Defiance: Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Paris today in a solemn memorial and a march of defiance against the jihadist murders at Charlie Hebdo magazine. The Place de la Republique and the streets that feed into it were filled with people shoulder to shoulder. Demonstrators held up placards saying “I am Charlie Hebdo” and some held caricatures from the magazine deemed offensive by Muslims.

In an unusual display of agreement, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel also attended.

Yesterday French Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that his country is at war with radical Islam. He said, “It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity.”

As the manhunt continues, several news outlets say the girlfriend of one of three dead terrorists was not even in France at the time of the Charlie Hebdo attack. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, had been reported to have been with her boyfriend in the takeover of a kosher market and mysteriously escaped during the police assault. Now there are reports she may have left France Jan. 1^st or 2^nd.

And in Hamburg, Germany, a newspaper that reprinted one of the satirical cartoons from Charlie Hebdo was firebombed overnight.

The Obit Page: Anita Ekberg, the statuesque blonde beauty who starred in Federico Fellini’s 1960 classic “La Dolce Vita,” died today outside Rome. She was 83. The scene in which she waded into a fountain wearing a strapless gown almost made the water boil.

>Robert Stone, the novelist who won the National Book Award for “Dog Soldiers” in 1975, has died in Florida at age 77. The book about a war correspondent caught up in the drug trade wove in themes about the futility of the Vietnam War and the counter-culture at the time. Probably less known about Stone was that he had been one of Ken Kesey’s “Merry Pranksters” riding the psychedelic bus in the 1960s.

Yardlines: The New England Patriots twice came from 14 points behind to beat Baltimore 35-31 yesterday and advance to football’s final four.

In Seattle the Seahawks crushed the Carolina Panthers 31-17. Seattle’s Kam Chancellor put it out of reach with an interception he returned 89 yards for a touchdown.

Today, Indianapolis plays at Denver. Dallas meets Green Bay in the frozen north. The two teams have not met since the infamous “Ice Bowl” 47 years ago when the temperature was 15 below zero and the wind chill was nearly 40 below. Green Bay won the NFL championship in that one. It’s 21 degrees up there this morning, practically tropical.

Nation of Maher: HBO’s sharped-tongued host Bill Maher took off after the Islamic faith Friday night on his show. Not a fan of any religion, Maher said there have been an uncounted number of terrorist incidents since the 9/11 attacks and that, “What we’ve said all along, and have been called bigots for it, is when there’s this many bad apples, there’s something wrong with the orchard.”

Raskolnikov: Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman was arrested again this week and charged with domestic violence. He’s accused of throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend. What’s amazing about Zimmerman is not that he keeps getting arrested, but that he’s able to get a girlfriend.

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