News is an area that's always been funky. As long as files are indeed synchronizing as expected, I'd not worry about it and hope for this area to be fixed in the next release. You can file a bug report with logs, if desired.
How to Submit Bugs and Live Mesh Logs
Note that you may not receive a response to the bug report, though. It will be transferred to the internal system to be assigned to the appropriate development group
-steve
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