The NY Times reports that last June a lawyer for Donald Trump signed a document swearing that all the classified materials held at Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the government, and yet the FBI found more during last Monday’s search.

  That might explain why a statute related to obstruction was cited on the warrant that authorized the daylong search of the former president’s home.

Rushdie: Author Salman Rushdie is off a ventilator, awake, and recovering in a western New York hospital. His agent said, “The injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction.”

  Rusdhie sustained liver damage and some nerves in his right arm were severed. He might lose an eye.

  The author of “The Satanic Verses,” who is condemned in the Muslim world for his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammed, was stabbed roughly 10 times as he prepared to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York on Friday. 

  Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man was arrested immediately and has pleaded not guilty. 

  The front page of Keyhan, a newspaper in Tehran, said that Rushdie had gotten “divine vengeance” and that former President Donald J. Trump and Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state, “are next.”

Water, Water: Under extreme drought, Germany’s Rhine river is drying up and getting so low that it’s slowing and blocking shipping on the vital river route. River levels have dropped to “exceptionally low” levels in some areas, German officials say. 

  Cargo ships are carrying lighter loads and transport costs are up.

  Water flows in recent weeks at a gauge just west of Frankfurt were already at just 45% of average levels for this time of year.  It’s expected to fall even lower, causing obstructions for ships. 

  There’s drought in California as well, but scientists say that state can expect a “megaflood” sometime in the next century. A new study by the organization Science Advances says that “climate change has already doubled the likelihood of an event capable of producing catastrophic flooding” and that “We further find that runoff in the future extreme storm scenario is 200 to 400% greater than historical values in the Sierra Nevada.” 

  The area with the most destruction would be the Central Valley of California, including Sacramento, Fresno and Bakersfield, the study’s authors project. The Central Valley produces a quarter of the nation’s food supply. 

The War Zone: Ukrainian troops have blown up two vital bridges that Russian troops have depended upon to access occupied territory.

  The Antonivsy road bridge and the Kherson rail bridge over the Dnipro River have been heavily damaged and are “likely unusable for heavy military vehicles,” according to a report from British intelligence. That puts a squeeze on the Russians for re-supply of troops at the front. 

The Obit Page: Actress Anne Heche was taken off life support and died of injuries suffered in a flaming car wreck in Los Angeles. She was 53.

  Heche was an award-winning actress who appeared in the 1998 remake of “Psycho” and the rom-com “Six Days Seven Nights” alongside Harrison Ford. Despite her success, she had struggled with mental illness, drugs, and alcohol.

  In her 2001 memoir, “Call Me Crazy,” she said her father sexually abused her as a child.

  Despite having relationships with men, Heche was famous for her three-year romance with comedian Ellen DeGeneres on the cusp of a time when it was becoming safe to come out as gay.

The Spin Rack: The Polio virus has been found in samples of New York City wastewater, suggesting that the crippling disease virtually eradicated by vaccination is circulating again. Three weeks ago in Rockland County, north of the city, a man was left partly paralyzed by a case of Polio. — For the past several weeks a 1,300 pound walrus named Freya has been delighting onlookers on the Norwegian coast off Oslo climbing onto piers and into small boats. Yesterday, claiming the walrus was too dangerous to humans and too difficult to move, Norwegian authorities killed the human-pleasing creature. “In the end, we couldn’t see any other options,” said Olav Lekver, a spokesman for the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries. “She was in an area that wasn’t natural for her.”

Dim Bulb: Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said in a speech over the weekend that she’s against using solar power. “I like the lights on. I want to stay up later at night,” Greene said. “I don’t want to have to go to bed when the sun sets.”

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