This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, July 17th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.

And I'm Virginia Allen. New York City has seen a 53.5% increase in shootings and a 27% increase in murders this year.

Giancarlo Kanaparo Heritage Foundation Legal Fellow joins the podcast to discuss some of the reasons

the city has seen a surge in violent crime and what should be done to stop the chaos.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Thursday a bill to protect monuments from protesters.

Public monuments are indispensable because they tell the American story.

It is wrong to erase our history, McCarthy said in a statement via the Daily Collar.

Republicans Jim Jordan of Ohio and Sam Graves of Missouri have also signed on to the bill.

McCarthy added, we should be learning from it.

Instead, left-wing mobs and cities across the country are destroying statues of General Grant,

St. Sarah, Christopher Columbus, and abolitionists.

This is lawlessness in its purest form and most unacceptable form.

In the week since the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25th,

protesters have torn down or attempted to tear down statues of Confederate General Robert E. Lee,

Ulyssesus Grant, a Union general turned president, and even President's Washington and Lincoln, among others.

There is evidence that Russia is trying to steal information about a COVID-19 vaccine from the US, UK, and Canada.

The hacking group known as APT 29 or Cozy Bear is believed to operate within Russia's security services and appears to have

launched a cyber attack against the three countries in order to steal vaccine research.

The UK's National Cybersecurity Center reported that Russian

cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine

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