NPR Retracts Report That Justice Samuel Alito Is Retiring

“Shortly after the final opinion of the Supreme Court‘s term was announced on Tuesday, NPR published a bombshell that sent the high court’s press room scrambling: An official announcement that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring,” Deadline reports.

“Yet, minutes later, the story was pulled, with the message, ‘Editors Note: Earlier today we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. He has not announced his retirement and we have retracted the story.'”