Twelve dead in Paris terrorist attack . . . Heavily armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans stormed a Paris satirical newspaper office Wednesday and shot dead at least 12 people in the deadliest attack in France in four decades. Police launched a massive manhunt for the masked attackers who reportedly hijacked a car and sped off, running over a pedestrian and shooting at officers.

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White House plays the race card, of course . . .  Knowing full well Republicans plan to keep Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana in the leadership as majority whip, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested in no unmistakable terms that to do so was racist. It only follows that Republican leaders must be racist. White House Dossier

Will Obama hand Gitmo to Cuba? . . . President Obama’s drive to normalize ties with communist Cuba is raising new concerns among security officials and experts that the administration will give up the strategic naval base at Guantanamo Bay in deal with Havana. Washington Free Beacon

Obama launches three-day roadshow . . . Obama on Wednesday heads to Detroit, where the president plans to kick off a three-day pre-State of the Union trip with a visit to a Ford auto plant. White House officials have cast the roadshow as an opportunity for the president to sketch out his vision ahead of the speech later this month while capitalizing on some of the political momentum gained last month. He'll also visit Arizona and Tennessee. The Hill

Obama will be a mile away from scandal-ridden Phoenix VA, but won't stop by. “If President Obama wanted to get the ground truth — and send a signal of strong leadership — he would take the time to visit the Phoenix VA hospital during his forthcoming trip to that neighborhood. Unfortunately, President Obama has yet to show leadership in the fight to reform and fix the VA," says Pete Hegseth, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America.

The White House finally schedules a meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders, fitting them into Obama's schedule next Tuesday.

Today's Obama schedule 

ISIS police chief loses head . . . A top figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said. Reuters

Female suicide bomber hits Istanbul tourist area . . . A female suicide bomber on Tuesday killed herself and a Turkish policeman in a strike on the heart of Istanbul's tourist district, the second attack on police to shake city within a week. AFP

Boehner wins, but fight continues . . . House Republican detractors looking to topple Speaker John Boehner fell short on Tuesday, showing that leadership, emboldened by a massive majority in the House and compatriots leading the Senate, may have an easier time operating amid fickle and disorganized opposition. But that power comes with clear limits. National Journal

Boehner takes revenge . . . After he secured his third term as speaker Tuesday afternoon, losing 25 votes on the House floor to some relatively unknown members of the Republican Conference, Boehner moved swiftly to boot two of the insurgents from the influential Rules Committee. That could be just the start of payback. Politico 

Some Jews leaving the Democrats . . . The exodus of Jewish Americans from the Democratic Party continued in 2014, with only 61 percent of Jews identifying with the party last year, according to a new poll released Tuesday by Gallup. Sixty-one percent may seem high, compared to 31 percent of the general public who identify as Democrats, but that’s a 3 percent dip from 2013, and a huge drop from 2008, when 71 percent of Jews said they were Democrats. Daily Caller

There's just no question about it. Democrats today are aligned with the international liberal empathy for the Palestinians at the expense of Israeli security. Republicans put our ally first.

Paul moves to cut aid to Palestinians . . . Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) introduced a bill late Tuesday that would fully eliminate U.S. aid to the Palestinians until their leadership withdraws a controversial bid to join the International Criminal Court. Washington Free Beacon

See what I mean?

Rubio: Cancel Cuba talks . . . Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) called on the White House to cancel upcoming diplomatic talks with Cuba until the Castro regime follows through on its agreement to release 53 political prisoners in a letter to President Obama on Tuesday. Washington Free Beacon

Bill Clinton linked to sex offender . . . Lawyers sifting through documents related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy sex offender accused of pimping out an underage girl to Britain’s Prince Andrew, stumbled across an interesting finding among the filings: 21 email and telephone contacts for former President Bill Clinton and his personal aide, Doug Band. Politico

Reid out indefinitely . . . Sen. Harry Reid, the incoming Senate minority leader, will not be attending the opening day session because of the injuries he sustained in Nevada while exercising on New Year’s Day. Washington Examiner

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"Palestine" to join International Court . . . U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Tuesday that the state of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable the Palestinians to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel. Associated Press

Cuba crackdown sets record in 2014 . . . The Cuban government may have opened some economic doors in recent years, but it maintains an iron fist when it comes to opposition to its policies or to the revolution. Fox News Latino

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Sharpton: The Post pays me too! . . . “SHAKE DOWN AL” screamed the New York Post’s Sunday front page. “How Rev gets paid not to cry ‘racism!’” But Sharpton says that News Corp — the company that owns the New York Post — also fills his coffers. “I am not going to let them get around the fact that their company has been involved, has donated money, had us on their board of diversity.” Daily Caller

Wounded cop disdains de Blasio visit . . . The two police officers shot by a Bronx robber they were trying to arrest would have rather not gotten visited by Mayor de Blasio, family and fellow cops told The Post on Tuesday. The father of the more seriously wounded of the pair, Officer Andrew Dossi, 30, said his son “wasn’t too happy about the mayor’s visit.” New York Post

Picketty economics book has errors . . . A book by a French economist who became a darling of 99 percenters and his lefty peers is riddled with errors, cherry-picked data and flawed premises, according to two new studies. Fox News

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