Old Hollywood: He fled the village, abandoning the girl and his child for the rest of his life.

This long-deceased dictator is remembered as a paranoid and brutal mass murderer, responsible for millions of deaths. In his mid 30s, about a decade before he came to power, he fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl. She was younger than the legal age of consent in that country, even at that time. The location was remote, and he pledged to marry the girl, so he escaped criminal charges, due to the wishes of the girl’s family.

Space war with Russia

The heads of several cable networks/news organizations ranging from the far left to the far right, all agreed that a war with Russia would be amazing for ratings.

About the recently poisoned government official

What won't be said in the press is that this recently poisoned to death government official hired a woman from a local bar to spend a couple of hours with him. The question is did he get the death shot at the bar by an agent of the country that wanted him dead or at his hotel by the woman who could have been hired by the country. The latter is more likely.