Wrote the news rendering module

src/components/panels/news_panel.jsx

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+import React from 'react';
+import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
+
+class NewsPanel extends React.Component {
+	constructor(props) {
+		super(props);
+
+		this.state = {
+			data: {}
+		};
+
+		this.fetchNews();
+	}
+
+	render() {
+		return (
+			<div>
+				{Object.keys(this.state.data).map((key, index) => <div key={key}><ReactMarkdown source={this.state.data[key]} escapeHTML={false} /><hr /></div> )}
+			</div>
+		);
+	}
+
+	fetchNews() {
+		//build the XHR
+		let xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
+
+		xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {
+			if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
+				if (xhr.status === 200) {
+					this.setState({data: JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)});
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		xhr.open('POST', '/newsrequest', true);
+		xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8');
+		xhr.send(JSON.stringify({
+			max: 3
+		}));
+	}
+};
+
+export default NewsPanel;