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: Virginia is poised to execute a convicted serial killer who claims he's intellectually disabled using lethal injection drugs from Texas because the state's supply of another controversial drug will expire the day before the execution is supposed to take place. Unless Gov. Terry McAuliffe or the U.S. Supreme Court steps in this week, Alfredo Prieto will be executed Thursday - the first Virginia inmate to be receive the death penalty in nearly three years. The El Salvador native was already facing execution in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a Virginia jury sentenced him to death in 2010 for the 1988 killings Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III.Alfredo Prieto raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in CaliforniaHe also murdered a Virginia couple in 1988 and will be executed ThursdayPrieto claims he has a 'significant brain dysfunction' from a malnourished childhood in El Salvador but psychologists say he is brightThe state will use a lethal three-drug cocktail partially supplied by TexasVirginia has executed 110 people since 1976, the third highest state 
 Question:_ officials agreed to send him to Virginia on the rationale that it was more likely to carry out the execution.

A: California
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Q: (CNN) One of the next members of President Donald Trump's administration to enter the Russia investigation spotlight finds himself in a particularly awkward spot: He's the top lawyer at the White House. Don McGahn is expected to be interviewed in the coming weeks in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, along with communications director Hope Hicks and Josh Raffel, who handles press-related inquiries for White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. The 49-year-old former Federal Election commissioner acted as a conduit of information to Trump before the President decided to fire National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey. McGahn also served as the Trump presidential campaign's chief counsel while he was still a partner in private practice at the law firm Jones Day.Don McGahn is expected to be interviewed in the coming weeksHe also served as the Trump presidential campaign's chief counselHe'll have choices to make, including what he'll share with investigators 
 Question:The _ investigation already succeeded once in getting around attorney-client privilege.

A: Robert Mueller
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Q: The White House is reportedly considering a new power play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would paint Benjamin Netanyahu into a corner just days after his stunning come-from-behind victory in his country's hotly contested elections. In the final days of campaigning, Netanyahu vowed in an historic U-turn that his government would never agree to the creation of a Palestinian state. But now President Barack Obama is contemplating using the United Nations as a trump card to force the issue. Under a plan outlined by Foreign Policy magazine, the U.S. State Department would ease away from decades of opposition to a Security Council resolution demanding peace talks and a final rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.Obama may end US opposition to a UN Security Council resolution designed to force Israel into a two-state solution with PalestiniansWhite House is upset that Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected, especially on the U-turn promise that he wouldn't  agree to a Palestinian statePalestinian Authority threatened to file war crimes charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court, related to rocket attacks last summerUS Congress would cut $400 million in annual aid to the PA is it followed throughObama's spokesman refused to characterize the president's reaction to Netanyahu's reelection on ThursdayHe would only say that the Israeli PM's comments on Palestine had lead the president and his advisers to 'evaluate what our path is forward' 
 Question:The U.S. and _ leaders have a famously chilly relationship.

A:
Israeli
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