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Your nightly rundown of the day's top stories delivered straight to your inbox. View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. Thursday, September 24, 2015 Thursday, September 24, 2015 NYTimes.com/NYTNow » Enjoy this newsletter? The NYT Now app for iPhone is now completely free. It's the fastest way to catch up with the news throughout the day. Download now. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Your Thursday Evening Briefing By ANDREA KANNAPELL AND SANDRA STEVENSON Good evening. Here's the start of tonight's briefing. Go to the full briefing.  1. Francis, the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress, gently urged a respectful chamber — and Americans at large — to protect immigrants, the poor, the environment and life itself, redefining politics as "an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one, the greatest common good." He is the headline speaker at the U.N. General Assembly on Friday morning. 2. After the pope left to share a meal with the homeless, Congress went back to work, failing to advance a spending bill because of a partisan dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood. Lawmakers will vote next week on a measure that leaves the issue to the side but funds the government only until mid-December. Read the full briefing » ADVERTISEMENT FOLLOW NYTimes FACEBOOK @NYTNOW Get more NYTimes.com newsletters »  | Sign Up for the Morning Briefing newsletter » ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's The NYT Now Evening Briefing newsletter. As a member of the TRUSTe privacy program, we are committed to protecting your privacy. (...) | Privacy Policy | Contact | Advertise Copyright 2015 The New York Times Company | 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018