This section shows the posts below the banner/Header section. It doesn’t include sidebar and it has total 5 different widgets that are applicable on this area.

Click on Dashboard> Appearance> Customize> Widgets

Click on Home Top News Area

Customize the home top news area. You can add a widget or change the existing widgets and rearrange the order of the widgets. If you click on the widgets you can change the widget title, a number of posts, category and other options.

Or you can customize it form Dashboard> Appearance> Widgets