On Friday, August 7th, 2026, President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders aimed at cracking down on "birth tourism," an effort to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States. This marks a renewed attempt following a previous effort that the Supreme Court blocked for limiting the constitutional right to citizenship by birth.

Critics of the new orders believe they will face the same legal challenges and potential rejection as before. NBC's Garrett Haake reported on the development for TODAY.

Additional news items from the same day included a New Jersey family discovering an 8-foot python under their backyard shed, Puerto Rico beginning water rationing amid a record drought, and a Spokane wildfire suspect confessing to setting dozens of fires.

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