WASHINGTON — The House approved a bill Tuesday that would offer a path to citizenship to more than 2 million undocumented immigrants, including people commonly called “Dreamers” who were illegally brought to the United States as children.

The American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 would grant “Dreamers” 10 years of legal residence status if they meet certain requirements. They would then receive permanent green cards after completing at least two years of higher education or military service, or after working for three years.

The measure would provide long-awaited clarity to the millions of immigrants who have been caught in legal limbo amid years of partisan maneuvering on the issue.

The Obama administration granted work permits to many of them through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but President Donald Trump ended the program in late 2017.

Its fate now rests with the Supreme Court, which may take up the issue in the coming months.

The measure was introduced in the chamber in March. Before the vote Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that the bill’s passage will mark a “historic day for us” and voiced optimism that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., would bring up the measure in the Senate.

But it is unlikely that the Senate will consider the bill: Hours after Hoyer spoke, McConnell and other Senate Republican leaders made no mention of the bill at their weekly news conference.

Kremlin contradicts Trump’s tweet on Russians in Venezuela

MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Tuesday denied having told the United States that it was pulling personnel out of Venezuela, contradicting a Twitter posting a day earlier by President Donald Trump.

On Monday, Trump tweeted: “Russia has informed us that they have removed most of their people from Venezuela.”

Moscow is a primary backer of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had no idea what Trump’s tweet was referring to. “We don’t know what ‘removed most of their people’ means,” he said.

About 100 Russian military personnel arrived in Caracas aboard two military planes in March. U.S. officials said they thought their purpose was to perform maintenance on the Russian S-300 air defense system.

Bill to legalize assisted suicide in Maine goes to governor

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Legislature voted Tuesday to legalize assisted suicide, with supporters declaring it in line with the state’s tradition of individualism and opponents insisting the practice tempts fate.

The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has 10 days to act on the bill and has not indicated whether she will let it become law. Her office said she has not yet taken a position.

The proposal had failed once in a statewide vote and at least seven previous times in the Legislature. If Mills signs it, Maine would join seven other states and Washington, D.C., with similar laws, according to the Death With Dignity National Center.

Maine’s bill would allow doctors to prescribe terminally ill people a fatal dose of medication.

Alarm as Ebola outbreak marks 2,000 cases, picks up speed

JOHANNESBURG — The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 2,000 cases and is picking up speed.

The number of confirmed cases reached the milestone three times as quickly as it took to reach 1,000, experts said Tuesday.

The outbreak declared in August, the second-deadliest in history, has killed more than 1,300 people in a volatile region where rebel attacks and community resistance have hurt containment efforts.

Misunderstandings have been high in a region that had never experienced an Ebola outbreak until now, and years of rebel attacks have left many residents wary of outsiders, especially ones accompanied by Congolese security forces or United Nation peacekeepers.

Sudanese forces, protesters clash in capital

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Pro-democracy protesters defied Sudan’s military rulers Tuesday, carrying out scattered demonstrations around the capital of Khartoum as security forces fanned out in large numbers and clashed with opponents in the streets.

The protest movement aimed to show it can keep up the pressure in its confrontation with the generals, one day after security forces cleared the demonstrators’ main sit-in camp in Khartoum in a bloody crackdown that activists say killed at least 35 people.

Heavy clashes erupted in the afternoon as security forces put down smaller protests in neighborhoods around the city.

Organizers said at least two people were killed: a 14-year-old boy shot to death at a protest and a woman who was hit by a stray bullet in her home as security forces opened fire outside.

After 16 years, Green Zone in Baghdad is open to public

BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s Green Zone area, the heavily fortified strip on the west bank of the Tigris River, reopened to the public Tuesday after 16 years — a move meant to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation after years of war.

The 4-square mile Green Zone, with its palm trees and monuments, was made off limits to the public after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.

The area was home to Saddam’s palaces and later became known as “Little America,” housing U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government offices.

In subsequent years, the restricted area surrounded by cement blast walls became a hated symbol of the country’s inequality, fueling the perception among Iraqis that their government is out of touch.

Political donors: An attempt by two states to force the Trump administration to resume collecting information about donors to certain nonprofit groups faces a key test Wednesday when a federal judge in Montana hears arguments about whether the states can challenge the IRS policy.

Montana and New Jersey sued the Internal Revenue Service after it ended a 40-year-old requirement last year that social-welfare groups, labor unions and business associations turn over the names and addresses of their donors who contribute more than $5,000.

IRS officials contend the states have no right to sue over the change and that neither had requested the information when the IRS was collecting it.