Here are a few updates on the movements of the Presidential candidates:

* Former Sen. John Edwards proposed yesterday that the United States spend $5 billion annually to combat global poverty, which he linked to national security saying that "terrorists thrive in failed states and in states torn apart by internal conflict and poverty." He also said he would create a new cabinet post "to oversee all of our efforts to fight global poverty."

* Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has hired former Sen. Rick Santorum's campaign manager, Vince Galko, as his regional political director for Northeastern states. Galko is a former executive director of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and served as deputy executive director of the Bush/Cheney campaign in 2004.

* Sen. Barack Obama attended a $2,300-a-ticket fundraiser for his presidential campaign in Chevy Chase, Maryland last night that was populated by a bevy of ex-Clinton administration officials, including former FCC commissioners William Kennard and Reed Hundt, Hundt and Kennard's counsel Julius Genachowski, and State Department officials Miriam Sapiro, Susan Rice and Bonnie Cohen.

* New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson acknowledged that his imminent signing of a bill legalizing medical marijuana in New Mexico could be a risky move for to his nascent presidential campaign, but was not deterred by the political consideration, saying "So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do."

* Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission "asking it look into how Congressman Duncan Hunter might be illegally using his political action committee to aid his presidential campaign." Hunter used PAC money in January, after he was an announced candidate, to purchase ads promoting himself in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

* Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich declared that "impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran."

* Former Sen. John Edwards sat down to a private dinner last night with the leaders of seven major unions, including the United Steelworkers, the International Association of Firefighters, the American Federation of Teachers and the Communications Workers of America. The dinner is one of a series that the group of unions will hold with different presidential candidates.

* Edwards will head to Reno, Nevada on March 24 for a fundraiser.

* Two staffers on Mitt Romney's campaign are getting new job titles: Josh Ginsberg, currently the campaign's deputy political director for voter contact, has been promoted to national field director while current national field director Julie Teer will become deputy finance director for affinity groups.

* Sen. Barack Obama picked up the endorsements of five prominent New Hampshire Democrats earlier this week: former state Health and Human Services Commissioner Ned Helms and his wife, Sally, former gubernatorial candidate and state Rep. Paul MacEachern, Concord attorney/lobbyist Anne McLane Kuster and former state Rep. Jack Pratt, now a Cheshire County commissioner.

* Sen. Hillary Clinton picked up her own NH endorsements this week, including state Reps. Hector Velez and Steve Johnson of Manchester and Peter Cote of Nashua.

* Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has hired Jack Heath and Michael Biundo's Meridian Communications to work for his exploratory committee in New Hampshire.

* Both Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden will be in New Hampshire over the weekend to participate in St. Patrick's Day festivities. Dodd will keynote the Manchester Democratic Committee's St. Patrick's Day breakfast while Biden will attend former state Sen. Bobby Stephen's Fund for Education's 29th Annual St. Patrick's Day Celebration.

* Sen. Sam Brownback will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday and march in the Des Moines St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Brownback will visit New Hampshire on Monday.

* The Arkansas State Ethics Commission dismissed complaints against former Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday over the destruction of state computers late in his tenure.

* John Edwards and Christopher Dodd are both in Chicago today with Edwards attending a fundraiser at the house of a trial lawyer and Dodd speaking to the U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute.

* Sen. Hillary Clinton and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will both head to Austin, Texas for fundraisers in the next few days.

* Sen. John McCain confirms that he has never dressed in dray. He brings the reconstituted "Straight Talk Express" to New Hampshire today.

* Rudy Giuliani will speak to the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce in New Hampshire on April 3.

* A fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee headlined by President Bush last night netted roughly $6.2 million for the GOP's 2008 electoral efforts.