JANUARY Omicron surge Cities around the country and around the world suffered a new surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the omicron variant in late 2021 and into early 2022. Deaths and infections hit new records. One-year anniversary of Capitol riot A still starkly divided nation marked the one-year anniversary of the pro-Trump riot that rocked the nation’s Capitol. President Joe Biden blamed Donald Trump directly for the insurrection, saying the former president turned to violence to try to overturn the election he lost. “For the first time in our history, a president not just lost an electi…