Redeem now Earlier this year, Burger King said it would close up to 400 restaurants this year.Dozens of stores have closed since spring, including six more in recent weeks.The chain is targeting "older and lower performing restaurants" for closures, the company CEO said.  More Burger King restaurants are closing, according to various news outlets. The latest restaurant closures will be in Florida, New York, and Nebraska. Franchisees announced 26 store closures in Michigan in March and 27 closures across seven states, including in Nabraska, Utah, and Minnesota in April.

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Actor George Maharis, best known as the star of the 1960s drama Route 66, has died at his home in Beverly Hills. His longtime friend and caregiver Marc Bahan confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 94. Maharis, born in Queens to Greek immigrant parents, served as a marine before becoming interested in acting. He studied with Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio and starred in Off Broadway productions like Deathwatch and The Zoo Story throughout the 1950s.

The Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film has unveiled the names of filmmakers who will participate in the upcoming 14th edition. The selected fellows are Ahnmin Lee, Anndi Liggett, Jingjing Tian, Joecar Hanna and Maryam Mir.

Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. There's a trial scheduled in March at the marble courthouse in Newark, N.J., of a man charged with kidnapping and raping a young woman with an intellectual disability. That trial is likely to be a quiet one, with little attention, nothing like the feverish national press coverage 25 years ago of the trial — in that same courthouse — in another case of sexual assault of another young woman with an intellectual disability.