Sen. Hagan spends New Year's Eve in Afghanistan: "(Associated Press) U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan spent her New Year's Eve in Afghanistan, celebrating with U.S. troops and watching them join with coalition forces training Afghanis to patrol their own country.
That training is critical to the withdrawal of international troops, scheduled to begin this summer, said Hagan, who spoke to reporters over a sometimes spotty cell phone signal today as she rushed through an airport in the United Arab Emirates on her way home to North Carolina."