the news pod is created by the webassist/plugins/cms_templates/news.php page
you can either use framework builder to include that file on your index page as a plugin, or you will need to recreate the functionality of this page by using the same SQL in recordset and creating a repeat region.
there's not a lot on that page, so it should be pretty straight forward to look at the code and figure out what it is doing to replicate it.