Senate votes to advance Pete Hegseth as Trump’s defense secretary despite some Republican opposition – as it happened

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• A federal judge in Seattle blocked Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the US. US district judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, issued a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from enforcing the order, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”.

• The Senate voted to advance the nomination of Pete Hegseth to become the next US secretary of defense, despite some Republican opposition. Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced they would oppose Hegseth’s nomination, making them the first two Republican lawmakers to publicly reject one of Trump’s cabinet picks.

• The Associated Press reports that Hegseth told Senator Elizabeth Warren in writing that he paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017.

• Donald Trump signed an executive order to support the cryptocurrency industry, as his daughter Ivanka warned investors not to buy “a fake crypto coin called ‘Ivanka Trump’ or ‘$IVANKA’”.

• Newark’s mayor denounced a warrantless federal immigration raid on a business in his city. Mayor Ras J Baraka said his city “will not stand idly by” after citizens, including a veteran, were detained.

• The Senate voted to confirm John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving Trump the second member of his new cabinet. The Senate voted to confirm Ratcliffe, a former Texas representative and director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term, by 74-25, with 20 Democrats and one independent joining Republicans in backing the nomination.

• Trump made a combative return to the world stage in an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, accusing oil producers of prolonging the Ukraine war by failing to cut prices and threatening tariffs on all US imports. He repeated his call for Nato countries to dramatically increase defence spending and complained about what he called an “unfair” trading relationship with China.

• The state department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by Trump on his first day of office. “The policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable,” according to an internal email from the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that was shared with the Guardian.