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NEW YORK (AP) — ABC says Diane Sawyer is stepping down as its evening news anchor, to be replaced by David Muir.

The network said Sawyer will concentrate on interviews and specials. During her tenure, ABC's "World News" was a steady second to Brian Williams at NBC, although the ABC broadcast has made gains among younger viewers.

Muir is familiar to "World News" viewers as a substitute for Sawyer and has traveled around the country for his "Made in America" series.

ABC said George Stephanopoulos will take on a new role as chief anchor for live news events.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing lower after an afternoon slide erased early gains in major U.S. indexes.

The market was slightly higher in the morning Tuesday following encouraging news on new home sales and consumer confidence. Stocks drifted lower in the afternoon and ended in the red for the day.

Walgreen fell 2 percent after the drugstore chain's results fell short of Wall Street's expectations. Exxon Mobil lost 1.6 percent, the most of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average.

The Dow fell 119 points, or 0.7 percent, to 16,818.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 12 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,949 and the Nasdaq composite fell 18 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,350.

Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.58 percent.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Sacramento Zoo is urging homeowners to think of their tree trimmings and other yard waste as a potential meal for its animals.

Zoo officials have been placing door hangers in some neighborhoods asking for donations of clippings from trees and shrubs that various animals including giraffes and zebras find tasty.

The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1wwLa3n ) that officials want to supplement the trimmings from trees on zoo property.

The list of desired plants includes many that are common in Sacramento, such as ash, bamboo and cottonwood.

The plants must not be treated with pesticide, and must be free of disease.

The zoo says orangutans and lemurs like to eat leaves fresh off a tree branch or shrub. Some animals, like red river hogs, also strip the bark, while others, like the chimpanzee, eat flowers as well as leaves.

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Information from: The Sacramento Bee, http://www.sacbee.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. government deprived 13 people on its no-fly list of their constitutional right to travel and gave them no adequate way to challenge their placement on the list, a federal judge said Tuesday in the nation's first ruling finding the no-fly list redress procedures unconstitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown's decision says the procedures lack a meaningful mechanism for people to challenge their placement on the list.

Thirteen people challenged their placement on the list in 2010, including four military veterans.

Initially, Brown said she couldn't rule on the case. In 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision and sent the case back to her.

Brown said placement on the no-fly list turns routine travel into an "odyssey," and some of those on the list have been subjected to detention and interrogation by foreign authorities.

Brown had expressed skepticism at the government's arguments in several court hearings in 2013 and earlier this year. U.S. government attorneys cautioned the judge not to engage in "policymaking" were she to rule against them.

The ruling shows Brown heeded that caution. She did not create a new procedure for those on the list to challenge their placement. Instead, Brown said the Department of Homeland Security needs to find a way to disclose to those on the list the unclassified information used to place them there.

Since much of what is used for placement is classified, Brown said the government should provide people on the list the nature and extent of the classified information, the type of threat they pose to national security, and the ways in which they can respond to the charges.

The process "does not provide a meaningful mechanism for travelers who have been denied boarding to correct erroneous information in the government's terrorism databases," Brown ruled.

In January, a California woman successfully challenged her placement on the list, but the ruling did not address the broader constitutional implications.

U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson said government attorneys were reviewing the decision and would have no comment Tuesday.

American Civil Liberties Union attorney Hina Shamsi said: "This should serve as wakeup call to the government."

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Reach reporter Nigel Duara on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/nigelduara