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'This Was A Beautiful Place': Puerto Rico's Coffee Farms Devastated By Maria Hacienda San Pedro had harvested just 2 percent of its beans before Hurricane Maria blasted through. The ripple effects will continue — it is expecting to run out of beans in December. Read more on NPR

Las Vegas NHL Team Will Honor Shooting Victims Before Debut Game Following last week's mass shooting in Las Vegas, plans for an extravagant opening ceremony have changed and the new Golden Knights hope the game will provide some sort of healing for the city. Read more on NPR

Las Vegas Authorities Say Security Guard Was Shot Before Gunman Targeted Crowd A revised timeline of the Las Vegas shooting is raising questions about if and when the Mandalay Bay hotel alerted police that a security guard had been shot before the assailant opened fire on the concert crowd. A sheriff's department official said they are still studying the sequence of events, and offers other details of the investigation in interviews with NPR/KNPR. Read more on NPR

ESPN Suspends Host Jemele Hill Over Controversial Tweet Hill's tweet seemed to encourage her followers to boycott the Dallas Cowboys and the team's advertisers, a couple of weeks after she called President Trump a white supremacist and bigot. Read more on NPR

Many Cabinet Positions Remain Open In Trump Administration Even if Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stays in his job, President Trump still lacks a HHS secretary and a permanent DHS secretary. Many positions below the top cabinet posts remain open, too. Read more on NPR

Catalan President Holds Off On Declaring Split From Spain The president of Catalonia says he has a mandate to declare his region's independence from Spain — but he's suspending the process to allow possible mediation and talks with the Spanish government. Read more on NPR

Hollywood Professionals Speak Out Against Harvey Weinstein A growing number of actors — men and women — have spoken out about the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and what they say about Hollywood's culture. Read more on NPR

Women Struggled For Years Before Speaking Out Against Harvey Weinstein NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with reporter Ronan Farrow about his story for The New Yorker following a 10-month long investigation into sexual harassment claims against film executive Harvey Weinstein. Read more on NPR

Elite Golden Keys Concierges Try To Stay Relevant Amid Growing Automation The fraternal organization of high-end hotel workers met recently in Washington to discuss ways of staying relevant in an age when apps are replacing most traditional concierge services. Read more on NPR

Green Squash Deemed World's Biggest Brings Triple Win To R.I. Grower Joe Jutras of Scituate, Rhode Island, has broken world records for longest gourd, heaviest pumpkin and now biggest squash. Read more on NPR

Tensions Rise Between Tillerson And Trump As The Threat Of War In N. Korea Looms New Yorker writer Dexter Filkins says Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is a diplomat in an administration that doesn't value diplomacy: "Rex is a sober, steady guy, and the president is anything but that." Read more on NPR

In Pakistan, Growing Concern Over Tensions Between Military And Civilian Leaders Many in the ruling party believe they are being undermined by Pakistani military and intelligence officials, backed by what they see as a subservient judiciary. Read more on NPR

Trump Says He'll Sign Order To Expand Health Insurance Options Conservatives have long advocated for using association health plans to boost competition. But the result could be that healthy people pay less and sicker people are priced out of coverage. Read more on NPR

Why Finding A Motive After The Las Vegas Shooting Matters More than a week after the Las Vegas massacre, investigators are still without a motive. "What survivors really need sometimes is to get closure," one psychologist says. Read more on NPR

Trump Slams NFL And Jemele Hill Following ESPN Suspension The network said the host of "SportsCenter" violated social media guidelines when she weighed in on the controversy around NFL players kneeling during the national anthem. Read more on NPR

Las Vegas Gunman Shot Security Guard Before Firing Into Crowd, Police Say Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the shooter injured Jesus Campos about six minutes before turning his weapon on a music festival. The comments mark a major adjustment to the timeline of the police response. Read more on NPR

Their Coffee Is World-Renowned. Now More Guatemalans Are Actually Drinking It The rise of independent cafes and popular artisanal brewing methods have sparked a growth in national consumption. Now, about 10 percent of coffee produced in the Central American country stays there. Read more on NPR

In China, Scholars Are Being Punished Amid Growing Squeeze On Public Expression Space for public expression has been tightening in media, the arts — and now in higher education as well. Some university professors have been fired for expressing views outside the mainstream. Read more on NPR

'Public Calamity' As California Wildfires Leave Apocalyptic Scenes In Wine Country Gov. Jerry Brown has asked President Trump to issue a major disaster declaration, after declaring an emergency in at least eight counties, including Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino. Read more on NPR

Top Stories: Deadly Calif. Fires; Damages Ordered In Fukushima Case Also: President Trump won't waive a rule again letting foreign ships to dock with supplies in Puerto Rico; voters in Liberia pick a new president; and football player Y.A. Tittle dies at 90. Read more on NPR