Rogue payment in the news (7)
I believe the answer is:
current
'in the news' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'rogue payment' is the wordplay.
'rogue' becomes 'cur' (both can mean a despicable person).
'payment' becomes 'rent' (rent is a kind of payment).
'cur'+'rent'='CURRENT'
(Other definitions for current that I've seen before include "Electrical flow" , "Popular" , "Contemporary" , "In vogue" , "Flow, of a river say" .)