Criminal background checks and assurances that a person "is competent to be a journalist" are among the requirements put forth by State Rep. Mike Pitts in South Carolina's Legislature.
The Indian-American governor will give the GOP address after President Obama's State of the Union on Tuesday. Her pick intensified speculation that she could be a top vice presidential pick for 2016.
"It is not in spite of our Gospel conviction, but precisely because of it, that we should stand for religious liberty for everyone," one evangelical leader said.
At a town hall event in Orangeburg, S.C., the Democrat backs reclassifying the drug so federal research can be done into its medicinal purposes — a position already held by her White House rivals.
Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley jabbed at Hillary Clinton during a Democratic forum in South Carolina Friday night, questioning the frontrunner's liberal bona fides.
Authorities are investigating a classroom incident between a white school resource officer and a black high school student in Columbia in which the deputy flipped the female student's desk backward.
A federal judge's ruling allows Maryland to phase out plates featuring the rebel battle flag. The state's move is a reaction to the murders in a black church in South Carolina.