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Fast Forward: No room for protests at inauguration, AG Healey in court, and a therapy pig at SFO

Preparations are underway for the inuguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.Susan Walsh/AP/file 2016/Associated Press

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What’s it like outside? This early morning frost on the pumpkin is so annoying. Just go away. Snow early in central and western Mass.; light rain in the east during the morning commute. Mid-40s, but brace yourself: the Canada cold is coming. It always does. Always.

While you were sleeping: Close to 100 people have been killed in a massive undersea earthquake in the province of Aceh in Indonesia ... Thousands of kids who live in Bangladeshi slums are working an average of 64 hours a week illegally, many making clothes for top worldwide brands, according to a report by the Overseas Development Institute released this morning ... Putin is winning in Aleppo, where Syrian government forces supported by Russia are pushing rebels out of the city.

Hey, sport: The Celtics (12-9) are in Orlando to play the 10-12 Magic (7 p.m., CSNHD and 100.7 FM). The Bruins (15-10-1) face the Capitals (14-7-3) in Washington (8 p.m., NBCSN, 98.5 FM).

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Chris Sale. Hot damn.

So Donald Trump fired the son of his handpicked national security adviser for promoting nutty conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton running a child sex trafficking ring in a pizza joint. Please. Everybody knows she’d use a Starbucks.

But cries could grow louder today -- mostly among Democrats, but also some GOP national security officials -- for Trump to also dump the elder Flynn as his national security adviser. Like son, like father: He has retweeted the most bizarro stuff as well (at least 16 times since August), including the aforementioned Clinton child sex scandal, that she is secretly waging war on the Catholic Church (those sneaky Methodists), that her campaign manager drank blood as part of occult rituals, and that Obama is a jihadi who laundered money for Muslim terrorists. I almost wish the Dems were that interesting.

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Several groups that want to protest in D.C. during Trump’s inauguration are apoplectic that the National Park Service has given all of the prime mass assembly locations to the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which will sell tickets for those spots. For example, all of Freedom Plaza, a traditional rally/protest area two blocks from the White House, is locked up. Saying the move is sanitizing the streets of dissent and is unconstitutional, the groups will hold a press conference today to voice their objections. They’re already in court to stop the practice.

It’s the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that killed 2,403 and launched the US into World War II. Boston will commemorate the occasion at 12:30 p.m. with a service and wreath-laying on the USS Cassin Young at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

Mass. AG Maura Healey is in Suffolk Superior Court at 2 p.m. today for a hearing on ExxonMobil’s efforts to get her to shut up about its private embrace of climate change vs. its public trashing of the science -- a dichotomy she’s investigating to see if the company misled its investors by withholding information about the effect of fossil fuels on global warming. ExxonMobil says her efforts are ... wait for it ... politically motivated.

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It’s finally cold enough for Boston to hold the official grand opening of its winter village on City Hall Plaza at 4:30.

AT&T, which wants to buy Time Warner for $108.7 billion, will try to convince the US Senate’s judiciary committee today that the merger will increase competition because, you know, reducing the number of companies always does that.

A federal judge is expected to empanel a jury today in the hate crimes trial of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who allegedly killed nine worshipers in a Charleston, S.C., church because they were black. Of course, shooting an unarmed black person in South Carolina doesn’t necessarily get you prison time.

Finally, if you get stressed out flying or feel like an animal in a pen at airports, therapy pig LiLou is at San Francisco International to help. Decked out in a blue tulle tutu, or a red holiday bow, or angel wings, and often wearing red toenail polish, LiLou does tricks for food and generally soothes the savage beasts known as travelers. But no, pigs don’t fly.

Thanks for reading. If you’re so inclined, please follow me on Twitter: I’m @BostonTeresa. See you tomorrow.


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