7 Things: 21 candidates for one congressional district; illegal gambling seen as reason to legalize it; and more …

7. An asinine proposal by presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has people talking, he has suggested that any government employee with an odd-numbered Social Security number will be fired on day one. 6. A government shutdown is set for Friday, but the newly selected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has a plan to avoid it, including a “laddered” continuing resolution. 5. I-59 was shut down after a car was stolen, leading to a shootout between two groups of people, with 4 total people shot, and the crime scene was the actual interstate. 4. Another weekend of anti-Semitism in the str