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].

Q: Mark Hughes has insisted he will have significant money to spend this summer if required – and told Asmir Begovic he can fulfil his ambitions at Stoke City. The Stoke manager has kept the club's chequebook largely in his pocket since taking over in May 2013 but said he would splash out when the right player became available. Signing Begovic to a new contract is a priority given the Bosnia goalkeeper will be entering the final year of his current deal. Stoke City manager Mark Hughes is confident he will have money to spend in the summer transfer window Hughes wants goalkeeper Asmir Begovic to agree a new contract at the Britannia StadiumStoke manager Mark Hughes has a net spend of around £6millionHe is confident the club will back him in this summer's transfer windowHughes hopes to tie down No 1 goalkeeper Asmir BegovicThe ex-Portsmouth stopper is out of contract at the end of next season 
 Question:A host of clubs may decide to make a move for _, 27, who is set to open talks over extending his Stoke stay once the season is over.

A: Asmir Begovic
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Q: (CNN) Sometimes it's hard to be what you want to be when people only know you for what you used to be. This is the challenge facing Marcelas Owens, who just turned 17. For much of life, people have only known Marcelas as the "Obamacare kid." He was the chubby 11-year-old African-American boy who stood next to President Barack Obama as he signed Obamacare into law at a White House ceremony on March 23, 2010. He was the miniature health care activist in the black vest dwarfed by powerful lawmakers in a famous photo of that moment. He was a modern-day Peter Pan, perpetually frozen in childhood even as the news cycle moved on.Six years ago, 11-year-old Marcelas Owens was photographed standing next to the president as he signed Obamacare into lawNow Marcelas is 17 and marking another rite of passage -- as a transgender teen 
 Question:She told _ that if she wanted her honest opinion, she preferred that she would stay a boy.

A: Marcelas Owens
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Q: (CNN) A political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was fired for an op-ed he wrote before the election that criticized then-candidate Donald Trump, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. In an October op-ed for The Hill, Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton said Trump was taking the Republican Party to a "new moral low." "We allowed that hostile takeover to happen on our watch," he wrote. "This individual recognized a moment of great disparity in the Republican base and, like cancer, attacked and spread, consuming everything in his path." Singleton's piece criticized Trump's rhetoric about African Americans during the campaign. After the election, the 26-year-old worked with Ben Carson during his confirmation process to become HUD secretary. Singleton, who is African American, then joined the department as a senior adviser."Trump portrays our inner cities is as if they are the ailments of American society," he wroteSingleton was an adviser to Ben Carson 
 Question:A HUD spokesperson confirmed _ no longer works at the department.

A:
Shermichael Singleton
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