1. Make it easy to see Breaking News and filter to Breaking News. That's my baby.
2. Reduce the number of rows in the Latest Posts listings. With this format you don't get the vertical density that you need and so you spend your time scrolling too much. You have a lot of wasted white space so just put the data you want to present on fewer rows and you should be fine.
I predict that in a month we will all love it. Keep up the good work.