Iowa decided to abandon its request to remove major elements of the Affordable Care Act since federal health officials did not approve the plan in time for the insurance-buying season that is going to begin on November 1, according to The Washington Post. The state said they would put a crucial "stopgap" plan in place to keep its marketplace from collapsing. The state's withdrawal plan came two months after President Donald Trump telephoned a top federal health official with instructions to reject Iowa's proposal, though Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds did not mention the president's intervention and thanked Trump, instead blaming the ACA for its inflexibility. The decision doesn't...

Emmanuel Macron was holding a meeting with his Cabinet when his dog, Nemo, interrupted the group.

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When you gotta go, you gotta go, and apparently, French President Macron's dog really had to go while his new owner was in a government meeting with cameras rolling. Nemo, who is a new rescue dog for the Macron family, is getting acclimated to his luxury surroundings, which appear to be gilded in gold from what you can see on this recently posted video. You can watch the video at the end of this article.
While his new master met with French government officials and with camera's rolling, Nemo walked up to the Elysee Palace fireplace and urinated in full sight of all who were there and watching from home. When President Macron realized that his black labrador-Griffon cross dog had just peed all over the iconic Elysee Palace fireplace he told the ministers in the room that the dog was doing something "quite exceptional."

The U.S. government is edging closer to a shut down as a Dec. 15 deadline approaches with Democrats holding the key cards on whether a spending bill will pass or the federal government will run out of money, Vox reported. Republicans, the report said, will need at least eight Senate Democrats to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to pass the bill, meaning some serious compromises will be necessary to get a spending bill through. Once the repeal of Obamacare failed, the only major item on Republicans’ agenda for the rest of the year was supposed to be tax reform, the report said. But then Trump announced his administration planned to let the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...

Most European Union states agreed on Monday (Oct 23) on reforming the bloc's labour rules that poorer countries value for giving them a competitive edge but French President Emmanuel Macron criticises for undercutting his workers.