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Ukraine peace talks yield progress after leaked plan draft raised doubts. Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided the update yesterday after he attended high-stakes talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Geneva, though he declined to offer specifics. After a 28-point peace plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine that seemed to favor the former leaked late last week, politicians from Europe, the US, and the UK mostly criticized the plan as unworkable. In a statement on Sunday night, the White House said Ukraine’s delegation in Switzerland “affirmed that all of their principal concerns—security guarantees, long-term economic development, infrastructure protection, freedom of navigation, and political sovereignty—were thoroughly addressed during the meeting.”

Tyson to close Nebraska beef plant amid industry struggles. Tyson Foods, the largest meat producer in North America, announced on Friday that it will close its beef processing plant in Lexington, Nebraska, on or around January 20. The facility employs approximately 3,200 people. On its earnings call earlier this month, before the closure was announced, Tyson CEO Donnie King told investors that cattle supplies were at record lows, and that its beef business would lose $600 million in the current fiscal year. Around the same time, President Trump said that he instructed the Department of Justice to investigate “the Meat Packing Companies who are driving up the price of Beef through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation.”

X’s new location feature roiled the internet. Over the weekend, the company formerly known as Twitter started showing the country or region in which an account is located. Screenshots proliferated across the platform, with users alleging they had uncovered the origins of several prominent MAGA accounts, which had claimed to be based in the United States, as being based out of Africa, Macedonia, and South Asia. On Friday morning, posts claiming to show that the US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) account was based in Tel Aviv, Israel, went viral, before the feature disappeared from X temporarily. A global rollout officially took place on Saturday. Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, responded to some of the outraged tweets, saying that the rumor of the DHS account’s origins showing up as Israel was “fake news.” On Sunday, DHS released an official denial of its account having been operated in Israel.—HVL

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