Tracy Schutte and Michael Yarberry are not household names, and yet they carried an entire fraud case on their shoulders. They were not government lawyers with unlimited budgets, nor professional bounty hunters. They were ordinary people who worked close enough to the billing machinery of one of the nation’s major drug retailers to see something they could not ignore. SuperValu Inc. and other health care companies, they alleged, were submitting false claims to Illinois Medicaid and the federal government for prescription drugs. According to the whistleblowers, the companies manipulated the prices used to bill public health insurers, taking advantage of…

1. The Hidden Battle Behind France’s Autumn Unrest When protesters took to the streets of French cities in October, their anger was real, raw, and deeply rooted in everyday struggles—rising prices, stagnant wages, and the slow erosion of public services that once felt dependable. But behind those very human scenes of frustration, another battle was unfolding, invisible to most eyes. According to an internal European Union assessment, a covert Russian network known as Operation Overload attempted to exploit this moment of national tension to spread disinformation and amplify chaos. The document, prepared by experts from the EU diplomatic service and…