Exclusive: Lung doctors tell why and how the Oregon vaping victim died: Morning Briefing for Thursday, Sept. 12

Doctors who treated Oregon's vaping victim

Jason Wells (left) and David Hotchkin, doctors at The Oregon Health Clinic, talk about treating a patient who died after severe lung failure, which they say likely started with vaping cannabis oil. Jamie Hale/The OregonianJamie Hale/The Oregonian

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Today’s stories

VAPING VICTIM: Exclusive: Lung doctors tell why and how the Oregon vaping victim died. Read more.

VAPING REACTION: President Donald Trump will propose a ban on flavorings used in e-cigarettes. Read more.

SENATE CHIMES IN: The U.S. Senate demands answers on the vaping illness epidemic as President Donald Trump and the feds promise action. Read more.

PORTLAND PROTESTS: A key protest witness was nowhere near a bus that police say was the scene of a hammer attack at the Aug. 17 Portland protest, a lawyer says. Read more.

ANIMAL DEATHS: An animal rights group demands fines for Portland Community College over animal deaths. Read more.

VOLCANO DANGER: Mount Hood could erupt with little warning and devastating consequences, The New York Times warns. Read more.

GROCERY STORES: All Portland-area Bales and Lamb’s grocery stores are closing. Read more.

PUBLIC SAFETY: Portland police labor contract: A community coalition calls for public input and changes. Read more.

PUBLIC RECORDS: A newly released memo suggests that Gov. Kate Brown wasn’t in the dark on public records concerns. Read more.

BILL DIES: An Oregon open records bill dies after the governor’s staff privately contradicts her transparency pledge, documents show. Read more.

BAR COMPLAINT: A former Oregon lawmaker files a bar complaint against Gov. Kate Brown’s top lawyer over public records pressure. Read more.

NEXT STEP: Oregon’s public records panel will meet Friday amid a furor over who’s in charge. Read more.

PORTLAND BREWERIES: The Lucky Lab, the city’s beloved old dog, is still learning new tricks. Read more.

PORTLAND MANNERS: Hey, you! Why won’t you give up your seat to a pregnant person on public transit? (commentary) Read more.

MAKE PLANS: 22 things to do around Portland: Rose City Comic Con, Mark Knopfler, “The Maltese Falcon.” Read more.

More news

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Dear Abby: Should he ‘beg and wait’ for attention from guy who dumped him for a younger man?

Ask Amy: Recovering alcoholic doesn’t know how to repair relationship with daughter

Carolyn Hax: Thank-you note filled with constructive criticism drives spike through hull of family relationship

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Today in history

AROUND THE WORLD: On Sept. 12, 2001, stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center’s smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. President George W. Bush, branding the attacks in New York and Washington “acts of war,” said “this will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil” and that “good will prevail.”

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