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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Mexican officials are investigating an incident earlier this week along the border. A rural Texas sheriff accuses the Mexican army of protecting a drug smuggling operation. Mexico denies its military was involved.

Noel King talks to Attica Locke, a novelist and writer for the TV show Empire, who says she's looking for signs that her country respects people who are different from each other.

When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moved from Nigeria to the U.S., she was suddenly confronted with what it meant to be a person of color in America. Her novel explores race in contemporary America.

"Professional Muslim" Haroon Moghul says, "Every time something bad happens you're called upon to apologize. ... Your entire identity is pegged to events in other parts of the world."

Insiders are blaming Democrats' midterm losses in part on a White House failure to communicate effectively, says Richard Wolffe, author of Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. That failure can be traced to two rival camps fighting to shape the presidency, Wolffe says.

Targeted individuals in France, the U.K., Belgium and the Netherlands and who are mostly women, show visible marks of injection, often bruises, and report symptoms like feeling groggy.

Michael Kranish and Scott Helman's biography of Mitt Romney — The Real Romney — is now out in paperback with a new afterword. The authors discuss Romney's shift to the right, his faith and his recent comment that no one's ever asked to see his birth certificate.

Working closely with a former detective, James still goes out with Brighton police to gather material for his work about an English city with a rich criminal history.

Sky-high prices for elephant ivory and rhino horn have pushed wildlife poaching to a fever pitch. So in attempt to outfox the sophisticated poaching operations, conservationists and government rangers are teaming up to launch small, camera-carrying drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, above southwest Africa.

Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife and a devoted mother. Life is going as planned until she meets a man at the metro station, and begins an affair. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Ratika Kapur about her book.