NPR Mistakenly Reports Justice Alito Is Retiring from Supreme Court: ‘Published in Error’

Tuesday morning, NPR reported that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring from the Supreme Court — a report that was soon taken down and replaced with an editor's note saying it had been "published in error." The original article, archived online at the Wayback Machine here, was written by Nina Totenberg and headlined "Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires." The archived version of the NPR homepage shows that the article held a top featured spot for the brief period it was live. "Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court's opinion reversing Roe v. Wade,...