homeland

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Claim: “They were also rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles and would have soon had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe, and virtually any other place on earth.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

“In this irony of ironies, when we could all be reunited in our homeland for the first time in 44 years, I wasn’t invited.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Chef Awa Sibi cooks food from her homeland of Côte d’Ivoire, along with other West African specialties, all halal.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

On Thursday evening, Trump said he was going to sign an order instructing the newly confirmed secretary of homeland security, Markwayne Mullin, to pay TSA agents.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Even though we Dinka people had had to leave our homeland in Southern Sudan years before, we had managed to keep our connections going through a kind of Dinka “grapevine.”

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau