How to structure effectively news and category relationship ?

i have two tables in database  

CATEGORY table below  if parent id is set to 0 is main category if it is set to any its subcategory
cat_id      |   name        |   parent_id
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1       |   Electronics |   0
2       |   Computer    |   1
3       |   Computer    |   1

NEWS table below

id      |   news_name        |   news_text |   cat_id
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i wonder how to make them related each others via common id ? Any ideas

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