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  ABC News first reported news of the subpoena. A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment. A spokesman for Pence also declined to comment. Pence becomes the highest-level person in Trump’s orbit publicly known to be subpoenaed as part of the investigation , and the move is the latest indication that the extensive probe is pushing forward. It could pit two potential presidential candidates against each other; Trump has launched his campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination, and Pence is considered a potential challenger. It is unclear whether Pence will comply with the subpoena. His advisers had previously said he was not interested in appearing before the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Pence has told people privately that he has concerns about testifying against Trump because of executive privilege, according to the person familiar with the matter. Pence is presumably the only witness to one-on-one conversations he had with T...

  Speculators who sold seats to the game anywhere  from $2,500 to $4,000 in advance were suddenly scrambling to fill orders that were spiraling to between $8,000 to $9,000 per ticket. The “melt up” resulted in some speculators booking losses in the  hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Some declined to fill orders and instead went out of business, losing everything in arguably the biggest Black Swan event in ticket selling history. While that’s unlikely to happen again in Super Bowl history, it doesn’t mean tickets can’t still see sizable price increases over the course of the week. How this one goes remains to be seen, but brokers will be watching very closely over the next 48 hours to see whether the trend falls off or pushes for record territory.