TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Washington (CNN) China has agreed to return the US underwater drone that it seized in international waters earlier this week, the Pentagon said Saturday. "We have registered our objection to China's unlawful seizure of a US unmanned underwater vehicle operating in international waters in the South China Sea. Through direct engagement with Chinese authorities, we have secured an understanding that the Chinese will return the UUV to the United States," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. Details were not immediately available on when or how the drone may be returned. Earlier, China's Defense Ministry said authorities had decided to return it, but criticized the US for having "hyped up" the issue. President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on the incident, calling China's action "unprecedented."China said the US had "hyped up" the issueTrump called China's action "unprecedented" 
 Question:"Upon confirming that the device was a US underwater drone, the Chinese side decided to transfer it to the US side in an appropriate manner," Chinese _ spokesman Sr. Col. Yang Yujun said.

SOLUTION: Defense Ministry

PROBLEM: A convicted child molester claimed he abducted a young boy who looked like Etan Patz the same day in 1979 that the 6-year-old went missing, a former federal prosecutor told a jury Monday at the trial of another man accused of murder. Key defense witness Stuart GraBois recounted how, once ruling out family members as suspects, he located Jose Ramos in prison in the late 1980s after learning the Ramos had ties to a woman who was once used by the family to walk Etan home from school during a bus driver strike. The former assistant to then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani described soothing Ramos with small talk before suddenly asking him, 'How many times did you have sex with Etan Patz?'Key defense witness Stuart GraBois, a former prosecutor, testified Jose Ramos told him in 1988 he lured Etan Patz to his home May 25, 1979Ramos, a convicted child molester, claimed he put Etan on subway train after he rejected his advancesRamos, 71, has threatened to plead the 5th if called to testify in murder trial of Pedro HernandezHernandez, 54, confessed he choked Etan after luring him with the promise of a soda and then dumped his bagged bodyRamos served 27 years in Pennsylvania for rape and molestation of three young boys in the 1980s 
 Question:But with testimony about Ramos' alleged confession and by highlighting his history of molesting children, the defense has sought to portray him as a more plausible suspect than the 54-year-old _.

SOLUTION: Pedro Hernandez

PROBLEM: California police are searching for a man that they say swindled a 92-year-old woman out of her life savings and the apartment building she owned before disappearing. Mable Miles, of Los Angeles, said she has known 58-year-old Carlson Jackson since he was a little boy growing up in Detroit, KTLA reports. So, when the man reached out to her last year looking for a place to stay, Miles didn't hesitate to welcome him into her home. 'He came and told her that he would help her,' Carol White, Miles' niece, told KTLA. 'He helped himself to all of her money.'Police say Carlson Jackson, 58, tricked Mable Miles, 92, into selling him a $1 million apartment complex that she owned and operatedHe lived with Miles for about a year and, during that time, swindled her out of all of her moneyWhen police were notified, Jackson skipped town and had all the tenant's rent checks rerouted to a P.O. box only he had access toAuthorities are investigating the crime as elderly abuse, but Miles' niece wants Jackson to give the property back 
 Question:Instead, he opened a joint bank account in his and _' name and transferred all of the money out of it.

SOLUTION:
Mable Miles