NPR reveals how a misheard announcement led to it falsely claiming Justice Alito was retiring

NPR was forced to retract a story on Tuesday after it falsely reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. The story, headlined "Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires," apparently started with a misheard announcement. The outlet said NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg was reporting on the final day of the Supreme Court session when, as she was leaving the court, she misheard Chief Justice John Roberts' announcement about upcomi