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Multiple news web parts with a filter on a homepage
I had a support ticket that is closed now. They admitted it is a bug and have elevated it to the developers. I found that I could use the filter on a modern team site, but not on a communications site. We had our intranet launch so had to do so without filtering out our news.
I had the same requirement - needed featured news and additional news separated. I created a site column called featured, then had to go through the whole process of making the column a managed property. I had to re-index the document library and wait for a crawl before it would work. It appears to be working now, but I lost some of the functionality of the News web part. Since I'm the only one here on first release, I can't push out the settings that were recently announced. I also lost the See all link you get with the News web part, so had to create a link to go to the See all page so I could use the email digest feature. So it may be you just need to make sure your column is a managed property. Unfortunately you have to wait for the crawl to run before items show up in the correct place.