(October 6, 2017, 2:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal officials on Oct. 6 issued interim final rules permitting moral and religious objectors to opt out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, conceding that the existing rule violated the law. The rule follows up on a May directive from President Donald Trump to relax regulations to address conscience-based objections to the rule....