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buzzz worthy. . . Impatient with years of delays, a federal judge on Friday gave the State Department some tight deadlines to provide The Associated Press with thousands of pages of documents related to Hillary Rodham Clinton — a timetable that means many of the files should be released well before the U.S. presidential primary elections. Friday's order came one week after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon chastised the department for its slowness in satisfying years-old records requests, including for Clinton's schedules and calendars. The AP sued in March after the department failed to turn over files requested under the Freedom of Information Act, including one request made more than five years ago. Since then, the State Department has said it struggled to meet the AP's demand on time because of limited staff resources and thousands of other pending requests. But at a hearing last month, Leon appeared troubled that the document requests had gone u...