Pastor, Paralympian and professor among Democrats' historic Senate winners
First Muslim elected to the US Senate as party flips chamber a year after the idea was called laughable
Democrats have won control of the US Senate in a historic midterm sweep, with a slate of candidates including a former Texas school teacher, a Kansas mega-church pastor, a twice-Paralympian, a paediatrician and a Muslim professor of public health who became the first Muslim elected to the chamber.