NPR retracted a story Tuesday stating that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, declaring that it made an error and that there had been no such announcement.

NPR posted the story moments after the Supreme Court finished its term, citing a statement from the press office.

However, court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe told Politico that “NPR’s reporting regarding Justice Alito is inaccurate. And their reporting that there was any kind of court statement is inaccurate.”

NPR editor in chief Tommy Evans admitted that the inaccurate report was published due “to a misunderstanding,” the New York Post reported.

He said, “As soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR’s website, and an on-air correction was broadcast,” adding that longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, who wrote the story, had “reached out to Justice Alito to apologize.”

Podcast host Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, said in a post on X that “this is why you can’t trust the legacy media. Published a totally fake story.”

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