From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Will Jarvis in for Tracy Mumford.

Today's Wednesday, May 13th.

Here's what we're covering.

The Times has learned that secret U.S. intelligence assessments show Iran's military remains much stronger than the Trump administration has claimed.

By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years

to come. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth has said that the joint U.S. Israeli campaign obliterated Iran's

military capabilities, and President Trump has

claimed that Iran has, quote, nothing left in a military sense. But the classified intelligence

sharply undercuts that. It shows Iran still has roughly 70 percent of its pre-war missile

stockpile. The country has also restored access to almost all of its missile sites

along the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran has access to roughly 90% of its underground missile

storage and launch facilities. Officials the Times talked to said that's in part because of a tactical

trade-off made by the U.S. military early in the war. It only had a limited supply of bunker-busting bombs,

so it decided to try and just seal off the entrances to many of Iran's missile facilities,

instead of destroying them completely. Overall, the assessments suggest the U.S. underestimated

Iran's resilience and its ability to bounce back. In response to questions about the intelligence,

a White House spokesman repeated Trump's previous claims that Iran's military has been crushed,

and the acting Pentagon Press Secretary accused the Times and other media outlets of acting

as, quote, public relations agents for the Iranian regime.

Meanwhile, as the war continues, new federal data shows that inflation has accelerated.

Consumer prices in the U.S. rose last month at the fastest rate in three years.

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