@frac2000 the News web part will always show the most recent item first unless you've changed anything in the Organize panel when editing the web part where you can pin news items to the top or to a specific position. But if you don't set this then it will default to the most recent news item first. If that isn't happening for you we'd probably need to see some screenshots.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)