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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

From high school to the presidential campaign, Islamophobia in America.

Hello again, I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Social media exploded this week when a Muslim American kid who brought a homemade clock to school

was arrested on suspicion of building a bomb.

The hashtag, I Stand with Ahmed, went viral, and the 14-year-old was invited to Silicon Valley, MIT, and the White House.

But Muslim Americans say it's nothing new. And yesterday Donald Trump failed a repudiated

questioner who called Muslims America's problem. Fourteen years after September 11th, are

Muslim citizens still the victims of an us versus them mentality that's all too familiar.

Today's talking point, the science of living for 200 years. First, the news.

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Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. This week's arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim student

whose homemade clock was mistaken for some kind of bomb dramatized continuing Islamophobia in America.

Now it's become an issue in the presidential campaign. Today's talking point,

scientists are looking at a 200-year-old whale and other long-lived creatures for clues to how

human aging can be slowed down, if not eliminated. First is news update. The defense chiefs

of the U.S. and Russia today held their first direct conversations in more than a year. The subject was Syria.

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